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» 26/10/2012 6:29:31 PM Poirot, il n'ya aucune raison logique pour moi de rester. Pour tout ce que cela vaut la pe.....
» 26/10/2012 3:06:56 PM Was suspended for "abuse". . @ SM >> I bet that Graham Young got plenty.....
» 18/10/2012 6:59:03 AM >> I also notice that when the personal attacks start, the left whingers have exhaus.....
» 17/10/2012 6:45:34 PM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 17/10/2012 12:25:29 PM The weasel has popped. >> Another irritant is those who have not progressed intelle.....
» 17/10/2012 5:47:08 AM "Grow Up" Spoken like the OLO pontifcator you are. Wiggle-waggle all you like .....
» 16/10/2012 6:27:36 PM Still wiggling and waggling, SM. While I understand your political leanings drive your de.....
» 16/10/2012 4:33:43 PM No wonder there is a loss of respect in our society - a very ugly thread indeed......
» 16/10/2012 4:24:01 PM You still don't get it, do you 'shadow'? Neither you, nor I, let alone Mrs Thompson or in.....
» 16/10/2012 1:00:33 PM So SM says: >> Thomson is a Crook and is soon to be bankrupt and on the street. Hi.....
» 15/10/2012 7:15:21 PM Here we go again, 'Mr Wiggle-Waggle' (aka OLO's Shadow Minister) making unsubstantiated as.....
» 14/10/2012 4:22:31 PM Bazz, we will have to stop meeting like this :) You say: >> I notice that Insiders.....
» 14/10/2012 12:17:56 PM Bazz, these links explain subjudicy better than I: http://www.thenewsmanual.net/Manuals%2.....
» 13/10/2012 7:30:20 PM @ "I set a trap but they didn't take the bait ! " I understand now, Bazz ... it.....
» 13/10/2012 3:03:49 PM 579 What part of "subjudice" do you not understand?.....
» 13/10/2012 3:01:56 PM >> So what you are saying Bonmot, is that the judge could find Slipper in contempt o.....
» 13/10/2012 2:09:22 PM Belly, consider these scenarios: Gillard just scrapes through the next election, Abbott i.....
» 13/10/2012 1:59:09 PM Bazz: >> Bonmot & Belly, can't you see sub-judicy does not come into it ! It was a.....
» 12/10/2012 6:09:56 PM Hello Bazz, Ever since Turnbull and Rudd were 'knifed' the political 'debate' in Australia.....
» 12/10/2012 12:33:24 PM Bazz "Hushing it all up" sounds all very clandestine. Do you really think the G.....
» 11/10/2012 6:33:22 PM Bazz, people only want to see what they want to see. The Prime Minister could not support.....
» 10/10/2012 8:42:07 PM I agree Poirot, the report is quite comprehensive. As suggested; expert professional, sci.....
» 10/10/2012 4:36:09 PM Good question, Poirot? Sounds of silence at: enquiries(at)niwa.co.nz Sounds of crickets .....
» 10/10/2012 2:55:09 PM SM, will try again. The Prime Minister could not 'remove' the Speaker given the case is b.....
» 10/10/2012 8:53:10 AM SM Labor could not be seen to influence the judicial system or indeed the judge in a matt.....
» 8/10/2012 7:26:44 PM Would love to hear from you but it's patently obvious ... you have another agenda - dumb......
» 8/10/2012 5:59:13 PM Have you discussed with Blair? Would be interested in what he has to say about your 'conce.....
» 8/10/2012 8:49:52 AM Yes, an interesting read WmTrevor; http://judithcurry.com/2012/09/22/pbs-ombudsman/ Than.....
» 7/10/2012 8:33:50 PM Yes, quite right Poirot. A real sceptic (as opposed to a 'fake sceptic') might see a flaw.....
» 7/10/2012 3:55:59 PM Anthony, you are just blowing smoke, again. For years Professor Muller has been one of th.....
» 7/10/2012 11:29:06 AM Oh, and this excerpt, Peter: @ "Its so bleeding obvious, why can’t the Loony Left nu.....
» 6/10/2012 6:53:53 PM Here, let me help you Peter: http://judithcurry.com/2012/10/05/week-in-review-10512/#comm.....
» 6/10/2012 3:24:59 PM Peter Lang, re: your link to Judith Curry's blog. Of note is your comment/s : "You a.....
» 6/10/2012 12:48:20 PM My last rant: 500 & still nothing's been solved : ).....
» 6/10/2012 11:33:24 AM @ "What ever happened to rational, logical, scientific research conducted by rational.....
» 6/10/2012 11:04:19 AM Oh mon amie, sorry to burst your bubble - that theory's been around awhile ;-) Ever since.....
» 6/10/2012 8:26:50 AM >> @Bonmot, "think you would agree: problems and tensions in a society can be .....
» 6/10/2012 12:02:18 AM G'day Belly, know what you mean. Like I said way back, it's been very ugly ... still is. B.....
» 3/10/2012 8:28:05 AM It seems it’s quite ok for an OLO author to bully the commentators thus: >> Your co.....
» 2/10/2012 9:28:58 PM Yep, spot on Steven ... but it ain't going to sway the doubters one bit - they have too mu.....
» 2/10/2012 4:46:17 PM Agro, your last link is behind a paywall - try here: http://geotest.tamu.edu/userfiles/21.....
» 1/10/2012 11:18:04 PM Anthony Cox (aka Cohenite) - seems you lost ... again. Indeed, your silence is deafening......
» 20/09/2012 8:20:46 PM GrahamY was messaged when this thread first started - it can be viewed as a very ugly thre.....
» 20/09/2012 10:59:23 AM Yes Anthony, it is a good idea, you should try it (I bet you won't). Word of warning thou.....
» 19/09/2012 5:26:41 PM Do some homework, start here: enquiries(at)niwa.co.nz.....
» 19/09/2012 1:22:50 PM Or amaze the experts at NIWA: enquiries(at)niwa.co.nz Should be good for a chuckle over .....
» 19/09/2012 11:25:20 AM 25 minutes is not enough time for you to have done your homework. All the information can.....
» 19/09/2012 9:51:33 AM @ "can you provide a link to where those different methodologies/criterias are descri.....
» 17/09/2012 2:11:33 PM @ "contrary expert witnesses for the Trust" (sic) Hmmm, must have missed this (.....
» 17/09/2012 1:14:38 PM Anthony Cox says this: “The challenge had been initiated by a group of climate researchers.....
» 17/09/2012 1:07:50 PM “A NZ court decision finds recording and maintaining temperature records is a subjective a.....
» 17/09/2012 10:03:47 AM Drum roll ... call for a Royal Commission (again).....
» 16/09/2012 4:09:02 PM @ Agronomist: Your choice but as they say: Don't feed the trolls......
» 16/09/2012 4:05:43 PM You call me, amongst other things: idiot, pathetic, snob, hysterical, frenchie, fruit loop.....
» 15/09/2012 10:41:53 PM Some people say "look at me, look at me, look at me" ... others just have a real.....
» 15/09/2012 8:44:03 AM Butch, You raised the question/thread about the cost to taxpayers of Nauru under this curr.....
» 14/09/2012 7:47:32 PM Butch, you bang on about how much Nauru is costing today's taxpayer. Don't skirt the simp.....
» 14/09/2012 12:26:30 PM Precisely Pericles But I'm out of here, this and other OLO threads are starting to stink .....
» 14/09/2012 6:52:16 AM Wonder how much it cost to set up Nauru originally, under John Howard's watch?.....
» 11/09/2012 11:22:28 PM - - - puke.....
» 11/09/2012 8:19:35 PM @ Agronomist, >> Just to let you know - cohenite is Anthony Cox. << Pure gol.....
» 11/09/2012 5:50:46 PM Disgraceful Leo's link to Dyson's recent book review, published Wednesday, is only 5 yrs .....
» 10/09/2012 4:29:38 PM Joe, perhaps you want to see the trees instead of the forest. This may sound tedious but .....
» 10/09/2012 2:29:01 PM Yet another OLO fray into anti-global warming. One could think some geologists (retired o.....
» 10/09/2012 10:57:46 AM Joe, it's a common fault of the so called “climate sceptics” to confuse short-term “noise”.....
» 9/09/2012 11:56:44 AM Hey Poirot, think I've figured the dip out, at least from Joe's perspective: http://www.s.....
» 8/09/2012 3:45:38 PM Agronomist, I wouldn't be too harsh on Dyson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson .....
» 8/09/2012 10:34:38 AM Leo says: “On the question of dishonesty or ignorance … yada yada yada Leo may as well lu.....
» 7/09/2012 3:52:37 PM Following your logic about engineers Leo, doesn't leave much left from the Oregon Petition.....
» 7/09/2012 2:15:15 PM Curmudgeon (and Robert) >> The sceptics by and large have nothing invested at all i.....
» 7/09/2012 12:08:56 PM You really can't help yourself can you, SPQR? Only seeing what you want to see that is. .....
» 7/09/2012 7:42:04 AM "What do you reckon....?" I reckon Hasbeen thinks facts have got nothing to do .....
» 7/09/2012 7:37:04 AM >> Stop shooting the messenger just because they are giving you a message you don't .....
» 6/09/2012 2:54:12 PM Classic symptoms: Only see what you want to see, eh SPQR? No SPQR, that is not the thread.....
» 6/09/2012 12:32:18 PM @ Curmudgeon, do you have a problem with the author's link to wikipedia? A policy respons.....
» 6/09/2012 10:27:51 AM I was howled down on another thread for linking to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.....
» 3/09/2012 8:47:51 PM On the button mon amie, as evidenced by OLO's resident "sceptics"......
» 3/09/2012 6:05:41 PM csteele Despite the author's difficulty in understanding the difference between climate m.....
» 3/09/2012 10:06:26 AM Aw precious petal, I see I have hurt your feelings. You relentlessly link to Anthony Watt.....
» 3/09/2012 9:20:50 AM A very salient riposte James. However, OLO is only and will always be but an 'opinion' si.....
» 2/09/2012 11:51:08 PM Seems the author is also blinded by the latest statement from the American Meteorological .....
» 1/09/2012 12:52:02 PM Recent statement summary from the American Meteorological Society: Quote: It provides a b.....
» 30/08/2012 9:01:31 AM Morning csteele, Had dinner with a colleague last night and we were discussing ocean heat.....
» 29/08/2012 6:20:04 PM Fair enough, I wish you both well......
» 29/08/2012 2:08:13 PM Your Job link csteele, it’s a treasure – thanks. To extend “Ehyeh asher ehyeh” a little f.....
» 28/08/2012 4:38:19 PM csteele, with the patience of Job: Cox/Cohenite makes the same mistake as Tisdale, even w.....
» 27/08/2012 7:25:34 AM Using your own asserted misconceptions and distorted science on an opinion site does not c.....
» 26/08/2012 10:44:46 PM As Mr Abbott says, that's 'crap', Hasbeen......
» 24/08/2012 11:05:12 PM And unlike another here, I don't have ADHD either......
» 24/08/2012 6:40:41 PM Very similar to what we term 'Roy's Ravings', no wonder some amateurs are taken in by it. .....
» 24/08/2012 2:39:07 PM "Neither is happening; the heat is not being stored in the oceans and water feedback,.....
» 23/08/2012 11:55:54 PM So, the author thinks I'm missing in action - oh such a 'pissant' is he. Actually, some p.....
» 21/08/2012 12:07:53 PM Humph Logged in, went to article and note once again that the OLO author and his OLO tag .....
» 15/08/2012 9:33:47 PM Hey r'shole, some of us have a life other than responding to your every whim, every questi.....
» 13/08/2012 10:17:18 PM Anthony, I understand why you do it, you really don't understand what you are talking abou.....
» 13/08/2012 7:18:29 PM Joe, you’re no fool but you persist in saying you are – I find this perplexing. Anyway; .....
» 13/08/2012 1:38:27 PM For Anthony: >> If the Greenhouse is still operating on Venus and sunlight in the f.....
» 13/08/2012 12:42:46 PM Hello Joe 1. Average world temperature has risen by 0.9 degrees in the past century? Yes.....
» 11/08/2012 5:58:53 PM Joe, I've already answered your questions in another thread - but hey, I could be wrong :).....
» 11/08/2012 5:55:36 PM Ah yes, the old 'ad-hom' canard trotted out by Mr Curtin-Tiddler. Actually, Tim-Tom, I ju.....
» 11/08/2012 5:14:54 PM Tim Curtin/Tom Tiddler, re Markowitz & Shariff ... methinks you protest too much. Just to.....
» 11/08/2012 4:57:25 PM Anthony, with all due respect - stick to your day job......
» 11/08/2012 4:48:08 PM Thanks Ludwig, Fantastic images and a great way to pass a wet and windy day. Some of the.....
» 10/08/2012 2:34:23 PM Oh, why gee, thanks nutter - I mean Anthony ... seems to have got to you too :).....
» 10/08/2012 2:28:55 PM I remember Tim Ball's effort in the UK documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle&.....
» 10/08/2012 1:59:16 PM Well hello, julia's nutter - Thursday, 9 August 2012 4:42:03 PM >> This time I only.....
» 8/08/2012 3:49:39 PM Cohenite, re: http://sharifflab.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2012/03/MarkowitzShariff.....
» 7/08/2012 10:12:52 PM I think you're onto something Houllie :).....
» 7/08/2012 10:08:22 PM Poirot, The following study sheds some light on why some people are having difficulty; h.....
» 5/08/2012 1:32:44 PM Hi Poirot, The paper "Perception of Climate Change" will be published next week.....
» 5/08/2012 12:53:32 PM If anyone is not all that up to speed with the technical stuff, you may prefer to look at .....
» 5/08/2012 12:43:47 PM Poirot, Banjo asks: “The only question that needs be asked is, where is the proof that cl.....
» 3/08/2012 7:30:47 PM Here we go; ‘wiggle-waggles’ appealing to HIS authority. Hang-a-mo, why is it that so cal.....
» 3/08/2012 4:38:43 PM This won't help Arjay, Banjo - or will it? http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAct.....
» 3/08/2012 4:25:26 PM Good to see you disagree with 'Abbott the Liar' - didn't think it was in'ya, but there you.....
» 3/08/2012 1:43:26 PM flip-flop flim-flam wiggle-waggle Indeed, big energy users are (e.g. smelters and blast f.....
» 3/08/2012 1:11:17 PM beyond the pay-wall mon amie http://www.themonthly.com.au/how-vested-interests-defeated-c.....
» 3/08/2012 10:42:31 AM Thanks for the link, Poirot. Expanding on it: http://www.themonthly.com.au/how-vested-in.....
» 3/08/2012 10:24:41 AM So our flim-flam man, Mr Wiggle-Waggles, is privy to his large manufacturing business whic.....
