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» 1/02/2010 10:15:45 AM rstuart, my hears are burning. In Graham’s comment yesterday http://forum.onlineopinion.c.....
» 28/01/2010 5:41:33 PM Spindoc, you say: "The science is finnished with until and unless a new body replace.....
» 28/01/2010 4:16:27 PM Hasbeen http://www.bom.gov.au/sat/SST/sst.shtml If you have difficulty understanding BOM.....
» 27/01/2010 11:04:44 AM Thanks Geoff, here's another link putting "global warming stopped in 1998" (or i.....
» 26/01/2010 12:22:05 PM Actually Graham, I too am sceptical of global warming alarmists - you do know this. As I h.....
» 26/01/2010 9:19:24 AM Bugsy Of course Carter’s comments, in numerous public speaking engagements, in the mainst.....
» 23/01/2010 11:07:24 PM Apologies all. Whilst Bob Carter has claimed to be an expert witness, he was not called i.....
» 23/01/2010 11:40:03 AM Bugsy It seems only others can use the 'metaphor', so yes … I do most humbly repent. The .....
» 21/01/2010 8:14:23 PM Graham Young and Leo Lane Bob Carter appeared as an “expert witness” for Xtrata in the in.....
» 19/01/2010 7:47:46 PM Raredog, Methinks you protest too much. Perhaps you should read (and understand) this, f.....
» 19/01/2010 7:10:10 PM Leo Lane, you keep doing it, don't you? "There has been no warming since 1998, and t.....
» 17/01/2010 10:09:16 AM Arjay (Graham, quite right) my apologies. In my previous post, I should have said clouds.....
» 16/01/2010 9:52:47 AM bigmal Some very sensible suggestions there old son of which most only need to be tweaked.....
» 14/01/2010 11:21:16 AM Odo "Then why is the uncertainty never admitted, this is the first I have seen from .....
» 14/01/2010 8:00:01 AM JBowyer << I have read the New Zealander's changed their data on temperature to hel.....
» 10/01/2010 9:14:36 PM Steven Yep, you’re on the money. I too would like the so called "deniers" to be.....
» 8/01/2010 11:03:36 PM Arjay << Coldest winters in the Northern hemisphere in 30 yrs and it's far from ove.....
» 7/01/2010 11:18:38 PM A very good summation by the author. Plimer is making big bucks from his opus. He would be.....
» 7/01/2010 10:50:46 PM Horus The 'airborne fraction' (AF) has shown little variation over this period …” You ob.....
» 7/01/2010 9:07:14 AM Silly me, I should have referred to ICECAP – the mob that has stories by renowned “experts.....
» 6/01/2010 4:36:55 PM << So how does the errant behaviour of the Northen Hemisphere eg; semi Global Coldin.....
» 5/01/2010 7:22:19 PM Arjay Graham Young's article is a good one for discussion - on the substantive issues he .....
» 5/01/2010 6:24:46 PM rpg << "Some denialists are fraudulently fabricating data and numbers" wh.....
» 5/01/2010 5:35:25 PM Horus, re Knorr’s recent paper. As Knorr points out, approximately 43% of our CO2 emissio.....
» 31/12/2009 9:48:35 PM Grim, you should know about 'bait and switch'. See comments again: http://forum.onlineop.....
» 23/12/2009 10:03:58 PM Hey Ludwig, for the purpose of discussion - looks like you're already consuming a few pre-.....
» 23/12/2009 6:35:37 PM rstewart "So far Q&A has eliminated one major complication - the clouds." Nope.....
» 23/12/2009 1:43:23 PM Ditto to others spindoc "Thank you for the interaction and stimulation you have prov.....
» 22/12/2009 12:58:00 PM Keith Global warming does not mean increased temperatures every year every where. It doe.....
» 22/12/2009 9:45:47 AM Raebee You may, or may not, be interested: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?.....
» 22/12/2009 8:07:33 AM "it is a pity that Q&A feels the need to play the man and not the ball, and then gets.....
» 22/12/2009 7:09:31 AM Cont’d Spindoc, the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition made the NZ warming trend ‘go a.....
» 22/12/2009 7:05:56 AM Ok spindoc, apparently it’s my cue. You say “there is no global warming, anthropogenic or.....
» 21/12/2009 8:53:48 AM Cont’d Well no Graham, I’m not going to play these games with you – despite the fact you .....
» 21/12/2009 8:49:33 AM Frankly Graham, I don’t give tinker’s cuss whether you think I’m a scientist or not ... we.....
» 20/12/2009 5:30:17 PM You're right spindoc, I should never assume. I once assumed you were an "AGW agnostic.....
» 20/12/2009 8:38:30 AM Cont’d Therefore, although there continues to be some uncertainty about its exact magnitu.....
» 20/12/2009 8:35:46 AM Cont’d As a result, the sum of the two feedbacks is insensitive to errors in predicted wa.....
» 20/12/2009 8:34:32 AM Cont’d Water vapour is then transported by the large-scale circulation, which conserves t.....
» 20/12/2009 8:33:03 AM rstewart I must respond to Graham Young's comments - it is easy to misinterpret or distor.....
» 19/12/2009 6:04:27 PM Spindoc Yes, I remember. You said; << Q&A, I feel your pain, you have every right .....
» 19/12/2009 8:39:40 AM I agree spindoc, you are sounding a lot more shrill lately......
» 18/12/2009 10:28:57 PM collinsett No, I don't think it is a slap in the face to his colleagues specialising in r.....
» 18/12/2009 10:12:55 PM examinator You are probably right, they are willfully ignorant. As far as trying to ".....
» 18/12/2009 9:22:09 AM Peter-O-Peter-O-Tool. You still haven't a clue, and you still rant like a screaming banshe.....
» 17/12/2009 8:55:17 PM Touche'.....
» 17/12/2009 8:27:57 PM colinsett Where in the article did Barry Brook denigrate the work of his colleagues?.....
» 16/12/2009 11:10:23 PM Spindoc << Q&A, I feel your pain, you have every right to be angry and you have inv.....
» 16/12/2009 10:30:18 PM Oh please old zygote - stop smokin the stuff. << Given that this article was by jou.....
» 16/12/2009 10:03:33 PM Sorry csteele, RobP - that's it, I'm outa here. Let the games begin, have fun......
» 16/12/2009 7:35:22 PM Also, I found it disturbing (but not surprising) that Professor Plimer (the author of the.....
» 16/12/2009 6:07:49 PM Some people reading this thread might not know what others are talking about re: Lateline......
» 16/12/2009 5:28:07 PM csteele, fair enough - especially the bit about "taking a little of the rancour from .....
» 16/12/2009 3:52:16 PM csteele Can I ask, why have you put this thread up on OLO? You must know that there are .....
» 15/12/2009 10:53:29 PM Csteele This link (GrahamY knows about it) will help explain a few things better than 350.....
» 15/12/2009 10:01:19 AM A very good article Fred Pearce. Now, just watch the holes in the wordwork, as seen in th.....
» 14/12/2009 6:32:09 AM Cont’d Horus I have been working in the field for over forty years, Horus - mostly thing.....
» 14/12/2009 6:18:56 AM Horus Peter Hume's whole rant is so full of bluster, inconsistencies and outright guff. M.....
» 13/12/2009 9:18:36 AM Actually Graham, I have always thought that AIT was just a brilliant piece of propaganda, .....
» 12/12/2009 11:10:12 PM The errors, omissions, distortions and misrepresentations in Plimer's book, Heaven & Earth.....
» 12/12/2009 10:47:07 PM CJ Tinfoil hats in the foyer are reserved for the cosmic ray enthusiasts, perhaps you for.....
» 12/12/2009 2:21:55 PM You're so precious Col, seems we're getting through :) Now, how about YOU proffering an a.....
» 12/12/2009 12:04:17 PM Okaaay - roger that......
» 12/12/2009 9:58:42 AM Or Hume’s second stupid sentence, Arjay: "That’s why they changed the name of the re.....
» 12/12/2009 9:33:28 AM Cont'd Bazz, you say: "It is interesting that the IPCC wanted them to match it in su.....
» 12/12/2009 9:09:29 AM I posted this inadvertently on another thread Bazz, sorry. Bazz: "I originally thoug.....
» 12/12/2009 9:02:46 AM Sorry folks, pasted to wrong thread......
» 12/12/2009 8:58:22 AM Bazz: "I originally thought the decline being talked about was the one from 1998 but .....
» 12/12/2009 8:25:16 AM You have got it wrong again, Arjay. On the contrary, I could spend my word and post limit.....
» 11/12/2009 10:35:57 PM You have obviously thought very deeply about this, Peter Hume......
» 11/12/2009 8:09:31 PM For what it's worth Bazz, I don't think the leak has done much damage at all to the scien.....
» 11/12/2009 7:00:00 PM Sounds credible Bazz, the leaking of the emails and documents. If I was anti-AGW and work.....
» 10/12/2009 10:09:31 PM CaCO3 + heat -> CaO + CO2 About 900 kg of gas emitted for every 1000 kg of cement prod.....
» 10/12/2009 8:30:57 PM Thanks Forrest, I needed a laugh Thanks Arjay, I needed a laugh. Thanks rstewart, your l.....
» 10/12/2009 8:01:12 PM Almost forgot, it's not all just about GHG emissions from fossil fuels, Bazz. Read up on t.....
» 10/12/2009 7:47:57 PM Thanks Bazz Hmmm, the American Thinker? One could be forgiven for thinking *oxymoron* - j.....
» 10/12/2009 4:31:36 PM Bazz I'm interested (always have been) in what you say. I do have a problem though, re y.....
» 10/12/2009 1:21:11 PM So Leigh has been "listening"? He *heard* "a pro-warming scientist advise .....
» 10/12/2009 12:54:05 PM Herbert The significance of the divergence is a “problem”, recognised as such by dendroch.....
» 9/12/2009 5:53:12 PM OUG The ‘deny-n-delay’ brigade continually trot out this guff; << Is this before o.....
» 9/12/2009 12:45:03 PM “Climate scientists, enjoying their fifteen minutes of fame, have let the glare of the spo.....
» 10/11/2009 7:49:31 PM You, Jayb, said: << These people are economic refugees not asylum seekers. They sho.....
» 10/11/2009 6:21:49 PM Yes Jayb, they (the Australian Govt) is trying, as you say - but it is going to take time......
» 10/11/2009 2:20:18 PM That's fine JayB, so how do YOU know (when the assessment process has not yet been complet.....
» 10/11/2009 10:43:53 AM Jayb, you say: << These people are economic refugees not asylum seekers. They shoul.....
» 9/11/2009 6:32:24 PM The "unborn" runner, what has that got to do with the price of apples in Madagas.....
» 9/11/2009 5:37:10 PM whistler, you say: << it's not off topic to suggest the nub of the problem posed by.....
» 9/11/2009 2:26:07 PM ekastahr2 (Erika?) Why can't you be a little more constructive and actually propose a thi.....
» 9/11/2009 2:15:05 PM Yep csteele, your post is lucid, thanks for your idle musing. It looks like glentryst (ne.....
» 9/11/2009 8:35:25 AM Yes Graham, extremists on both sides should pull their collective heads in. The vast majo.....
» 8/11/2009 12:49:30 PM Stephen, in response to your questions/comments (Saturday, 7 November 2009 3:52:06 PM) I .....
» 7/11/2009 4:47:56 PM runner, this was posted almost 8 hours ago. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/07.....
» 7/11/2009 3:10:11 PM Ok Graham, thanks. Belly, yeah ... bruised and abused lately. Think I'll just watch for a.....
» 7/11/2009 2:14:52 PM Thanks Graham. Maybe you can explain to us the legalities about inciting hatred. I can on.....
» 7/11/2009 1:45:24 PM TZ I agree, nothing wrong in expressing an opinion. But, how does the law stand on inciti.....
» 7/11/2009 12:25:27 PM We can only hope Graham (or someone) is moderating this thread full time. I am not qualif.....
» 7/11/2009 10:39:19 AM Geoff Bob Carter and William Kininmonth are home grown apparatchiks of right-wing think-t.....
» 7/11/2009 10:18:59 AM The Australian article also reports: The consensus view of the scientific community remai.....
» 5/11/2009 3:10:53 PM whitmus <<I for one remain unmoved by Briffa's defence at least insofar as the data.....
» 5/11/2009 1:53:35 PM The article sort of brings it home. I too (like others in this thread) have suffered the w.....
» 31/10/2009 7:28:01 AM Away for a week or so. Eclipse, the ocean is a huge heat sink, they are generally warming.....
» 30/10/2009 6:55:36 PM Eclipse << The oceans are not so much being heated by greenhouse gases, but inhibit.....
» 30/10/2009 4:28:12 PM Nick/Leo As to the Xstrata Supreme Court judgement, Justice Mackenzie had this to say; &.....
» 30/10/2009 4:22:20 PM Nick/Leo. McIntyre has NOT had his "factual assertion" (your words) published i.....
» 29/10/2009 5:47:24 PM Cont’d 3. I am reminded that you prefer the ‘non-partisan’ Jenifer’s, Joanna’s and Anthon.....
» 29/10/2009 5:38:02 PM Graham, access to OLO’s server was indeed problematic. The downtime gave me time to reflec.....
» 29/10/2009 1:53:05 PM Bazz, If you have been following the saga, you may (or may not) agree with who said this;.....
» 29/10/2009 1:33:45 PM Now OLO's server is back up. I did see a response from Leo but it seems to have disappear.....
