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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Dry parts of the planet to get drier, wet parts wetter

This is the story in an article in The Conversation.
The article says.
 The cycle of evaporation and rainfall over the past 50 years has intensified at twice the rate predicted by climate change models, according to a report by US and Australian scientists of ocean salt levels.

The article is linked below.
http://theconversation.edu.au/dry-parts-of-the-planet-to-get-drier-wet-parts-wetter-6700
Is this a hoax, a conspiracy, that the deniers would say from organisations like the American Heartland Institute and Australia's Galileo Movement.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

George Galloway

Here is an old YouTube video.
I have seen it before but well worth revisiting this.
Galloway has just reentered the UK after a thumping win in the Northern Area of Bradford. He defeated convincingly the Labour candidate, I think it was a safe Labour seat. 

Thursday, March 8, 2012

No warming on this planet for 15 years?

No warming for 15 years, was the rant from Andrew Bolt on his blog in the Daily Telegraph last year.
He claims that the British Met. Office latest temperatures said this.
Well I went looking on the British Met. Office and could not find it.
I sent a reply to Bolt's blog asking for a link.
I got no reply and I was not published.
Well below is what Skeptical Science has to say about this. 
Skeptical Science article.
Here is Bolt's article in the Herald Sun.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Rudd V Gillard


The way I see it is.
Labor is going to be beaten in the 2013 election, I doubt there are too many that think Labor can win.
With Gillard at the helm we will have a more stable government until 2013. With Rudd the government will be unstable because of less talent on the front bench, and possibility that the Independents may stop supporting him, which will lead to an early election.
Rudd has a much bigger chance (if there is one) of defeating Abbott in the 2013 election.
So what would you do if you were a government backbencher?
Go for Gillard and certain annihilation, possibly bigger than NSW Labor's loss last year. Or.
Go with Rudd and still have a loss or a very small outside chance of a win (maybe 100/1), but possibly lose less members at the next election.
Put yourself in the backbenchers position.
For me personally I would go for Gillard for a more stable government and wait for the Neanderthals to bash down the castle gates in 2013.
Labor needs to change and what Rudd said about the faceless men/union movement is right. They need to reinvent themselves as a new progressive left leaning Liberal party, not to be confused with the Liberal party that is a right wing conservative party and not Liberal at all. Liberals to me are progressive, Abbotts mob are not.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Worst Government in Australian History

Is the current Australian government the "Worst Government in Australian History"?
I don't know, at the moment they are close.
I hold no torch for Gillard or Rudd.
Gillard is an inept leader. Nothing that shows this up more than what is happening at the moment.
If she had leadership qualities she would sack Rudd now, she should have last week at the latest.
He has been the most destabilising influence on this government.
What is she afraid of?
A leadership spill?
Rudd will only challenge if he has the numbers.
The longer Gillard "flounces" around, the more votes in caucus that she will lose.
Admittedly she has a lot against her.
A hung parliament, that is very difficult to negotiate.
The way she came to be Prime Minister.
If Rudd gets his old job back will he be a reformed character?
Only time will tell.
He has a lot of people in Labor that are against him.
He is more popular with the electorate, and maybe will put up a better show in an election than Gillard.
But Rudd needs to form a backbone and stop his overbearing, bullying behavior.
Unfortunately, the opposition, under Abbott, will be inept as well.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Climate Change Hoax? (Think tank’s talking points deepen the divide over climate change).

The quote below is from "The Conversation".
The Conversation is an independent source of information, analysis and commentary from the university and research sector — written by acknowledged experts and delivered directly to the public.
The article is written by Elaine McKewon.
Elaine McKewon is a third-year journalism PhD student at the University of Technology 
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they’ve been in. —– Dennis Potter
Readers following the Australian news media’s coverage of climate change will probably have detected the conspiracy theories designed to discredit climate science and climate scientists.
These conspiracy theories label the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming “a hoax”, “a religion” or a “scare tactic” concocted to justify higher taxes and arbitrary, draconian restrictions on the personal freedoms of “helpless” and “disenfranchised” citizens.
Purveyors of this alternative reality tell us the entire global community of climate scientists has fabricated or exaggerated the threat of climate change to secure further funding for their research. This has been aided and abetted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a “political” organisation bent on fomenting a global warming crisis in order to install a left-wing totalitarian world government.
Read the full article at The Conversation.

Monday, February 6, 2012

Climate Gate

Those hacked British emails that allegedly shows a climate conspiracy by scientists.
See these videos.

Are they Global Warming Hoaxers

Are these people, scientists on this video all part of a hoax a conspiracy to pull the wool over our eyes about global warming. For what??  Have their grants continue? What else.
Do you believe the climate deniers?