Premier Nathan Rees launches attack on own party
NSW Premier Nathan Rees has directed an extraordinary tirade at members within his own party who he accuses of undermining his authority.
Mr Rees will face a leadership vote later today, with three possible candidates prepared to challenge, with MP Frank Sartor appearing the likely victor.
A petition with 17 names has been signed supporting a motion for a spill.
But Mr Rees has vowed to fight on as leader.
He claimed his ability to lead the NSW Government had been "impaired at every turn" by "a malignant and disloyal group", and even went as far as naming the accused MPs.
Mr Rees also suggested that any new Premier would be a "puppet" to Labor party factions.
"Should I not be premier by the end of this day, let there be no doubt in the community's mind that any challenger will be a puppet to Eddie Obeid and Joe Tripodi," Mr Rees said.
"That is the reality, that is the choice for the state today.
"The decision now lies in the hands of my caucus colleagues."
The Daily Telegraph reports Labor Party bosses are now openly seeking support for Mr Sartor ahead of today's vote.
But the move has reportedly angered left wing MPs, who have threatened to leave the ALP and sit on the upper house benches as Independents, putting at risk the Government's hold on power.
According to The Daily Telegraph, a breakaway group of 10 right-wing MPs have also threatened to split from the Right faction and support Mr Rees.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the NSW Government should 'get its act together'.
"There are just too many days I find myself being asked questions about this," Mr Rudd said.
"I would frankly say to all those folk in the NSW Government `get your act together'."
"Get your act together, the people of NSW expect good government. It's time to end the games."
Mr Rees refused to answer questions from the media this morning.
ONE HOUR TO GO
Tim Blair
NSW Premier Nathan Rees faces a 6pm puppet showdown:
“Should I not be Premier by the end of this day let there be no doubt that any challenger will be a puppet of Eddie Obeid and Joe Tripodi. That is the reality, that is the choice at stake,” he said.
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Keneally sees off Rees and grabs top job
KRISTINA Keneally has replaced Nathan Rees to become the first female premier of NSW. - wonderful, the state is now run by a militant lapsed catholic. The ALP typically place a woman in office if they expect to lose. CF Joan Kirner, Carmen Lawrence and Anna Bligh - ed.
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Ex-Pentagon chief rips Obama's claim that the Bush administration rebuffed commanders' requests for more troops in Afghanistan, saying the 'misstatement' deserves a response.
McCain: Who's In Charge?
Arizona senator questions Obama's Afghan war policy, airing concerns about conflict between U.S. diplomats and the military
Abbott reveals tax-free carbon plan
TONY Abbott plans to fight a climate change election using land management measures.
Obama Facing New Denmark Disaster?
With a climate change deal far from certain, Obama's 'prestige' is on the line as he returns to Copenhagen
Key Groups Off Jobs Forum Guest List
Corporate execs who bear the task of creating jobs mostly absent from list of invitees to White House jobs summit
'Help us catch the monsters responsible'
POLICE release images of gang wanted over the brutal pack rape of two teenage schoolgirls.
Woman sues over flesh-eating bug horror
HOSPITAL allegedly sent woman home with headache tablets for potentially fatal infection.
Couple turns to porn to pay for wedding
A COUPLE has been raising cash for their dream wedding by raising temperatures as porn stars.
Green downs Jones in just two minutes
UNDERDOG Danny Green takes out Ray Jones Jr - demolishing the American in 122 seconds.
Sperm genes may explain life expectancy
GENES in sperm may determine why female mammals live longer than males, according to a Japanese study.
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Speech Fallout
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Guest: Dan Quayle
Did the president's speech on Afghanistan hit home with Americans? Dan Quayle goes 'On the Record'!
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Taxpayers’ hard-earned cash at risk in this climate
Piers Akerman
WITH the second rejection of Labor’s ETS Bill, Kevin Rudd has no option but to call an early election. Rudd previously stated that global warming is the greatest moral challenge of our time and that our children and grandchildren would suffer if Australia did not pass his legislation. - The ETS is a Pork Barrel. It will tax business and allow the ALP to redistribute the funds to its' mates. The compensations in the bill are inadequate for the poor, but substantial for those wanting to make a quick buck spruiking the ALP message. If Rudd were serious about making lasting changes to the climate and bringing Australians together over Climate Change he would apologize to the weather right now. - ed
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Is President Obama an Effective Wartime President?
By Bill O'Reilly
Here is the central question. Is President Obama an effective wartime president? Call it the commander-in-chief factor. Is he determined enough to defeat terrorism in Afghanistan?
Mr. Obama seems to understand the danger. Should the Taliban come back, worldwide terrorism gets a huge victory. And so 30,000 more American troops will be sent to the theater, and once again the president is asking other countries to help out. Good luck with that.