» 26/10/2009 10:57:05 AM Ken Leo Lane (a.k.a. Nick Lanelaw) is an archival spruiker for the Lavoisier Group, the A.....
» 24/10/2009 5:34:47 PM Cont’d 5. Having said that, it is important (for all sorts of reasons) why we would like .....
» 24/10/2009 5:28:44 PM Eclipse, a number of points. 1. Radiative forcing due to human activity is currently abou.....
» 20/10/2009 5:09:15 PM I share your sentiments bushbasher. It is the very 'science' that people think they know .....
» 18/10/2009 10:29:33 PM An email exchange with Dr Mojib Latif http://deepclimate.org/2009/10/02/an-email-exchange.....
» 2/10/2009 7:25:29 PM Away a few days and Mark has 'Bolt'ed and the moderator, chief editor and "expert&quo.....
» 28/09/2009 9:07:22 AM Mark Yes, you have hit a nerve. I'll explain why (and address some of the other comments) .....
» 26/09/2009 1:54:34 PM Matt, it's worth restating; Anthony Watts is infamous too (not just his blog) ... he is m.....
» 26/09/2009 10:33:26 AM JonJay Try here; http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/emis/tre_glob.html While you're there, hav.....
» 26/09/2009 10:09:53 AM Dear Mark Lawson No, I did not buy the Meehl et al paper. Being an active scientist in th.....
» 25/09/2009 3:35:25 PM Just a minor (?) quibble JonJay We are spewing 8,000 million tonnes (8Gt) into the atmosp.....
» 25/09/2009 11:16:52 AM Peter Hume, Yes, the Earth's climate system is complex, we know that already. The author .....
» 25/09/2009 10:04:15 AM EQ Dogma is founded in blind faith. Contrary to what you imply, science is not. "Al.....
» 25/09/2009 8:27:24 AM Malcolm Roberts Your guff can be lifted from any blogsite in the denialosphere. However;.....
» 24/09/2009 6:13:12 PM slasher Whoever wrote that piece you linked to doesn't understand the difference between .....
» 23/09/2009 4:37:40 PM Historian http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=9439#151189 Then in my po.....
» 23/09/2009 3:08:07 PM slasher The answers to your questions can be easily sourced. I am perplexed as to why you .....
» 21/09/2009 8:28:54 PM Sorry, a correction to my comment to James Fairbairn yesterday. Of course, where I said Ke.....
» 20/09/2009 7:18:38 PM Fractelle << Does this mean I HAVE to read all of UOG's posts? >> I don’t, b.....
» 20/09/2009 7:13:34 PM James, in your current article you said (quote); << A few weeks ago I wrote an arti.....
» 19/09/2009 8:14:03 AM You stopped watching rpg and thereby give credence to Chris Mooney's claims. A real scept.....
» 19/09/2009 12:43:20 AM Atman You exclaim << Collin reported one of the well known hypotheses about the cau.....
» 17/09/2009 6:55:31 PM Helen, you have been watching but refusing to contribute or respond to the comments. You .....
» 17/09/2009 6:40:52 PM I'm still rolling on the floor Collin ... "Europe's little ice age" - classic. .....
» 17/09/2009 5:21:19 PM Collin, you are correct, Solar cycles (and sun spots, and cosmic rays, and magnetic flux, .....
» 5/09/2009 11:31:57 AM rpg whatever.....
» 5/09/2009 10:20:31 AM Divergence You won't be able to stop some people cherry-picking the data, as we have seen.....
» 4/09/2009 12:39:01 AM Mark << The US national academy of science gave Mann an out - I forgotten the detai.....
» 3/09/2009 4:50:16 PM Nemo :) This link to a paper by Katherine Wells is very sobering and puts EN's 350 ppm CO.....
» 2/09/2009 12:16:48 PM Clownfish? << it's now obvious that you're so bedded down with the dogmatists of th.....
» 29/08/2009 11:14:37 PM Slasher (post limits got me this morning). Pluto is a different test tube. There is a ve.....
» 29/08/2009 5:47:01 PM Eclipse, You raise some interesting points. The UNFCCC are quite aware of the alarming (n.....
» 28/08/2009 10:55:23 PM EN There is no doubt humanity is conducting an *experiment* that has not been done before.....
» 28/08/2009 11:21:22 AM Bugsy << While I'm not sure that the atmosphere's volume is constant, I will give s.....
» 27/08/2009 10:47:50 PM Slasher The atmosphere is not a closed system. You are misrepresenting and distorting the .....
» 21/08/2009 7:26:39 PM Onya mate! 3 cheers for Belly ... hip-hip!.....
» 21/08/2009 9:46:55 AM Clownfish << But why should a sea level rise of 80cm be so alarming? After all, sea .....
» 20/08/2009 12:14:18 PM Clownfish Those that talk in terms of 2m plus increases in sea levels by 2100 or 6 degree.....
» 19/08/2009 8:56:23 AM Like I've said time and time again: Extremists on both sides should pull their collective .....
» 18/08/2009 11:24:07 PM Wow Col! "getting married on 1st November". That's great ... congratulations! .....
» 18/08/2009 5:17:22 PM Yes Ian, I visit some of those sites too - among others. I agree, a few of the websites a.....
» 18/08/2009 1:13:07 PM Of course, you are quite right, david f - let's get serious. I (for one) have in the past.....
» 18/08/2009 11:20:13 AM Hey Fractelle & Friends Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. A.....
» 18/08/2009 10:46:49 AM "Oh Col, you just work on a higher plane than the average OLO poster." So true,.....
» 17/08/2009 10:23:49 PM Psst, Belly ... I'm Col's alter ego......
» 17/08/2009 9:45:28 PM Tom Tiddler, You're really onto something. Suggest you contact Garth Paltridge ... there'.....
» 17/08/2009 5:00:04 PM Interesting website, malrob. Interesting because all the embedded "links to GW info .....
» 17/08/2009 12:11:26 PM rpg China's construction of coal-fired power stations has raised concerns but many people.....
» 15/08/2009 9:56:35 PM Proto Both you and I understand the science stuff - although we may disagree on the minut.....
» 15/08/2009 9:07:53 PM Nope. Neither have I met Rudd, Obama, Mahatma, or JC - but that's besides the point. He'.....
» 15/08/2009 6:25:29 PM Daviy, I did misread your post (mea culpa). You are correct, there is far too much disinf.....
» 15/08/2009 6:12:47 PM China is doing a lot more than we are, rpg. China has recently said its carbon emissions .....
» 15/08/2009 12:55:07 PM benny tea - also OT. So, are you an "uppity" student or a "stupid commoner.....
» 15/08/2009 12:22:45 PM Vanna << The education system purchases almost nothing from Australian companies an.....
» 13/08/2009 12:03:45 PM Ho Hum Am I missing something - which David are you referring to, what does he have to do.....
» 12/08/2009 8:54:01 PM Vanna ... please excuse the vernacular, that's pure unadulterated bullsh!t......
» 12/08/2009 7:18:20 PM Me-Maaate, Back from very serious drinking with very serious friends (around a bbq no les.....
» 12/08/2009 12:40:04 PM Clownfish The implication that there's an analogy between religious dogma and 'climate sc.....
» 12/08/2009 10:32:39 AM Ok CJ, I know it's early but I'm off to have a few drinks with me serious mates......
» 10/08/2009 11:43:57 PM Clownfish, some good points - but it's late......
» 10/08/2009 8:54:11 PM So, who you going to vote for? Not Labor, Not Coalition, Not Greens. Wait, maybe Steve F.....
» 10/08/2009 6:03:43 PM Anyone know how to salvage a very wet key-board?.....
» 10/08/2009 12:29:42 PM Curmudgeon, you should read your own comments :-) LNG is not LPG. Coal will be around fo.....
» 9/08/2009 11:13:30 AM Clownfish Things have moved on since 1920, the rest of the world acknowledges this. Sure.....
» 7/08/2009 8:19:11 PM Yes rpg, I am intolerant to dumbnuts and wingbats, but as we have seen, some are tolerant .....
» 5/08/2009 8:21:38 PM rpg Yep, my attitude is close minded to dumbnuts and wingbats - some of who replied on cu.....
» 5/08/2009 3:34:23 PM Col I think you are misinterpreting what Vandana Shiva's article is all about. rpg So, yo.....
» 4/08/2009 10:12:34 AM Good article. Now, sit back and watch OLO's resident dumbnuts and wingbats tear it to shre.....
» 3/08/2009 7:16:43 PM Apologies Kalin, those damn word limits preceded my obtuse answer to your question 3. Besi.....
» 2/08/2009 1:41:08 PM Cont’d It is impossible to adequately/legitimately criticise any piece of writing without.....
» 2/08/2009 1:32:57 PM Kalin The only way you can get past the ‘pay-wall’ into Science Magazine is to subscribe......
» 27/07/2009 11:44:37 PM Ommm.....
» 27/07/2009 7:29:07 PM In other words, they are excellent questions (debating points) - but go beyond the scope o.....
» 27/07/2009 7:06:21 PM That's it, now I know y'all- is playin' with my mind!.....
» 27/07/2009 3:38:48 PM Wow Pericles ... dastardly deeds of democratic demagogues! I'm surprised AGW hasn't made .....
» 27/07/2009 2:19:05 PM I'm still wondering what the point of All-'s thread topic is. It wasn't made clear in the.....
» 27/07/2009 2:06:07 PM Kalin This may help: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/325/5939/460 Or, you c.....
» 26/07/2009 5:09:31 PM Spindoc, can I suggest you open a general discussion thread and raise your points there? T.....
» 26/07/2009 4:58:58 PM << Now can we go back to the original topic. >> Hmmm?.....
» 24/07/2009 11:33:05 PM Apologies spindoc, please allow me to regain my composure and answer your questions thus: .....
» 24/07/2009 3:32:56 PM Thanks CJ, but patience does wear thin ... and some OLO’ers don’t like it :) Someone said.....
» 24/07/2009 3:26:21 PM byork, sea level rises of 80 cm by 2100 (for example) are bad enough, don’t you think? Of .....
» 24/07/2009 12:48:12 PM byork It's a subtle difference, but it's important. I did not declare "that life wi.....
» 24/07/2009 12:41:05 PM One Under God (lol) Do you ever actually go to the prime source of science data? Why do y.....
» 23/07/2009 10:50:10 PM No JBowyer. Your “wicked Republicans in the US” did not change the terminology - Frank Lu.....
» 23/07/2009 3:23:57 PM My last on this thread. Here is another Plimer book review; Ian MacDougall has done a rea.....
» 23/07/2009 2:55:42 PM Leigh, You are obviously not aware of who popularised the term "climate change".....
» 22/07/2009 10:33:41 PM Protag, your last post - who would have figured?! Your catalogue (or sleuthing skills) nev.....
» 22/07/2009 10:01:37 PM Atman's climate 101 class notes: << When the Arctic heats up the Antarctic cools an.....
» 22/07/2009 8:05:41 PM pss: byork, you have just proved my point. A casual sceptic (aka you) bases their view on.....
» 22/07/2009 7:46:57 PM ps: Could the good Senator Fielding be wrong?.....
» 22/07/2009 7:38:23 PM Without this CO2 trace gas, the planet would be a frozen snow-ball. Increase concentratio.....
» 22/07/2009 6:26:32 PM Kalin, I just lobbed in to answer your previous questions and see you are throwing out mor.....
» 22/07/2009 12:26:16 AM Kalin I'm still not sure which question/s you were referring to. Does this comment to fun.....
» 22/07/2009 12:13:49 AM Yes Don, AGW is a distractor. We should be directing our efforts to sustainability (the wo.....
» 21/07/2009 10:24:03 PM Richie 10 I wasn't implying anything to byork, if anything I was trying to clarify someth.....
» 21/07/2009 12:44:03 PM Kalin, do you mean the questions here? http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?artic.....
» 21/07/2009 11:01:11 AM That’s true Don, a doubling of atmospheric CO2 from 385 to 770 ppm would be disastrous, as.....
» 20/07/2009 11:42:49 PM Don Exactly who (or what bodies or institutions) are asking you/us to embark on this radi.....
» 20/07/2009 10:16:55 PM Ah yes, Christy, Carter and Singer - pin-up boys of the Heartland Institute. Now I under.....
» 20/07/2009 7:37:24 PM byork It strikes me that a comment like "oops, isn't it 'climate change' these days?.....
» 20/07/2009 2:56:43 PM Ok, I take your point rpg - it's the nature of the beast and it's certainly not intended. .....
» 20/07/2009 2:28:48 PM Indeed byork. While Svante Arrhenius is no Galileo, he also challenged the "thinking.....
» 20/07/2009 11:26:01 AM Psst ... Eclipse. Don't tell whats-his-meme, but the theory has been around since the lat.....
» 20/07/2009 11:15:09 AM OUG So, one minute the whole issue is driven by 'socialism' and the next it's by 'capital.....
» 20/07/2009 10:18:41 AM rpg << Which part of that sentence are you having trouble with? >> "Ad.....
» 20/07/2009 9:22:41 AM byork, So many 'sceptics' (I use the term loosely on OLO) don't "follow" the IP.....
» 19/07/2009 12:03:07 AM Hmmm That sounds like a conspiracy to commit treason......
» 18/07/2009 11:54:57 PM rpg "Adapting means reviewing past decisions, like having nuclear power." Yes,.....
» 17/07/2009 2:31:25 PM Peter You draw an analogy to a court of law then reference a science fiction book? You s.....