» 2/08/2012 7:32:07 PM Don, you say: "But is it OK to tell the customer how much the carbon tax has influen.....
» 2/08/2012 7:25:30 PM Slam carbon scams : Comments >> It is though Australia is being invaded from within.....
» 2/08/2012 7:17:14 PM Bazz, you asked me to "enlighten" you about BEST. Your silence is deafening and .....
» 2/08/2012 7:05:34 PM Poirot, are you suggesting their has been a "silencing of dissent"? OMG!.....
» 2/08/2012 7:02:38 PM It would really help if people understood how the carbon tax is to be implemented, rather .....
» 1/08/2012 3:52:59 PM Mr ‘Wiggle-Waggle’ Maybe it will, maybe it won’t. But dear SM, that is about policy (some.....
» 1/08/2012 3:36:19 PM Enlighten Bazz? Sure: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/29/climate-change-scept.....
» 1/08/2012 9:52:05 AM Mr Wiggles Pure obfuscation SM. The carbon tax is to transition the economy away from fo.....
» 31/07/2012 11:16:54 PM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 31/07/2012 6:19:22 PM Thanks Bazz, a few here are aware of 'that paper' doing the rounds. Big news in the 'anti-.....
» 31/07/2012 11:39:13 AM Hello Joe There is a very well-known study (since verified/validated) that explains why r.....
» 31/07/2012 10:33:28 AM Poirot, if I may explain in context: Take out scientists employed by; universities, scien.....
» 30/07/2012 6:44:00 PM In summary, Joe. Humanity should try and limit temperature rise to 2 degrees C It will r.....
» 30/07/2012 6:33:11 PM Joe, people often ask simple questions that require very complex answers. Simplifying the .....
» 30/07/2012 5:57:14 PM Dearest Leo, You say: >> Cohenite, never assume that bonmot means it when he promi.....
» 30/07/2012 3:19:09 PM Joe, you raise so many questions: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion.....
» 29/07/2012 3:38:45 PM JF Aus, you have proved my point - au revoir......
» 29/07/2012 10:39:57 AM Anthony: If you want to “talk the talk” you must “walk the walk” – particularly on complex.....
» 28/07/2012 10:58:02 AM Dear Leo, you say: “Bonmot never gives any specific scientific references. They might lim.....
» 28/07/2012 10:54:58 AM Nah Joe, I wouldn't touch Greens with a 10 foot pole - they've lost the plot big time. Fu.....
» 28/07/2012 10:46:59 AM Typical, accuse others of the very thing you do yourself - they teach this in conservative.....
» 28/07/2012 10:08:10 AM The epitome of spin, shadow - believing it in your own mind, LOL . Joe, there is much in.....
» 27/07/2012 3:46:22 PM Bazz, it is NOT illegal to claim price rises (even partially) are due to the carbon tax. .....
» 27/07/2012 3:21:00 PM Anthony, I see your rebuttal and raise you one thousand. Says it all really. Now, off to.....
» 27/07/2012 3:06:53 PM wiggle waggle all you like shadow. It is NOT (my emphasis) illegal to claim that price ri.....
» 27/07/2012 1:38:43 PM Journal of Climatology (for example) - plenty in the literature to pick from Anthony. The.....
» 27/07/2012 12:43:30 PM You claim to be a "climate scientist" Anthony Cox. You certainly haven't turned.....
» 27/07/2012 12:32:33 PM "It is also illegal to claim that price rises are even partially due to the carbon ta.....
» 27/07/2012 10:53:06 AM Research, conferences and seminars ... rounded up in the literature of course. Certainly .....
» 27/07/2012 10:39:08 AM Oui, mon amie!.....
» 26/07/2012 2:50:32 PM Wiggle and waggle all you like 'shadow' but just because you say it doesn't make it so. E.....
» 26/07/2012 1:07:48 PM Substance of the thread: Freedom of Speech perhaps? You must have missed this: "Fre.....
» 26/07/2012 12:23:10 PM I remember that well Lexi, got caught up in it myself ... bad as bad can get. SM just spi.....
» 26/07/2012 12:19:34 PM Yep, typical fall-back line - accuse others of the very thing you do yourself. Your mirro.....
» 26/07/2012 11:35:22 AM As we have come to expect from OLO's "Shadow Minister" - pure unadulterated spin.....
» 26/07/2012 9:49:49 AM Oh please, give it up SM: >> publishing stolen confidential conversations / corresp.....
» 25/07/2012 6:11:03 PM You know what the message is Joe. Some people deliberately distort or misrepresent it. O.....
» 25/07/2012 3:43:07 PM What a joke Anthony Cox is. Calls others he disagrees with idiots and trolls but cries to .....
» 24/07/2012 5:02:41 PM Ahh yes, Anthony Cox links to JoNova - your confirmation bias is strong today cohenite. H.....
» 18/07/2012 7:23:17 AM >> one who refuses to be convinced << Recalcitrant, conservative, 'stuck-in-t.....
» 11/07/2012 11:33:19 AM "suck it up guys" Now runner, that does not sound very um, er ... Christian. S.....
» 10/07/2012 6:35:42 PM Love the article Steven, and the comments! Well, mostly. As one OLO'er recently said in t.....
» 10/07/2012 6:24:41 PM 'No where' Loudmouth? 'Now here' (on OLO) perhaps :).....
» 10/07/2012 9:29:44 AM boo-hoo :(.....
» 9/07/2012 11:29:40 PM @ david f Without my thoughts, the fermion can quite look after itself :).....
» 9/07/2012 11:21:26 PM Poirot, Anthony Cox/cohenite is engaging in 'bait and switch' ... typical of someone who .....
» 8/07/2012 2:44:26 PM Poirot, merci beaucoup I did not know much about Flaubert - so looked him up on Wiki :) .....
» 8/07/2012 12:08:15 PM Bingo! Anthony Cox just proved my point ... rofl.....
» 8/07/2012 11:19:32 AM Amie de mon coeur, cette fille est non seulement moche, mais en plus c’est une vraie creti.....
» 6/07/2012 1:07:15 PM Yep, with you ... but there's the rub, and the conundrum we have here in Australia. That .....
» 6/07/2012 11:52:21 AM Quite simplistic, Yuyu - and some would agree with you. However, for most reasonable peop.....
» 5/07/2012 9:32:33 PM Welcome to the club, Indy. Question for you (and others who have reached this realisation.....
» 4/07/2012 4:24:10 PM Ans: my 'black book' :O.....
» 4/07/2012 4:10:30 PM Indy, have you checked the news lately? "Tony Abbott defends increase in MP salary, .....
» 29/06/2012 2:16:00 PM >> I'm sure bonmot has better things to do. << Ain't that the truth! Certain.....
» 20/06/2012 7:58:30 PM SM The changes required can't happen overnight (especially here in Oz) - but we must make.....
» 20/06/2012 4:18:45 PM Ben, I couldn't agree more......
» 18/06/2012 11:40:38 AM Amen to that, Lexi :).....
» 18/06/2012 11:31:08 AM Good piece guys, well reasoned. Wauchope and Adelaide are far apart but close in heart - .....
» 13/06/2012 7:46:53 AM Yep, Some want to be progressive and promote the economy. Others want to be regressive a.....
» 12/06/2012 11:33:27 PM 4th (even 3rd) generation reactors are fine. In Oz? Yes, but not at this point in time - w.....
» 12/06/2012 11:23:13 PM A lot of ostriches out there, obviously......
» 11/06/2012 10:06:06 AM Butcher, you ask as the title of your thread: >> Do you think labor are getting the.....
» 31/05/2012 10:40:03 PM Fly in/Fly out - embodiment would be a tax deduction!.....
» 31/05/2012 7:26:12 PM >> Takes two to tango man, or are you biassed or naive enough to think Thompson just.....
» 31/05/2012 4:00:40 PM Have to agree with you there: "It's an art, you know" Although more like 'perf.....
» 31/05/2012 7:55:49 AM Poirot, OLO’s very own spindoctor needed confirmation – I merely gave it to him ;) Indeed.....
» 30/05/2012 12:19:43 PM @ spindoc "I thought I read a couple of weeks ago that the Roy Morgan unemployed pol.....
» 27/05/2012 3:11:45 PM touché.....
» 3/05/2012 6:54:38 PM hahahahahahaha ... deep breath ... hahahahaha ... deep breath ... hahahahahaha ... ROFLMHO.....
» 2/05/2012 5:15:20 PM So Anthony Cox believes neutrinos can travel faster than light. Says it all really eh, Po.....
» 2/05/2012 6:12:22 AM "Patronising to the end; whatever part Runner is having difficulty with the MET also .....
» 1/05/2012 9:34:36 PM Runner, you were linking to the wettest UK in 100 years. I know it might seem simplistic .....
» 1/05/2012 5:09:53 PM Runner, this might be a tad 'complex' - but give it a go: A warmer world leads to more wa.....
» 28/04/2012 6:15:19 PM Yes Graham, sooner or later we will have to wean ourselves off fossil fuels, whether peopl.....
» 5/04/2012 8:06:24 AM Aw shucks, what's up doc? (apologies to Walt) I have it on good authority that the Easter.....
» 5/04/2012 7:02:33 AM I don't think he's finished yet Belly. Started on RFID chip implants, moved onto other con.....
» 4/04/2012 7:32:10 PM Yuyutsu, what you say can be confusing. Are you referring to: * Secular humanism * Reli.....
» 4/04/2012 7:13:01 PM In all sincerity Arjay, no adhom - there's a real life out there - your choice......
» 4/04/2012 6:15:56 PM Arjay, you're sick - get help......
» 4/04/2012 6:10:39 PM Where's Arjay - it's his thread?.....
» 3/04/2012 5:59:55 PM Re "Bonny" Well voxy, you are beginning to sound like the rest of the 'rat-pack.....
» 2/04/2012 11:12:39 AM A distinct possibility, but for the life of me ... I can't remember Baldrick......
» 1/04/2012 10:04:51 PM @ "typical academic when cornered." Individual, if you want to engage in dialog.....
» 1/04/2012 9:33:57 PM The silence is very telling. Of course climate changes naturally. The trick is to disting.....
» 1/04/2012 7:09:55 PM Ok, bout time to leave. See ya........
» 1/04/2012 7:06:26 PM I see ... never about implants (a diversion) but ... 911! The plot thickens ever more......
» 1/04/2012 1:35:35 PM Hahahaha! >> draw a line through the first dot to the second-last dot, and I think .....
» 1/04/2012 1:28:29 PM @voxUnius 1. Fact is, it’s true 2. Here’s the actual paper: http://deepeco.ucsd.edu/~ge.....
» 1/04/2012 10:01:13 AM More implants :(.....
» 1/04/2012 8:59:42 AM Very lame but typical excuse Jon J, especially when a lead author is quoted in the article.....
» 31/03/2012 9:58:26 PM No ‘individual’, you got it wrong. >> By all means call me stupid if the Earth's te.....
» 31/03/2012 6:21:36 PM Damn ... another keyboard :(.....
» 31/03/2012 6:18:36 PM When a conspirator's argument (for want of a better word) leaks like a sieve, they change .....
» 31/03/2012 4:22:29 PM @ Beeny That "very recent release" by the IPCC you referred to (but have been ha.....
» 31/03/2012 9:10:25 AM Jon J, is it really that painful for you to see the long term trend? http://www.skeptica.....
» 31/03/2012 6:11:16 AM Morning beeny, I expected your small minded reply ... demonstrating yet again you haven't.....
» 30/03/2012 7:10:58 PM Perhaps you did not see this in the other thread Jon J, or perhaps you did not understand .....
» 30/03/2012 4:13:39 PM Some people here over simplify, to obfuscate – no surprise there. Atmospheric physicist .....
» 30/03/2012 2:00:13 PM cont'd @ voxUnius I’m glad you downloaded the PDF – the book has 200+ more pages and cost.....
» 30/03/2012 1:53:25 PM voxUnius @ >> However the arrogance and hubris of humanity in thinking that it can .....
» 30/03/2012 7:43:50 AM No need to shoot the messenger, or his choice of words. Here is the message, again: http.....
» 29/03/2012 3:05:09 PM Hmmm, the plot thickens ... Arjay's got shares in computer keyboard manufacturing?.....
» 29/03/2012 1:34:16 PM A quick response minotaur, obviously not long enough for you to digest the article linked .....
» 29/03/2012 12:59:55 PM Yes minotaur, alarmism about global warming is a scourge ... so too is nonchalance. Of co.....
» 28/03/2012 4:38:41 PM You know Rhrosty, I believe you are very passionate about what you say, and how you say it.....
» 28/03/2012 12:05:53 PM Rhrosty, would you mind providing a link or two? Rather than question the veracity of you.....
» 28/03/2012 7:41:08 AM Good morning boys, huddle up. Spindoc, Looked this morning at my OLO user profile (broug.....
» 28/03/2012 7:23:46 AM Dear dozer, Hate to burst your bubble, you being on a roll and wanting some attention, en.....
» 27/03/2012 3:44:44 PM Good night boys, cuddle up......
» 27/03/2012 2:21:51 PM 'Shadow Minister' >> Read my first post again. Then try and tell me where I said th.....
» 27/03/2012 12:07:41 PM Jon J, “adjustments” are made to preserve the sometimes innocuous underlying trends in raw.....
» 27/03/2012 11:39:16 AM Cue Arjay?.....
» 27/03/2012 11:28:33 AM You still don’t get it, Shadow. Or, perhaps you do and now want to change the subject, go.....
» 27/03/2012 9:47:58 AM Spruiking rhetorical fear mongering spin, again, Shadow Minister? Just because Tony Abbot.....
» 27/03/2012 6:44:46 AM Tony Abbott now agrees too Bazz, the Qld election was NOT a referendum on the carbon tax. .....
» 27/03/2012 6:34:29 AM Actually dozer, the link sends you straight back to your inane post, ending with: >>.....
» 26/03/2012 6:34:12 PM Hasbeen, You claim to be a scientist and an engineer ... yet, you seem incapable of under.....
» 26/03/2012 5:34:44 PM I'm still a swinging voter - always have been, hasbeen. . 579 You are confusing neo-libe.....
» 26/03/2012 3:09:37 PM ROFLMHO "Bonmot lost but worth a giggle now and again." It's ok Belly ... know.....
» 26/03/2012 3:00:10 PM SM Perhaps you are the one being deliberately obtuse, literal and naive. "if you ar.....
» 26/03/2012 1:51:06 PM 'Shadow Minister' Wriggle all you like, spin it all you like. Tony Abbott has side-stepp.....
» 26/03/2012 12:35:48 PM >> Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has side-stepped questions over whether he .....
» 26/03/2012 10:24:04 AM A very good article, thank you Ted Trainer! spindoc, Ted Trainer asked the question ".....
