How true! How very true. I hope Australians wake up soon to this fake Brown for what he really stands for!!
Good piece on the back page of the Fin today along these lines.
Andrew Bolt
Monday, January 17, 2011 at 02:42pm
Greens leader Bob Brown thought it was too soon to (correctly) blame soft boat people laws for luring people to their deaths:
Andrew Bolt’s call, while bodies were still in the ocean, for Julia Gillard’s resignation ... lacked human decency. He should resign.
But Brown did not think it too soon, when the fires were still burning, to blame global warming for the deadly Black Saturday fires in Victoria last year:
Greens leader Bob Brown says bushfires like the ones raging across Victoria and New South Wales this weekend will be more frequent if climate change continues…
“Global warming is predicted to make this sort of event happen 25 per cent, 50 per cent more,” he told Sky News. “It’s a sobering reminder of the need for this nation and the whole world to act and put at a priority our need to tackle climate change.”
And he does not think it now too soon, with bodies still being recovered, to blame coal miners for the Queensland floods, either:
Senator Brown says the coal-mining industry should foot the bill for the Queensland reconstruction efforts, claiming their operations are partly responsible for the floods.
”It’s the single biggest cause, burning coal, for climate change and it must take its major share of responsibility for the weather events we are seeing unfolding now,” he said.
Bob Brown is a hypocrite as well as a fool.
(Thanks to readers Peter, Owen, Simon, Kevin, Anton, John McLean and astonished others.)
UPDATE
Four years ago, Bob Brown claimed global warming could give us a “permanent drought”:
From melting polar ice to the spectre of permanent drought in previously productive farmlands, the report makes clear that climate change is not just a future threat, it is damaging Australia now.
He was also warning of possibly no water at all in the Murray-Darling system:
Already, (Ross Garnaut’s) daunting data of a 10 per cent chance of no flow at all in the Murray–Darling river system in future years is being overtaken by data indicating that drought is the new norm across Australia’s greatest food bowl.
But when drought is replaced by floods, and rivers meant to be empty are overflowing, well, global warming caused that, too.
(Thanks to reader Simon.)
UPDATE 2
Brown rebuked:
Minerals Council of Australia deputy chief Brendan Pearson accused Senator Brown of ”rank opportunism”, unworthy of a serious political leader.
And Australian Coal Association director Ralph Hillman said domestically-mined coal made a tiny contribution to global carbon emissions.
Liberal Senator Eric Abetz said the Greens leader should apologise for his “insensitive” comments.
“Senator Brown’s comments expose the Greens and his leadership as shallow and cynical; willing to peddle political propaganda in the face of a natural disaster,” Senator Abetz said.
UPDATE 3
Tony Barry has a question:
Where’s Bob Brown? Every national leader (including Julie Bishop) has been to Brisbane and Queensland except, as best I can ascertain, Bob Brown.
UPDATE 4
Emeritus Professor Cliff Ollier, a geologist and geomorphologist, explains why Brown should be laughed out of town:
There are at least three arguments against relating the Queensland floods to Anthropogenic Global Warming.
1. Even other people in the Global Warming game realize there is no relationship between broad disasters and carbon dioxide…
2. The second problem is that this is not an isolated event. There was another flood of about the same dimensions in 1974. There was no peak of CO2 at that time. It was not an especially warm year, so Global Warming cannot be invoked (1998 was a hotter year, but no flood).
But there were even greater floods in 1841 and 1893. This is well before any possible Anthropogenic Global Warming, which began, according to its adherents, in 1945…
3. A third problem is that just a few years ago, global warming was blamed for causing droughts. This opinion was extolled during the last drought especially by Tim Flannery, another non-expert.
In 2003 Professor Karoly published, under the auspices of the World Wildlife Fund, a report that claimed that elevated air temperatures, due to CO2, exacerbated the drought.
“...the higher temperatures caused a marked increase in evaporation rates, which sped up the loss of soil moisture and the drying of vegetation and watercourses. This is the first drought in Australia where the impact of human-induced global warming can be clearly observed...”
and
“This drought has had a more severe impact than any other drought since at least 1950.... This is the first drought in Australia where the impact of human-induced global warming can be clearly observed.”
So Anthropogenic Global Warming can apparently be used to explain any current disaster. Any hypothesis (like AGW) that uses the same mechanism to explain opposite effects is untestable, and therefore not science.
What % of the vote did she receive at her fish and chip shop?Well, for a start Pauline, at the time, spoke a lot of sense of what many of people were thinking but were afraid to say..
What % of the vote did she receive at her fish and chip shop?
I thought this was a thread on climate change and those hystericals that argue for and against it. Aren't there better threads to argue the merits,evils and shortcomings of this very caring potato?Well, for a start Pauline, at the time, spoke a lot of sense of what many of people were thinking but were afraid to say. Unfortuneatly in the end it only caused her a lot of grief. Nobody could say Pauline was the fake Bob Brown has turned out to be.She was down to earth and spoke her mind.
More totalitarian politics from the Alarmists:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/17/china-style-dictatorship-of-climatologists/?page=1
read the article here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100611093710.htmMore Cold and Snowy Winters to Come in Europe, Eastern Asia and Eastern North America
ScienceDaily (June 15, 2010) ”” A warmer Arctic climate is influencing the air pressure at the North Pole and shifting wind patterns on our planet. We can expect more cold and snowy winters in Europe, eastern Asia and eastern North America.
"Cold and snowy winters will be the rule, rather than the exception," says Dr James Overland of the NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in the United States. Dr Overland is at the International Polar Year Oslo Science Conference (IPY-OSC) to chair a session on polar climate feedbacks, amplification and teleconnections, including impacts on mid-latitudes.
Loss of sea ice causes major climate change
Continued rapid loss of sea ice will be an important driver of major change in the world's climate system in the years to come.
I very much respect the fact that she received 25% of the vote in QLD.Suggest you do your own research kennas. From memory she secured some 11 seats with 25% of the vote in Queensland.
Here is an article form June 2010 forecasting that cold winters in Europe, East Asia and East US are to be the norm in the years to come due to the warming of the Arctic and reduction of sea ice extents. Whilst the weather is a surprise to some, to those that study the Arctic it was to be expected.
read the article here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100611093710.htm
Lad you fund a nut on the climate change size, Wayne. Help even up the numbers.
Here is an article form June 2010 forecasting that cold winters in Europe, East Asia and East US are to be the norm in the years to come due to the warming of the Arctic and reduction of sea ice extents. Whilst the weather is a surprise to some, to those that study the Arctic it was to be expected.
read the article here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100611093710.htm
I can't make any sense of what you are saying here. Can you rephrase please?
Quite a lot of Tasmanians worked that one out 30 years ago... Unfortunately, "quite a lot" doesn't mean "all".How true! How very true. I hope Australians wake up soon to this fake Brown for what he really stands for!!
I can't make any sense of what you are saying here. Can you rephrase please?
Calliope.
Knobby's nuts - good one!!! Like it.
The reinsurance industry has an organisation (Munich GEO risks research) that keeps tabs on worldwide natural catastrophes. If you can get today's Age or SMH you can see the graph that shows natural disasters in Australia caused by meterological events (weather), hydrological events (floods) and climatological events (heat, bushfires) has risen expontentially in Australia.
These are business people, not greens, and the facts are used by the re-insurance industry to price risk. Take a look. I wish I could publish the graph. I can tell you one thing, our insurance premiums for these factors are going up.
If anyone can get the graph and publish it, I would be very grateful.
Is this the one?If anyone can get the graph and publish it, I would be very grateful.
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