» 16/07/2009 11:31:40 PM Are you lot still at it? Kalin1, your head is in the clouds (joke) ... this one's for you.....
» 12/07/2009 10:44:03 AM Cont'd Of course economics is not the only 'muddifier'. But as we have seen, in the last .....
» 12/07/2009 10:42:31 AM Fungo, I was acknowledging a good post from you, that is all. ‘Climate science’ is compl.....
» 9/07/2009 10:45:23 PM That's probably the best I've seen you post, fungo. I look forward to continuing the dial.....
» 9/07/2009 3:01:03 PM Ok fungo, I misunderstood your post. Yes, [CO2] has been much higher in the geologic time.....
» 9/07/2009 11:21:19 AM Here we go again Jon J. The Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI). Christopher Monkt.....
» 8/07/2009 9:28:47 PM fungochumley I don’t mind engaging, but we have been over your issues many many times bef.....
» 8/07/2009 2:30:33 PM Peter, as we have just seen ... you can lead an ass to water, but you can't make it drink......
» 6/07/2009 11:26:46 AM Yes 'One Under God', I have read them - when they first came out (do try and keep up). As.....
» 6/07/2009 9:41:14 AM Why is it that people like 'One Under God' scour news clips (some very dated) from media s.....
» 3/07/2009 7:38:02 PM Minor quibble bpors, The IPCC don't do the research (insofar as 'climate science' is conc.....
» 3/07/2009 6:30:18 PM Jon, What most people fail to appreciate is that the United Nations Framework Convention .....
» 27/06/2009 5:19:47 PM af100 That was genuinely funny. GrahamY All white noise, as usual......
» 25/06/2009 11:26:59 PM Cont’d As for Spencer, we have more in common that you would ever dream. What we don’t h.....
» 25/06/2009 11:24:29 PM No Graham. I have not tried to prove (or disprove) whether ocean temperatures have been d.....
» 24/06/2009 6:56:46 PM That is so pathetic, Graham. So you “went looking for the most recent evidence” and surpr.....
» 22/06/2009 8:59:20 PM Graham Young I appreciate OLO's connection with Jennifer Marohasy's and her concomitant p.....
» 22/06/2009 1:20:10 PM Bazz It's true. The higher the concentration of CO2, the less impact it will have on temp.....
» 22/06/2009 9:54:46 AM Sancho Plimer's 'Heaven & Earth' will be considered a bible for the church of 'deny-n-del.....
» 21/06/2009 10:06:59 PM Elimination of stratospheric cooling......
» 21/06/2009 12:23:25 PM << OK, there's the problem, who's got the answer? >> I'll bite: 1. Adapt to .....
» 20/06/2009 11:36:33 AM Kalin1 Catastrophic or runaway climate change is not about to happen anytime soon. The q.....
» 20/06/2009 11:26:52 AM spindoc Thanks for acknowledging taking Professor Walter’s comments out of context. Some.....
» 15/06/2009 6:54:41 PM Hasbeen and Kalin1, You have both posed questions to me that deserve a response. I am sor.....
» 15/06/2009 6:49:50 PM Spindoc Protagoras is right. You have taken Professor Malcolm Walter’s concluding remarks.....
» 14/06/2009 10:58:31 PM Thanks Mark. I am very aware of Noel's work and what he has to say. Many so called 'denial.....
» 14/06/2009 7:11:43 PM Mark No ... temperatures are not “coming off a peak”. The rate of warming has slowed. Ye.....
» 14/06/2009 6:55:27 PM Spindoc Yes, I have read the report. But as you say, “there is no way that facts will be .....
» 14/06/2009 6:12:47 PM mememine69 Please don’t “tell (your) kids that the planet is going to be dead from CO2 in.....
» 14/06/2009 6:10:08 PM Kalin1 Over the timescales you are looking at we can say the planet is in a cooling phase.....
» 11/06/2009 1:15:44 PM Spindoc Been away. It looks like other OLO articles have overtaken this thread......
» 11/06/2009 12:49:31 PM Ozandy As I understand, the author (Mark Lawson) also goes by the tag curmudgeon and curm.....
» 11/06/2009 11:32:53 AM << there is no way that facts will be allowed to replace stubborn ideology. >>.....
» 11/06/2009 11:21:38 AM <Said elsewhere> One of the claims that Ian Plimer likes to make is that as a geolo.....
» 5/06/2009 12:32:25 AM Raredog (and others) The vast majority of real scientists do not believe the planet is ab.....
» 5/06/2009 12:26:45 AM Yes Raredog, I am aware of some of the papers you have only alluded to – one being by Dick.....
» 4/06/2009 12:44:17 AM I'm sorry spindoc has decided to take his ball home without letting me catch up with the r.....
» 4/06/2009 12:15:40 AM Hey Tas Post limits prevented me from commenting yesterday, but ... Do you think Nair's .....
» 4/06/2009 12:01:28 AM Cont’d << atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have risen since 1880 >> “This i.....
» 3/06/2009 11:58:00 PM Modernidealist and Anne O’Brien I suggest you read Raredog’s comments again. Slowly. <.....
» 2/06/2009 10:06:37 PM Off topic rpg I have explained elsewhere. Which part of the following statement do you n.....
» 2/06/2009 9:53:27 PM Col, Next? Let me guess, "socialism by stealth"......
» 2/06/2009 9:49:04 PM modernidealist OLO is a site where people express their opinions, that is all. Wingbat fi.....
» 2/06/2009 7:35:29 PM Cont’d You also don’t understand zero sum games. In terms of climate change issues, our c.....
» 2/06/2009 7:29:53 PM Spindoc Personal commitments have intervened since my last comment and I see a lot of wat.....
» 27/05/2009 9:33:50 PM Spindoc We all have a life. Time permitting, I hope to get back to you on the weekend......
» 27/05/2009 9:31:28 PM mil-observer It is obvious you haven’t taken the trouble to research your own claims. It.....
» 26/05/2009 8:09:47 PM Cont’d 4. Science is never conclusive or absolute, it’s about probabilities – I (and othe.....
» 26/05/2009 8:06:00 PM Spindoc You have responded before my reply to your 9 points, no matter. A. You have misu.....
» 25/05/2009 6:34:02 PM Cont’d 3. Finally, you say “the (AGW) debate is a zero sum game”. Again to clarify, this .....
» 25/05/2009 6:27:58 PM Spindoc The trip was fine, thanks. I’m glad you were able to watch the MIT Sloan address......
» 21/05/2009 10:40:54 AM EVO3 Yes, very timely. Can I invite you all over to this OLO thread to join the discussi.....
» 21/05/2009 9:42:14 AM Spindoc For some time I too have said the “debate” is no longer about the science – rathe.....
» 20/05/2009 4:26:50 PM Spindoc, Do you (or people like fungochumley) seriously think biogeochemists (any scienti.....
» 19/05/2009 12:50:42 PM Thanks KenH Were you aware that in an attachment to 'that letter' was listed a number of .....
» 19/05/2009 12:44:21 PM Spindoc << there remains a significant body of scientific opposition to current AGW.....
» 18/05/2009 10:20:23 AM Clownfish <<Q&A, I wouldn't be basing your opinions on sourcewatch, if I were you.&g.....
» 18/05/2009 9:56:27 AM Pericles Plimer raised some 'points', they had issues and are addressed here: http://bra.....
» 17/05/2009 5:36:11 PM Spindoc << Instead you seek to completely distort, remove context and misrepresent .....
» 17/05/2009 4:54:31 PM Most people buying Plimer's book will treat it as a 'bible' and he the high priest of the .....
» 30/04/2009 11:18:22 AM Thanks for the link Fractelle, I have been away. Having just finished listening to Ronald.....
» 24/04/2009 12:24:19 PM Thanks Protagorus, I often wonder if its worth the effort though. As to your challenge to.....
» 23/04/2009 11:44:10 AM Odo says ‘end’ so no reply is warranted? Since 1901, scientists (from many disciplines) h.....
» 23/04/2009 11:36:18 AM Spindoc Like Protagoras, I would defer to those with more expertise in things ‘carbon.’ I.....
» 20/04/2009 7:26:31 PM Apologies to all Ono In one paragraph you confuse “attribution” with “sensitivity” and ‘.....
» 20/04/2009 7:24:15 PM I agree with the views expressed by Professor Johnson. After all, we have a global problem.....
» 19/04/2009 7:07:57 PM Cont’d What we have to do (and we are) is delineate the noise (e.g. weather) from the sig.....
» 19/04/2009 7:03:53 PM Ono 1. “What would it take for you to believe carbon is not causing climate change?” A c.....
» 18/04/2009 11:10:41 PM Although dated, still relevant: http://www.actionbioscience.org/newfrontiers/eldredge2.ht.....
» 18/04/2009 10:00:16 PM Protagorus Thankyou......
» 18/04/2009 9:26:53 PM Dan, you asked of Grim: << From where do you arrive at your sense of moral outrage?.....
» 18/04/2009 5:34:19 PM Sancho Ditto to Foxy.....
» 17/04/2009 9:48:55 PM Off topic: Mark, Curmudgeon, at home or anywhere else - re: Wilkins Please, it is obviou.....
» 17/04/2009 5:12:43 PM JonJ I'm curious. Since you linked to it ... if you 'eye-ball' the black line, when do yo.....
» 17/04/2009 10:34:06 AM Clownfish, I cannot help but think you are accusing Protagoras of the very thing you are e.....
» 15/04/2009 9:59:50 AM Great Pericles! In moving forward, I would be happy to partake in a new general discussion.....
» 14/04/2009 10:08:41 PM Fine Ratty. Now I know your not serious. Pericles, your call......
» 14/04/2009 8:51:20 PM Pericles (Ratty-ifyawanabserious) I think it would be better if you can positively and co.....
» 14/04/2009 7:15:18 PM No Fungo, they (the 'scientists') disenfranchised themselves. If any allied to the Heartl.....
» 14/04/2009 7:12:36 PM As far as the gabfest in New York was concerned: Conference co-sponsors received the foll.....
» 13/04/2009 10:21:47 PM Now I get it Ratty. You are a so called 'troll of the denialosphere'. What's next ... Cat.....
» 13/04/2009 11:35:58 AM Ratty, Now your slip is showing ... the Heartland Institute? If the serious contenders t.....
» 13/04/2009 11:08:36 AM JBowyer, still shifting goal posts I see. I am not surprised really, since your reply to .....
» 11/04/2009 10:36:45 PM JBowyer No, not very smart. If I was, then I would be making a motza on the public speaki.....
» 11/04/2009 10:31:14 PM Ratty This is not a game where you show me yours and I show you mine. Otherwise, I would .....
» 10/04/2009 9:55:58 PM Ratty, Any objections to the above should take the form of a real, competing synthesis wh.....
» 10/04/2009 9:54:48 PM Ratty, << CO2 is only a very small part of the equation >> Of the 33 K ‘green.....
» 10/04/2009 10:00:21 AM Mea Culpa eAnt Here was me thinking I would have to defend yet another amateur video proc.....
» 9/04/2009 12:22:40 PM Q&A says to Pericles: “Most people would understand the point I was making ... you don't a.....
» 9/04/2009 11:09:25 AM I am warmed by your dialogue, Spindoc. I hope you will be able to pass the pay-wall at Na.....
» 8/04/2009 11:51:30 PM OMG, his FOLO life has been resurrected - the messiah ... not......
» 8/04/2009 11:41:04 PM eAnt Welcome, I hope you don’t get too bruised – I am weary. Videos are nice, but depend.....
» 8/04/2009 11:18:59 PM Fester, the oceans are a huge heat sink and their warming is different to that of the “ear.....
» 8/04/2009 10:51:39 PM Hi Fozz No, most definitely not a moderator. I do however like to give credit where credi.....
» 8/04/2009 6:06:01 PM Touché ... Divergence......
» 8/04/2009 3:16:16 PM Romany, I understand. At the time, my sister in Dorset UK phoned me and said it was snowin.....
» 8/04/2009 2:53:48 PM :-).....
» 8/04/2009 1:58:59 PM Of course Pericles, ask questions (I do all the time). But, the questions you ask have bee.....
» 8/04/2009 12:16:10 PM Pericles Most people would understand the point I was making ... you don't and therefore .....
» 7/04/2009 10:13:08 PM And Sam!.....
» 7/04/2009 10:12:15 PM Excellent post Fozz! But ... off-topic?.....
» 7/04/2009 3:13:35 PM Richie 10, your last sentence says it all really. There is a lot of ‘noise’ in the popular.....
» 7/04/2009 10:34:53 AM Spindoc, my ears were burning. I have modified my views on a number of topics I am not ex.....
» 7/04/2009 12:51:54 AM Another thing, some people fail to understand that the oceans are excellent heat sinks. As.....
» 5/04/2009 9:10:35 AM Spindoc, thanks for a considered response, unlike much of the guff that has followed, don'.....
» 4/04/2009 5:41:22 PM RawMustard Were you aware that Christopher Booker presented his spiel at the Heartland In.....
» 3/04/2009 10:39:35 AM Spindoc I am not inclined to compare government with business in the way you do. They are.....
» 2/04/2009 7:45:24 PM That is a good definition CJ. I suspect though that many climate change 'sceptics' will ad.....
» 2/04/2009 11:07:21 AM There is a lot of misinformation flying around to sow the seeds of doubt into the minds of.....
» 26/03/2009 11:29:40 PM It is obvious that some critics of global warming have no expertise in climate-change time.....
» 25/03/2009 12:04:36 PM Yep.....
» 25/03/2009 9:18:35 AM No.....
