Dear Poirot,

Thanks for the link.
I enjoyed it very much.

Foxy,

The link
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Social_Studies/Government/Religion_and_Politics/Conservative_Brains_and_Progressive_Brains
still gives me
"Web address does not exist."
A link to the actual paper would be appreciated. I look forward to an elegant display of your skills.

Poirot,

Your comment on Bjørn Lomborg is rank hypocrisy. BL is a professor at a prestigious university and lectures at Harvard and Oxford. He is not a climate sceptic, his sole crime is deviate from the greens' dogmatic solutions to the coming "apocalypse".

There is not one person in the greens or labor that can hold a candle to his intellect.

Fox knows nothing about science. Correlation is NOT causation. It is the usual mistake of tabloid hacks. Might as well say that the crowing of the rooster causes the sun to rise. Damn, now Fox is likely to repeat that as fact. LOL

BTT

Having done a Stott Destroyer and left her Party in a mess, Milne is now off to stuff up the world.

What new Greens leader Richard Di Natale should do as a priority is to sever the CFMEU + Greens links. That will solve several problems.

There have been a number of recent comments by judges concerning the CFMEU. Leave the CFMEU and its donations to Labor. That would be a strong move to encourage many principled members away from Labor.

SM,

"Your comment on Bjørn Lomborg is rank hypocrisy. BL is a professor at a prestigious university and lectures at Harvard and Oxford. He is not a climate sceptic, his sole crime is deviate from the greens' dogmatic solutions to the coming "apocalypse".

There is not one person in the greens or labor that can hold a candle to his intellect."

Don't for a minute imagine that you can pull the wool over my eyes regarding Lomborg's "academic" merit and reputation. He's a shill for the denier industry - even if he does claim to buy the consensus on global warming.

Here's some correspondence from "real" academics indicating how they feel about Lomborg's appointment and questioning how someone of his calibre got the gig.

http://conservationbytes.com/2015/04/22/something-rotten-from-denmark/

"Dr. Lomborg, who will be appointed as adjunct at Level D, has 28 publications with 55 citations (h-index of 3; 1 paper accounts for 84% of citations). Dr. Lomborg’s h-factor is lower than the average of even the School’s Level B (h-factor = 8) appointees. 21 of Dr. Lomborg’s publications have no citations. Although not appointed to the Faculty of Science, his research performance would not reach their Level D KPIs.
Dr. Lomborg’s track record is therefore unlikely to merit being a CI on, for example, a nationally competitive ARC Discovery grant.
The above represents the majority best practice at Universities and we recognise that appointment of some staff may fall outside this framework. Nevertheless, even individuals with unconventional backgrounds should be subject to a rigorous process for appointment.

The School would therefore like to know by what process the appointment was made and did it take the quality of Dr. Lomborg’s research track record into account?"

"In 2003, the Danish Committee of Scientific Dishonesty released a ruling that found Dr. Lomborg’s book to be scientifically dishonest through mis-representation of scientific facts. Lomborg himself was found not to be guilty due to his lack of expertise. The potential for scientific dishonesty is inconsistent with University standards."

More on the Copenhagen Consensus Center... Massachusetts

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/view-from-the-street/view-from-the-street-so-is-copenhagen-consensus-centre-just-a-us-postbox-20150505-ggtu45.html

Hi Poirot,

Sounds like this Danish Strudel is actually a fruitcake. if that's the case, Lomborg should fit right in with Abbott's thinking on climate change. Why is our Tone stopping at $4 million, given Lomborg's "outstanding" track record, shouldn't he be entitled to more like $40 million. After he proves climate change is phony Hollywood nonsense, with the left over change, he could get stuck into some real science, like finding the lost "Ark of the Covenant"!