I have to use a lot of words, because I am talking to people like you, so that you can all get treated equally, see, no prejudice or bias.
As for your mention of arts, I think your trying to shove words in my mouth in an attempt to make an otherwise moot point.
I have never described your inane qualifications as ART, I would not dare to elevate you to such a noble and natural calling.
I have in fact described your chosen path as inane.
Is that what you meant to say?

ALTRAV,

I never said that you refer to Arts grads as being artists.

It is Shadow Minister who refers to Arts grads as being artists.

I think you are just upset because it has dawned on you that the burning of fossil fuels is the only probable cause of the global warming we have experienced over the past 240 years that can be correlated with the rise in mean global temperature.

As long as you keep denying this fact people like Soot 'Beam up me Scotty' Morrison and Barnaby Joyce will keep using you to their advantage.

PS Have you noticed how all the LNP politicians have all of a sudden become climate change warriors? Next thing you know they will be singing praises to little Greta Thunberg.

MrO, the only reason we are experiencing anything is because we are coming out of a 'mini ice-age'.
So of course it is only natural, if we are seeing any rise at all of the global temp, and I say IF.
There is NO starting point as to what is the normal or temp starting point because it is an ever fluctuating number going through hot and cold cycles every few hundred years.
Right now we are going through a warming cycle, and it will continue till it begins to cool down again.
And of course all those alarmists or their future guard will all demand vindication that they were right and all the things they promoted to mitigate GW and CC worked and the earth will begin it's cooling period or cycle once more.
Meanwhile the idiots will try desperately to take credit for absolutely nothing, because if we do nothing at all we will end up at exactly the same conclusion, except without making certain people much wealthier, and us much poorer.
The only reason any politician even breathes, is to be in power, so those idiots will say and do ANYTHING that keeps them in power, but even though Morrison is right in his original stance, it's a shame that morons like you affect the political bent in so many detrimental ways that you cannot begin to comprehend.
He has stuffed his chances at the next election for listening to the stupid media and public, in doing so he's already lost the next election.
As for me being upset about burning anything, NO I'm annoyed that fools like you follow the fools and can't figure things out for yourself.
We have NOTHING to do with GW and CC, it has everything to do with the earth coming out of it's cooling cycle, which it does every few hundred years.
And it will reach a certain temp and then begin to go down again into another cooling cycle, which we won't be around to witness.
So this is what is really going on, NOT what we are told.

Mr 0,

"You just referred to Arts grads as being artists."

For an Arts grad, your English is terrible, as I clearly didn't, and your vocational training was wasted.

Actually most humanities graduates are not as pretentious bigots as you claim. I guess your inflated sense of self worth is proportional to your irrelevance.

Shadow Minister,

My English got me through a BA and two MAs at two of Australia's premier universities so I must be doing something right. So one could say I've got the runs on the board in that respect.

You on the other hand have never done a scholarly degree; you have only done engineering and business studies, neither of which requires a high level of English usage.

Actually I've picked up a trace of Chinglish in your writings which doesn't surprise me given the level of your vocational training and area of work.

Shadow Minister,

Make sure you wear a clean pair of overalls when you go to fix Hasbeen's NBN connection. We don't want Hasbeen opening the front door to find a grubby engineer standing on his porch.