» 20/03/2009 7:28:26 PM plerdus <<The population problem can be solved quite quickly. Nature has a method .....
» 19/03/2009 11:56:57 AM Ps Leigh "Learn thrift, and knock globalisation on the head." I couldn't agree.....
» 19/03/2009 11:28:59 AM Ray Evans, Tom Quirk and 'Windschuttle's' Quadrant Leigh? Straight shooters in their coll.....
» 12/03/2009 5:29:16 PM Spindoc I (certainly the world’s governments and major businesses) don’t dismiss the IPCC.....
» 11/03/2009 5:55:01 PM Antonios, Crouge is off topic ... but we all hope he hasn't carked it :-(.....
» 11/03/2009 10:25:52 AM Spindoc, you say you "have not formed a view either way on AGW, not for the want of t.....
» 10/03/2009 1:38:41 PM Spindoc At the bottom of the following link, they mention the psychobabble you mention. .....
» 9/03/2009 8:44:09 PM Thanks Bernie, I agree (mostly) with your last post. It really is a conundrum. In my opin.....
» 9/03/2009 6:33:40 PM Bernie, what do you make of these? http://www.unfpa.org/pds/trends.htm or http://www.ii.....
» 23/02/2009 5:55:50 PM Cont’d JohnH goes on: “Our planet derives its heat from the sun; therefore the sun is th.....
» 23/02/2009 5:49:46 PM Kulu Last year I met up with an Ozzie colleague that has spent a lot of time in Antarctic.....
» 20/02/2009 6:53:12 PM Your thoughts Forrest are as always, illuminating. Seeing that Examinator's thread has be.....
» 19/02/2009 4:43:51 PM Forrest OT, but this is the quickest way I can get your attention. I have just logged on.....
» 15/02/2009 4:58:07 PM JohnH Snide and snarky remarks that the IPCC indulge in crystal-ball gazing just demonstr.....
» 15/02/2009 4:50:54 PM Kulu I appreciate your thoughts. The people that count are aware and they are not close-m.....
» 12/02/2009 3:34:01 PM Thanks CJ I guess I don’t involve myself enough in other threads to have seen any of mil-.....
» 12/02/2009 2:13:13 PM I tend to agree with you anti-green. It is wrong to claim that that this one extreme and .....
» 12/02/2009 10:48:00 AM So we get the usual mish-mash claiming it's all natural/normal (see point 2 below). 1. Gl.....
» 11/02/2009 7:43:33 PM Daviy A recent paper by Solomon et al demonstrates that even if we stopped carbon emissio.....
» 11/02/2009 7:08:52 PM Fair dinkum folks ... I swear milli-vanilli is not my sock-puppet. (how's that night-time.....
» 11/02/2009 2:47:22 PM Whoa mil-observer. I only entered this thread when YOU said that I “slapped” or “branded”.....
» 11/02/2009 10:44:26 AM Hmmmm ... records being broken all over the world - heat spells, dry spells, rains/floods,.....
» 10/02/2009 3:08:05 PM Mil-observer says: "Q&A slapped "Lavoisier" onto the anti-AGW protest lett.....
» 10/02/2009 2:16:03 PM Cont’d You quote Rahmstorf: “The unexpectedly rapid change in Arctic sea ice and other .....
» 10/02/2009 2:14:14 PM David 1. What is your point in asking me about the formation of oil? My expertise lies el.....
» 10/02/2009 2:04:27 PM Mil-maaate... seems you are the one a tad paranoid - I’m the neurotic one, remember? Or is.....
» 10/02/2009 9:39:59 AM Yes mil-observer, that "hard science" letter trotted out time and time again fro.....
» 9/02/2009 1:58:17 PM cont'd 4. You raise an excellent question regarding education because there are problems .....
» 9/02/2009 1:36:04 PM Daviy, you raise many issues. 1. You talk of probabilities. I respect Rahmstorf, but quot.....
» 6/02/2009 10:38:43 PM Brilliant ... go for it!.....
» 5/02/2009 11:52:07 PM No John, it hasn't lost its credibility. While it did have issues, the tenets contained wi.....
» 5/02/2009 11:11:56 PM Daviy Scientists are pedantic by nature and training. People not familiar with a particul.....
» 4/02/2009 10:57:27 PM While we are waiting, an interesting discussion regarding a hoax is being discussed here: .....
» 4/02/2009 9:46:14 PM Oh yeah, John: "Clean Coal" is a misnomer. But hey, throw some money at the tec.....
» 4/02/2009 9:22:31 PM JohnH, just lobbed into this thread and found your comment to Kulu: "Why, then, do y.....
» 3/02/2009 8:56:24 PM Graham, thanks for your reply, I have been busy elsewhere. I am fully aware of the errors.....
» 3/02/2009 8:13:16 PM Daviy (I have been preoccupied elsewhere). Your last comment is wrong (bigmal is part rig.....
» 2/02/2009 10:02:57 PM Whoops, looks like WAL's forfeited!.....
» 2/02/2009 9:58:51 PM Fungo, you say to ericc: "I'm afraid I don't have the time or space here to elaborat.....
» 1/02/2009 5:55:31 PM Graham, just to be clear – you say: “Q&A, you seem to be saying that I claimed the Hockey.....
» 31/01/2009 7:36:22 PM Sorry about that (an intriguing site). Try http://www.iec.ch/helpline/sitetree/about/.....
» 31/01/2009 7:34:25 PM Dickie, that was a compelling comment ... well said. I think spindoc is referring to: ht.....
» 31/01/2009 5:50:58 PM Bigmal, re your link. It's worth repeating: With all serious respect to the Koutsoyianni.....
» 31/01/2009 4:08:40 PM Graham You know the difference between a hoax and the scientific process. Spin your anti-.....
» 31/01/2009 7:33:08 AM rpg ROFL ... yes, it’s OLO’s font. You may have seen the IPCC’s reports referred by the v.....
» 30/01/2009 10:58:41 PM Agree with your sentiments Examinator! As is clearly seen from some of the responses, it .....
» 30/01/2009 9:59:48 PM Apologies, I should make it clearer. Col said (in reply to 'All'): "whilst I might .....
» 30/01/2009 9:51:14 PM "All - whilst I might not share your vocabulary, I do understand and accept your unde.....
» 30/01/2009 6:50:23 AM GrahamY, you are being dishonest again. I said above; "corrections are made when er.....
» 29/01/2009 8:24:19 PM Ok, that explains it ... you read the popular press and don't go directly to the primary s.....
» 29/01/2009 6:14:01 PM That a given StG. Cost of nuclear is not cheap either - people are doing the maths on all.....
» 29/01/2009 5:30:17 PM Because people fear what they don't understand spindoc. Welcome to OLO! Of course, there.....
» 29/01/2009 2:58:39 PM Leigh, read the report carefully http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090126_climat.....
» 29/01/2009 11:17:52 AM Spindoc, you could start here: http://bravenewclimate.com/category/nuclear-energy/ qanda.....
» 28/01/2009 10:25:46 PM Quite so......
» 28/01/2009 10:18:11 PM Fungochumley I have tried to be honest and lucid with you. How you interpret my comments .....
» 28/01/2009 5:10:57 PM It seems Windschuttle is but a memory with the thread turning into an 'online biffo' playi.....
» 28/01/2009 4:40:29 PM Mark ... Noel’s forbears would be proud of the correction :-) Yes, it would be useful if .....
» 25/01/2009 10:51:45 AM Mark A minor quibble, you got his name wrong. It's Keenlyside. http://www.ifm-geomar.de/.....
» 24/01/2009 11:09:25 PM It appears jc2 can’t comprehend what he has linked to. Here it is again; http://scienceb.....
» 22/01/2009 10:51:36 PM Tim Lambert, Graham Young, editor in chief of On Line Opinion, comments: “Hoaxes like th.....
» 15/01/2009 10:21:53 PM No, Diocletion. Look deeper - it's about peace, not war......
» 14/01/2009 6:59:21 AM TRTL Bravo!.....
» 13/01/2009 7:10:46 PM Sorry folks - all off topic. fungochumley (I don't care who you are) ... it seems you are.....
» 13/01/2009 7:04:42 PM rpg Global warming does not mean “each year would get successively warmer” or “every year.....
» 12/01/2009 5:58:16 PM Tim Lambert My bad, I get confused when trying to differentiate between the guff ... Ray .....
» 12/01/2009 5:48:02 PM Kulu asks; “If anyone can provide me with references to peer reviewed scientific papers o.....
» 12/01/2009 2:32:22 PM I'm not at all surprised in the direction Windschuttle is taking Quadrant. Under his 'edi.....
» 10/01/2009 3:02:06 PM Col I have opinions on subjects I am not expert in, so I defer to those that do – includi.....
» 10/01/2009 2:05:44 PM Bigmal, you continue to taunt 1. I did not say Hansen “is such a demonstrable crook”, you.....
» 9/01/2009 8:22:41 PM Bazz This chart from the National Snow and Ice Centre (previously linked) should make it .....
» 8/01/2009 7:11:41 PM Nana Anna, I really didn't want to get involved in this OLO thread ... but, arsenic is an.....
» 8/01/2009 4:12:45 PM Ok fungo, you don’t think there are extreme views from either side: global warming is a ho.....
» 8/01/2009 4:09:14 PM Cowboy When you have the hottest year on record (or the lowest amount of sea ice on reco.....
» 7/01/2009 10:49:32 PM Cowboy I do see a few snippets in newspapers (mainly on the web) but most of my reading o.....
» 7/01/2009 10:40:02 PM Diocletian, yep ... the dark greens should pull their heads in. ______________ Col, you’r.....
» 6/01/2009 7:44:10 PM Cont’d Rather than Bolt, I encourage you to engage elsewhere – your ‘issues’ would be ans.....
» 6/01/2009 7:41:16 PM Col “Alternately, no sane person has presented an incontestable case which irrefutably pr.....
» 5/01/2009 7:22:22 PM Col, Galileo was up against the fundamentalists – much the same as today’s climatologists.....
» 5/01/2009 9:30:15 AM Runner, why do you continually defy God? You keep telling us the planet is His creation a.....
» 30/12/2008 11:13:53 PM All There are a lot of commenters here that deserve a more robust response from me (thanks.....
» 29/12/2008 11:21:22 AM Settle down Cowboy. I am sharing holidays with family and friends and am using their conne.....
» 29/12/2008 9:56:09 AM Bob Carter retired? So why does he continue to proclaim his association with the James Coo.....
» 24/12/2008 10:52:22 AM Col You obviously don't know my views on internet filtering and censorship http://forum......
» 24/12/2008 9:25:41 AM Arjay Perhaps it's just as well we do not have a "theory of everything" just yet.....
» 23/12/2008 10:31:25 PM Fungo, I gree with you when you say; “Actually, it is those who comprehend the uncertaint.....
» 23/12/2008 4:46:47 PM Shal ... thanks mate - I just spluttered my vino all over the keyboard and monitor! avaha.....
» 23/12/2008 4:21:29 PM Col, it's called 'denial' - a defence mechanism. Typically, a person is faced with a few .....
» 22/12/2008 4:57:18 PM shal I liken this whole brouhaha to a two-edged sword. Ergo, there is neo-con capitalism.....
» 22/12/2008 3:09:35 PM Yes, a succinct article. Too many people want to curb research into climate change becaus.....
» 22/12/2008 1:33:24 PM Hasbeen You could teach me a lot about internal combustion engines I'm sure. Sorry, the .....
» 22/12/2008 11:14:39 AM Hey mil, I agree entirely ... I think :-(.....
» 22/12/2008 11:04:09 AM Oh yeah ... Col says: "With theoretical quasi science, based on incomplete research .....
» 22/12/2008 10:53:37 AM Hasbeen You either have a very simple mind, or you are deliberately distorting what I’ve .....
» 21/12/2008 12:15:02 PM Col: "My understanding is socialist minded folk in USA decided it would be a good ide.....
» 21/12/2008 12:00:19 PM Hasbeen: "have a look at the growing Arctic ice mate, the ongoung cooling, & ice grow.....
» 21/12/2008 8:13:07 AM Cont’d Dr Itoh goes on; “My interest in the global warming issue started when I had a le.....
» 21/12/2008 8:10:40 AM Col (with apologies to Fractelle) Evidently, Geoff Carmody’s article on implementing desi.....
» 17/12/2008 7:22:25 PM Ok Col, you voted for the Howard coalition. Moving on ... what do you think Turnbull's coa.....
» 17/12/2008 10:01:00 AM Belly Rudd is an astute politician - what do you think the conservative right will do in r.....
» 14/12/2008 10:27:47 PM Spikey (and others) Sorry (can't help it) ... there is no such thing as global warming! M.....
» 14/12/2008 9:53:03 PM David, Col asked me the question ... I answered: "Environmental, ecological and econ.....
» 12/12/2008 8:32:31 PM Graham It's been a few days now. Everything seems to be ok now. Well Done!.....
» 12/12/2008 4:51:40 PM Diocletian: "By definition, people backing bail-outs are not 'free trade'. You are bl.....
» 11/12/2008 8:22:35 PM In the same meme; Joe Cocker Andrei Bocelli Haley Westenra Freddy Mercury Andrew Lloyd We.....
» 11/12/2008 6:43:36 PM US Precisely ... that's why we need gate crashers......
» 11/12/2008 2:45:59 PM Good one Pelican, Kofi Annan Maxine McKew Barack Obama Ayatollah Ali Khanenei Cardinal Ge.....