» 26/03/2012 7:41:39 AM "It looks as though mankind has stopped developing because they just don't seem to le.....
» 26/03/2012 7:33:41 AM Precisely - that is why there are conservatives on one side, and progressives on the other.....
» 25/03/2012 6:18:17 PM Sarcastic remarks are strong in this thread - akin to 'individual's nastiness', sad. We a.....
» 25/03/2012 9:42:32 AM Qld LNP are to be congratulated. . "Now that Labor has been shown the way, ALP nast.....
» 23/03/2012 6:08:03 PM After 20 yrs of Labor (or 'Liberal', or whatever) - I would not be surprised of any incumb.....
» 20/03/2012 3:59:59 PM Hi csteele For me, I like "thought experiments" or ways of explaining quite com.....
» 20/03/2012 3:20:17 PM ditto bugsy!.....
» 20/03/2012 2:02:59 PM Achtung, ve vill ask de questions ... nein? Great thread but Lexi, not sure yours above w.....
» 15/03/2012 6:39:39 PM >> Bonny (sic) is saying the absence of a consistent r2 relationship between CO2/and.....
» 15/03/2012 8:04:29 AM Squeers There is no way I would lump Joe into the same category as Anthony Cox/cohenite. .....
» 12/03/2012 3:40:50 PM I'm outa here......
» 12/03/2012 1:34:24 PM Belly, what I was trying to convey is that even some people who are 'educated' are not as .....
» 12/03/2012 12:34:28 PM Arjay We do look at longer terms - you seem to be struggling with Milankovitch cycles. ‘C.....
» 12/03/2012 7:51:41 AM Life's but a metaphor Poirot, even on Sundays (imho :) . ybgirp: you raise a 'smelly' co.....
» 12/03/2012 7:33:23 AM Morning Belly, Barry (spindoc) is an 'educated conservative'. There is nothing wrong with.....
» 11/03/2012 1:55:39 PM I'm really enjoying being an observer too. Lexi, the 100th 'smelly' comment ... that stin.....
» 11/03/2012 12:00:31 PM US Republican Senator James Inhofe, in reliance on the Bible (Genesis 8:22) for his most r.....
» 10/03/2012 8:30:00 AM Dearest Leo Lindzen has apologisedfor his ... um, er, pardon ... "error". http.....
» 10/03/2012 6:35:31 AM Arjay, yet another half-baked conspiracy guff: " CO2 has never in the past been the .....
» 9/03/2012 7:19:34 PM Anthonyve, you must be a noobee :) Just google "barry spinks" (aka OLO's spind.....
» 9/03/2012 5:37:02 PM Btw Dear Leo, was it Lindzen in that public meeting in the Commons, or Simon Carr that sa.....
» 9/03/2012 5:27:27 PM Geoff of Perth, I'll see your peer reviewed papers and raise Leo's obscure blog comment to.....
» 7/03/2012 9:08:23 PM Joe ... if it makes you feel comfortable :) 'imajulianutter's "superior intellect&qu.....
» 7/03/2012 4:07:17 PM Cattalaxy Files - Australia's leading libertarian and centre-right blog - Rafe Champion - .....
» 7/03/2012 12:51:59 PM Alan, nice try - but, it's obvious people will only see and hear what they want to see and.....
» 7/03/2012 10:26:32 AM Oh dear ........
» 7/03/2012 10:11:16 AM Rather than nit-pic, perhaps all the dissenters, howlers and stuck-in-the-muds should read.....
» 5/03/2012 12:26:30 AM Thanks Poirot, that puts a few things into perspective. Alas, will they see, or hear? I ha.....
» 4/03/2012 11:33:23 AM Au contraire ybgirp, Most people understand that assertions/opinions such as you have mad.....
» 2/03/2012 7:07:04 AM The "connection" mon amie? Baldrick's comprehension as the series progresses is.....
» 29/02/2012 4:55:18 PM Love Blackadder, was given the remastered series and always a hoot. You know you're on a .....
» 29/02/2012 8:19:03 AM Your comprehension skills are truly disturbing, Leo. Others might find this about "s.....
» 29/02/2012 7:52:28 AM ybgirp If I come accross the book in the library, I might - will look at a few reviews fi.....
» 28/02/2012 5:10:27 PM No No Yes.....
» 28/02/2012 5:06:28 PM 1. Give my field will give my name (if your a sleuth) – nope, having too much fun 2. I am.....
» 28/02/2012 2:48:20 PM Chacun ses goûts ... I just can't get Pepé Le Pew (and Penelope) out of my mind......
» 28/02/2012 12:38:57 PM Yes, in one particular area - but there are many others that make up 'climate science'. No.....
» 28/02/2012 10:02:38 AM >> These are contentions that should make for lively banter at the next meeting of t.....
» 28/02/2012 8:29:23 AM Yes, an excellent and timely article. . ybgirp? The rest of your post is unfettered and.....
» 27/02/2012 10:17:37 AM Denied? Where, by whom, and in what context?.....
» 27/02/2012 6:31:26 AM Damn those false alarms, I'm going back to bed ... YAWN......
» 26/02/2012 10:37:34 PM Then again, perhaps we're on a seperate page :( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_fie.....
» 26/02/2012 10:28:39 PM complex numbers help too, as does tensor calculus - far beyond OLO maths :).....
» 26/02/2012 10:25:29 PM Hence the assumption, which most people seem to neglect or forget : ).....
» 26/02/2012 6:47:40 PM Here's a tip, anthony cox/cohenite - this is not about you, no matter how much you want it.....
» 26/02/2012 5:10:31 PM Yes, there is a problem with traveling faster than the speed of light. Look at Einstein's.....
» 26/02/2012 5:01:58 PM Poirot I’m reminded of http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=4567&page=.....
» 25/02/2012 6:51:42 PM And who the frig is "Luke"? What has he got to do with the price of apples here?.....
» 25/02/2012 5:21:55 PM >> Lets not say non existent NATURAL climate change << Umm, er, pardon? Cohe.....
» 25/02/2012 4:11:11 PM HAHAHAHA ... "There goes another one" http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.....
» 25/02/2012 3:59:32 PM "Geez it's crap" Anthony? You sound like Tony Abbott who gets his "science.....
» 25/02/2012 3:15:23 PM "non-existent problem of AGW" On the other hand: http://bbickmore.wordpress.co.....
» 24/02/2012 5:44:33 PM Anything new to add, Anthony?.....
» 15/02/2012 6:54:31 PM Ah yes, OLO’s veritable ‘Spindoctor’ – but moving on: There is an ignorance of a few here.....
» 15/02/2012 9:21:12 AM SM & SPQR http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=13247#228915 ce qu'il fal.....
» 15/02/2012 9:10:56 AM Cont’d … His (Abbott’s) only redeeming virtue in this remarkable lack of conviction is th.....
» 15/02/2012 9:07:20 AM A thought provoking article Richard. Reminds me of your other: "Mr Abbott is not inn.....
» 14/02/2012 5:01:00 PM Hmmm, definition of an idiot? A wannabe international leader, diplomat and 'expert climat.....
» 14/02/2012 12:23:51 PM Thanks for the memories SPQR http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=13002&p.....
» 14/02/2012 9:13:57 AM You have literally and figuratively lost it, Shadow You are delusional if you think I ref.....
» 13/02/2012 10:30:04 PM Babette, some would argue that your article is very naive and purports a simplistic view. .....
» 13/02/2012 10:04:45 PM Dearest Shadow You accuse others of going ‘off thread’ but are quite willing to engage in.....
» 13/02/2012 3:11:57 PM SPQR Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but they are not entitled to their own fa.....
» 13/02/2012 5:39:07 AM Perhaps it's too early SM, but do try and connect the dots......
» 13/02/2012 5:35:36 AM Shadow, like SPQR - your attention span is limited to short, snarkey and snipey soundbites.....
» 12/02/2012 7:39:41 PM I see why you think that way SPQR. Perhaps this will make it easier to understand mine: .....
» 12/02/2012 2:18:21 PM SPQR What actually in the link don't you agree with: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environme.....
» 11/02/2012 7:03:06 PM >> If intelligence is such a good predictor of ideological preference how is it that.....
» 11/02/2012 1:58:07 PM Convincing the Abbotts and Bishops could be a problem. Even when they mean yes they say no.....
» 11/02/2012 1:49:44 PM Perhaps Arjay could enlighten further......
» 11/02/2012 1:43:39 PM Oh, I understand now SPQR. Bob Carter, Ian Plimer and Discount Monckton can travel all ov.....
» 11/02/2012 11:29:50 AM "Liberals (progressives) have more grey matter in a part of the brain associated with.....
» 11/02/2012 8:20:41 AM SM Given your record of "spouting", your 'take' on things is a tad warped old c.....
» 9/02/2012 9:07:08 AM Now, what about Tony Abbott, a sheep in wolf's clothing?.....
» 5/02/2012 2:17:32 PM Cohenite Rather than attack the messenger (a typical 'defence mechanism') why can't you ju.....
» 5/02/2012 10:21:57 AM http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3807130.html in case there are difficulties (video clip h.....
» 5/02/2012 10:17:43 AM No joke, this: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/graham-readfearn-39692.html.....
» 4/02/2012 5:31:16 PM oui mon amie, Poirot. Saw rehctub's comments and saw red, butchers engender that visual. .....
» 4/02/2012 5:19:58 PM Don't be so naive Don, condescension doesn't become your stature. I'm on a public compute.....
» 4/02/2012 9:35:02 AM The enhanced greenhouse effect is NOT the only contributing factor to climate change, that.....
» 4/02/2012 9:23:13 AM Alan, thanks for Professor Tiffen's article - excellent!.....
» 4/02/2012 8:05:52 AM For Jon J http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/news/npp-ceres-firstlight.html As usual,.....
» 4/02/2012 7:59:19 AM Food for thought: http://theconversation.edu.au/heatwaves-mozzies-dengue-and-droughts-how.....
» 4/02/2012 7:44:31 AM In America, with the legacy of George W Bush's 8 yrs profligate spending on war, unnemploy.....
» 3/02/2012 8:47:18 PM "You need to worry more about being dead from World War 3 because it could start much.....
» 3/02/2012 8:35:40 PM "In the last 12 months, Abbott has kept his head down and controlled his mouth, and i.....
» 2/02/2012 9:08:07 AM Yuyutsu No, not a calculation error. If you really did hear that number, it was not said b.....
» 1/02/2012 9:28:30 PM YuYu Perhaps you should just listen to the vast majority of climate scientists - not polli.....
» 1/02/2012 9:17:10 PM Very true Marilyn. Yet SPQR rants on about global warming - go figure?.....
» 1/02/2012 6:57:00 PM >> I think Hasbeen has a strong point ... ... Labor knows they're very likely out t.....
» 1/02/2012 5:16:43 PM Marilyn please, facts don't get in the way of Shadow Spinmeister......
» 1/02/2012 5:08:22 PM Tony in a bikini and high heels .... oh yeah, baby! xoxo.....
» 1/02/2012 1:24:21 PM Poirot non amie; translation herewith: They are the ones who are beautiful. I was wrong!.....
» 1/02/2012 10:40:58 AM SM, a murder trial does assume a verdict - guilty or innocent. You wouldn't have a clue o.....
» 1/02/2012 10:26:15 AM "As Prime Minister, Abbott, would be a liability for Australia on the international s.....
» 1/02/2012 10:08:25 AM Bonjour mon amie Poirot, Mesdames et Mesdemoiselles, Ce sont eux qui sont beaux. J'ai eu.....
» 1/02/2012 9:44:39 AM Have to agree with you there 579. SM, much like TA, sticks his foot in his mouth again. Ty.....
» 31/01/2012 10:11:27 AM @ Leo >> Maggie would no doubt have relied on the Royal Society, amongst other hija.....
» 30/01/2012 6:36:16 PM You didn't say where you got your numbers indy. Try here: http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/.....
» 30/01/2012 3:35:22 PM Hey, welcome back mon amie! Yeah, could add media to that list as well - bloody blinkered.....
» 30/01/2012 2:16:34 PM Neither Bolt nor his employer appealed the Federal Court's judgement. Which part don't yo.....
» 30/01/2012 12:40:45 PM Non-sequitur Cherful Maybe the law is an "ass" - but follow it we must, do you .....
» 30/01/2012 10:30:23 AM Major stuff-ups all round. PM's staffer - stupid Union official - silly Tent embassy prot.....
» 29/01/2012 10:23:52 PM Alan Precisely and sadly, precisely......
» 28/01/2012 6:10:59 PM Thanks for that Joe. At the end of the day, perhaps colonisation of Australia was just 'w.....
» 28/01/2012 4:52:27 PM Belly, I expected the 'shadow minister' to defend Abbott, but not you. Abbott did say some.....
» 28/01/2012 4:27:45 PM Joe, What's your understanding of the so called "elimination" of Tasmania's abo.....
» 28/01/2012 2:56:15 PM Belly, not confused at all but recent events have overtaken my response, to your reply, to.....
» 28/01/2012 2:44:31 PM Jay Perhaps you should read my last comment again......
» 28/01/2012 1:53:55 PM Anyway, back on the farm ... "What is the media's duty of skepticism ... comments?&qu.....
» 28/01/2012 1:43:02 PM Oto and Grim - well said!.....
» 28/01/2012 1:39:24 PM Thing is Mitch, what's not said/responded speaks volumes - a clayton's admission (cue for .....
» 28/01/2012 9:29:54 AM "Where to now" butcher? This question has perplexed all Australians for a long .....
» 27/01/2012 10:39:15 PM No butcher, it is not unlawful to deface the flag. In fact, that former conservative Prim.....
» 27/01/2012 9:43:48 PM Cherful, you obviously haven't read the Federal Court's ruling. The law is the law - desp.....
» 27/01/2012 4:05:46 PM @ Jay >> In your opinion I'm defending "Racism", you're only saying that .....
» 27/01/2012 11:07:04 AM Andrew Bolt did not appeal the Federal Court's ruling, neither did his employer. Bolt is .....
» 27/01/2012 9:59:57 AM @ "Self deception is something that brings disaster when practiced by people with rea.....
» 27/01/2012 9:47:34 AM They should be charged Hasbeen. Typical of your bias though (re ABC) - it's plastered all.....
» 27/01/2012 9:41:25 AM @ Jay "The accusation of Racism is always based on opinions not facts." The 'de.....
» 26/01/2012 1:32:44 PM individual You may not agree with Dunn (albeit he's an 'academic' walking the walk): >.....
» 26/01/2012 1:14:12 PM Yeah, I've seen/met them too SPQR. As I've often said, there are extremists on all sides......
» 26/01/2012 12:49:27 PM It's ok indy, I think I know what you mean now. http://www.uws.edu.au/ssap/school_of_soci.....
» 26/01/2012 12:25:40 PM Indy, is this what you mean? >> In general, anti-racism is intended to promote an e.....
