We’re all cold, it’s wet, and I’m miserable!
You probably don’t need to be told this, but May 2012 is ontrack to become the coldest for over three hundred years.
It comes “hot” on the tail of the wettest April in a century and the driest March for more than fifty years. Continue reading →
The revised draft basin plan has not excited anybody. When I called three State Minister’s offices this morning I got three answers, “No, no, no”. The South Australian State Minister is on the TV screaming “No”.
The Federal Minister, Tony Burke, has said he is not prepared to take the plan to Parliament, so he has said no to his own plan. Continue reading
May 28th, 2012 by Warwick Hughes
Not far enough though – but a start.
Department Secretary Blair Comley announced job cuts were imminent and far greater than had been originally forecast.
“Only a week ago, Kate Lundy said she was pleased there would be no forced redundancies”, Senator Humphries said today.
Environmentalists say we must ‘refer to the science’ when the topic is ‘climate change’, but ignore the science when it’s about nuclear power or GM foods.
Around 170 of Fukushima’s workers have a slightly elevated risk of cancer due to their radiation exposure, says “Nature” magazine below. Continue reading
The supposedly smartest man to have ever been president has, in the last two days, teleprompter-assisted though he was, referred to his two daughters as his two sons.
The reality has been growing that, in fact, the American president is not very bright at all. He has all the flowing rhetorical grace of a true conman, and he has taken in millions with his act. But of true smarts, genuine ability, deep ideas and political gifts, there is hardly an ounce of evidence, and what evidence there ever was is disappearing into the mists.
Here is an article by Jack Kelly, “Obama is not that bright”, that has brought much of it together. There we find:
Could it be that Mr. Obama’s ‘superior intellect’ is a myth created by journalists to mask what may be the thinnest resume of anyone ever elected president? An example of puffery is the description of Mr. Obama as a former ‘professor of constitutional law.’ Mr. Obama was a part time instructor at the University of Chicago law school, without the title or status of professor. And, according to blogger Doug Ross, he wasn’t very popular with the real professors.
‘I spent some time with the highest tenured faculty member at Chicago Law a few months back,’ Mr. Ross wrote in March 2010. ‘According to my professor friend, [Obama] had the lowest intellectual capacity in the building. … The other professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified,’
Nor was Kelly the first to put this idea out. Brett Stephens in The Wall Street Journal asked the same question about a year ago. His conclusion:…
The underlying Broome sandstone is host to an underwater garden of fantastic proportions. Anybody who has traveled by boat along the shallow coast off Price’s Point will have marveled at what was visible on echo sounders, seen nowhere else.
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Obviously in the Cretaceous, the environment was extraordinarily rich enough to host a large number of dinosaurs, including 17 species new to science, and still waiting to be named by Dr Salisbury, with the help of the Goolarabooloo people. We understand that the EPA will not be releasing the report prepared by the Woodside-funded imported dinosaur experts, but Steve Salisbury will definitely be releasing his.”
Now it’s the whales turn, calving and frolicking in large numbers just offshore in site of happy campers. The Broome Sandstone also underlies the red pindan cliffs and sparkling white dunes, covered in middens of shells and various ancient indigenous artifacts. Behind the dunes in the rare Ancient remnant vine forest grows a plethora of fruiting trees and shrubs, second to none on the Dampier Peninsula.
Wherever this Sandstone is found, dinosaur footprints and trackways exist, possibly in metres of layers thick. Even fossilized bones can be seen by those in the know…
Listen here: Dinosaur prints v development
Searching for prints near Price’s Point, Broome
A Humpback whale cow and calf breach off the pindan cliffs at Lombadina, Western Australia
Peer-reviewed scientific research says that the intertidal area near the planned controversial gas processing precinct at James Price Point is the world’s only preserved landscape that was shaped by dinosaur traffic.
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Pensioners to get carbon tax compensation
Pensioners will receive their first carbon price compensation on Monday.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard says single pensioners will receive a one-off payment of $250 and couples $380. The amounts apply to full and part pensions.
“This assistance is there to help people with the flow-through impact of putting a price on carbon,” Ms Gillard told reporters in Canberra on Sunday.
The West Australian electricity price’s are about to rise 13% on July 1. Then comes water consumption price rises and rates rises, then Council rate rises. Freight increases on everything else, then it’s all gone.
So much for carbon compensation, more like carbon con.
Green energy hopes for Hunter – ABC Newcastle NSW – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Hunter residents are being warned a failure to recognise the benefits of a green energy boom could cost them their jobs.
Hundreds of workers have been informed their jobs will go when a Kurri Kurri aluminium smelter shuts its doors.
Doctor Evans says they will not be the last to go.
“Investment in renewable energies will promise a lot more jobs than current investments in coal fired power stations or even in industries that are currently dependent on coal fired power stations,” he said.
“But if the Government doesn’t invest in that, then we’re going to see a lot more job losses in industries like aluminium and including primary industries.”
Quadrant Online – The unbearable stench of fishiness
Years of government fear-mongering about evil “carbon” and propaganda about “clean energy” have produced a new inconvenient truth: there is no prospect of turning its contrived climate disaster narrative – one it now desperately wants to disown – into anything other than a very expensive fishy farce.
So the game of climate-change subterfuge continues, with the announcement of a $14 million ($22 million budgeted for next financial year) television campaign: The Red Herring Assistance Package: Benefiting those who need it most.
Designed to advertise compensation payments to offset [partially] increased costs after 1 July – when the carbon [dioxide] tax [price] is imposed on energy service providers (aka “polluters”) – the government ads neither mention the carbon tax nor attempt to explain how it will create a benign Goldilocks climate, one just right for Australia.
(Via Tom Nelson)