» 11/12/2008 11:52:47 AM Ludwig, I think you know there are very powerful and influential vested interest groups th.....
» 11/12/2008 11:40:01 AM dovif2 Unrestrained greed and rabid consumerism (no matter what ideology you subscribe to.....
» 11/12/2008 8:27:09 AM Well dab-nab-it dovif2. If the socialists caused this mess, what was the neo-con free mark.....
» 8/12/2008 4:23:07 PM There you go. I just posted to an article thread (same one Ludwig), returned to the artic.....
» 8/12/2008 3:36:27 PM Bazz Good link. I hope you were able to glean something from the (lengthy) comments sectio.....
» 8/12/2008 12:11:39 PM Bob Williamson, you say "Let's keep trade and economic growth considerations out of c.....
» 8/12/2008 10:55:10 AM And here's me thinking the tweeters were an enhanced OLO add-on! Can't recall the agro lio.....
» 8/12/2008 10:06:58 AM Cohenite, why don't you just link to your posts on Jennifer Marahasy's website? Your comme.....
» 7/12/2008 7:01:54 PM OLO seems to have developed a life of its own, and who could deny its success hasn't been .....
» 7/12/2008 2:09:19 PM There is far-left communist capitalism and far-right neo-con capitalism (e.g. Hu Jintao’s .....
» 7/12/2008 10:03:18 AM This phantom OLO glitch has occurred for a number of days now. I wonder how many regulars.....
» 6/12/2008 6:58:39 AM Yeah, Offline Opinion on Friday started around 8.30pm. Given previous experience, I just d.....
» 5/12/2008 5:06:45 PM Thanks Graham, you just popped up. I guess this makes the below a bit obsolete. <Too .....
» 4/12/2008 8:28:28 PM For a number of days now, I have not been able to access the OLO site, sometimes for hours.....
» 4/12/2008 10:37:00 AM Liz You fall into to the same hole most people do. Humanity is facing some serious global .....
» 2/12/2008 8:46:05 PM Here are some details of what's happening. http://www.stopthecleanfeed.com/.....
» 2/12/2008 8:27:58 PM David My point has always been ... this thread was not just about pornography or Clive Ha.....
» 2/12/2008 7:59:41 PM I'm with you on that BAYGON, I signed too. Gibo, onya!.....
» 2/12/2008 7:41:27 PM david f: “Please cite the writing or acts of Voltaire which shows his anarchism.” You may.....
» 1/12/2008 5:32:01 PM An 83 yr old pornographer? Each to their own I suppose. You obviously don't know Voltaire.....
» 1/12/2008 1:39:31 PM I’ve often been described as an anarchist (probably long before david f was out of his nap.....
» 29/11/2008 9:57:11 PM david f proves Hamilton's (and my) point ... the plot thickens even more......
» 29/11/2008 7:46:46 PM At the outset, I am against internet filtering - as proposed by Senator Conroy. However, .....
» 27/11/2008 10:38:52 PM rstuart Thanks for the link to Australia Talks. Hamilton said he was opposed (to interne.....
» 27/11/2008 5:50:40 PM To understand where Kerry Miller is coming from, it is worthwhile looking at her blog site.....
» 25/11/2008 11:42:14 PM Dickie, that last link ... that is why I wish to remain anonymous on OLO. Another time, an.....
» 25/11/2008 10:36:22 AM If some people knew that Clive Hamilton used XYZ toothpaste, then they would boycott XYZ t.....
» 24/11/2008 11:39:37 PM Off topic everyone, sorry. To: IanC Can you be more lucid ... what exactly are you tryin.....
» 22/11/2008 8:29:36 AM Almost forgot, fungochumley - this was for you. http://kalimna.blogspot.com/2008/11/fooli.....
» 21/11/2008 10:17:20 PM Dickie, my last for this thread. I was conscripted unbeknownst to me to the Oregon petitio.....
» 20/11/2008 12:34:01 PM Dickie, that should have been: http://www.wwf.org.au/publications/openletterafrv2.pdf Ia.....
» 20/11/2008 12:01:12 AM Dickie I’ve been busy elsewhere. No ‘climate scientist’ disputes the fact that the planet.....
» 15/11/2008 10:34:50 AM fungochumley If my comments seem provocative to you (or IanC), so be it. A guiding stren.....
» 14/11/2008 6:59:18 PM Yes Ian, not much help ... but thanks for your response. We choose where to cast our pearl.....
» 14/11/2008 5:19:10 PM "How do lay-people decide on complex scientific issues when there are so many vested .....
» 14/11/2008 7:53:19 AM Ken, that’s right. It’s important to distinguish the difference between being ‘alarmist’ a.....
» 12/11/2008 6:22:34 PM Warning ... straying off topic. Ian, all banter aside. You admit to not being a ‘climate.....
» 11/11/2008 11:22:40 PM Yep :-(.....
» 11/11/2008 10:24:19 PM Examinator, this has is an excellent thread ... let's see how it develops. I agree with mu.....
» 11/11/2008 6:17:53 PM One-under-god The release of methane clathrates is a problem; thawing of the perma-frost .....
» 11/11/2008 6:13:46 PM IanC, you have had a few ‘senior moments’ lately ... permit me to have one of my own. Bob.....
» 10/11/2008 10:53:38 AM JamesH (and one-under-god) The enhanced green-house effect is difficult for some people t.....
» 10/11/2008 10:47:43 AM Posted elsewhere, but will recap here. Politics (and economics, and religion) muddy the w.....
» 8/11/2008 2:53:47 PM Ludwig, I couldn't agree more - well, just a little bit more:-) Congrats on your 3rd!.....
» 8/11/2008 11:35:48 AM Ditto Fungo The special report and the TAR are a little jaded now, any updates - anyone? .....
» 8/11/2008 10:38:14 AM Banjo, what do you make of this? http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hxtxEnGYqzX_bBu1CyVs.....
» 4/11/2008 11:04:32 PM Bernie Regarding your comment; Tuesday, 4 November 2008 4:58:03 PM. What has Northern Te.....
» 31/10/2008 10:33:58 AM Fungo: “For those who need constructive elaboration, my comment alludes to a well known an.....
» 30/10/2008 10:29:23 AM Interesting idea Fickle Pickle ... you make it sound simple. I would not be surprised tha.....
» 28/10/2008 11:54:46 PM Bernie, are you 'closing' this thread? You responded, thank you. Why do you now ignore th.....
» 26/10/2008 8:11:03 PM “OK I'm going to post the thread, with a link to this discussion. But I've got a limited a.....
» 26/10/2008 5:25:26 PM Bernie, appreciate your reply. Scientists can only present their findings; it’s up to gov.....
» 25/10/2008 5:42:29 PM Graham I can not see any real benefit in discussing Creationism because it will likely sp.....
» 25/10/2008 12:46:40 PM Bernie, you don't have to reply to me specifically, however ... I, and perhaps some others.....
» 20/10/2008 5:23:20 PM Thanks Bernie, for obviously a considered article, and equally your considered responses. .....
» 17/10/2008 4:08:22 PM I agree with Col Rouge in one respect: "When the pipes back up, we phone for a plumb.....
» 15/10/2008 10:14:43 AM Thanks ManBearPig I am aware of these ‘papers’, they are trotted around the ‘denialist’ b.....
» 13/10/2008 6:30:02 PM ManBearPig It never ceases to amaze me (a.k.a. I don’t understand) why the so called “deni.....
» 12/10/2008 5:52:35 PM Plerdsus To answer your questions ... yes, and I do. I also think you misunderstand where.....
» 12/10/2008 3:46:56 PM ManBearPig? You make some bold assertions but don’t cite references to back up your opini.....
» 10/10/2008 7:52:20 PM plerdsus You obviously don't know about geothermal, do your homework. IMHO, get away from .....
» 10/10/2008 3:18:36 PM Jai, Like many in the 'deny-n-delay brigade', some people intentionally distort and misrep.....
» 25/09/2008 12:07:01 AM IanC, thankyou for your valued contribution - can we now move on?.....
» 24/09/2008 9:07:13 AM My fellow ‘scummies’, I’ve tried to bring Col’s 'swill' back on topic ... asked him twice.....
» 22/09/2008 1:32:55 PM Repeating and to bring this back on topic. Col dear, What has happened to your neo-con c.....
» 21/09/2008 8:03:46 PM Ummm ...to bring this back on topic. Col dear, You are misguided ... in so, so many ways.....
» 16/09/2008 9:46:08 PM Fungochumley, in all sincerity, I really meant enjoy your holiday. I am sorry you have tak.....
» 16/09/2008 7:09:24 PM Thanks fungochumley. I agree, science is very pedantic, we have to dot the 'i's and cross.....
» 15/09/2008 5:53:18 PM Fungochumley You imply scientific institutions do NOT “communicate information honestly a.....
» 14/09/2008 1:32:17 PM Crock Thanks for really engaging. OLO is awash with GW stuff, but you should look to othe.....
» 14/09/2008 1:27:49 PM I’ve been busy with other things but have watched from the sideline – interesting comments.....
» 13/09/2008 12:56:25 PM IanC ... and others. Have you been following Professor Jolliffe's dialogue at Tamino's si.....
» 13/09/2008 11:18:17 AM Arjay You should be interested in this piece; http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archi.....
» 10/09/2008 11:46:30 PM Crock & Co. Nuff said ... I understand (mostly) where you're coming from. Sams & Co. Nuff.....
» 10/09/2008 12:08:33 PM Well, hello to you too Ian. Thanks for the alert to the Tamino/Jolliffe dialogue (and a r.....
» 9/09/2008 10:03:52 PM Froggie I am not surprised by your response, backed up by an architect John McLean ... go.....
» 9/09/2008 12:26:10 PM Wills You seem to be saying that adapting to a wetter and warmer world or reducing our dep.....
» 8/09/2008 10:10:10 PM Dickie, Off topic but thought you might be interested in this piece; http://www.medicaln.....
» 7/09/2008 6:27:56 PM Froggie, you say I didn’t comment on your statement: “... even scientists deeply involve.....
» 7/09/2008 1:29:59 PM Crock, your post: “I'd like to address Q@A's recent comments”. Your questions are serious.....
» 5/09/2008 12:52:36 AM Arjay, With sincerity, I have (on a number of occasions) invited you to Professor Barry B.....
» 2/09/2008 10:24:53 PM You have a point Crock. Just over 100 years ago, Svante Arhenius, a Swedish physicist/che.....
» 2/09/2008 9:36:05 PM Arjay Your ignorance of physics and chemistry is really embarrassing. That GHG experiment .....
» 29/08/2008 12:55:43 AM Great thread Boazy ... and for once, I agree with Col - who would have thought? Anyone rem.....
» 25/08/2008 1:46:23 PM ?.....
» 25/08/2008 1:43:01 PM Arjay, I was responding to a question from Dickie ... it appears you have a problem with .....
» 23/08/2008 12:40:38 AM Dickie ENSO is pretty much neutral and the 'little girl' is fading. Odds-on that her litt.....
» 21/08/2008 11:58:12 AM Arjay, you say you are “questioning the science ... you are not denying anything”. I have.....
» 19/08/2008 7:17:14 PM I have just found my name on the list!?.....
» 19/08/2008 7:08:31 PM CJ, that's a good link ... In addition to the bulk mailing, OISM's website enables peopl.....
» 14/08/2008 9:28:25 PM With due respect, The issue is not about the science (which is robust, notwithstanding Ia.....
» 11/08/2008 8:18:51 PM Sams, just popping in. You may wish to look at this thread in a site run by a statisticia.....
» 5/08/2008 9:04:26 PM Foxy & dickie, Thank you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7IiRYhWN6A Bye.....
» 2/08/2008 12:34:55 PM Good thread Ludwig, and some good responses to it. OLO is an unusual site (not in a bad w.....
» 1/08/2008 11:18:50 PM R . I . P ......
» 1/08/2008 8:36:19 AM You still don't get it mil-observer, I am not talking about executive summaries, I'm talk.....
» 31/07/2008 11:10:02 PM mil-observer, It is not about me sustaining my case. Whether you like it or not, all cou.....
» 30/07/2008 7:30:05 PM Keiran Take off your tinfoil hat and repeat 100 times: 1 + 1 does NOT = 3 Alzo Typical of.....
» 29/07/2008 2:40:52 PM Cont’d What chance does anyone have of turning on your light bulb when you think ocean ac.....
» 29/07/2008 2:35:21 PM Keiran, we go over it time and time again. Just because you don’t understand the science d.....
» 27/07/2008 6:04:08 PM John B I’m afraid you have lobbed into a site where the ‘deny and delay brigade’ treat the.....
» 26/07/2008 6:52:16 PM Ok, let’s try this, Barrack Obama’s comments on ‘climate change’. http://www.expressindi.....
» 26/07/2008 5:04:30 PM rstuart, sams, dickie and others. I don’t want to believe humanity has caused this latest.....
» 23/07/2008 5:32:10 PM Don, Cheers, another time and place......
» 23/07/2008 4:18:23 PM Don Aitken This thread has obviously meandered off-topic. I would be happy to discuss Noel.....
» 23/07/2008 4:06:11 PM As we have seen, there are some people that are very good at snipping and sniping from the.....
» 18/07/2008 12:35:36 PM Janama You refer to Monckton's 'paper' and make strong assertions. I suggest you slow down.....
» 18/07/2008 8:19:18 AM Arjay Yes, the major players must jump on board. China and India are very aware of the imp.....
» 16/07/2008 10:51:24 PM Arjay, you just "popped" up, it is getting late, but I will respond - good night.....