» 26/01/2012 12:20:47 PM Indy: "The Anti-Racists are the real racists !" "People would be utterly .....
» 26/01/2012 12:00:31 PM Not missing the point at all, I agree with Brian Holden (and otokonoko). Hasbeen, yes you.....
» 26/01/2012 11:19:51 AM >> They only convey what they had been provided with, they do not build upon & enhan.....
» 26/01/2012 10:06:40 AM Scientists and engineers are pragmatic - they have to be. Academics who teach the scienti.....
» 26/01/2012 9:56:57 AM Belly, you say: >> that woman, not Representative of ordinary folk. Likely to be a .....
» 26/01/2012 9:16:14 AM "If Bolt had a legitimate point to make, why did his two pieces contain – according t.....
» 26/01/2012 8:17:19 AM Indy, Hasbeen has said before he is a scientist, and now an engineer. Yet you infer he's .....
» 22/01/2012 8:05:22 PM I agree Bazz, if more people (and politicians) realised that securing a ‘cleaner’ energy f.....
» 22/01/2012 8:00:10 PM How dare Margaret Thatcher rely on scientists for science! Of course, being a scientist he.....
» 21/01/2012 10:03:40 AM Er, OUG ... please try. I said which came 1st, the turkey or the chicken? (different genu.....
» 21/01/2012 8:14:29 AM Yep, OUG exemplifies that the turkey is different in genus to the chicken. Which came fir.....
» 21/01/2012 8:10:29 AM Bazz, if you're still there: This analysis may help; http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326.....
» 20/01/2012 3:59:11 PM Another to be burned at the stake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPPpTvCJEgg Question: .....
» 20/01/2012 2:34:08 PM Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it really was a turkey......
» 20/01/2012 12:45:33 PM No.....
» 20/01/2012 10:44:56 AM Bazz @ "That is not a causitive link. It is just a comment on different decisions.&q.....
» 20/01/2012 9:09:40 AM get yerself educated..PLEASE* (sic) hahahahahaha, made my day.....
» 20/01/2012 8:57:25 AM Bazz, you say: "Hasbeen never suggested a causative link between the two." Yes .....
» 20/01/2012 7:21:28 AM Not "arse-about" at all Sir Vivor. http://www.nestanet.org/cms/sites/default/fi.....
» 19/01/2012 4:05:36 PM wiki is always a good starting point Belly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon .....
» 19/01/2012 9:32:43 AM Or if you feel game: http://tinyurl.com/godgaps.....
» 19/01/2012 9:29:52 AM "The evidence is clear, as in a February 2009 Gallup Poll, taken on the eve of the 20.....
» 18/01/2012 4:56:44 PM Great link, thanks! http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061027184123.htm Can ju.....
» 18/01/2012 4:04:30 PM >> The only thing that shocks me is that grown adults are stupid enough to believe w.....
» 18/01/2012 3:54:55 PM Ok Hasbeen You now think Margaret was being “cute” in 1990, and as the author of this art.....
» 18/01/2012 12:43:57 PM Sorry Foyle, perhaps that should be put in context: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thr.....
» 18/01/2012 12:39:24 PM Ok 'one under god', runner & co, any response to Foyle?.....
» 18/01/2012 12:32:05 PM Maggie cont’d: “But the need for more research should not be an excuse for delaying much .....
» 18/01/2012 12:28:13 PM Hasbeen says this of Margaret Thatcher; "Both the UK, & OZ would be extremely lucky .....
» 18/01/2012 10:20:29 AM Seems OUG is not a creationist at all: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11876 &q.....
» 17/01/2012 7:26:00 PM merci beaucoup, thinker 2 However, I do not feel "boxed in". On the contrary, .....
» 17/01/2012 5:02:39 PM Perhaps one should behave like a real sceptic and explore some real science journals, for .....
» 17/01/2012 12:13:19 PM Delusions of grandeur, Hasbeen? Where did I admit that I “have no intention of reading an.....
» 17/01/2012 7:28:31 AM Hasbeen If I reply then the inference is I take you seriously (I don’t) and you’re on to s.....
» 16/01/2012 11:14:54 AM Rummer, Vacuous assertions and deliberate distortions by faith based bible-bashers is not.....
» 15/01/2012 6:04:00 PM Cont’d When errors are pointed out, they are corrected. But there is nothing remotely iden.....
» 15/01/2012 6:00:59 PM >> science by consensus rather than by science is all the go. << Runner, you .....
» 9/01/2012 5:26:52 PM Um Amicus, aide-mémoire; we should have nuclear power – if that makes me “Big Green”, so .....
» 9/01/2012 8:09:34 AM Children of the world, listen up … you are being enlisted here as the advance guard of the.....
» 8/01/2012 9:10:26 AM Cohenite/Anthony Cox Someone who keeps linking to their own blog says volumes about thems.....
» 8/01/2012 9:06:53 AM Bugsy He did say he was one of the authors, and you contacted him. I have no idea why he.....
» 8/01/2012 9:03:12 AM Comprehension never been your strongest point, eh Barry? http://forum.onlineopinion.com.a.....
» 8/01/2012 6:51:44 AM What damage spindoc barry? The link says it all – quite sensibly too. Nevertheless, like.....
» 6/01/2012 3:26:08 PM http://www.woodfortrees.org/notes Apologies to Anthony Cox, Barry Spinks and professor Ro.....
» 6/01/2012 11:31:16 AM Ok, thanks Anton - I understand now. Plimer and the Galileo Movement were/are just playing.....
» 6/01/2012 11:25:14 AM The Climate Sceptics Blog - the 'look at me' (spam) site. "Say something sciency ple.....
» 6/01/2012 10:41:11 AM "The issue is the indoctrination of children in a highly contentious and divisive pub.....
» 28/12/2011 3:39:02 PM A clip for starters Poirot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaKm89eVhoE The Koch brothers .....
» 22/12/2011 5:13:54 PM Cohenite A search of the ‘International Journal of Forecasters’ from 2009 to end 2011 did.....
» 21/12/2011 6:26:48 PM Oh dear, so it's really a case of Anthony Cox closing his eyes, clasping his ears, and yel.....
» 21/12/2011 4:37:42 PM Ahh yes, should have known - where all aspiring "climatologists" gravitate to - .....
» 21/12/2011 1:15:23 PM Poirot, betcha you can see what the geography undergraduate (I mean self proclaimed ".....
» 20/12/2011 4:18:19 PM Poirot, responding on a public computer in transit. There is nothing nice to be obliging a.....
» 19/12/2011 10:53:23 PM Ok, roger that. Cohenite thinks it ok to label detractors as "idiots" yet then .....
» 19/12/2011 12:59:29 PM Well that went down like a lead balloon; "Government and Opposition sort it without .....
» 19/12/2011 11:53:38 AM Hey, here's something novel: Government and Opposition sort it without playing games! Oh.....
» 19/12/2011 11:51:19 AM I did actually, but was affraid of being suspended :> "I can't believe the simpli.....
» 19/12/2011 10:52:45 AM ROFLMHO ... can't wait to read the next bit! Must be me since most others don't seem to g.....
» 19/12/2011 10:39:41 AM Cohenite >> I notice you didn't provide any detail as to how there was any taking ou.....
» 19/12/2011 8:30:16 AM Anthony (I mean cohenite) - why not just link to the web-site? Here, let me help: http:/.....
» 18/12/2011 9:32:26 PM SM The High Court determination changed the playing field - which part don't you understa.....
» 18/12/2011 9:16:57 PM Poirot mon amie, the dots ... yes. Cohenite and his troop helped support/fund Monckton's .....
» 18/12/2011 8:44:27 PM Diver, the way the media initially reported it was that they were "migrants" (no.....
» 18/12/2011 8:40:06 PM Perhaps Hasbeen, but; Howard's gone, old news, passed it, irrelevant, retired, not with i.....
» 18/12/2011 6:50:30 PM SM The High Court determination has changed everything, whether you believe that or not i.....
» 18/12/2011 5:17:06 PM Graham, I couldn't agree with you more (well, except for the religion bit). In your edito.....
» 18/12/2011 12:52:56 PM People smugglers and assylum seekers now know that whether they are to be "processed&.....
» 18/12/2011 10:40:10 AM While most Olo'ers may not notice, I applaud Graham Young for allowing this article to be .....
» 18/12/2011 10:10:54 AM >> You might explain, beanbag, how my using the wrong name for Nigel Calder’s father.....
» 17/12/2011 10:49:29 PM "Incoherent rants ... reference back to already discredited statements ... inability .....
» 17/12/2011 2:28:29 PM Corruption, fraud, conspiracy, hoax, scam, plot, shysters, con-artists, culprits, criminal.....
» 17/12/2011 10:44:14 AM Yes ... indeed, thank you!.....
» 17/12/2011 8:24:36 AM SPQR excusez le mot! (translation: your poke has negative undertones in a time of grief) .....
» 17/12/2011 6:24:58 AM Anyone know how many "illegals" overstay their tourist/visitor visa when they ca.....
» 17/12/2011 6:10:54 AM Saying it again SPQR, just like Leo? Ok, me too: Last paragraph: http://forum.onlineopin.....
» 17/12/2011 5:48:09 AM Good morning Belly, a lot of truth to what you say. Perhaps everyone should have a closer.....
» 16/12/2011 10:25:20 PM "The government needs to develop a policy that is both legal and more economical.&quo.....
» 16/12/2011 10:14:33 PM With you there Hasbeen, and of course you too Taswegian......
» 16/12/2011 9:10:27 PM And I'm sure about the latter......
» 16/12/2011 9:06:47 PM Er ... excusez-moi, qu'est-ce que c'est?.....
» 16/12/2011 8:54:37 PM Pericles2 I am well aware of the SRES, thank you – some scenarios are alarming, some are .....
» 16/12/2011 1:27:30 PM Leo Lane, I’ve taken the liberty to fix a few typos. Leo Lane continues to snipe from und.....
» 16/12/2011 12:37:09 PM Hi Lexi, thanks. Not often I disagree but you say "no matter what is done it won't d.....
» 16/12/2011 11:26:30 AM In arriving late but reading what has gone on before - all I can say is you know you are i.....
» 15/12/2011 9:30:16 PM Oh pleeze cohers, you can get suspended for abuse here. Unlike Jo or Jen, no?.....
» 15/12/2011 9:26:07 PM Oh, that summary essay; The Climate Caper. With the forward by the Lord Father Christmas,.....
» 15/12/2011 7:43:15 PM Yep, too many big words ... or a low attention span :).....
» 15/12/2011 7:35:58 PM I'm NOT a Julia nutter, so please excuse me if I just address you as ... nutter. Nutter, .....
» 15/12/2011 2:39:08 PM Thanks Joe, seems like Bangladesh is going to cop it from all directions :(.....
» 15/12/2011 11:55:02 AM Hmmm, the spam-plot thickens (Richie Benaud, eat your heart out). "Rafe Champion bri.....
» 15/12/2011 11:06:17 AM Well thankyou Julia's nutter, I agree - the Heartland Institute is a minor discourse com.....
» 15/12/2011 10:06:56 AM Poirot, merci beaucoup Naomi Klein’s article is a must read for all those who claim to ha.....
» 14/12/2011 9:03:01 PM Thanks for that link Joe, albeit the 1990 bit is well, a bit dated. I think RObert's links.....
» 14/12/2011 4:58:21 PM Joe, how fast and by what amount do you think the tectonic plates are moving?.....
» 14/12/2011 3:58:06 PM Indeed ma amie Poirot, yes he is and much much more : ) But why do lay-people or ordinary.....
» 14/12/2011 7:53:46 AM Ummm ... Hasbeen, you said you are a scientist. So, please tell me what "paper".....
» 14/12/2011 6:22:44 AM GrahamY says; “Jo Nova's real name is Joanne Codling - she took Nova as a stage name. Wil.....
» 12/12/2011 10:19:18 PM It's a dilemma that society (in general) and their respective leaders (in particular) can'.....
» 12/12/2011 8:08:45 PM Squeers The point is: the science is the science - science really isn't the issue - despit.....
» 12/12/2011 5:38:54 PM Father M’lord, you have made my Christmas >> http://www.youtube.com/user/potholer54.....
» 12/12/2011 4:18:56 PM I should have known, hasbeen. You confirm your bias from an anti-global warming blogger th.....
» 12/12/2011 11:12:58 AM Incidently oh great one that has gone before; if one includes China and India, one is not .....
» 12/12/2011 11:09:10 AM Example of Confirmation Bias: >> And now we have newly released satellite based res.....
» 12/12/2011 10:22:44 AM Well sung Maestro Michael ... now let the chorus begin. Oh, I see it has......
» 11/12/2011 8:22:14 PM David, this is the so called leaked IPCC report. I got it from the IPCC web site. It was o.....
» 10/12/2011 7:50:32 PM Oh yeah, that opinion piece by Miranda Devine - same old same old......
» 10/12/2011 7:46:14 PM Good poem SPQR, reminds me of the poetry of another OLOer......
» 10/12/2011 2:04:45 PM Damned if you do, damned if you don't - who would want to be an editor? Your hypocricy (l.....
» 10/12/2011 11:25:16 AM Mr 'hasbeen', you really are out of touch - appropriate pseudonym. Graham, as the overwhe.....
» 10/12/2011 10:34:14 AM Yep, no wonder Australia is condidered a nation of dunder-heads in science and maths......
» 9/12/2011 7:18:23 PM Why am I not surprised to see the usual bunch of conspiracy theorists and wannabe sceptics.....
» 9/12/2011 5:44:08 PM Just out of curiosity YuYu - what kind of impact do you think a one metre rise in sea leve.....
» 1/12/2011 12:55:26 PM "surely a degree of scepticism (as opposed to 'denial') is a whorthwhile position?&qu.....
» 30/11/2011 7:51:05 PM KenH You obviously read things out of context too - twice now and nothing new......
» 30/11/2011 5:25:02 PM "I acknowledge being a little simplistic here" Yep 579 The science can speak f.....
» 27/11/2011 6:38:48 AM Talk about timing, "Why online anonymity is an illusion". http://www.smh.com.au.....
» 25/11/2011 5:59:14 PM @ Anthonyve, today 11:54 a.m. - spot on! See hasbeen's prior post: "Just a little pr.....
» 22/11/2011 11:23:35 PM You couldn't script this stuff - pure gold!.....
» 27/09/2011 10:22:37 AM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 27/09/2011 10:18:07 AM Déjà vu TrashcanMan http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12356#213729.....
» 27/09/2011 9:48:02 AM Sheeeesh ... now I've heard it all. Lexi, that's good advice Besides, the author of this.....
» 26/09/2011 10:46:17 PM Yep, cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias, and now - motivational reasoning. Oh yeah, .....
