Well I apologize for not sitting in front of a computer twelve hours a day, fretting about an imaginary Armageddon, jousting with obnoxious leftist evangelical alarmists.
To save waiting for me, just read outside of where you know you'll feed your raging confirmation bias. Answers are there for the open minded
Climate Sceptic Professor Sacked From Australian University Was Banned By National Science Foundation For "Deceptive Conduct"
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A CLIMATE sceptic professor fired from his Australian university for alleged policy breaches had previously been banned for three years from accessing US taxpayer-funded science research money.
Dr Murry Salby, sacked in May by Macquarie University in Sydney, was the subject of a long investigation by the US National Science Foundation.
The investigation (pdf), which was finished in February 2009, concluded that over a period when Dr Salby was working at the University of Colorado, he had likely fabricated time sheets in relation to research paid for through NSF money.
We conclude that the Subject (Dr Salby) has engaged in a long-running course of deceptive conduct involving both his University and NSF. His conduct reflects a consistent willingness to violate rules and regulations, whether federal or local, for his personal benefit. This supports a finding that the Subject is not presently responsible, and we recommend that he be debarred for five years.
The NSF subsequently decided to only “debar” Dr Salby for three years, preventing him from accessing any NSF research grants or being involved in work related to them. The investigation was carried out by NSF’s Office of Inspector General - an arms-length organisation providing oversight to the NS
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feed your raging confirmation bias. Answers are there for the open minded
Patrick Michaels: Cato's Climate Expert Has History Of Getting It Wrong
Research July 10, 2013 9:57 AM EDT ӼӼӼ SHAUNA THEEL
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A review of claims made by the Cato Institute's Patrick Michaels over the last quarter century shows that he has repeatedly been proven wrong over time. Michaels is one of a few contrarian climate scientists who is often featured in the media without disclosure of his funding from the fossil fuel industry.
http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/07/10/patrick-michaels-catos-climate-expert-has-histo/194800
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As to your hours online 'blathering', check your post rate to mine 'cooky boy'. Maybe One of us needs to get a life.
Certainly worth reading the Crikey report with regard to Salbys claims. Apparently he was behind a story produced in The Australian which attempted to debunk the Angry Hot summer story which highlighted the temperature extremes in Australia over 2012-2013.
Salby had previously been banned for three years from accessing US taxpayer-funded science research money after the National Science Foundation (NSF) found that Salby's "actions over a period of years displays a pattern of deception, a lack of integrity, and a persistent and intentional disregard of NSF and University rules and policies."
The NSF report found that Salby had funneled himself hundreds of thousands of dollars in government grant money through a for-profit company he created, of which he was the sole employee. To justify his salary payments to the NSF, Salby claimed to be working for this company for an average of 14 hours per day for 98 consecutive days, which aside from being entirely implausible, would also have left him no time to fulfill his university obligations. The NSF concluded that Salby's behavior was likely fraudulent, but by the time the report was completed, Salby had resigned from the University of Colorado and moved to his job at Australia's Macquarie University.
It takes a special kind of incompetence to create the developed world’s highest power prices in a land blessed with so much cheap coal:
US giant Peabody Energy has slashed another 170 positions from its Queensland and NSW coal operations, weeks after it cut 450 employees
The latest job cuts in the sector, which has been suffering from low commodity prices and high costs, takes the total positions lost from the industry over the past year to more than 11,000…
Peabody chairman and chief executive Greg Boyce ... said Australia now had the most expensive power in the developed world, while cost pressures, eroding productivity and a maze of project approval requirements had plagued new coal projects.
willful ignorance, unfortunate ignorance and blind self interest.
This is what the lunatic left greenies have saddled us with...AND FOR WHAT???
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/
In February 2010, Peabody Energy Corp. filed an inch-thick critical response to a U.S. EPA finding that power plant emissions tied to global warming endangered human health.
The St. Louis-based coal company laid out its arguments against global warming and the need to regulate emissions through a recounting of what climate skeptics were calling "Climategate." The short-lived scandal broke in 2009 when published emails among scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit opened the door for interest groups to pounce on the science supporting climate change.
In its regulatory filing, the nation's largest coal producer cast a wide net and pulled no punches. Peabody accused top scientists of manipulating data, and it sought to cast doubt on findings by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. By then, the U.N.-led body of science analysts had concluded that industrial greenhouse gases were amassing in the atmosphere and causing potentially irreversible damage.
Peabody argued, in contrast, that burning fossil fuels was good for the environment and for human health.
"Because GHG emissions, particularly carbon dioxide emissions, are so closely tied with all facets of modern life, a finding that GHG emissions endanger public health and welfare is akin to saying that modern life endangers public health or welfare," Peabody said in its petition to EPA. "But plainly just the opposite is the case."
Peabody continued: "Indeed, the obvious benefits of combusting fossil fuels present a paradox to EPA in making its Endangerment Finding: as the world has combusted more and more fossil fuel and therefore has emitted more and more GHGs, virtually every measurement of public health and welfare has improved."
Investors at the time embraced the spirited rebellion against the nation's environmental regulator. And it appeared to matter little that Peabody's strategy in Washington put it at odds with a broad scientific consensus
Sdyboy you really wouldn't want to to us "facts" or "logic" in this conversation. They left years ago.
I hear ya. I just can't let something so blatantly incorrect stand.
If we don't challenge it and show it to be the false propaganda it is, then it unfortunately becomes accepted as fact which does no one any good.
My hope is if people see certain people are factually wrong with their claims most of the time, they'll start to ignore what they say.
What, you mean a bit like your statement that the poor soil up North was the reason we couldn't grow crops.lol
Mate you are so full of it, mini me Rudd, that's what you would be.
I hear ya. I just can't let something so blatantly incorrect stand.
If we don't challenge it and show it to be the false propaganda it is, then it unfortunately becomes accepted as fact which does no one any good.
My hope is if people see certain people are factually wrong with their claims most of the time, they'll start to ignore what they say.
What, you mean a bit like your statement that the poor soil up North was the reason we couldn't grow crops.lol
Mate you are so full of it, mini me Rudd, that's what you would be.
So we have X milions of hectares up north that Tony wants to develop
How does one go about narrowing down where to focus their efforts
Oh um, lets see:
How much water can we reliably use without degrading the environment would be a good start.
Then in those areas we have water we can focus on the soil quality. If you'd ready any of the reports I provided links to you, you would see they all mention POOR soil quality as a major issue.
My main argument is so far Abbotts hasn't show he's interested in a scientific analysis of what can be done up north, and most of the reports I've read, indicate that firstly water will be the main issue, after which poor soil quality will be another major inhibiting factor.
Throw in pests and wild life feeding on a lot of the crops that have previously trialled up north, and I don't see it likely we can double food production by going north. Abbott hasn't mention if he will allow GM crops, which is the only way I can see us overcoming water, poor soil, pests as an issue. Once you move in land, the issues of transportation costs become relevant issue as well.
Peabody CEO says 'policies such as the carbon tax and renewable energy target had hurt the sector and called for whoever (sic) won the federal election to repeal the carbon tax and streamline the project permitting system'.All this story says is that the price of coal has fallen making the mines unprofitable to Peabody. End of story.
I don't know about the rest of Australia, but regional Qld electricity suppliers are all owned by the government, so no way of blaming privatisation here.So its the greenies fault that gold plating occurred!
Who publishes this rubbish?
It has been caused by failed privatisation and regulation. Didn't anyone read the articles?
The regulators have been gamed by the companies.
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