» 16/07/2008 10:21:37 PM Don Aitken, I appreciate your response ... we are all busy. However, I can only reiterate.....
» 15/07/2008 2:49:30 PM Barry, Maybe Don Aitken should be made aware of this as he mentions the Argo research in .....
» 15/07/2008 2:40:57 PM I for one would be interested in constructive ideas as to how we could tackle what is obvi.....
» 12/07/2008 7:29:47 PM Ross There are many on this forum who don't understand the science yet are quite prepared.....
» 8/07/2008 4:41:45 PM T.Sett I guess some people still think the contiguous US is the whole globe. It would hel.....
» 7/07/2008 9:50:07 PM Oliver, read my lips … There is one Walker Circulation; there are three Walker Circulation.....
» 6/07/2008 6:17:41 PM Graham, OLO has a life of its own, with or without Clive Hamilton. I think he has a valid.....
» 6/07/2008 10:25:09 AM Ahhh yes ... Ray Evans and the Lavoisier Group - nuff said! So what is it with you tag 'C.....
» 3/07/2008 8:36:20 AM Clive, I don’t think I have seen an OLO article that has attracted so many responses in it.....
» 30/06/2008 9:20:52 PM Right on queue bigmal, I was expecting the 'network', if not the 'greenhouse mafia', to jo.....
» 30/06/2008 7:13:26 PM And thanks to you Jennifer Marohasy (and OLO's "snowman" aka McClean). And to t.....
» 18/06/2008 8:17:03 PM Rob: "my point is that unrealistic expectations lead to impractical decisions and imp.....
» 17/06/2008 10:59:20 AM Country girl, it seems to me a little more complex than you opine. If you have not the mon.....
» 17/06/2008 9:53:39 AM Keiran, 'play scientists' all you want, but that doesn't make you one, it certainly doesn'.....
» 17/06/2008 8:30:50 AM In another age we used to call it the "Law of Diminishing Returns". I guess I ha.....
» 12/06/2008 10:18:43 PM David Kemp's asks "How ... can Australia contribute to viable solutions for itself an.....
» 12/06/2008 8:27:52 AM Keiran, your understanding of maths, chemistry, physics and now comprehension is, umm … te.....
» 12/06/2008 8:25:08 AM Candide In a nut-shell, I support the principals and aims of the United Nations Commission.....
» 11/06/2008 1:15:10 PM Keiran Thanks for the link, a good article. You should read what the technical papers hav.....
» 11/06/2008 10:22:59 AM The first 2 responses are typical of the banal and trite. How are you going to conduct th.....
» 10/06/2008 11:05:20 PM I am not going to play your inane "bait and switch" games Col Rouge......
» 8/06/2008 6:58:02 PM Thanks for clearing that up Romany. I checked-in here a couple of days ago, saw Boazy's p.....
» 8/06/2008 6:17:58 PM Keiran You've convinced me … you haven't a clue, you're wasted space and you're consuming .....
» 7/06/2008 12:44:13 PM Thank you Keiran......
» 7/06/2008 9:09:07 AM Viking, on the contrary … stamus contra malum. Look deeper. I was not focussing on theocra.....
» 6/06/2008 5:31:44 PM The author singles out Islam but I would say most religions "wield fear and faith to .....
» 6/06/2008 7:55:40 AM Keiran, You questioned the paper I linked to; contact the author (address in the paper). H.....
» 6/06/2008 7:54:41 AM one under god Have been back since early in the week but curled up in a ball with a bad do.....
» 29/05/2008 10:58:34 PM one under god Wow ... you have been busy! Looked at some ... brings back memories and rea.....
» 28/05/2008 11:00:09 PM Keiran I think it’s great you have found a library on the internet … or was it ‘misinforme.....
» 28/05/2008 6:30:40 PM Aime “Humanity is simply a pack of greedy rouges amongst the animal kingdom who are fast d.....
» 28/05/2008 2:28:49 PM Michael T If you put energy into a system, the system tries to adjust or equilibrate. For.....
» 28/05/2008 11:41:27 AM Arjay Why do you keep saying things like "Mr Rudd has taken the subsidy off gas conv.....
» 27/05/2008 11:39:24 PM Col: "I have no desire to deprive my children of a good life and will hopefully leave.....
» 27/05/2008 11:26:06 PM Challenging ideas Ludwig. However, have you not wondered why those (prolific posters) tha.....
» 27/05/2008 8:58:18 AM I am not surprised that antagonistic responders can't proffer a better solution on how to .....
» 26/05/2008 9:01:08 AM For all the arm-chair scientists out there or those that would criticise the scientific me.....
» 26/05/2008 8:39:02 AM Thought provoking Arjay, good one! There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we.....
» 23/05/2008 6:41:59 PM mhaze Reading between the lines, I think dickie is putting emphasis on *clean* air, water.....
» 23/05/2008 11:10:36 AM RobP Yes, GW since industrialisation is significant, with GMT increasing at a rate of abou.....
» 20/05/2008 7:04:39 PM Ditto. Talk about bullying LOL Seems ok with the author tho'. Maybe he's Tim Lambert's .....
» 20/05/2008 5:48:10 PM Geoff, Thanks for the link to Clive Hamilton’s précis; well worth the read. Col Rouge You.....
» 20/05/2008 9:35:59 AM "The challenge with any alternative futures lies not in our capacity to imagine alter.....
» 19/05/2008 12:03:13 PM SusanP To present a balance, is there any chance of procuring Professor Stephen Schneider.....
» 18/05/2008 9:56:49 PM Themistocles I disagree, it is not a war between us/them, Right/Left, scientists/non-scie.....
» 18/05/2008 7:33:55 PM Keiran The only way for us to ‘observe’ the evidence is to conduct the experiment, and we .....
» 17/05/2008 4:37:26 PM Hmmm … how about robust debate? Corollary: Young’s style is to make assertions (the artic.....
» 16/05/2008 5:53:43 PM Another behaviour that I would characterise as bullying is being threatened with OLO suspe.....
» 16/05/2008 2:51:43 PM So jc2 is another one that 'attacks the man and doesn't play ball' - typical......
» 16/05/2008 10:44:31 AM Plerdsus 1. Weather is not climate 2. Population is mentioned, check out IPCC AR4 3. Ther.....
» 15/05/2008 4:18:43 PM Even if Graham is embarking on a campaign using similar tactics that he’s accusing Robyn W.....
» 15/05/2008 1:33:36 PM Usual Suspect, I did not disagree with Don when he said “the electorate there (UK) is not .....
» 15/05/2008 10:33:41 AM Usual Suspect I understand what you are trying to say but it is important to appreciate t.....
» 14/05/2008 10:31:01 AM Don, I acknowledge your background in research; you are a very respected, recognised and i.....
» 13/05/2008 5:04:32 PM Thanks Dewi for giving us updates. Great job......
» 13/05/2008 4:58:45 PM Don, You say, “nothing whatever that our government can do will make more than a trivial .....
» 13/05/2008 8:50:57 AM Don, appreciate your reply. It does take time for the scientific community to overturn or.....
» 11/05/2008 7:10:09 PM Walter/Charlie, Dialogue between you guys is important to observe for the layperson. I ho.....
» 11/05/2008 6:54:52 PM Tuning back in Boazy. Not sure about contract law, but is it not best to strictly 'regulat.....
» 11/05/2008 6:48:57 PM Col, I have obviously offended you. I am sorry. Can we move on?.....
» 11/05/2008 6:35:01 PM Don, In reading your most recent response to Barry, at what point in time do you think th.....
» 8/05/2008 8:15:16 AM Great questions Boazy, with the potential to be a very good thread. I don't always agree .....
» 8/05/2008 8:09:18 AM That's it, sat down with my morning coffee, opened my email, checked this thread ... gagge.....
» 7/05/2008 7:00:27 PM Keiran Wikki IS generally ok, but both you and I know its limitations? Your link to Lawre.....
» 7/05/2008 3:09:29 PM Steel It may be worthwhile going to the following link and typing “Lawrence Soloman” into.....
» 7/05/2008 9:46:42 AM I can't help but feel depressed in reading this very well articulated article by Dr Veron .....
» 6/05/2008 7:14:28 PM Needed a laugh, what a Hoot! Thanks Gibo et al......
» 6/05/2008 5:36:46 PM Belly, this thread was needed and you were the obvious poster to start it. The issues and.....
» 6/05/2008 2:59:49 PM Arjay, yeah – who would want to be a politician? Topic for another thread? I don’t know i.....
» 6/05/2008 1:19:46 PM Plerdsus There is so much fuss because the impacts of global warming have repercussions a.....
» 6/05/2008 1:10:41 PM G’day Keiran, good to see OLO’s resident ‘cosmic-ray enthusiast’ flying the flag! The Kee.....
» 6/05/2008 9:22:08 AM Graham or Dewi, From my end, posting these last few days has been "quicker" tha.....
» 6/05/2008 8:50:36 AM Col dear, for your reference, on 29/4 in this thread I say to Sonofeire : The “dramatic b.....
» 5/05/2008 5:59:58 PM Arjay You said "Kevin Rudd just took off the subsidy for car natural gas conversions.....
» 5/05/2008 2:20:55 PM Umm … Col, that drivel came from the Pentagon. If you have a problem with their report, g.....
» 5/05/2008 2:01:27 PM BINGO ... the overwhelming problems facing humanity is more to do with (un)sustainable dev.....
» 5/05/2008 11:38:26 AM And before anyone attacks Professor Karoly, they should read this piece. http://www.skept.....
» 5/05/2008 11:03:41 AM Thylacene Don't take CR's rant and dribble too seriously - he usually resorts to ad homs .....
» 2/05/2008 9:48:44 PM Col says "they see their view as omnipotent and beyond challenge" then says &quo.....
» 2/05/2008 9:26:26 PM Erratum, “Col's Guide to Climate Change” – my deepest apologies to accountants. Whether o.....
» 30/04/2008 7:04:01 AM I agree with you Foxy. There is a difference between “playful banter” and personal abuse .....
» 29/04/2008 8:46:38 PM Dear Col Rouge So you continue your bullying tactics on other threads while refusing to a.....
» 29/04/2008 5:04:54 PM A reasoned and rational article, I agree with much of what the author says. “Trust levels.....
» 29/04/2008 12:16:21 PM Update No.2 Ok, now I want to post a 2nd comment on an article thread but can't because I.....
» 29/04/2008 10:59:58 AM Update, Message received a few times today when trying to post. Microsoft OLE DB Provide.....
» 29/04/2008 10:47:32 AM Sonofeire I have not seen the television documentary you mention so this statement needs .....
» 29/04/2008 9:39:59 AM Graham I too now am having problems with time-outs and error messages. Like Vanilla, I hav.....
» 29/04/2008 9:26:36 AM This is what Professor David Karoly, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne and.....
» 28/04/2008 6:38:19 PM For the sake of argument (sorry Jim) let’s pretend global warming is not happening. What .....
» 28/04/2008 1:44:09 PM Bazz (and Arjay) The solar output has been monitored by accurate satellite instruments si.....
» 28/04/2008 11:41:24 AM Yeah Arjay, I read that piece by Chapman too. This is what Professor David Karoly, School.....
» 27/04/2008 1:12:59 PM Cont’d Col, you keep stalking my “credentials”. I told you last year – although at that t.....
» 27/04/2008 1:08:59 PM Col, I can’t help it … Erratum, “The Accountant’s Guide to Climate Change” – my deepest a.....
» 25/04/2008 5:11:34 PM “Argument based on fraudulent charts and bodgy climate models declaring we must all reduce.....
» 24/04/2008 5:51:15 PM T.Sett “I am ashamed to say, I have been guilty of feeding trolls.” Why “no more”? I fin.....
» 22/04/2008 11:28:53 PM G Larsen Appreciate your response. A lot of work is in progress (contrary to popular beli.....
» 22/04/2008 10:50:54 AM T.Sett Yeah, Richard Castles is looking forward to ignoring my reply (to what I have no i.....
» 21/04/2008 2:40:26 PM Thanks for the link G Larsen. What do you think of Tamino’s critique about this very issu.....
» 18/04/2008 5:04:50 PM Curmudgeon: “The problem is trying to work out whether humans have had any effect on clim.....
» 17/04/2008 10:48:39 AM “The sad part about this is that many gullible people ...” think addressing the issues of.....
» 17/04/2008 10:18:06 AM Wrong Mr Right. “The majority of people DO NOT blindly accept the human cause theory of c.....
» 17/04/2008 9:45:40 AM Kollontai, The debate is “muddied” in the media and blogosphere because of spin doctoring.....
» 16/04/2008 10:43:32 AM DB, You have raised a very important thread and I agree that 350 word and post/time limit.....
» 15/04/2008 10:25:52 AM Just wondering DB ... Apart from your focus on monetary policy; Can you see any connectio.....
» 13/04/2008 5:35:34 PM Bigmal You were at least prepared to look at and read the links to the UNFCCC and IPCC (m.....
» 13/04/2008 2:39:37 PM Richard Castles "The idea of needing to justify expensive and potentially dangerous .....
» 13/04/2008 9:57:31 AM rstuart Don is a political scientist. However, political science is not oceanography, at.....
» 10/04/2008 2:20:37 PM Don Global warming is a problem, whether you believe in human induced climate change or n.....
» 10/04/2008 1:26:27 PM Bigmal wants me to “spare (him) a diatribe that the IPCC represents 2500 scientists.” I'l.....