» 26/09/2011 6:09:52 PM Banjo, >> Where your argument falls down is that we can assess and process those as.....
» 26/09/2011 3:34:26 PM “Bonnet, you, and lexi, fail to answer the question. How can we lock up (detain) people if.....
» 26/09/2011 10:40:25 AM Lexi The documents provided by the Department of Immigration and on the professional advi.....
» 25/09/2011 7:33:01 PM Psst, calling all conspiracy theorists - OLO is where it's happening......
» 25/09/2011 4:11:46 PM Banjo, Excerpt, Chapter 3: >> An asylum seeker is someone who is seeking internati.....
» 25/09/2011 11:41:24 AM “Genuine refugees can't afford to pay people smugglers so that's one way of determining th.....
» 25/09/2011 9:39:14 AM Typical 'dog-whistle' response from SPQR......
» 24/09/2011 10:47:22 PM Wolfgang Wagner R . I . P ......
» 24/09/2011 6:12:46 PM Perhaps you should read that whole thread again, petal......
» 24/09/2011 2:49:48 PM Some people think the vast majority of asylum seekers do not arrive without documentation .....
» 24/09/2011 1:11:56 PM SPQR, your reference to me when I had not previously posted in this thread is telling. La.....
» 24/09/2011 12:41:44 PM Yep, 'one under GOD' can't admit his errors, his sins - but, he is forgiven. Yep, 'one un.....
» 24/09/2011 10:38:37 AM Cont'd ... Unless we acknowledge that smuggling operates as an integral part of the refug.....
» 24/09/2011 10:37:46 AM Butcher, you raise an important issue previously considered. The following is an extract .....
» 24/09/2011 8:32:08 AM Bazz, as reported in the following link (much the same as I have been saying): "Thin.....
» 23/09/2011 9:52:30 PM Before I go to bed, OUG: you are wrong about Tim Flannery's "beach side property".....
» 23/09/2011 9:34:59 PM It hasbeen amusing to see Joanne Cosling (spouse of the inimmitable David Evans) go by the.....
» 23/09/2011 9:00:16 PM What an absolute joke! You know it's a complete farce when you get Abbott cheer-leaders e.....
» 23/09/2011 12:54:09 PM ps: Bazz The UNFCCC conference in Durban will be (as they always have been) about how and.....
» 23/09/2011 11:22:36 AM Oh dear ... runner: Whenever someone (say newly-weds, parents and the like) take out a ho.....
» 23/09/2011 9:32:38 AM Bazz, you say: "the science under the AGW is shifting" (sic) Would you care to.....
» 22/09/2011 5:12:48 PM trumpets-a-playing /// /// drums-a-rolling ... ... Hasbeen, come-on-down ! ! ! and the .....
» 22/09/2011 8:50:37 AM From the Centre of Independent Studies' web site: >> (the author) Adam Creighton's .....
» 21/09/2011 6:27:32 PM Here's a scary thought ... If "off-shore" processing in Malaysia (or N, Na, Nau.....
» 21/09/2011 6:25:55 PM Oh dear Lexi, I thought you were going to sneeze - bless you......
» 21/09/2011 3:33:41 PM Actually Hasbeen, Abbott would gain more kudos (here and overseas) if he supported the arr.....
» 21/09/2011 11:06:49 AM "Altruism is a ploy used by pollies to further their political imperatives." Ab.....
» 21/09/2011 9:53:45 AM SPQR "War criminals" when found out should be investigated and dealt with as su.....
» 20/09/2011 10:35:19 AM I agree Lexi. As far as I'm aware, the people smugglers could be described as "crimin.....
» 20/09/2011 8:32:34 AM "Criminals" Hasbeen?.....
» 19/09/2011 2:58:02 PM Bazz, here is the open access pdf link: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/01/28/0812.....
» 19/09/2011 2:51:36 PM Negligible. Like I said, the aim is to limit the expected increase (to something that is .....
» 19/09/2011 1:37:23 PM Bazz, the aim is to reduce GHG emissions so as to limit the increase in temperatures to wh.....
» 18/09/2011 10:25:09 PM Peter Hume, I was addressing Anthonyve. Whilst your apparent paranoia is telling, it's not.....
» 18/09/2011 5:28:00 PM Anthonyve These are the concluding remarks of The Royal Society’s ‘Climate Change – a sum.....
» 18/09/2011 10:22:15 AM "Both Tom Tiddler and Anthony have demonstrated what I said in my first post. The war.....
» 13/09/2011 2:54:21 PM Tim/Tom So, you're still at it after this: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?.....
» 9/09/2011 12:34:37 PM Thank you Amicus, you reminded of this (also to the author): http://forum.onlineopinion.c.....
» 8/09/2011 6:37:25 PM Oh, that one: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110824/full/news.2011.504.html Where the le.....
» 8/09/2011 3:35:34 PM One Under God You obviously haven't read Solomon (not the biblical one), or have understo.....
» 8/09/2011 10:35:28 AM Hasbeen, I agree with what was posted in The Age: The carbon tax has nothing to do with r.....
» 8/09/2011 9:56:54 AM “The 62 presenters on Radio National are being judged on the bias of three or four present.....
» 6/09/2011 8:20:23 AM Hmmm, so Jon J "sorts" it out for everybody by linking to the right-wing 'climat.....
» 26/07/2011 9:53:24 PM I'm feeling very, very sick Lexi - that is mind-shattering and soul destroying......
» 26/07/2011 8:45:28 PM [Deleted for abuse]......
» 26/07/2011 7:34:00 PM Thankyou Lexi, ever the consummate OLO commenter. The following has got nothing to do wit.....
» 26/07/2011 1:40:37 PM @ aussieguy Bizarre indeed but even if they do, no one would believe them anyway :( @ rs.....
» 26/07/2011 12:28:52 PM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 25/07/2011 8:38:57 PM Yep, SPQR attacks the messenger. Can't even address the issues raised in Annabel Crabb's a.....
» 25/07/2011 6:45:12 PM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 25/07/2011 4:10:17 PM @ 'Shadow' "Given that new threads require approval, there is a distinct time gap be.....
» 25/07/2011 3:12:34 PM Hello ... 'Shadow', are you there? For the sake of balance, this is Annabel Crabb today ......
» 25/07/2011 2:13:05 PM Good points Houellebecq and worth considering. Thanks......
» 25/07/2011 1:55:31 PM Cont’d @ sonofloin >> Abbott said there is wiggle room if not in hard copy <<.....
» 25/07/2011 1:51:47 PM 'Shadow', that was excellent - a new thread was started and approved 5 mins after the chal.....
» 25/07/2011 11:37:39 AM Very good 'shadow minister' - the 'bait and switch' that is. Put your assertion on the li.....
» 25/07/2011 9:36:19 AM @ Julia’s nutter cont’d Now, it is patently obvious you haven’t a clue about statistical .....
» 25/07/2011 9:03:46 AM @Julia’s nutter “Just not happening for you lot now is it? @Moi: 'climate is weather ave.....
» 24/07/2011 7:10:46 PM Just popping in - have got a hectic week-end to finish. Great response and some good comm.....
» 23/07/2011 3:35:27 PM >> Bonmot “Sorry nutter, you will have to excuse me if I don't take someone who call.....
» 23/07/2011 2:49:10 PM Julia's nutter, Me in denial of weather patterns? Of course not, that is just silly - wea.....
» 23/07/2011 9:23:52 AM Well OLOers, I have my thoughts on this piece: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-22/crab.....
» 23/07/2011 8:01:33 AM Indy, If you understand the enhanced green-house effect you would know that the planet is.....
» 22/07/2011 11:48:30 PM (Margaret Thatcher cont’d) “But the need for more research should not be an excuse for de.....
» 22/07/2011 11:45:37 PM Hi Col, seeing you're quoting Margaret Thatcher (again) I thought I'd repost this - you mu.....
» 22/07/2011 8:10:50 PM You shouldn't be too worried too much about "our coastal settlements" Indy - we .....
» 22/07/2011 2:41:20 PM David, I have always valued your comments, I don't always respond. I have never respected.....
» 22/07/2011 2:30:47 PM "Green ilk". ROFL I'm all for nuclear kman, especially gen 4 (but am also happy.....
» 22/07/2011 2:06:21 PM Indy Next you talk about the “weight of Cairns”. Mass does effect the dynamics, indy – bu.....
» 22/07/2011 2:01:35 PM No probs Individual, @” Can't argue with a billions of dollars worth of budget”. Precise.....
» 22/07/2011 12:38:54 PM Nope, but C-3PO is sitting right next to me and he's just as pst - hiccup I mean flummoxed.....
» 22/07/2011 11:36:20 AM Palm, meet face. Just looked at your site. Arjay, can you deal with this please? Wait, .....
» 22/07/2011 11:21:44 AM I agree kman, absolutely ... BUT, if I put up any of these: http://tinyurl.com/3ce3gtc m.....
» 22/07/2011 10:22:50 AM Keep your head in the sand Hasbeen - because the references don't always lead to the IPCC .....
» 22/07/2011 10:12:28 AM Wikipedia is always a good starting point, then follow the references and the wiki article.....
» 22/07/2011 10:04:55 AM Couldn't get past the 1st sentence. Two possible outcomes: 1. Everybody from all sides o.....
» 22/07/2011 9:22:54 AM hey kman, do you support nuclear?.....
» 21/07/2011 8:30:04 AM Individual, you say: >> There are some things you need to give some thought up fron.....
» 21/07/2011 7:43:12 AM Now it's looking really sick - well done!.....
» 20/07/2011 9:00:39 PM oops, more typos!.....
» 20/07/2011 8:59:21 PM While I find these latest comments fascinating (I am not biogeochemist, atmospheric physic.....
» 20/07/2011 8:38:20 AM "I am actually feeling sorry for her." Words from the ministeriaLiar - thanks f.....
» 19/07/2011 10:13:16 PM @Leo Lane: Do not accuse me of falsehoods, based on the fact that you do not know what you.....
» 19/07/2011 3:34:27 PM Mark Proponents of the plan to provide more than $7 billion to the current owners of Aust.....
» 19/07/2011 9:19:10 AM Mark, you are all spin. Tax concession, subsidy, whatever. The Australian Government prov.....
» 18/07/2011 2:49:43 PM Yeah, a good link rstuart - thanks. @Hasbeen, anyone who thinks coal will be shut down ov.....
» 18/07/2011 2:45:02 PM Mark, coal is being subsidised, big time - but you knew that......
» 18/07/2011 2:35:04 PM Hello Joe, Of course it's possible "that global warming brings about extremes, inclu.....
» 18/07/2011 11:43:10 AM Suggest you scrutinise this instead Joe: http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/tim.....
» 17/07/2011 8:20:35 PM Joe, Adelaide ain't the Globe :) Capitalism? A human 'construct' we can make better - we .....
» 15/07/2011 8:25:52 PM @voxUnius wrt my "'it' is more complicated than your original post." >> H.....
» 15/07/2011 3:07:14 PM @ voxUnius Cuts both ways Vox (you must have noticed, no?) ... but I take Graham's point......
» 15/07/2011 8:54:50 AM RObert ... you mean they ALL do it, really? Could it be some do it better than others ?-).....
» 15/07/2011 8:37:48 AM Oh puleez - it's called dumbing down the populace. Tony Abbott is very good at that, as y.....
» 15/07/2011 8:30:00 AM The first poster justs demonstrates how negative the opposition is by spreading fear, unce.....
» 15/07/2011 8:25:22 AM So the chairman of the Australian Environment Foundation believes in some fairy-land borde.....
» 14/07/2011 6:41:48 PM Correct TrashcanMan. JonJ does the same as Ian Plimer - cites numerous peer reviewed pape.....
» 14/07/2011 8:30:12 AM Another of game of follow the denialist's favourite blogs and shock-jocks. Er, right ... .....
» 14/07/2011 8:25:37 AM Thanks Matt Grudnoff. It's important to compare the alternatives. If the so called 'scep.....
» 14/07/2011 8:10:52 AM Tony Abbott doesn't tell lies - he just changes his mind. hahahahahahahahahaha.....
» 13/07/2011 11:42:21 AM Barcelona anyone?.....
» 13/07/2011 10:39:16 AM Oh dear, Hasbeen: >> We all know that CO2 is plant food, & that is in low supply in.....
» 13/07/2011 10:03:11 AM Hasbeen, glad to see you think so too. However, like I said, there will be a mix of alter.....
» 13/07/2011 8:48:25 AM What's the point?.....
» 13/07/2011 8:43:22 AM Sorry JayB, you asked some serious questions but I got derailed with pepper's statement/qu.....
» 13/07/2011 8:22:46 AM Thanks Lexi, good to start the day with a chuckle. Your link did bring back memories but .....
» 12/07/2011 7:16:14 PM Mark/Curmudgeon Gone awol? If not, any chance of responding? http://forum.onlineopinion......
» 12/07/2011 7:04:42 PM Lexi, you're a librarian - Can you find the piece where Tony Abbott said he would say what.....
» 12/07/2011 6:57:56 PM Joe Going to be a cold year, the big 'little girl' came and went. Hot water-bottles are .....
» 12/07/2011 6:51:09 PM individual I asked pepper if he knew how many tonnes of CO2 you get from burning 1 tonne .....
» 12/07/2011 10:59:56 AM Hey pepper, can you tell us how much CO2 is produced from burning only 1 tonne of coal? A.....
» 12/07/2011 10:54:36 AM Ans: You don't know how to use the internet. As for Dick Smith, perhaps you might change .....
» 11/07/2011 8:07:00 AM No SPQR, that is the logic of the 'Lord' Christopher Monckton. You have just taken to his.....
» 10/07/2011 6:54:21 PM Following SPQR's logic: If 99% of immunologists think vaccination against a disease is im.....
» 10/07/2011 5:06:40 PM Squeers For what it’s worth, I don’t think it’s feasible, given our society’s dependence .....
» 10/07/2011 3:53:28 PM You know what makes me laugh, sono? ‘Experts’ thinking that carbon ‘locked’ up in a hunk o.....
» 10/07/2011 3:40:58 PM sonofgloin’s definition of a “spin psychologist”; - Stephan Lewandowsky, Australian Profe.....
» 10/07/2011 3:33:44 PM SPQR >> They were doing more than expressing their opinion. They were seeking to de.....
» 9/07/2011 2:39:12 PM sonofgloin I jumped ahead, scroll down to: "The phony debate on climate change".....
» 9/07/2011 2:32:56 PM sonofgloin: do you ever read/understand the links you comment on? 1998 was an extraordina.....
» 9/07/2011 12:26:34 PM rstuart This is what spindoctor is referring to: http://tinyurl.com/tis-here Monckton d.....
» 9/07/2011 11:11:42 AM sonofgloin You forgot spindoc's CAGW - Catastrophic Anthropogenic Gplobal Warming. What .....
