Which .... etc etc
Ghoti
There are effects and effects. I think all Kiwis must be affected, and a great many Australians; Gillard got one thing right when she said that New Zealand is family.Hey Ghoti
Don't go thinking I've piked on our debate here. It's just I don't really feel much like arguing about CC for a while after what has happened over here.
Though not personally affected, many of my clients and friends have been.
I'll get back to it in due course.
What's this current vogue of addressing people as 'Bro"? All the years I lived in NZ I never once heard it. Mentioned it to a Christchurch relative yesterday. Neither have they, so it's not something that has evolved in my absence.Hang in there Bro.
Ghoti
What's this current vogue of addressing people as 'Bro"? All the years I lived in NZ I never once heard it. Mentioned it to a Christchurch relative yesterday. Neither have they, so it's not something that has evolved in my absence.
What's this current vogue of addressing people as 'Bro"?
Can a group of scientists in California end the war on climate change?
The Berkeley Earth project say they are about to reveal the definitive truth about global warming
For the past year, Muller has kept a low profile, working quietly on a new project with a team of academics hand-picked for their skills. They meet on campus regularly, to check progress, thrash out problems and hunt for oversights that might undermine their work. And for good reason. When Muller and his team go public with their findings in a few weeks, they will be muscling in on the ugliest and most hard-fought debate of modern times.
Muller calls his latest obsession the Berkeley Earth project. The aim is so simple that the complexity and magnitude of the undertaking is easy to miss. Starting from scratch, with new computer tools and more data than has ever been used, they will arrive at an independent assessment of global warming. The team will also make every piece of data it uses – 1.6bn data points – freely available on a website. It will post its workings alongside, including full information on how more than 100 years of data from thousands of instruments around the world are stitched together to give a historic record of the planet's temperature.
Muller is fed up with the politicised row that all too often engulfs climate science. By laying all its data and workings out in the open, where they can be checked and challenged by anyone, the Berkeley team hopes to achieve something remarkable: a broader consensus on global warming. In no other field would Muller's dream seem so ambitious, or perhaps, so naive.
"We are bringing the spirit of science back to a subject that has become too argumentative and too contentious," Muller says, over a cup of tea. "We are an independent, non-political, non-partisan group. We will gather the data, do the analysis, present the results and make all of it available. There will be no spin, whatever we find." Why does Muller feel compelled to shake up the world of climate change? "We are doing this because it is the most important project in the world today. Nothing else comes close," he says.
...For the time being, Muller's project is organised under the auspices of Novim, a Santa Barbara-based non-profit organisation that uses science to find answers to the most pressing issues facing society and to publish them "without advocacy or agenda". Funding has come from a variety of places, including the Fund for Innovative Climate and Energy Research (funded by Bill Gates), and the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley Lab. One donor has had some climate bloggers up in arms: the man behind the Charles G Koch Charitable Foundation owns, with his brother David, Koch Industries, a company Greenpeace called a "kingpin of climate science denial". On this point, Muller says the project has taken money from right and left alike.
What's this current vogue of addressing people as 'Bro"? All the years I lived in NZ I never once heard it.
So what's that about? I know you're American and have only lived in NZ for about a minute and a half, but why is it apparently fashionable for low status white Kiwis to attempt to adopt what they think is the Maori vernacular?Very prevalent amongst young whitefella of low socio-economic strata and particularly Maori.
Anyone else see the irony in this? Or is it just my cynical brain working overtime again?
Why don't we see talk on the heating of the rest of the planets in the solar system?
Each of the following ten numbered statements reproduces verbatim, or almost verbatim, statements made recently by Australian government leaders, and repeated by their media and other supporters. The persons making these arguments might be termed (kindly) climate-concerned citizens or (less kindly, but accurately) as global warming alarmists.
Despairing of ever hearing sense from such people, some of whom have already attributed the cause of the devastating Japanese earthquake to global warming, a writer from the well regarded American Thinker has badged them as “idiot global warming fanatics”.
Be that as it may, most of the statements below, self-evidently, were crafted as slogans, and all conform with the obnoxious and dishonest practice of political spin – in which, of course, the citizens of Australia have been awash for many years. The statements also depend heavily upon corrupt wordsmithing with propaganda intent, a technique that international Green lobbyists are both brilliant at and relentless in practising.
The ten statements below comprise the main arguments that are made in public in justification for the government’s intended new tax on carbon dioxide. Individually and severally these arguments are without merit. That they are intellectually pathetic too is apparent from my brief commentary on each.
It is a blight on Australian society that an incumbent government, and the great majority of media reporters and commentators, continue to propagate these scientific and social inanities.......
Because it is not politically correct mate, good point.
I have noted Mercury increase in temperature of late, although my thermometer is half assed, and may be influenced by Uranus.
gg
Found this;
Global warming: 10 little facts
http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2011/03/bob-carter
Control the language, and you control the outcome of any debate
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Ten dishonest slogans about global warming, and ten little facts.
More on the link above.
Found this;
Global warming: 10 little facts
http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2011/03/bob-carter
Control the language, and you control the outcome of any debate
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Ten dishonest slogans about global warming, and ten little facts.
More on the link above.
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