» 10/04/2008 12:09:55 PM Ok Tragedy, you understand how science works. I’m no expert on the growth rates of 1000 y.....
» 9/04/2008 8:45:32 PM KeithB Exactly!.....
» 8/04/2008 2:22:52 PM Tragedy, You clearly don’t understand how science works. It has nothing to do with my “i.....
» 8/04/2008 1:14:38 PM Bigmal, 1. I agree, calving of an ice-shelf is dramatic and it is well known warming of t.....
» 8/04/2008 11:27:17 AM Cont’d … “It is important to remember that climate science is not a public debate carried.....
» 8/04/2008 11:26:15 AM Arjay “Q&A see http://.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88520025 Titled "Th.....
» 5/04/2008 6:17:34 PM Tradgedy Incidentally, there were about 600 independent scientists for the AR4 who correl.....
» 5/04/2008 5:46:14 PM Tragedy, pardon but this argument of yours is very simplistic (see an earlier post to fluf.....
» 5/04/2008 5:30:52 PM Ease up Dickie, Col goes off topic quite regularly – we all do. However, I even thought M.....
» 5/04/2008 8:36:47 AM Arjay, you have tweaked to Argo and raise some interesting questions, but you appear to be.....
» 4/04/2008 6:03:50 PM Next, Liam From BigMal's link; Type "John McLean" + "climate change" .....
» 3/04/2008 7:08:05 PM Amaranthus You are correct, contrary to what Bob Carter et al continually spruik (you hav.....
» 3/04/2008 12:44:40 PM ChristinaMac, I agree with the concept that all who respect liberty also respect the righ.....
» 3/04/2008 9:43:19 AM Sorry to have to tell you TRTL, My morning's comment was deleted, censored and I was thre.....
» 2/04/2008 5:25:58 PM Yeah, I'm feeling a bit bruised and battered of late. Can't wait for Andrew Bolt and Ray E.....
» 2/04/2008 5:10:40 PM The Heartland Institute has really fired them up! I won't quibble on the Max dribble. St.....
» 2/04/2008 11:45:08 AM Fluff You raise some interesting issues … and for many people the science is difficult to.....
» 31/03/2008 6:55:38 PM Fluff4, Thanks for that link, most interesting! I did indeed want to read the ‘bio’ of t.....
» 31/03/2008 1:44:29 PM Paul.L There are propagandists on both sides. Al Gore and the IPA are typical of the 2 ex.....
» 31/03/2008 12:59:51 PM OLO and SusanP should be congratulated on presenting two articles in concert that present .....
» 30/03/2008 2:13:53 PM Col, I am sorry for the delay in reply. The following link best explains and delineates .....
» 30/03/2008 2:12:43 PM GrahamY The Walker Circulation cells? They are interlinked and coupled to both land and .....
» 29/03/2008 12:57:29 PM Recapping, (I’m really trying to understand Graham Young’s attack). Keiran asks, “Why is.....
» 27/03/2008 2:14:08 PM Fester, Dickie Be careful, even mentioning RealClimate on OLO can get you whacked. I vis.....
» 27/03/2008 2:10:28 PM GrahamY It seems your silence is the best I can hope for in an apology. Apology accepted.....
» 26/03/2008 1:34:38 PM Col Thanks … not sure if it’s good to be back, LOL. “I note the article you posted allud.....
» 26/03/2008 1:33:18 PM GrahamY Some climate-science 101 text books are better than Wikipedia. Wiki is an ok site.....
» 25/03/2008 12:51:39 PM Cont’d You understand the difference between a theory and a hypothesis, many don’t. AGW i.....
» 25/03/2008 12:50:26 PM Returning from an Easter interlude and I notice Roy Spencer has been resurrected like a mo.....
» 21/03/2008 4:19:19 PM Jennifer (on topic?) Spencer says, “I am not claiming that all of our recent warming is n.....
» 21/03/2008 10:28:35 AM Col Rouge, “Your post is well below acceptable standard. Lift your game if you expect to .....
» 20/03/2008 3:53:35 PM Kieren, You lift and image from NOAA and want me to explain it to you? Why don’t you just.....
» 19/03/2008 1:34:26 PM Jennifer Thanks for the link to the Spencer et al paper. Yes, it is very interesting and .....
» 18/03/2008 11:51:47 AM Dickie, Speaking of the cold south, try the British Antarctic Survey home page, or: http.....
» 18/03/2008 8:44:27 AM Fair enough Graham. I am also very disturbed at the way the GW ‘alarmists’ jump on their ‘.....
» 16/03/2008 11:46:26 PM Graham, “I sometimes wonder whether anyone bothers reading these articles before posting.”.....
» 15/03/2008 11:13:07 PM When you add or release energy into the atmosphere, the atmosphere warms ... if there is w.....
» 5/03/2008 3:10:42 PM Bazz, Before you go plunging off and cost us all enormous amounts of money, can you try a.....
» 5/03/2008 2:54:03 PM Back to topic, Again simplistic, but what say anyone to this? To stabilise atmospheric C.....
» 5/03/2008 2:51:57 PM de Baz, This is an *extreme* over-simplification. To obey the fundamental laws of physic.....
» 3/03/2008 10:31:48 PM Bazz, The IPCC is not insisting the science is settled. For anyone to suggest this (usual.....
» 3/03/2008 5:25:17 PM Cont’d, Alzo, I said Climate change is statistically measured over longer time frames … t.....
» 3/03/2008 5:11:53 PM Dickie, I know a lot of “Richards” who are tagged “dickie”, hence I thought you were a blo.....
» 2/03/2008 3:29:10 PM Yabby, I am enjoying the tête-à-tête you are having with Dickie – but don’t be too critic.....
» 2/03/2008 9:36:09 AM Foxy, Your OLO posts: I have watched and you have made me think outside my comfort zone. .....
» 29/02/2008 6:55:13 PM Bazz I think you miss the point of their argument, although it is somewhat anecdotal. Ev.....
» 29/02/2008 12:06:00 PM Dearest Alzo, Typical of your posts, you snip and snipe like a rabid terrier. What is mos.....
» 27/02/2008 6:45:07 PM It sticks out like the ‘proverbials’ that some people don’t know, or want to know, the dif.....
» 25/02/2008 5:38:26 PM Cont’d TRTL, GW is a symptom of Unsustainable development – we can do it better, no matt.....
» 25/02/2008 4:56:32 PM Within the last few weeks a number of internationally known and respected research organis.....
» 21/02/2008 10:23:47 PM Sheesh, talk about someone living in the dark ages. Arjay, if you want to comment on glob.....
» 21/02/2008 9:56:32 PM Anti-green, I am back after my sojourn again into the real world of climate change – but.....
» 5/02/2008 10:58:19 PM Yes anti-green, you are misinterpreting what I have been saying. I sincerely apologise if.....
» 4/02/2008 10:24:25 PM Most individuals have fundamental concerns about organisations who deny science because of.....
» 3/02/2008 9:23:48 AM Would someone like to comment on Hitler's *fascist* rule - opposed of course to the ideolo.....
» 2/02/2008 8:45:46 AM Anti-green, it’s good you ‘came out’ – recognition of your denial is the 1st step to recov.....
» 1/02/2008 11:50:35 AM The author says: "When such figureheads fall, it's often their followers who feel mo.....
» 1/02/2008 8:11:40 AM As for the philosophy of climate change (in)action. I tend to agree with the following int.....
» 1/02/2008 8:06:59 AM A double entente on ‘climate change’ Keiran? Yes, I thought you would like the link. No s.....
» 30/01/2008 6:21:26 PM Cont’d CR proponents also believe the cosmic ray/cloud cover/global warming natural cycle.....
» 30/01/2008 6:20:45 PM There is a misunderstanding Keiran, the IPCC don’t do the scientific research as you imply.....
» 28/01/2008 6:49:49 PM The article is about the philosophy of climate change inaction – we have gone off topic (n.....
» 27/01/2008 1:36:32 PM Hey Rainier, I suggest you read your 1st sentence again. Methinks it could be read the wa.....
» 27/01/2008 1:28:24 PM My reasoning? Already given. If: your thoughts are that, And: ‘tout ça est une blague’, .....
» 26/01/2008 2:35:18 PM Keiran, you put the effort in to read the article – put a little more in to understand it......
» 26/01/2008 1:47:49 PM Thethinker, Yes, we are proud. It has not been easy, especially when you consider we are .....
» 25/01/2008 4:44:20 PM A valid question ‘thethinker’ poses – and we may be surprised by the answer/s … if one was.....
» 25/01/2008 1:00:16 PM Good question BB – it does raise many issues and would appreciate your thoughts. I tend t.....
» 25/01/2008 12:21:30 PM So the ‘wanabes’ Tweedledumb and Tweedledee reply in seeming unison to the question. Neit.....
» 24/01/2008 9:27:54 PM Typical Col Rouge when he says; "I am happy to present a polemic to whatever you car.....
» 24/01/2008 4:40:05 PM Thanks Leigh, I have “looked" to Keith Windschuttle, but all I have ever seen (and co.....
» 24/01/2008 3:05:58 PM The ‘thinking’ behind climate change inaction – this is a contradiction in terms … some po.....
» 24/01/2008 9:50:39 AM Leigh, you say "no genocide". What is your *enlightened* interpretation of the .....
» 9/01/2008 11:25:07 AM Con’t One side favours action in response to the evidence that climate change is occurrin.....
» 9/01/2008 11:23:25 AM It is important society has an understanding of what science is and what science can and c.....
» 8/01/2008 2:08:03 PM I agree with you Yabby, the UN does have issues (veto by the USA Bush Administration does .....
» 8/01/2008 11:53:23 AM Col Rouge, are you not capable of reading more than 1 post before or after? On the other .....
» 8/01/2008 11:04:42 AM Just goes to show how much of a ranting old troll Col Rouge is. He is challenged to engag.....
» 7/01/2008 3:46:48 PM Col, I hope you understand what I say in response because your last post opened a way for .....
» 7/01/2008 11:22:13 AM Boazy, this ‘us/them’ attitude is a divergent system and can only exacerbate tensions both.....
» 6/01/2008 9:58:12 PM The corollary Yabby: Muslims want to outbreed the Catholics? Yabby, this is shaky – China.....
» 6/01/2008 4:01:17 PM We have a problem and some people choose to shoot the messenger because they don't like th.....
» 6/01/2008 3:34:15 PM Col: "The solution will only be found in resolving the address population growth and .....
» 6/01/2008 3:04:36 PM As I have always said, it's not about the science - it's about power and control of the ma.....
» 4/01/2008 7:39:03 PM Yeah rojo, I agree with you 100% about the farmers needing to be beneficiaries as well. I.....
» 4/01/2008 4:37:02 PM Some people’s “opinions” on climate change or risk management are more valid than others. .....
» 4/01/2008 6:05:18 AM Last year, wheat, corn and soybean prices rose to record levels and vast tracts of land ar.....
» 3/01/2008 12:50:08 PM Col Rouge the *wise-one*? Touché for beancounters (joke Col). It would seem prudent (and .....
» 3/01/2008 9:53:05 AM Aye, there is the rub. Reminds me (I don't know why) of 'Corn for Oil' scandals much simi.....
» 3/01/2008 9:33:45 AM Bashir, you know as well as any that climate-change science is much more advanced now than.....
» 31/12/2007 12:56:38 PM It seems some people think the atmosphere or troposphere is bounded by borders – yeah, wit.....
» 23/12/2007 6:45:28 PM You too KAEP, have a very Ricci Christmas and a Dynamic New Year......
» 22/12/2007 5:16:19 PM Wizofaus, The mendacity of Nick Lanelaw/Leo Lane has been made public, in his own spin ab.....
» 22/12/2007 5:13:36 PM Catching up/stepping back. Graham – I appreciate your suggestion to write an essay for OL.....
» 20/12/2007 5:51:12 PM Sigh … Nick: “Claiming an upward trend is meaningless. There has been no hotter year sin.....
» 20/12/2007 8:48:16 AM Just listen to the radio debate Graham, the one in the Dessler link. http://www.blogtalkr.....
» 19/12/2007 5:31:16 PM GrahamY and the denier or “I don’t know” brigade has difficulty communicating with real sc.....
» 19/12/2007 9:18:39 AM This could be a very interesting thread, will be intrigued to see what response is generat.....
» 18/12/2007 10:58:46 PM Now I'm really laughing. Wizofaus, Graham states he "doesn't know what the answer i.....
» 17/12/2007 8:08:06 PM What a great one-liner! Thanks Colinsett, I needed a laugh......
» 16/12/2007 4:55:32 PM cont No more games Graham. I would agree *On Line Opinion* is a great site for discussin.....
» 16/12/2007 4:52:13 PM GrahamY, Satellite Gravity Measurements Confirm Accelerated Melting of Greenland Ice Shee.....
» 14/12/2007 2:52:34 PM Graham, you can spin and twist how ever you like. You are the picker here; I am only a ch.....
» 13/12/2007 8:12:50 PM Graham, this is your site - if you want to run it as a clearing-house for scientific paper.....
» 13/12/2007 1:38:50 PM Graham, there are some GW alarmists out there, as too there are GW ‘deniers’ … as you are .....
» 12/12/2007 7:02:42 PM In the course of a conversation I had today, James Hansen came up – a NASA scientist. My c.....
» 11/12/2007 10:36:06 PM No Shocker. You've lost it, ciao......
» 11/12/2007 10:21:40 PM Hang in there Corri, you are a beautiful person. Onya Foxy, bye for now......