» 9/07/2011 9:57:05 AM Where have you been 'individual'? That chain letter has been going around a while: http:/.....
» 9/07/2011 7:46:11 AM Spindoc, you talk of freedom of speech. You are invited to have a say here: http://brave.....
» 8/07/2011 5:11:26 PM Mark, I don't think the world (read politicians) is just so far short of concerted action......
» 7/07/2011 11:39:09 AM Very good article by the author. Mark Lawson (curmudgeon) says "the analyses (of Sau.....
» 6/07/2011 9:33:26 PM @ voxUnius, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 5:29:53 p.m. With all due respect vox, it is more compli.....
» 6/07/2011 7:58:34 AM EQ (and others) I invite you to have your say here: http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/06/2.....
» 5/07/2011 8:03:43 AM Mark So called "sceptics" trash HadCrut data and slam the Climatic Research Uni.....
» 4/07/2011 9:45:53 PM Mark Lawson, you know very well "Hadley" (sic) do not include data for the Arcti.....
» 4/07/2011 8:08:55 PM Sorry Fester, that should have been julianutter - obviously. Now I have done my post limi.....
» 4/07/2011 8:05:26 PM Hasbeen, I would not like to think it’s too late – but you may be right. I don’t think our.....
» 4/07/2011 7:47:18 PM Fester Are you now talking about energy flux between ice and water? Perhaps this link wi.....
» 4/07/2011 7:32:53 PM Vox, pardon for getting caught out by post limits. 2. b) Cont’d Yes, the Tropopause can .....
» 3/07/2011 5:15:47 PM Vox, following in point form; 1. Thanks, a pity that Julia’s nutter can’t comprehend or m.....
» 3/07/2011 10:02:19 AM Vox I am going out now - will respond to your post later......
» 3/07/2011 10:00:25 AM Hasbeen, re: Argo I will give you the benefit of my doubt – you are ignorant of the facts.....
» 3/07/2011 9:49:42 AM Fester When I said “We know it’s getting warmer because we can measure very well the energ.....
» 1/07/2011 3:11:00 PM Cont’d As for “it’s cyclical”: Yes, some things are, some things are not. May I suggest .....
» 1/07/2011 3:05:25 PM Imajulianutter, you are still confused about weather and climate. Time series statistical.....
» 30/06/2011 3:54:47 PM "Just what hard evidence can the brainwashed/warmists produce to support this AGW wea.....
» 30/06/2011 3:10:38 PM nutter http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=12254#211545 You really are .....
» 30/06/2011 2:22:32 PM Imajulianutter tag says more about motives than anything. We’re in a cold spell because L.....
» 28/06/2011 8:33:40 AM "Global warming is a load of crap." A demonstration that in 'the world of stupi.....
» 21/06/2011 1:59:27 PM Appologies for the confusion Ammonite. Col Rouge was making the point to you about, well .....
» 21/06/2011 1:09:28 PM (Margaret Thatcher cont’d) “But the need for more research should not be an excuse for de.....
» 21/06/2011 1:05:04 PM >> It is a claimed we are going through a period of “climate change”. I am less con.....
» 20/06/2011 12:17:48 PM Not out of context, rpg. There are 1000’s of scientists that study any number of the ‘clim.....
» 20/06/2011 8:05:07 AM MickC http://tamino.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/5t12.jpg There are 5 major sources of gl.....
» 18/06/2011 10:48:26 PM Rich2, this may be of interest: http://theconversation.edu.au/whos-your-expert-the-differ.....
» 18/06/2011 10:41:15 PM Continuing with the metaphor: Facts from the horse’s mouth - “Ah if I were vain, I would.....
» 18/06/2011 8:36:43 AM Lexi, I understand your point. However, is it not terribly conceited (narcisstic is a term.....
» 17/06/2011 11:41:08 AM Difference between conceit and confidence? Col-lateral damage......
» 10/06/2011 2:46:03 PM Agnostic: Don is right, to a certain extent – most people do prefer data that support the.....
» 9/06/2011 7:14:36 PM Ok Arjay, putting aside you are OLO's resident conspiracy theorist - please show where &qu.....
» 9/06/2011 4:54:33 PM Is this up to date enough? http://tinyurl.com/Is-This-Up-To-Date-Enough The data is gath.....
» 9/06/2011 12:36:29 PM Thing is, most OLO posters are not sceptics - they are cynics. Cynics may not like what t.....
» 9/06/2011 9:30:16 AM Hasbeen, you just don't get it, do you? http://tinyurl.com/4tqq2ch Wait, we've been ther.....
» 8/06/2011 7:39:43 PM Philo, rather than just assert stuff, would you please provide a primary source for those .....
» 8/06/2011 3:08:51 PM RObert, thanks for the reasoned and rational reply. Anyone who really wants to understand.....
» 7/06/2011 12:01:53 PM Re-capping: Tom Tiddler, retired economist, says: “Linear regression of climate variable.....
» 6/06/2011 6:45:11 PM Nicco, some people just can't understand Hasbeen's "quotes". They read into the.....
» 6/06/2011 2:47:24 PM "USA is a big place." Yep, about 2% by area. "Tim Curtin's paper gives th.....
» 6/06/2011 1:58:15 PM Ergo: "On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific metho.....
» 6/06/2011 1:45:44 PM Hasbeen, by jeez you were quick to reply with 'that list' - musta been in your arsenal eh?.....
» 6/06/2011 12:49:46 PM And who is Tim Curtin? He is Tom Tiddler of course!.....
» 5/06/2011 2:07:47 PM Col, I appologised publicly - I didn't have to. Rather than accepting the apology and mo.....
» 4/06/2011 4:11:13 PM Col Rouge Apparently I ‘flamed’ you in my deleted comment. Sorry. I agree, there should .....
» 4/06/2011 3:57:31 PM rpg I asked Arjay what "hide the decline" means. It seems he has answered befor.....
» 4/06/2011 3:49:20 PM rpg asks “Anger is quite a motivator, isn't it bonmot?” Yes, it is! http://tinyurl.com/A.....
» 3/06/2011 10:28:37 PM Arjay, what does "hide the decline" mean?.....
» 2/06/2011 7:09:06 PM Interesting, Col says it was the "government" when it clearly wasn't, can't say.....
» 2/06/2011 7:01:46 PM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 2/06/2011 5:15:58 PM Right Col, got it ... it's all a communist plot by: blatant lying, arrogant, adulterous, .....
» 2/06/2011 4:59:50 PM Col Rouge says: "So, why shoot a campaign with gross distortion of content? If it ha.....
» 2/06/2011 2:42:55 PM >> That such warming is occurring is a hypothesis which can be tested against the la.....
» 30/05/2011 5:12:08 PM Very shallow thread, full of red herrings. "I was all for a carbon tax, but now, sin.....
» 30/05/2011 4:11:31 PM Nicco, As we have just seen, Mark Lawson (curmudgeon) not only can't understand the scien.....
» 30/05/2011 10:21:02 AM Nicco, there really is no excuse for ignorance in our society today. Whilst Atman's claim .....
» 28/05/2011 6:10:45 PM LOL, Double degree, honours in science (chemistry) and chemical engineering; post-doctoral.....
» 28/05/2011 4:41:53 PM Conclusions to the paper you cite: ... Our results show that the observed rapid rise in g.....
» 27/05/2011 3:49:47 PM Actually, it's more enlightening (and entertaining) reading all the posts: http://forum.o.....
» 27/05/2011 3:39:00 PM You still on about it Mark? http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=10372#16.....
» 27/05/2011 7:37:05 AM Atman says; >> Following from the AGW 'pollution' logic, CO2 is not just carbon pol.....
» 25/05/2011 7:26:03 PM Mark, I don't buy it. You were caught out and could not defend your stance - simple as. W.....
» 23/05/2011 6:08:18 PM Quoting bj: >> It will be interesting to hear how the Cardinal and Abbott spin the .....
» 18/05/2011 8:38:55 AM sbr108 first "does some maths" (I use the term lightly) without demonstrating s/.....
» 10/05/2011 9:23:44 AM A soft article to be sure. RObert Fact is, any action/inaction on climate change is going.....
» 9/05/2011 3:05:44 PM Spindoc You don't have to believe anything I say ... you are a 'post normal scientist' af.....
» 9/05/2011 12:20:00 PM Hume Just because you and your cohorts don't notice the facile dishonesty of your intelle.....
» 9/05/2011 11:37:03 AM Thing is, science can pretty well measure (with a high degree of accuracy) the energy comi.....
» 9/05/2011 9:34:50 AM Saltpetre, agree with all you say, but ... paradigm shifts don't happen overnight. In the.....
» 9/05/2011 9:09:14 AM Raycom links to Quadrant and follows with this gem: >> Nor did socalled scientific .....
» 8/05/2011 5:55:28 PM Finally spindoc, you are prefixing AGW with 'C' as in 'catastrophic'. You know very well t.....
» 8/05/2011 5:45:38 PM All very nice Saltpetre ... but, how is it to be paid for?.....
» 8/05/2011 8:08:30 AM If a packet of smokes costs $50 (ostensibly made up of tax) maybe quite a few would give u.....
» 8/05/2011 7:58:56 AM Thankyou Squeers, a breath of fresh air. Enjoy your Mother's day......
» 7/05/2011 6:11:08 PM Very destructive dialogue rpg, well done......
» 7/05/2011 6:06:39 PM It works both ways Mark ... you throw muck around yourself. Thing is, you don't recognise .....
» 5/05/2011 6:58:49 PM Saltpetre >> Fingers crossed, sanity may yet prevail. << Absolutely! >&g.....
» 4/05/2011 9:47:47 PM Saltpetre, your analogy to a game is, unfortunately, apt. >> Just hope some of the .....
» 29/04/2011 5:10:45 PM Hello Bazz, been busy. No, I did not see Catalyst. However, I believe I understand where y.....
» 28/04/2011 9:42:51 AM Bazz A sensible first question for which there is and will be, much debate. Your second? .....
» 21/04/2011 2:36:03 PM AoM, as has been said; Don't waste your knowledge, intelligence, wisdom or words of advic.....
» 19/04/2011 8:28:06 PM You don't have to prove anything rpg, your hate has been palpable. It would have been nic.....
» 16/04/2011 7:10:22 PM Further, as to "challenges" in general science journals - I agree. But as you ri.....
» 16/04/2011 4:13:22 PM Donkeygod In hindsight it’s easy to ‘attack’ Mann for his TER ‘hockey stick’. I hope you’.....
» 16/04/2011 9:21:34 AM Arjay You believe what you want to believe and no one is going to change that. However, .....
» 16/04/2011 9:15:52 AM >> What drives people to believe in the thing that is not possible to test as part o.....
» 16/04/2011 8:52:45 AM nicco, Raycom obviously knows very little about the scientific process, peer review or we.....
» 15/04/2011 8:05:42 AM Hmmm ... try the plural......
» 14/04/2011 9:42:11 AM Looks like you're on a roll arjay: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=1.....
» 14/04/2011 9:37:46 AM rpg: Did you actually read arjay's link? It contains such gems as: "Another proverbi.....
» 9/04/2011 1:01:23 PM Oh dear, Peter Hume ... such hypocrisy as I have come to expect from you. So it's ok for .....
» 9/04/2011 10:57:18 AM >> Carbon tax, ETS, will do nothing. We need new govt, particularly as The Greens ha.....
» 9/04/2011 10:32:06 AM Curmudgeon (Mark Lawson) I tried to find a serious review (not a promo) of your book – I .....
» 8/04/2011 4:01:44 PM Raycom (re :the science of reporting climate change) You left out Plimer's 'Heaven & Eart.....
» 8/04/2011 2:49:59 PM Frankfurter from a bygone era (or are you really that sensitive new age guy?) I was sorta.....
» 8/04/2011 10:10:48 AM Too ridiculous to respond anymore. This thread is morphing into why people die in this 'en.....
» 7/04/2011 5:09:57 PM Hey sausage, Just for a minute (attention span issues), let's say nuclear power is no lon.....
» 7/04/2011 12:13:29 PM Very good article, thanks. Atman, You are aware of Barry Brook, yes? You know he is an en.....
» 7/04/2011 8:41:30 AM So happy to hear you get your facts from scientists, rpg. Going by your record, nope. If .....
» 7/04/2011 8:28:19 AM mon amie, don't believe a word Brook (without the 's' rpg) says - he is an 'alarmist' just.....
» 4/04/2011 12:39:14 PM Hello Poirot, If you really think that people were not over reacting to a situation that .....
» 3/04/2011 10:04:39 PM Btw Cameron (leckos?), do you go by the tag 'oil_investor' on the Bakkenoil blog?.....
» 3/04/2011 9:48:58 PM leckos: Yeah, you're probably right. No wonder everybody is having knuckle dusters over a .....
» 3/04/2011 7:25:25 PM >> This leads to the comments on energy sources mentioned in the comments, many of w.....
» 1/04/2011 4:30:32 PM So some April fools wants to go fracking? Why for fracks sake? Guess who's hiding 8 tim.....
» 1/04/2011 5:34:56 AM Chris The technical summary can be found here: http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/.....
» 31/03/2011 7:04:42 PM Chris I am not quitting the site (OLO is one of the best we have got) - I am quitting thi.....
» 31/03/2011 5:35:42 PM Leo Lane, you say: >> Petty irrelevant nit-picking << Calling someone a “Pro.....
» 30/03/2011 4:56:03 PM Almost forgot, spindoc to Chris Lewis (author): >> By way of context as you begin t.....
» 30/03/2011 4:09:37 PM spindoc @ Wednesday, 30 March 2011 12:50:11 PM I am aware of your “open letter”, you refe.....
» 30/03/2011 11:46:24 AM Spindoc I see you have conferred on Malcolm Roberts a "professorship" - why? &.....
» 30/03/2011 11:22:37 AM Chris - Monday, 28 March 2011 10:46:05 AM I am aware of that, I agree and I agree. Been .....
» 28/03/2011 6:15:48 PM JBowyer: I have taken him (AB) on, I can't get past his 'censors' now. That is why I consi.....
» 28/03/2011 11:54:47 AM Peter: Flannery is right. However, you fail to understand (as Bolt does) the aim is to LI.....
» 28/03/2011 11:43:18 AM "It begs the question, are you Senator Milne?" hahaha You obviously haven't un.....
» 28/03/2011 11:24:54 AM megatherium: "PS: As a scientist I am shocked but never surprised by the spruiking fr.....
» 28/03/2011 10:38:02 AM Ok Amicus, let me put it this way: Chris says the "Main focus of article, however, w.....
» 28/03/2011 10:05:46 AM donkeygod (Saturday, 26 March 2011 11:05:38 AM) You said: >> Prior to the millenni.....
