Just don't tell me the debate's over…
Two weeks ago we asked:
How should the Opposition respond to the ETS?
And the votes are pretty clear. Out of 151 votes, the results are:
Let’s just hope a few Opposition staffers read this blog!
Krudd likes to portray himself as a tech-savvy, switched-on kinda guy, uploading nauseating vids to YouTube, posting inane comments on Twitter etc. But in reality, I reckon a team of flunkies does it, and pretty carelessly at that. It looks like he’s been caught out randomly following Twitterers for reasons known only to himself, and in particular, the town of Mablethorpe in the UK:
When this quiet town on the Lincolnshire coast set up its own Twitter page recently one of the first followers to sign up was the Australian Prime Minister.
Kevin Rudd has no known connections with Mablethorpe. As far as The Times can establish, he has never been there and his own tweets are more likely to be about climate change or the Brisbane Lions than the delights of the Golden Sands Holiday Park.
However, when the mymablethorpe.com website set up a Twitter account KevinRuddPM signed up as a follower within two days. He was the third person to follow MyMablethorpe and, to date, remains one of just 27 followers.
Chris Flanagan, who set up the page, said: “At first I thought it had to be some sort of joke – there are a lot of Twitter accounts which purport to be celebrities.” A few days later Mr Flanagan looked into it more closely and discovered that KevinRuddPM was indeed the Twitter account of Kevin Rudd, PM.
So come on then, Kev. Why are you following Mablethorpe in the UK? Planning a holiday? Or was it just one of thousands of followers you’ve randomly added just to boost numbers to make it look like your an “in touch guy”? We’d really like to know (although by the time he gets asked about it, another of his flunkies will have fed him the line to spin…).
Caught out, I think.
Read it here.
If you haven’t voted yet, you only have a few hours left to do so!
What is it with the Left and climate alarmism? What is it with the Left and personal attacks? As soon as Senator Steve Fielding’s slip hit the airwaves, I suppose we should have known that there would be all kinds of smears, and we weren’t wrong. But one of the lowest has to be this letter, published in The Australian. All I can say is that it reflects far worse on the writer than Fielding:
I respect Senator Fielding’s courageous admission that he suffers from a learning disability. Perhaps other climate change sceptics may want to follow suit?
Luke Slawomirski
Highgate, WA
I guess petulant ad hominems such as that are par for the course from alarmists – especially when they have run out of cogent arguments against the sceptics.
At least Miranda Devine stands up for Fielding against the bullies.
Read it here.
More of the same, from our barking mad cousins in the EU. If you want to see what Australia will be like in 5 years under Krudd & Co, just look at the UK under Gordon Brown (and weep):
A group of European foreign ministers will meet on Thursday in Copenhagen in a bid to speed up negotiations ahead of a crucial UN climate change summit in December, the Danish government said on Tuesday.
Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller invited British counterpart David Miliband, Bernard Kouchner of France, Carl Bildt of Sweden and Alexander Stubb of Finland to send the world a “clear signal” of their commitment against global warming, Moeller’s office said in a statement.
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“We must deploy all our strength in the battle to obtain a climate agreement,” Moeller said in the statement.
Yawn. Next.
Read it here.
Indoctrination Alert, as the Natural History Museum in London appears to be the latest in the long line of museums to fall into the alarmist camp, like the Australian Museum here, opening a new 8-storey extension, the Darwin Centre:
The £78 million ($148.83 million) building houses 17 million insect specimens and three million plant specimens as well as a Climate Change Wall of screens showing the impact of global warming.
Sharon Ament, director of public engagement at the museum, said the Darwin Centre “will really show our visitors why and how our scientists tackle some of the most pressing issues we face today – from the spread of disease to the impact of climate change on the planet’s wildlife“.
Here are a few choice quotes from the museum’s web site. Firstly, about the new Climate Change Wall:
The 12m-wide interactive wall of screens show 100s of images and films about the beauty and diversity of the natural world.
As you approach or move past the wall, it responds to your presence with a dramatic transformation of colour, light and sound.
Watch the colours and images change to show the consequences of human impact on our climate. See ice melt, vegetation thrive, oceans surge, then land dry out, forests flame red, and animals disappear. (source)
And on their Climate Change pages:
The climate has changed continually throughout Earth’s history because of natural causes. But today’s climate change is different – it is caused by humans.
