Andrew Bolt
On the very same day that warming catastrophist Ross Garnaut called for huge cuts in emissions from coal and oil, this news:
MELBOURNE will host formula one racing until 2015 after the Brumby Government stared down...
Finish that sentence:
A: Ross Garnaut?
B: Labor’s warmists?
C: Economists?
D: Local residents?
E: It’s own gas-cutting policies?
F: All of the above?
- Bolt has linked to the answer - ed.
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Bouncing banned
Andrew Bolt
Cairns has a firm rule against jiggling:
Under the five-year-old rule, women could legally take their tops off as long as they did not strut about, swim in the pool, play beach volleyball or fling a Frisbee.
Or maybe it just hates Frisbees.
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Remember when “everyone” thought Corby innocent?
Andrew Bolt
Wow, I’m astonished:
SCHAPELLE Corby’s father was being investigated for running drugs just weeks before she was arrested, a family member claims… Lateline alleged Mr Corby Sr travelled to Bali on September 4, 2004, just four weeks before Schapelle Corby was arrested with 4.2kg of marijuana in a body board bag.
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Thank you for the lyrics
Andrew Bolt
I whacked Daniel Johns last month for his lyrics. Now Bopping Ben Macintyre pays tribute to masters of the genre:
This, it struck, me is the true genius of Abba: the words.... Benny and Björn were not Lennon and McCartney, let alone Bob Dylan. But the very simplicity of the words is part of their magic: they describe everyday feelings, in plain, one-dimensional words. Abba mastered pop language perfectly, in large part because English was not their first language.
An example he mentions:
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Ban solar panels instead
Andrew Bolt
The Sydney Morning Herald finds another global warming scare to hype - and, revealingly, focuses on the symbol of modern affluence in this wicked consumer society:
THE rising demand for flat-screen televisions may have a greater impact on global warming than the world’s largest coal-fired power stations, a leading environmental scientist has warned.
Manufacturers use a greenhouse gas called nitrogen trifluoride to make the televisions. As the sets have become more popular, annual production of the gas has risen to about 4000 tonnes.
As a driver of global warming, nitrogen trifluoride is 17,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide...
But, of course, it’s a beat-up by ideologues. Physical Insights explains:
This has got nothing to do specifically with manufacturing plasma TVs, and everything to do with manufacturing semiconductor devices and materials such as polycrystalline silicon. One has to wonder what the emissions of sulfur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons and/or nitrogen trifluoride are for the manufacturing of a typical plasma TV, and how it compares to the emissions of sulfur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons and/or nitrogen trifluoride over the manufacturing of, say, one typical solar photovoltaic panel. Obviously a photovoltaic panel has got much more polycrystalline silicon in it than your TV…
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Bugger globes, fight fires
Andrew Bolt
Want to slash emissions? Simple: do more to stop bushfires. Forest and bushfire expert Professor Mark Adams explains:
Unfortunately again, all the trees planted or likely to be planted in Victoria in the name of cleaning the atmosphere will not replace the carbon lost in recent fires… Efforts to encourage individuals to conserve energy and carbon - ‘we will save 40,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions’ (The Age January 9, 2007) - must be viewed in the context that 2003 and 2006/7 fires have sent back to the atmosphere of the order of a 100,000,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions...
Which leads Liberal MP Murray Thompson to table this notion of motion:
That this House notes the massive destruction of several million hectares of Victorian native forests under the watch of the Bracks Government in 2003 and 2006-07 through bushfires and that this House also notes the efforts of the Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change to save 40,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions each year, the equivalent of 800 million black ballons ...
(A)nd this House therefore condemns the Bracks Government for its failure in forest management which will have sent back to the atmosphere an estimated 100 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions (2,500 times the annual target saving of the Bracks Government or 2,000 billion black balloons)...
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Labor's big sell on carbon emissions plan
AN expensive "public education" campaign will try to win support for a carbon emissions trading plan.
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Economic depression may be in the mind
AUSTRALIA is in danger of being a nation of economic hypochondriacs, a leading economist has warned. -or perhaps the magnificent management of the Howard government has been devalued by the ALP. -ed
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Labor prepares to oust unpopular premier
By Brad Norington
LABOR strategists say they have begun moves to replace New South Wales Premier Morris Iemma, fearing the party faces a wipeout at the next state election if it sticks with his leadership. -meanwhile, as Bolt points out, Ricky Ponting is returning to Australia with a wrist injury. - ed.
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Commandos posed as journalists to free Colombian hostages
The daring rescue of 15 hostages from leftist rebels in Colombia used a team of Colombian commandos posing as journalists to ease the way into the FARC camp in the jungle. - one could tell they were journalists as they had their Che T shirts. - ed.
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