» 28/03/2011 9:37:54 AM >> We have no choice but to adapt, CO2 activists are wasting an opportunity to move .....
» 26/03/2011 12:01:01 PM Oh, I just saw Tim Curtin's alter-ego sock-puppet Tom Tiddler pop up - in "users curr.....
» 26/03/2011 11:49:14 AM >> Why does Andy have to supply solutions? << Bolt (and others here) says we .....
» 26/03/2011 7:39:57 AM Donkeygod Please, just name one reputable scientist who has "declared any corner of .....
» 26/03/2011 7:34:31 AM >> Even if its true, there is nothing we can do about it, so use the money to adapt,.....
» 25/03/2011 7:29:56 AM Tim Curtin, your blurb says; Journalist, economist and advisor, living in Canberra where .....
» 24/03/2011 4:36:23 PM There you go Curmudgeon, you’re doing it again – distorting and misrepresenting the truth......
» 24/03/2011 8:22:01 AM Actually Raycom, the ABC has had many 'notable' sceptics appear - Bob Carter, David Evans,.....
» 23/03/2011 5:41:55 PM Squeers Peter Hume says you believe “we’re all going boil to death from catastrophic man-.....
» 23/03/2011 2:51:42 PM >> Our media has stood by, it has watched, it has listened and as always, it has fai.....
» 23/03/2011 10:49:26 AM EQ, you say: >> The best evidence that I have found so far is water 95%, CO2 3.5%, .....
» 21/03/2011 10:28:01 PM Yep, anxious ... doesn't comprehend "we"......
» 21/03/2011 10:21:27 AM Take a chill-pill Peter, your anxiety is all too obvious......
» 19/03/2011 4:13:12 PM a597: Your comments would be better served by not resorting to "alarmist" scare .....
» 19/03/2011 10:31:29 AM Yep, ignorant trolls have been spreading that guff ever since: http://members7.boardhost......
» 15/03/2011 11:34:19 AM Hi Poirot. From my understanding, the "reactor" has not "exploded" (a .....
» 14/03/2011 8:58:41 AM Yep. Prfecisely why Gen IV reactors are required......
» 14/03/2011 7:46:23 AM "What is worse than (an) earthquake and a tsunami? A Nuclear power plant meltdown.&q.....
» 11/03/2011 4:10:59 PM Leo, you may not wish to read this http://www.garnautreview.org.au/update-2011/update-pap.....
» 11/03/2011 3:34:17 PM Interesting Jon J. So is this: http://www.skepticalscience.com/news.php?n=571&p=12 espec.....
» 11/03/2011 2:44:49 PM Curmudgeon (Mark Lawson): of course there is natural variability, always was and always wi.....
» 11/03/2011 2:36:05 PM Jennifer, always good to see your comments. There are many more tenured physicists who say.....
» 10/03/2011 4:23:45 PM Keith, "climate" is the trend in "weather" over time periods that filt.....
» 10/03/2011 10:06:49 AM >> One of the problems with this debate is the global warmers fasten on any piece of.....
» 5/03/2011 9:59:33 AM Oh wow, spindoc … you’ve just written to the PM. Can we look forward to you posting her re.....
» 3/03/2011 6:16:06 PM Dearest spindoctor Please don't flatter or delude yourself. Going by your profile history.....
» 2/03/2011 12:15:08 PM Hasbeen, next you'll be saying the US Navy is involved in a con job too. http://tinyurl.c.....
» 2/03/2011 11:58:14 AM T.Sett, I agree. However, about the cherry pick - US submarines still conduct operations .....
» 24/02/2011 8:01:36 AM individual, two things (off topic I know) but; 1. Can you suggest a few good examples of .....
» 24/02/2011 7:48:55 AM MarcH There are many in the MSM and blogosphere that woefully report on global warming an.....
» 23/02/2011 8:04:29 AM Yes Belly, perhaps you're right. It does not inspire confidence in rational OLO dialogue w.....
» 22/02/2011 5:54:47 PM Very good Sniggid. As it happens, that very minuscule amount of CO2 keeps the planet from .....
» 22/02/2011 5:40:54 PM Sonofaloin: The sky is not falling. However, the consequences of the changing climate, sma.....
» 21/02/2011 10:51:02 PM How long will it take for MSM to bring us this juicy news? http://www.guardian.co.uk/envi.....
» 21/02/2011 10:16:37 PM Philo spreading FUD http://www.wnho.net/letter_concerning_carbon_tax_and_global_warming.h.....
» 21/02/2011 9:16:14 PM Joe, I have been so hopeful that you participate in this thread ... you are knowledgeable,.....
» 21/02/2011 8:49:31 PM Banjo I agree with you about "Alarmist propaganda with grossly exagerated claims".....
» 21/02/2011 4:01:33 PM Almost forgot, RawMustard: I don't expect you to understand the science, but this paper pu.....
» 21/02/2011 3:50:48 PM spindoctor Without being snide, snarky or snotty ... do you think the 'conservatives' will.....
» 21/02/2011 10:13:28 AM Bazz, you have read AR4, right? You do know they project a decline in growth, don't you? A.....
» 21/02/2011 10:03:25 AM That's right Hasbeen. The House voted along conservative partisan lines. What else would y.....
» 19/02/2011 3:10:03 PM >> give these people their own state to roam in, as long as conflict between tribes .....
» 18/02/2011 5:54:13 PM Add to that a597; . The Adventures Of Noddy . The Further Adventures Of Noddy . The Cla.....
» 18/02/2011 3:47:33 PM Keith Hope this clears it up for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrologist.....
» 16/02/2011 8:23:03 AM donkeygod I'll repeat for the benefit of others: "Rather than focusing on alarmist t.....
» 15/02/2011 1:48:10 PM Donkeygod There is very credible science about the radiative properties of GHG’s. If you p.....
» 15/02/2011 1:25:21 PM AoM: Curmudgeon et al interested in Skeptical Science? Obviously not. Future temperature .....
» 12/02/2011 5:46:59 AM It seems a number of commenters here don't understand the concept of "residence time&.....
» 8/02/2011 6:36:26 PM You obviously have done some homework Keith, good stuff. The building codes of 40 years ag.....
» 8/02/2011 9:58:10 AM >> when the debunkers come up with a forecast as accurate as that of deFreitas, McLe.....
» 7/02/2011 5:44:38 PM Keith: >> The worlds smallest recorded cyclone (Tracey) destroyed Darwin and killed .....
» 6/02/2011 10:04:43 AM Mark (at Friday, 4 February 2011 4:25:36 PM) You have indeed written a good article. I ag.....
» 4/02/2011 3:29:33 PM Bazz, total hydrocarbons in the atmosphere must include the increase in methane from melti.....
» 4/02/2011 3:17:29 PM a597: Not sure I follow: >> We cant have rain heat drought and fires all at the sam.....
» 4/02/2011 3:04:45 PM Atman, you and many naysayers think the IPCC is 'alarmist'. This part of AR4 relates to A.....
» 4/02/2011 1:21:20 PM Bazz I could not see where they factored oil derived from shale, or tar sands, or wherever.....
» 4/02/2011 1:13:27 PM Hasbeen and Mark Lawson Jeremy is correct. A warmer atmosphere does hold more water. It ha.....
» 4/02/2011 11:48:18 AM Spindoc, you accuse me of having an ego, of being emotive, and of shooting the messenger. .....
» 2/02/2011 3:43:55 PM Actually spindoc, Malcolm Roberts is an Australian writing an 'open' letter to an Australi.....
» 2/02/2011 2:47:55 PM ok spindoctor, the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition posted that letter online on 25/1.....
» 2/02/2011 8:34:11 AM Bugsy It starts to stink when WXYZ thinks they know better than people at the coal face. .....
» 2/02/2011 8:30:58 AM SPQR Have you watched Professor Nurse’s documentary? Your comment, like that of AGIR, sug.....
» 2/02/2011 8:27:15 AM Pericles, thanks for the input. For me, I don’t think there is anything wrong with scienc.....
» 1/02/2011 12:22:56 PM ALGOREisRICH It seems you too want to change the playing field, in your case to “racism a.....
» 31/01/2011 12:13:30 PM << You seem to confuse true science with faith. >> runner, that is typical ba.....
» 31/01/2011 8:24:50 AM Shintaro Hmmm, I like haiku that is the rub, so much is left unexplained.....
» 31/01/2011 8:19:56 AM Runner Thank you for responding. I was hoping for some dialogue on how to address the iss.....
» 31/01/2011 8:18:24 AM Well that went down like a lead balloon. I was hoping some avid OLO’ers would have found t.....
» 28/01/2011 9:56:34 AM Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, gives an insight into why science is under.....
» 27/01/2011 8:39:18 AM Leo Lane Unfortunately, clicking the embedded link at the very top of that document took .....
» 26/01/2011 10:25:15 AM Snowman http://tamino.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/how-fast-is-earth-warming/#comment-47414.....
» 26/01/2011 10:19:38 AM Leo The “Global Warming Policy Foundation” – a right-wing think-tank set up by the doyen .....
» 25/01/2011 6:54:31 PM right, perfect, got-it Seems rpg is another who thinks science has to be 100% perfectly a.....
» 25/01/2011 5:44:29 PM SPQR AGIR? Not religious enough. SPQR sounds, writes and looks more like spindoc. But, w.....
» 25/01/2011 5:28:52 PM You mean the one and only Cohenite from both Jennifer's and Joanne's 'denialablog' is chim.....
» 25/01/2011 1:53:29 PM Quite so sillyfilly, who can forget the coverage of snowman's blindness: http://hot-topic.....
» 25/01/2011 10:38:20 AM You just can't help it, can you curmudgeon? One day this: "the graphs have to be &qu.....
» 25/01/2011 8:52:40 AM Shintaro Gold!.....
» 25/01/2011 7:04:42 AM One more thing snowman, Do you really think Klaus Wolter has rocks in his head too, or NO.....
» 24/01/2011 9:01:10 PM Curmudgeon: “That's the problem with the greenhouse case, the graphs have to be "adju.....
» 24/01/2011 3:15:33 PM Garum Masala: Ever watched ‘grumpy old men’? Perhaps I’m just a grumpy old fart too. You .....
» 24/01/2011 1:13:07 PM Because Mark old boy, if one is to comprehend the graph, one has to read the 2nd link as w.....
» 24/01/2011 1:01:39 PM Garum Masala Just wondering ... did you complain about OZ being an importer of oranges wh.....
» 24/01/2011 9:54:01 AM Yes Jennifer (Marohasy), there is - satellites. This statistician has even done a good jo.....
» 23/01/2011 6:27:03 AM Mrs Spqr (if you insist on being childish – otherwise, bonmot will do, thanks) “THAT” sta.....
» 22/01/2011 11:04:22 AM SPQR That link you provided - I agree with Dr Ziggy Switkowski. Quote: Of course, the 21.....
» 22/01/2011 8:35:12 AM AoM: backatcha popnperish: it's people like Alice that keeps me sane :).....
» 22/01/2011 8:32:00 AM Thanks Rich2. Yeah, the energy does get sucked out by the antics of some. I don't know if .....
» 22/01/2011 7:36:45 AM SPQR Are you trying to tell me these 2 points are mutually exclusive? 1) “ The more ener.....
» 20/01/2011 9:04:56 PM Gary See my comment to Curmudgeon http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=11.....
» 20/01/2011 4:51:29 PM Cheers Bring on AR5, presumably with improved everything the Inter Academy Council sugges.....
» 20/01/2011 3:44:44 PM For others who wish to understand where Leo is coming from, the full story is here: http:.....
» 20/01/2011 1:18:04 PM Curmudgeon You go from this: << As for the IPCC forecasts, the panel most emphatic.....
» 20/01/2011 12:56:45 PM Curmudgeon The IPCC involved in a conspiracy to ‘hide’ their reports? Such a lame excuse, .....
» 20/01/2011 10:25:33 AM Agnostic of Mittagong Alice in Wonderland is following the copybook advice from her Queen.....
» 19/01/2011 5:30:59 PM Anti-green In other words, George W Bush and the Republican Party are climate change activ.....
» 19/01/2011 5:24:36 PM Curmudgeon You've demonstrated on the other thread http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/user.....
» 19/01/2011 4:47:57 PM Better still, try here: http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_and_data_re.....
» 19/01/2011 10:08:05 AM AoM nit-pic 1. "lower stratosphere" should be: lower troposphere nit-pic 2. &quo.....
» 19/01/2011 6:48:27 AM In September, BOM issued this: “The Australian rainfall outlook for the December quarter .....
» 18/01/2011 2:07:25 PM Punter57 You misread BOM - perhaps unintentionally. http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/glossar.....
» 18/01/2011 1:16:42 PM billkerr Of course we will need more energy in the future - the problem will be the way it.....
» 17/01/2011 9:47:21 PM @ Ken Fabos, Monday, 17 January 2011 4:31:05 PM Well said. billkerr Do you really unders.....
» 17/01/2011 5:47:26 PM Hey Alice You want an answer about a hypothesis expressed in terms of a Law. Yeah, right -.....
» 17/01/2011 4:48:30 PM Curmudgeon http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/sub_surf_mon.gif.....
» 17/01/2011 4:29:34 PM Curmudgeon Do you know what cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias is? Alice in wonde.....
» 16/01/2011 2:55:29 PM Hello Joe, owed you one. Hope you’ve had a chance to look around the BOM site, use some of.....
» 16/01/2011 2:51:20 PM Traditional wet season, extremely positive SOI ('big' little girl), series of low pressure.....
» 12/01/2011 10:39:25 PM 1. You have to learn to differentiate between ‘local’ and ‘regional’. 2. I did not mentio.....
» 12/01/2011 9:23:03 PM No doubt some will blame climatologists for not predicting earthquakes and volcano eruptio.....
» 12/01/2011 7:46:37 PM The blame game has started. Despicable, reprehensible ... steeping to 'sophisticated' gut.....
» 12/01/2011 6:34:10 PM Paul 1. While I did not refer to the Antarctic interior, I’m sure even engineers (civil, .....
» 12/01/2011 6:14:44 PM Hi Joe, sorry for not getting back promptly, been busy as it were. Yes, I do enjoy and ha.....
» 12/01/2011 10:44:32 AM This just lobbed into my in-box: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1et_HBmLYw A few things.....
» 11/01/2011 5:15:37 PM Jedimaster and Don Aitkin Hear, hear! Alas, I'm not optimistic......
» 11/01/2011 1:07:09 PM Joe, That's the way. Drop into our BOM site and check the reports, look at the data, or ev.....
» 11/01/2011 11:22:47 AM John Nicol, you roll with loaded dice: Australian Climate Science Coalition American Clim.....
» 10/01/2011 9:30:19 PM "AGW is just one of them, and probably the most remediable. Discuss." Would lov.....