Find out how scientists first discovered that human activity was causing global warming, what consequences they think this will have over the next century, and what the international community is doing to limit the damage. (source)
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Today, the levels of carbon dioxide produced by human activities have upset the Earth’s climatic balance.Many of our activities release carbon dioxide. When we burn fossil fuels, we release this greenhouse gas. When we cut down forests, we remove the trees that once soaked up carbon dioxide during photosynthesis. (source)
There is clearly no doubt in the museum’s curators’ minds: global warming is caused by humans, full stop. I don’t know about you, but this kind of bias makes me furious. Science is supposed to be apolitical, but here is one of the most (formerly) respected museums falling hook, line and sinker for the alarmist AGW agenda, and indoctrinating countless children to close their minds, parrot “the science is settled” and that we need to “tackle climate change”, and never investigate the real, and far more complex, debate. There really is little hope.
Read it here.
Not for those with weak stomachs, Krudd spouts all the usual nonsense about “tackling climate change”, including putting way too much faith in solar, wind and geothermal, and witters on about the two errors in four words “carbon pollution reduction scheme”. Just in case I haven’t made this clear before, IT ISN’T CARBON and IT ISN’T POLLUTION. But hey, just details, right? It’s nauseating.
Watch it here (sick bags at the ready)
P.S. Post lots of negative comments, but don’t expect any of them to be published – they’re all censored… Here’s mine, for what it’s worth (note “Pending Approval” – ha ha):
Climate madness from the Greens in NSW [Sorry, did you expect something different? This is the Greens we’re talking about – Ed], who are always good for a laugh, as they urge the scrapping of new coal fired power stations until carbon capture technology is available:
Greens’ MP John Kaye says plans for future coal-fired plants should be abandoned.
“The Rees Government’s pushing ahead with the myth of carbon capture and storage to try and disguise the fact that their coal-fired power station building program will push up the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by a massive 57 per cent,” he said.
“The only way they can justify that is by saying that some day soon they will be able to bury the carbon from those power stations.”
Scrapping new coal fired power stations, required to service economic growth and maintain standards of living, when there ain’t any alternative is pure barking madness. Furthermore, the Greens would never, ever concede that their hippyish 1970s bumper-sticker opposition to nuclear power might be contributing to rising emissions from coal.
Unfortunately, however, in Greens MPs’ brains, the lights went out long ago, much as they will in NSW…
Read it here.
From the UK Daily Mail (via The Australian):
A weird and irrational cult has us in its grip. If the Mormons or the Moonies started taking over the BBC and the Government, which then harangued and persecuted us into wearing funny underwear or getting married in mass ceremonies, we would – I hope – rise in revolt.
But the ‘Man-made Climate Change’ fanatics are applauded and praised, even as they force us to abandon perfectly sensible electric lights, and instead subject ourselves to strange, flickering substitutes, simultaneously worse and more costly than the ones they replace.
There is worse to come. The same people wish to compel us to rely for our power on windmills, million upon million of them, as if we had never discovered more efficient and reliable ways of generating electricity.
And they are succeeding. Few areas in Britain are now unthreatened by deranged projects to install intrusive, gigantic wind-farms on prominent sites.
This must be one of the first instances of a civilisation voluntarily and consciously going backwards. We might as well rely for our economic and industrial future on tens of millions of hamsters pattering frantically round treadmills. Hamsters only do this by night. Windmills only make electricity when it is windy. See the problem?
Read it here.
And also via The Australian, British Green Party leader Caroline Lucas spells out the real agenda at the party conference on Friday:
A transition to a post carbon world is about jobs, it’s about a more equal society and it’s about a way of life with a potential to be far more fulfilling than the turbo-charged consumerism that is being pedaled by the other politicians today.
Nothing to do with saving the planet, and all to do with socialism. But you knew that already, didn’t you?
Read it here.
Unlike the previous government, which was marginally more sceptical of the AGW hype, the incoming one appears to have fallen for the whole thing, and is advocating huge cuts in emissions by 2020.
Japan’s next prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, yesterday vowed that his incoming centre-left government would pursue a greenhouse gas reduction target of 25 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020. [Note that they are using 1990 as a baseline, meaning the 25% reduction is far more than that when compared to 2000 levels – Ed]
The new target is far more ambitious than the 8 per cent reduction advocated by the outgoing conservative government of Prime Minister Taro Aso, which lost parliamentary elections last week.
“As a mid-term goal, we aim at a 25 per cent reduction by 2020 from 1990, based on the levels demanded by science to stop global warming,” said Mr Hatoyama, who is scheduled to take over as prime minister on September 16.
“Our nation will strongly call on major countries around the world to set aggressive goals,” said Mr Hatoyama, 62, who last week suggested Japan would seek a greater voice in international diplomacy.
What is it with the Left and climate alarmism? Is it because the Left loves taxing and regulating people out of existence and AGW is the best way to achieve that goal by the back door? You decide. All I know is that China must be rubbing its hands with glee, as yet more of Japan’s already depleted electronics industry will be heading their way in the near future…
Read it here.
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