Fox News on global warming
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009
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Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Climate Poetry
After all, what else could inspire someone to turn one's hand to poetry?
Here's Al's climate poem:
One thin September soonOh, bravo! Bravo! The talent! The wonder! Magnificent!
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sun
Vapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea
Neptune’s bones dissolve
Snow glides from the mountain
Ice fathers floods for a season
A hard rain comes quickly
Then dirt is parched
Kindling is placed in the forest
For the lightning’s celebration
Unknown creatures
Take their leave, unmourned
Horsemen ready their stirrups
Passion seeks heroes and friends
The bell of the city
On the hill is rung
The shepherd cries
The hour of choosing has arrived
Here are your tools
Can you imagine the screeching scorn from the cultural elites if George W Bush had written such drivel?
I think that The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy needs to be updated.
I might have a crack at some climate poetry, too...
Tracking brave soulsHow'd I go?
Data inconvenient
An abacus to use
Water ebbing up and
Down across endless
Stools in the night
Belching cars go
By jingo I say
These graphs are not
Round and round they
Go to the dogs
Stars shine down dimly
Half a degree
One degree
Two degrees upward
All in the Valley of Death
Predicted the Six Hundred
Climate Models
I can no longer continue
A crisis befalls us
Not of climate but of poetry.
Al Gore, as they say in The Simpsons, eat my shorts...
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Friday, 4 December 2009
These people are crazy
Warmer ocean temperatures caused by global warming could cause sharks and other fish to become more aggressive, according to a new Australian study.How could this test be carried out in anything that remotely resembles reality?
Research conducted by the University of New South Wales found that a slight lift in water temperatures — just two or three degrees — can cause some fish to become up to 30 times more aggressive than they normally would be.
The studies were conducted on young damsel fish, but head researcher Dr Peter Biro told ninemsn "he would be surprised" if sharks did not also undergo a similar transformation in warm water.
"I would imagine it ought to affect sharks ... We think it is linked to the metabolism of the fishes — it increases their need to feed," Dr Biro said.
The research involved putting the damsel fish in varying temperatures of water and placing other fish behind glass to see how they reacted.
Dr Biro said it was "obvious" the warmer water had an effect.
"Some fish would literally charge at the glass," he said.
"I'm quite confident that if the glass was not there they would have torn the other fish to shreds."
He predicted the increased aggression caused by climate change would cause some fish populations to dwindle, but it would eventually correct itself.
"I think in the short term we might see some effects," he said.
"But I think the animals will adapt, they won't all kill each other."
The test also exposed previously unknown behavioural traits that exist among the damsel fish species.
While some fish showed extreme aggressive reaction to the warm water, others did not react at all.
The majority of the fish tested appeared to be at least twice as aggressive in the warm water.
In the event that the oceans do heat up by 2-3C, which they show no signs of doing, then it'll take decades or, more likely, at least a century, as there's an enormous amount of heat required to do that.
So how did they undertake this test? Heat water up slowly over a week or two? No wonder the fish become pissed off - they're too bloody hot.
And what did they conduct this test on? A damsel fish.
This is a damsel fish:
Apparently, after testing on this little feller they expect sharks to get just as grumpy.
I dare them to try it on sharks.
Here's another point.
Sharks move around between colder and warmer oceans but it doesn't seem to matter what temperature ocean they're in to munch up the ocassional human...
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Thursday, 3 December 2009
Collapse of standards - Example 54390442
First, thanks to Tiger Woods:
What's in a word?What has happened to the standard of education when people don't know what trangression means?
Well, for Internet searchers, many aren't quite sure.
When Tiger Woods apologized today for "transgressions" after Us Weekly posted a voice mail of the world's No. 1 golfer talking to an alleged mistress, confused readers flooded Google with searches of the 14-letter word in search for clarity.
Google Trends, which lists in real-time the fastest rising searches on Google, lists "transgressions" as No. 1.
The search engine gave the query its highest ranking: volcanic.
To help you out, I've reached over to the Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary on my desk for the definition:
• an act, process, or instance of transgressing: as a: infringement or violation of law, command, or duty b: the spread of the sea over land areas and the consequent uncomfortable deposit of sediments on older rocks
(We're pretty sure he meant the first part.)
I've mentioned my 20 x 20 question before (ask your teenager what 20 times 20 is; 90% won't say 400) and this is another example of not teaching the basics.
The next example comes from the world of cricket. Apparently, retired English captain Michael Vaughan has taken up art.
First it was tennis legend Martina Navratilova, and now former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan is using his sporting skills to produce art.Check out the so-called 'art'...
Vaughan, who led England to Ashes glory in 2005, has created a series of paintings by throwing paint-spattered cricket balls at canvasses, in a technique dubbed artballing.
The works -- with titles such as "Six!" and "Power Play" -- went on display Wednesday night at a gallery in London's upmarket department store Harrods.
"With my art it's been good to get away from cricket and switch off those thought processes required to captain at the highest level, the day-in day-out questioning of yourself and the team - the art is quite therapeutic," he said.