» 10/01/2011 10:32:32 AM GrahamY ‘tars and feathers’ all climate scientists by his flippant and fallacious remark: .....
» 10/01/2011 10:08:58 AM Perhaps Peter Ridd, the Australian Environment Foundation and the Institute of Public Affa.....
» 10/01/2011 6:12:21 AM You’re right Joe, scepticism is absolutely necessary for any serious scientist. Allow me .....
» 9/01/2011 1:21:18 PM Ah yes, Paul ... which part of this http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=1.....
» 9/01/2011 11:23:39 AM Of course Joe - which part: << Moreover, not one robust counter theory exists to ex.....
» 9/01/2011 10:14:30 AM A timely reminder Rache, thanks. Another excellent source can be accessed here: http://ww.....
» 6/01/2011 10:48:11 PM Heartland and the “31,000 scientists” wail from the public gallery Kate? Very few in the .....
» 4/01/2011 3:39:58 PM "Unfortunately both religion and AGW alarmism are on the decline ..." Fortunate.....
» 4/01/2011 3:15:03 PM Just one word samurai ... bollocks......
» 4/01/2011 3:08:41 PM As a lawyer, Katy raises some very good arguments. I would take issue with her ‘summing up.....
» 3/01/2011 4:40:37 PM Saw about 60 of those things slowly turning in the distant landscape to the left of Lake G.....
» 3/01/2011 4:31:25 PM You are right John, it is not a Left/Right issue - it's a global issue......
» 3/01/2011 4:11:23 PM Thanks for the reminder Grim, about KenH "coincidentally" trolling the 'dumb-do.....
» 3/01/2011 11:54:07 AM I think you’re onto something Hasbeen – just a minor fix required. There is a difference b.....
» 2/01/2011 11:05:09 PM Wobbles, this is the inimitable John Reid: http://oceanicresources-ecor.amc.edu.au/John%2.....
» 22/12/2010 3:55:53 PM You can get the data here http://cliflo.niwa.co.nz/ Happy plotting and Happy Christmas......
» 22/12/2010 2:56:33 PM GrahamY: try here; http://www.niwa.co.nz/news-and-publications/news/all/7-station-series-.....
» 21/12/2010 10:35:52 AM A very succinct and concise summary Professor Rowan. Will it open the eyes or unplug the .....
» 16/12/2010 8:30:18 AM << a lot of people know just how power operates ... >> That may be so Chris L.....
» 15/12/2010 6:50:22 PM One last thing spindoctor: I admire the 'stand' Assange has, and is taking. I also applau.....
» 15/12/2010 5:59:19 PM You are so very very precious, spindoctor. You are sounding increasingly like a blend of O.....
» 15/12/2010 9:24:16 AM Extolling the virtues of Wikileaks in one sentence then sowing the seeds of doubt ('censor.....
» 11/12/2010 11:43:24 AM Anti-green Given your response (Friday, 1:05:40) I think you are confusing me with PeterA.....
» 10/12/2010 12:04:00 PM Leo Have you got anything substantive to say about the Science paper? http://geotest.tam.....
» 10/12/2010 11:13:00 AM Eclipse Who was your post (Friday, 10 December 2010 10:49:14 AM - following mine) directed.....
» 10/12/2010 10:35:02 AM Eclipse Don't take that coffee, you're on a high already. Can I respectfully suggest you c.....
» 10/12/2010 10:23:48 AM Well, where were we? Ahh, that's right ... Roy Spencer's negative feedback (pun not intend.....
» 8/12/2010 11:29:51 AM Very deceptive Raycom - 'mine-quoting' and 'spin-doctoring' The Royal Society - but I susp.....
» 6/12/2010 9:00:35 AM Just because some ‘eco-extremist’ in this thread going by the tag ‘579’ says 2010 was the .....
» 6/12/2010 8:54:24 AM Yeah, seen that Bazz - not bad. Was also impressed with Rutledge's work a couple of years .....
» 6/12/2010 7:23:20 AM Hasbeen You assert that “their (IPCC's) last report has been discredited by so many people.....
» 5/12/2010 10:51:06 PM Hasbeen 1st para: They are your words, not mine. You don't have to like the IPCC, but why .....
» 5/12/2010 6:38:18 PM Oh yeah, Talisman There is evidence for long term planetary cooling ... the Milankovitch c.....
» 5/12/2010 6:30:24 PM Thanks for the link Peter. Spencer should pursue his thesis though, even if in the end he .....
» 5/12/2010 1:54:44 PM Jon J Some say (me included) Roy Spencer (remember him, the subject of Brigg's article?) d.....
» 5/12/2010 1:16:07 PM Arjay: "There is an economic agenda here" - got to agree with you there (and Ott.....
» 5/12/2010 10:48:34 AM Ok spindoc, got it: 1. You don't appreciate metaphors 2. You metaphorically tell me to '.....
» 5/12/2010 8:49:43 AM Hasbeen Post-grad physics is basic enough, thanks. Seeing you suggest that there is nothin.....
» 4/12/2010 4:44:11 PM rpg: it seems you are at the other end of the spectrum to 579. When you say "it's (A.....
» 4/12/2010 12:58:18 PM 579? Pure unadulterated 'alarmism' does nothing for reasoned and rational discourse, let .....
» 3/12/2010 6:22:38 PM Thank you Belly, I do feel I'm entering a 'snake pit' despite the fact I have other things.....
» 3/12/2010 11:07:39 AM This is a very balanced book review by a professor who knows the importance of good statis.....
» 2/12/2010 11:02:34 PM Bazz, a good thread. Are you aware of the changes planned for AR5 in respect of the 'dated.....
» 2/12/2010 10:59:09 PM It seems the author is picking on one Australian state to attack a global problem - one ha.....
» 2/12/2010 10:47:50 PM 1. In Australia? Check out B0M - changing weather/rainfall patterns 2. Separate the signal.....
» 2/12/2010 9:01:20 PM Arjay, basic school physics/chemistry explains it all very well. If you add energy to a sy.....
» 2/12/2010 7:26:12 PM Ok spindoc, you think the “significant news items” are about “censorship, suppression, den.....
» 1/12/2010 10:12:31 AM Poirot, sonofgloin thinks 'it' all a hoax, a myth. You can't shed light on those that liv.....
» 30/11/2010 3:38:57 PM Spindoc I know what Maurice Newman said last March. It was well circulated in mainstream .....
» 30/11/2010 9:48:39 AM This mob http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news_archives/record_temps_2010.html is involved in th.....
» 30/11/2010 9:00:05 AM Spindoc I tried to find where Maurice Newman (ABC) said that THIS WEEK. I know he said it .....
» 29/11/2010 4:31:08 PM AGIR: Yes, and I agree with him. If it makes it easier to understand, you have to first de.....
» 28/11/2010 10:23:55 PM Oh wow! Clownfish, I think you've nailed it. I mean, really - you're telling me that some .....
» 28/11/2010 4:41:00 PM AGIR - you just blew me away, I didn't know John W Howard (former PM) was a communist! I s.....
» 28/11/2010 4:31:53 PM Yeah, perhaps Fry should have just wept for the country he represented. Your other no-bal.....
» 28/11/2010 4:14:35 PM It's a logical fallacy to say global warming is akin to a communist plot, as the author of.....
» 27/11/2010 12:29:52 PM Leo Where did I say Ian Fry has been to Tuvalu? You can cyber-bully Ian Fry all you want L.....
» 26/11/2010 4:23:28 PM Leo Lane, your rhetorical spin precedes you. Anyone else would 'fact check' before they em.....
» 24/11/2010 6:40:58 AM Tim/Tom: "Leo Lane: you are spot on. Contact me (tcurtin at bigblue.net.au) for my su.....
» 22/11/2010 8:17:20 AM Agnostic: just because Ollier (along with John Nicol, Bob Carter, David Evans, William Kin.....
» 21/11/2010 11:51:06 AM Steven, Geoff and others 'Climategate' a year on: http://climatesight.org/2010/11/17/the.....
» 20/11/2010 4:33:19 PM That's ok rpg, I tend to agree - 'deep blue' seems appropriate to the moniker. I tend to .....
» 20/11/2010 11:44:44 AM Steven, this may help put Geoff's last post in perspective. http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/.....
» 20/11/2010 11:06:45 AM Steven: your comment http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=11244#189789 So.....
» 19/11/2010 7:48:51 PM "The IPPC is a purveyor of junk science ... The members of the UNFCCC uncritically ac.....
» 19/11/2010 5:37:10 PM Anti-green, there is a difference between the United Nations Framework Convention on Clima.....
» 19/11/2010 7:52:47 AM Tim/Tom: On the contrary, I am very interested in the statistical analysis of our climate .....
» 18/11/2010 7:59:30 AM Again, clear and succinct - thanks Steven. To Don Aitkin: the Youtube link also showed a .....
» 17/11/2010 10:35:49 AM Don Aitkin says: "But none of the explanations is soundly based in data, and most dep.....
» 17/11/2010 9:43:17 AM Sarnian, I remember this: http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/environmental_law/2007/02/exxon.....
» 17/11/2010 9:28:38 AM Tom Tiddler/Tim Curtin ... ringing a bell: http://tinyurl.com/Tom-Tiddler-and-Tim-Curtin .....
» 17/11/2010 8:08:09 AM Thanks Steven for this very clear, concise and accurate article. Now, watch the jackals t.....
» 16/11/2010 7:26:53 AM Squeers: Thanks for the link to Fran Kelly's 10 minute interview with Naomi Oreski. What s.....
» 14/11/2010 7:33:26 AM George Jetson :) "If we can do it cleaner and more efficiently than is the current no.....
» 12/11/2010 7:12:04 AM One commenter said “this is an ideological/political driven agenda” - I could not agree mo.....
» 9/11/2010 6:49:41 PM Well Squeers, as for the edifying exchanges - they've evaporated. Thank you anyway :).....
» 9/11/2010 10:00:13 AM AoM: My last couple of posts went awry, the problem with trying to do too many things at o.....
» 7/11/2010 3:10:18 PM Please disregard my last 2 comments (now had a strong coffee). Best see http://en.wikiped.....
» 7/11/2010 12:16:30 PM "For example, given IPCC 'climate sensitivity' (lambda) = 3 degrees" should rea.....
» 7/11/2010 12:08:55 PM AoM I am sure Raredog understands and if I may (he will correct me if I’m wrong, I hope) .....
» 7/11/2010 11:57:01 AM No Graham. It is patently obvious that some people don’t understand the relationship betwe.....
» 5/11/2010 6:46:41 PM Squeers, tinyurl site was down, now up - try again. "Catastrophic" warming won'.....
» 5/11/2010 5:39:08 PM The link was just emailed to me. Some people with an aversion to the site won't even go th.....
» 5/11/2010 5:10:16 PM You may also find these helpful: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20101014/ http:/.....
» 5/11/2010 4:32:33 PM I should have added the “but” Raredog. The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is not .....
» 3/11/2010 2:37:38 PM Very well articulated Raredog......
» 1/11/2010 9:59:29 PM "Ergo, at relatively low [CO2] the gradient of the logarithmic function that you thin.....
» 1/11/2010 6:09:39 PM Graham, as I have said; there is much more data now than in AR4 and the computational powe.....
» 31/10/2010 5:15:49 PM Graham, on a “global” scale you may be right (for the wrong reason) that the “global” temp.....
» 30/10/2010 7:10:24 PM "So are we still on track for 2010 being the hottest year ever? Will 2011 be even hot.....
» 29/10/2010 5:41:20 PM It looks like Mark has gone missing in action. The following paper pre-empts Mark Lawson’.....
» 28/10/2010 10:14:02 AM Grants and the so called “AGW gravy train”. “Grants” typically go to universities and gov.....
» 27/10/2010 7:33:02 PM Arjay says: "According to the AGW cult (sic),we should have an expodential rise in t.....
» 27/10/2010 12:56:55 PM Mark, you may want to comment here: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=1.....
» 27/10/2010 12:51:18 PM Ok, back to the topic. Mark, I’m not sure whether your pronouncements are made with duplic.....
» 24/10/2010 12:05:08 PM Horus When I said; “The AR4 contains 4 substantial reports together with a comprehensive.....
» 23/10/2010 6:04:38 PM Live and let live? I would like to think so too, David. I may be wrong but hasn't that ide.....
» 23/10/2010 3:25:29 PM As to your link to Chris Landsea’s 2005 paper – so what? It is well known that his ‘hissy .....
» 23/10/2010 3:08:45 PM Horus, for the 1000’s of sources and the 1000’s of scientific papers assessed by the IPCC,.....
» 19/10/2010 11:04:18 PM Horus, I have read some of your OLO history – it’s not rocket science to see what you thin.....
» 19/10/2010 4:16:29 PM Er, Horus It has become something of a standard that those who DON'T believe in AGW will s.....
» 18/10/2010 5:03:40 PM Hi Horus Looked at some “Chill” reviews on Amazon (good place to buy some books now). Alas.....
» 14/10/2010 4:06:24 PM Thanks Horus, I'll read some book reviews. Your 2nd para is encouraging. I don't do the Ea.....
» 14/10/2010 9:20:40 AM Oops, "You'll also find that most scientists just do to sites like this" should .....
» 14/10/2010 9:18:17 AM Amicus, word limit - not "feral information", your term. Just trying to point ou.....
» 13/10/2010 8:46:03 PM Laurie, I was wrong - I assumed you were being accurate in interpreting the Wentz paper. Y.....
» 12/10/2010 8:02:09 PM Horus, why did you not provide a link, or citation? Or are you just trying to find somethi.....
» 12/10/2010 7:24:42 PM LaurieC, ok already, we get it - seen your comments, on numerous threads, repeating the sa.....
» 12/10/2010 6:04:53 PM Scientists debate science rpg. Insofar as 'climate science' I suspect you don't know enoug.....
» 12/10/2010 4:47:53 PM Yes rpg, a debate - on a carbon price or an ETS, on land use management/practices, on catc.....
» 12/10/2010 2:27:27 PM Mark/Curmudgeon, you're joking, right? 'Sceptics' demanded the Royal Society investigate .....
» 11/10/2010 3:37:28 PM On Line Opinion, says it all really - a very good site. I hope they sort it out. David G,.....
» 11/10/2010 3:24:16 PM Interesting Mr Pearce. What I find also interesting is what the IPCC actually says about u.....
» 11/10/2010 10:14:13 AM Btw, I did not say you were “trying to shut down debate”. But I take your point; you have .....
» 11/10/2010 10:13:13 AM Formersnag, you ask me “What part of "Global Dimming" & "Economic Terrorism.....
» 9/10/2010 2:03:47 PM I agree Ken. It is the purveyors of FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) that are not only damag.....
» 9/10/2010 9:23:44 AM Horace What Stephen Schneider had been trying to convey to ‘sceptics’ up until his recent .....

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