wayneL
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So the climate Jihadists are quite ok with the concept of physical violence or gaoling of those they consider "denialists" (who are really just critical thinkers mostly)? Films of children being blown up for doubting, plus innumerable examples of climate totalitarian fantasies?
Yet feign outrage when their Jihad results in a real world depression and suicide.
What a revolting double standard. You guys make me feel physically ill!
So the climate Jihadists are quite ok with the concept of physical violence or gaoling of those they consider "denialists" (who are really just critical thinkers mostly)? Films of children being blown up for doubting, plus innumerable examples of climate totalitarian fantasies?
that there is nothing serious to worry about with global warming and anyone who says otherwise is some unspeakable hysteric who is worrying our children into an early grave.
35 deg in Melb today. Just saying. Early October.
You may have noticed basilio there is more research about than Exxon's.
Forget the research, just look out your window.
It got to 40 in Western Sydney today according to a contact.
All time record for October in Tas today. 33.6 was the top for the state whilst Hobart reached 32.7
A strong El Nino combined with a positive IOD (Indian Ocean Dipole) has effectively brought an early start to Summer for much of SE Australia. Looking ahead, the most likely outcome is below average rainfall.
Also notable today was the incredibly low humidity. Was down as low as 8% in the Hobart city area and 6% at the airport for a while today. Figures like that aren't normal when you're on an island surrounded by water. Much the same in Victoria too. There's basically no moisture, and a lot of heat, over much of inland Australia recently and with a northerly wind that has ended up in most of Vic and Tas.
From a political perspective a warm day in October in Tas won't really change anything. But if we were to break the all time Summer record for Melbourne or Adelaide, which would require temperatures in the high 40's, then that would influence public debate on the climate issue I'd expect. Once you get to that sort of extreme then bad things start to happen - people die, infrastructure doesn't work, fires are uncontrollable, etc.
I think they are now classifying El Nino with descriptives, such as "mega", "supa dupa", etc to give the impression of aberrant cycles.
This years is the "Godzilla" El Nino and expected to wipe out farmers and turn the grassland into deserts...... I understand it was caused by Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard and the Unions and would have been worse if we hadn't turned back the boats
Where is this hysteria coming from Wayne ? I restarted this discussion with a long post about the Exxon climate scientists who made huge contributions to the understanding of global warming in the early 80's. In fact a number of people at Exxon saw the opportunity for their company to become a world leader in the changes necessary to reduce CO2 emissions which they they could forsee creating big problems.
This was research and science by Big Oil Wayne. Not your leftie/commo/fabian rest of world scientistsrolleyes The really interesting part of course was that the Exxon Board finally decided in the 1990's that their business model was based on oil not renewables
So they made the decision to deny the research they had at their fingertips and embark on an extensive campaign to create doubt about everything to do with global warming.
Yes I think they should go to jail for their actions. In my view it is similar to the Tobacco executives saying tobacco didn't cause cancer or was addictive when their own research explicitly said it did.
Obviously of course in the word of real American politics rich white company men don't go to jail simply for lying about the safety of their products.
But you havn't made a single observation about the global warming research undertaken by the Exxon scientists Wayne.
Not a peep. The fact is you simply arn't interested in anything that challenges your totally focused view
Bit of a red herring by the ole Wayne but so what. Would like to change subject.
This is the woman (Eugenie) who made the film, along with some of her history.
She looks a bit nasty to me. I don't know how she managed to get it posted, even for a few hours. Nasty group.
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http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/dec/31/eugenie-harvey-10-10
Today I learnt that a bright, kind, lively young woman of 23, who worked at the high care nursing home where my mother lives, killed herself last Friday. There isn't a soul at the home who didn't like her; I'm only one of the relatives who respected her thoughtfulness and enjoyed her conversation. The staff are devastated, at least partly because, in spite of the training many of them have done, nobody picked up on how she must have been feeling.
I don't know what her reasons were or if global warming was any part of them. I find it hard to even try to think about reasons for the deaths of people so young and with so much potential. It's terrible that these are only two of hundreds of young people, each with reasons that must have seemed strong to them.
Wayne, you didn't say how long or how well you've known your client's daughter. Given your profession, I can imagine that she was a horse-loving kid and you watched her through pony club. As a former live-in nanny and now a "BackUp Grandparent" I know very well you don't have to be family to find that a child has a hold on your heart. I'm deeply sad for you and the pain you're feeling.
You'll know there's a "but", and here it is. Global warming is a real problem that threatens the future of the children we love. The principal cause of 20th and 21st century global warming is humans releasing fossil carbon from under the ground into the air and oceans. The way to help kids deal with the problem is to work with them on fixing it: end the burning of fossil fuels, re-invent agriculture, re-imagine cities... give them confidence to face grim realities and change them.
Again Wayne, I'm deeply sorry for that poor little girl, her family, and you.
Best wishes,
Ghoti
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