Vaughan, 35, who retired from professional cricket in June, admitted he first became interested in art when teammate Ashley Giles took him to trendy London galleries during rain-delayed Test matches.
"I tell people what I'm doing and they raise an eyebrow and say 'Oh, really?'. But then they see the finished works and it really takes them aback, which is great," the former batsman said.
A work entitled "183" commemorates his Ashes Test innings in Sydney in 2003, with a maroon ball spot for every single he scored, a red spot for every two, a pink spot for his fours and a solitary green spot for his only six.
Navratilova held an exhibition at Roland-Garros, home of the French Open Grand Slam tournament, in 2007 of her works produced by hitting balls soaked in paint against canvases, and bouncing them on canvases on the ground.
All that's missing is a government grant.
When bouncing painted balls against a canvas counts as art then there's nothing that doesn't.
In the bottom left (Vaughan's right) you can see that he signed the 'art', as well. Is he beyond embarrassment?
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Wednesday, 2 December 2009
Do Labor understand the danger Tony Abbott poses?
In his first speech as leader he attacked the ETS as just another great, big, Labor tax and quite rightly compared the government's reckless spending to that of Whitlam.
Opinion polls are published regularly showing that people are 'concerned' about climate change (in the same way that the Secretary-General du jour of the UN is 'concerned' about Iran building a nuclear weapon or genocide in Darfur) and that they want something done about it.
The left uses these polls as evidence that Australians want something done and they want it done now.
What are not published are any of the polls showing that climate change doesn't rate in the top half dozen things that voters are concerned about, which show that the economy and jobs are, unsurprisingly, at the top.
Tony Abbott can't win the next election, but he can make big inroads into the government's majority by focusing on jobs.
If I was him I'd be banging on at every opportunity that "The Liberal Party is the party of jobs and we are not going to sacrifice even one Australian job to implement a great, Green tax that will achieve nothing without the world's major emitters acting first."
Focus on jobs. Focus on the cost to families.
If he calls the ETS a "great, Green tax that will achieve nothing" then he might even take out a few Greenies along the way, which would be the greatest public service of all.
Labor, and its media acolytes, think that Tony Abbott is easy meat, that he can be made fun of for his Christian beliefs and history as a political strongman.
I think that they will be given a rude wake up call over the next few months as the Coalition finally gets its act together and forms a coherent policy narrative that the Australian people can support.
Andrew Bolt highlights a line from the Sydney Morning Herald as summing up the policy line that will be run:
TONY Abbott will steer the Liberal Party back to its conservative roots with a 2010 election campaign portraying Kevin Rudd as a Whitlamesque big spender whose climate change policies will smash Australian jobs.Can you imagine Malcolm Turnbull coming up with such a simple strategy?
People can both understand it and relate to it.
I might send Tony Abbott a copy of Frank Luntz's Words That Work:It's not what you say it's what they hear to help him keep on message.
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Sunday, 29 November 2009
If the Liberal Party votes for an ETS then they lose my vote forever
What does the Liberal Party stand for?Surely, anyone who believes in the scientific fabrication called climate change or global warming or whatever the heck it's called these days and supports an economy deadening tax cannot be a Liberal?
We are the party of initiative and enterprise;
We believe in the inalienable rights and freedoms of all peoples; and we work towards a lean government that minimises interference in our daily lives; and maximises individual and private sector initiative.
We believe in government that nurtures and encourages its citizens through incentive, rather than putting limits on people through the punishing disincentives of burdensome taxes and the stifling structures of Labor's corporate state and bureaucratic red tape.
We believe in those most basic freedoms of parliamentary democracy - the freedom of thought, worship, speech and association.
We believe in a just and humane society in which the importance of the family and the role of law and justice is maintained.
We believe in equal opportunity for all Australians; and the encouragement and facilitation of wealth so that all may enjoy the highest possible standards of living, health, education and social justice.
We believe that, wherever possible, government should not compete with an efficient private sector; and that businesses and individuals - not government - are the true creators of wealth and employment.
We believe in preserving Australia's natural beauty and the environment for future generations.
We believe that our nation has a constructive role to play in maintaining world peace and democracy through alliance with other free nations.
In short, we simply believe in individual freedom and free enterprise; and if you share this belief, then ours is the Party for you.
So what is Malcolm Turnbull thinking?
And how can he be a member of the Liberal Party let alone it's leader?
If the Liberal Party votes with the government and passes an emissions trading scheme then they will lose my vote forever.
The problem for the Liberals are that there are a lot of people like me.
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Friday, 27 November 2009
No real world experience required to run US government
How can President Obama give more than 90% of his cabinet appointments to people who have no real world experience?
These people will naturally choose ideological positions rather than those born of the experience gained in the real world of hard knocks.
No wonder the Obama administration can choose to abandon Honduras to the Chavista wolves or the pro-democracy movement in Iran to the Ahmadinejad thugocracy. They have no idea.
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