» 11/12/2007 10:07:57 PM ChrisPer - spank me if you can, but my old maths teacher would defend me like this: Say 5.....
» 11/12/2007 9:45:25 PM Touche Frank, now I'm outa here. Thanks.....
» 11/12/2007 5:55:13 PM Cont. Buon Ma Thuot, Some people (as we see here and precipitated by the article) want t.....
» 11/12/2007 5:51:46 PM Snake Sorry mate, when I re-read my post to KAEP that “ditto” could have been taken the w.....
» 10/12/2007 1:27:55 PM How to win friends and influence people, by KAEP. No wonder people get turned off. OTOH,.....
» 10/12/2007 12:22:53 PM “Speculative assumption”? “Global weather and temperature science lacks the historic ana.....
» 10/12/2007 11:54:29 AM Yeah, saw the same program. What is conveniently overlooked by the hard "right" .....
» 10/12/2007 10:36:21 AM Are you that blinkered Leigh by saying "The main reason there was a change of governm.....
» 10/12/2007 10:03:18 AM Culture evolves Paul, over 100’s of years. Are you suggesting culture is static? How do yo.....
» 10/12/2007 9:32:00 AM For a long time Rudd was ridiculed by both "left" and "right" of polit.....
» 9/12/2007 8:28:13 AM Boazy, thanks for your considered response. Really, you have put a lot of time in it and I.....
» 8/12/2007 6:34:21 PM Hi Foxy, I understand you're having a tete'a'tete with Belly and I will butt out if you li.....
» 8/12/2007 4:50:39 PM Work one hour a week and you are employed (ie. not on the unemployment statistics). You s.....
» 8/12/2007 4:32:01 PM Thanks Jack, take your point but I think it is “sticky” to suggest our Aboriginal culture .....
» 8/12/2007 3:05:00 PM Jack the Lad, what exactly is the Australian Culture, what is our Australian Identity - Wh.....
» 8/12/2007 2:44:51 PM Paul says: “Our schools are supposed to be secular if I remember correctly.” Humble apol.....
» 7/12/2007 8:30:01 PM Shocker, to put things in perspective and to help me understand you a little more, I asked.....
» 7/12/2007 6:50:27 PM Bollocks.....
» 7/12/2007 6:21:16 PM Ok Paul, You say “Our schools are supposed to be secular.” Who said this? Is this fact? .....
» 7/12/2007 5:19:38 PM There are fundamentalists and extremists on all sides Shockadelic, do you agree? Their ac.....
» 7/12/2007 2:04:36 PM Thanks Botheration - and enlightening link. It just goes to show how bigoted and racist s.....
» 7/12/2007 11:38:34 AM Yep, Leigh must be deliriously unhappy if he wants to have “deep and meaningfuls” with tho.....
» 6/12/2007 11:06:52 PM Scotty, your thread and you say: "You see Taryn they hate themselves for thier prive.....
» 6/12/2007 5:25:41 PM Paul.L ... your understanding of Islam says more about your intelligence than your words h.....
» 6/12/2007 4:34:49 PM I wouldn't worry about your 'misprints' too much Bushbred, George & Co *preach for profit*.....
» 6/12/2007 1:35:40 PM Bollocks......
» 6/12/2007 10:09:20 AM And from Leigh's comments, he seems to be deliriously unhappy ... sad really, putting it a.....
» 6/12/2007 8:45:09 AM Don, there are some that think climate change or global warming is a kerfuffle … akin to a.....
» 5/12/2007 5:45:40 PM Some good points Belly, you to Jolanda. There are extremists in all religions; Islam does.....
» 5/12/2007 10:41:52 AM Paul.L says “a racist is a person who prejudges another based upon his/her racial backgrou.....
» 5/12/2007 8:27:47 AM TarynW says "The truth is if anybody states the facts they are tagged racist." .....
» 4/12/2007 6:00:46 PM Don, As a first stop, you could try the following link; it contains a brief review of the.....
» 3/12/2007 8:08:09 PM "It's an urban myth that sugarcane for ethanol is responsible for Amazonian clearing......
» 1/12/2007 8:51:49 AM Interesting TarynW - What do you think of the 'flyers' (dealing with Muslims and mosques) .....
» 1/12/2007 8:12:21 AM TarynW, yep ... Belly is on a trip ... off the planet if you ask me. I voted Labor and sha.....
» 1/12/2007 12:30:28 AM Hi Julie, it is late but thanks for your thoughts. You say "class war has always bee.....
» 30/11/2007 5:02:33 PM Runner I agree with you; these issues should rise above politics. I only raised this thre.....
» 29/11/2007 1:26:04 PM Cheers Dnicholson … there is obviously a problem though. I think we have become sanitised.....
» 28/11/2007 9:13:22 AM PM Rudd wants his newly elected team to visit 2 “shelters” in their electorates. The defe.....
» 27/11/2007 9:50:12 PM Wizofaus is on track. Sadly, many people still do not get it - it is no longer about socia.....
» 26/11/2007 3:52:34 PM Whoa, temper your tantrums … your beginning to sound like some other obsessive compulsive .....
» 26/11/2007 10:52:04 AM Belly, I voted for a Rudd-Labor government, not a 'far-left' Labor government - there is a.....
» 25/11/2007 9:20:13 PM CJ, couldn’t agree more. Frank, I am finding this report fascinating – thanks. With all d.....
» 24/11/2007 5:02:54 PM Corri, this thread won’t become “irrelevant” but it will be time to reflect and move on – .....
» 24/11/2007 11:24:32 AM Foxy, I wanted to check my email before I went out to vote and your post just popped up. .....
» 23/11/2007 6:27:36 PM Miacat, I’ve been watching from the sidelines at your posts for some time … I am encourage.....
» 23/11/2007 5:36:57 PM Your turn Corri, it’s your thread after all. Can you posit answers to the above? It appea.....
» 23/11/2007 11:01:00 AM Very good questions FrankGol and no doubt you have answers yourself – please enlighten us......
» 23/11/2007 6:21:52 AM Palimpsest now proves my point, twisting and spinning to the irreverent believers with the.....
» 22/11/2007 8:56:03 PM Corri, I asked some serious questions, for all to consider. Do you really think the Howard.....
» 22/11/2007 5:01:10 PM Karen Chijoff (Liberal Party's candidate for Lindsay) is either naïve or representative of.....
» 22/11/2007 11:50:31 AM Reform is on the way, in more ways than one. Some believe the only organisations around a.....
» 21/11/2007 7:51:46 PM Keith, sorry mate, I couldn't help it. http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/phillipadam.....
» 21/11/2007 7:28:13 PM Thanks for making it so clear JamesH, you have no doubt missed your calling. I suggest yo.....
» 19/11/2007 10:18:48 PM Bugger, copied the link but didn’t paste and had to wait for the post and time limit to ex.....
» 19/11/2007 8:10:43 AM Just came across this, explains things better than I can. Talks about convergence in term.....
» 18/11/2007 9:13:01 PM Hello Keith, thanks for your response. Sorry I haven’t got back to you – I guess there are.....
» 15/11/2007 3:11:35 PM Faustino, Why have you not included the “other view” by Professor Martin Parry in the BBC.....
» 14/11/2007 9:17:46 AM Aime, now you have thrown a baited hook to the zealots here on OLO. Just watch them retal.....
» 13/11/2007 8:48:25 PM I sympathise for you BD, empathy is another matter – you decide what word games you want t.....
» 13/11/2007 11:25:14 AM Somewhat clichéd but, the issues raised in this article exemplify the difference between a.....
» 13/11/2007 9:35:02 AM Con’t 3. “How Rudd will resist the expectation, among his troops, according to Latham, th.....
» 13/11/2007 9:30:29 AM Dear Keith, Thanks for replying. You raised some interesting points that I wished to purs.....
» 13/11/2007 7:55:15 AM This is good Arjay, but we need to focus a little more … “The money would be better spent.....
» 12/11/2007 6:44:07 PM "I agree,I don't think the wealth has been distributed well at all.Some of it has bee.....
» 12/11/2007 4:39:51 PM Demos impugns, "we're producing less food than we're eating" and suggests “this .....
» 12/11/2007 9:27:44 AM Ditto Ludwig. Unfortunately, our society is driven by consumerism and self-interest. Poli.....
» 12/11/2007 9:08:22 AM The professor again has highlighted an issue that has been on the table for a decade - and.....
» 10/11/2007 2:04:00 PM Seems Keith is otherwise occupied, that's ok. Arjay, what do you think? Anyone?.....
» 10/11/2007 1:53:36 PM Go ask your Mr Howard, or better still, Mr Costello (truly, a wonderful spin)......
» 10/11/2007 1:44:52 PM Self-righteous: holier-than-thou, sanctimonious, pompous, pretentious, conceited, etc. Big.....
» 9/11/2007 3:47:11 PM Just out of curiosity Shadow Minister, are you aware of of the current trends in solar the.....
» 8/11/2007 5:49:17 PM Keith says: “if we vote for the alternative (Labor) we'll suffer the consequences of high.....
» 8/11/2007 5:06:44 PM I feel sorry for you runner, your comments show that it is you that has a narrow minded vi.....
» 8/11/2007 8:07:55 AM You must have had a lobotomy already Arjay, either that or you have a memory problem - or .....
» 7/11/2007 4:56:57 PM billie, it is either labor or liberal in the reps, don't you think? But yes, greens for th.....
» 7/11/2007 1:59:05 PM There is a growing world wide inter-faith movement respecting each faith’s basic tenets wh.....
» 5/11/2007 5:41:33 PM Please get off your self-righteous pedestal BOAZ-David, you are doing more harm to your fa.....
» 5/11/2007 8:16:07 AM Boazy, you do protest too much. But hey, it is only your opinion. Problem is, you all too .....
» 2/11/2007 4:04:41 PM Where are our sense of values? What does this show us about our society? Where are we head.....
» 1/11/2007 7:05:42 PM Easy Times, thanks for reading the article, and more so for replying. Personally, I don’t .....
» 1/11/2007 11:46:46 AM “In what may be the dying days of the Coalition Government, it is easy to see John Howard .....
» 31/10/2007 7:57:42 PM Steven, and you think China, Russia, India, Iran and Co have not thought of these scenario.....
» 26/10/2007 12:03:01 AM “No such ‘one world’ has ever existed.” Depends on the context Shockadelic … or one’s per.....
» 25/10/2007 12:24:39 PM That's it Gibo, I'm outa here. No wonder we have so many problems on this planet ... extre.....
» 24/10/2007 4:52:42 PM TRTL, Yep! But hey, give credit where credit is due … Gibo started this post with a seemin.....
» 24/10/2007 12:45:48 PM Gibo, I am now thinking you stay under the bed. You are afraid of communism as others are.....
» 24/10/2007 10:20:02 AM It's ok Gibo, you can crawl out from under the bed......
» 23/10/2007 2:42:05 PM Whoops … just fallen into this thread and from a cursory reading … I can see most posters .....
» 5/09/2007 9:43:59 PM Lighten up John, there are already too many people in Australia suffering cardiovascular a.....
» 3/09/2007 10:52:19 PM Chris C, I hope you do "have an opportunity to discuss the likely Senate results base.....
» 30/08/2007 11:58:31 PM Howard is a consummate politician no doubt, but that is the problem. Unfortunately, he la.....
» 30/08/2007 11:31:14 PM There are more people watching the dialog here than you would imagine - it is very illumin.....
» 21/08/2007 12:34:14 PM Plerdsus says “What we do in Australia DOES NOT MATTER” and believes “that many countries,.....
» 20/08/2007 6:10:37 PM You seem to have a fairly unambiguous understanding of our parliamentary process Chris C, .....
» 16/08/2007 7:32:35 PM “Q&A: I agree 100% on enlightened societies, educated women and population stability. But .....
» 16/08/2007 2:25:11 PM Runner, you still do not get it do you - what it means to be an environmentalist? Read my.....
» 16/08/2007 10:08:17 AM Punter57, when 99% of bookies say there is a 90-95% chance of a horse winning; most people.....
» 15/08/2007 7:07:39 PM Xoddam, much of what you say is correct, have no doubt. I would only challenge you in ter.....
» 15/08/2007 10:01:57 AM A thought provoking thread on climate change and maybe a good time for a lot of people to .....
» 14/08/2007 10:15:09 AM The denial industry is alive and well as we yet again see more evidence. Wolfowitz 'tried .....
» 13/08/2007 11:11:03 PM Ok Alzo, you are a denier - that is your choice. I came across a site that attracts some .....
» 12/08/2007 8:07:37 PM Davsab is the one you should be congratulating; he put you/me/everybody onto Tung’s websit.....
» 11/08/2007 8:53:52 PM Eclipse Now, isn’t it amazing how some people want to distort the scientific findings? Mo.....
» 11/08/2007 7:07:03 PM OLO posters could outstay the mudlarks in a wet Melbourne Cup race! Problem is – other pos.....
» 11/08/2007 12:06:22 PM Our planet is a closed system with the troposphere as the boundary layer and life as we kn.....
» 10/08/2007 8:22:26 PM I am becoming more familiar with the dirty politics of climate change thanks to the inform.....
» 10/08/2007 6:54:37 PM People who distort information to bolster their own beliefs are propagandists, they are de.....
» 9/08/2007 4:31:51 PM Talk about global warming zealots stifling debate, check out this week’s Newsweek article,.....
» 9/08/2007 2:53:55 PM “Science is apolitical, and when it has submitted to political pressure in the past, it ha.....

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