Mr. Obama also set a timetable for U.S. troops to get out of Afghanistan: the summer of 2011. But that's not in stone. It's just on his wish list.
And there's nothing wrong with that. If the Afghans themselves don't fight for their freedom, we'll have to get out. So it's good to send that message.
The problem with President Obama and war in general is that his liberal sensibility is not comfortable with combat. Compare Mr. Obama to Dick Cheney, perhaps the most hawkish politician in the country.
But again, that might not be a bad thing. We certainly don't want another Vietnam. If the Karzai government is hopeless, we have to acknowledge that.
But for now, the president should be as tough as he can be, and I did not see that Tuesday night. I did not see a Winston Churchill-type performance. The president was slick, but did he rally the world to fight the Taliban? I don't think so, but I could be wrong.
Summing up, the president's speech Tuesday night was OK, but not exactly the Gettysburg Address.
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Think 'Climate-Gate' Is Nonevent? Think Again
By John Lott
The big question is whether universities have too much at stake, both ideologically and financially, to impartially investigate what has happened with Climate-gate
President Obama's climate czar, Carol M. Browner, and White House spokesman Robert Gibbs might think that Climate-gate is a nonevent, but on Monday Pennsylvania State University announced that it was launching an investigation into the academic conduct of Michael Mann, the school's Director of the Earth System Science Center. And Tuesday, Phil Jones, the director of the Climatic Research Unit at Britain's University of East Anglia, announced that he would stand aside as director while his university conducted an investigation.
Dozens of researchers at other institutions could soon face similar investigations. While Dr. Jones has been the center of much of the discussion because the e-mails were obtained from the server at his university, Mann is named in about 270 of the over 1,000 e-mails, many of which detail disturbing and improper academic behavior.
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Unless He Really Is the Messiah, Obama's Plan Is Impossible
By KT McFarland
What Obama should have done is narrow the mission to one thing -- kill Al Qaeda -- and partner with Pakistan to do it.
The West Point speech on Tuesday night was vintage Obama -- promise everybody everything and end with stirring words of inspiration. The problem is -- it won’t work.
While claiming he was articulating a clear mission statement Obama then went on to list, by my count, eight different missions: reverse Taliban gains in Afghanistan; defeat and destroy Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan; deny Al Qaeda’s return to Afghanistan and Pakistan; build the Afghan Army; launch economic, especially agricultural projects, in Afghanistan; teach them good governance; secure their population centers and partner with Pakistan on economic, security and political matters. And he’s going to do it in 18 months with an additional 30,000 troops. Unless Obama really is the Messiah, I’d say this is impossible.
What Obama should have done is narrow the mission to one thing -- kill Al Qaeda -- and partner with Pakistan to do it. We should squeeze the recalcitrant Taliban and their Al Qaeda comrades along the mountainous Afghan-Pak border in a pincer movement -- the American Army and Marines on the Afghan side and the Pakistani Army on the other side -- and kill them.
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ACCEPTED WISDOM UNACCEPTED
Tim Blair
A few weeks ago:
Britain’s new high commissioner to Australia, the politico Baroness Valerie Amos, introduced herself to Canberra with an address at the National Press Club at which she lectured Australians over their growing reluctance to embrace the accepted wisdom on global warming.Several further surprises followed. Even Jon Stewart seems taken aback:
“I have been surprised that the science itself is being questioned,” she said.
Lord only knows what the Baroness makes of recent changes in Canberra:
Until now, the Opposition was anxious to avoid an election on Rudd’s emissions trading scheme. Turnbull was afraid the Coalition would be smashed if it blocked Rudd …Australia has changed since Kevin Rudd has been away. He should travel more often.
Turnbull, trembling, negotiated terms. He was happy to agree with Rudd and pass the scheme into law.
Yesterday we saw a role reversal. The Abbott Opposition exuberantly killed the scheme in the Senate. He wanted to follow the instinct to fight.
And Abbott has dared Rudd: “I am not frightened of an election on this issue.”
Now it is the Government that is hesitating.
UPDATE. Former Labor minister Barry Cohen:
Eighteen months ago in Europe and the US, polls indicated 70 per cent supported the global warming theory. That has now dropped to about 50 per cent. Imagine what the result would be if a Coalition-led campaign asked lots of questions about costs, job losses and the science. So far with both main political parties holding a similar view, it’s hardly surprising 66 per cent favour an ETS.
So far the sceptics and deniers have only had Barnaby Joyce and the Nationals to oppose the legislation. Picture a few more headlines such as Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph on Monday, “Power Bills Up $400”, and imagine what the polls would say.
Labor seems certain to win the next election, but it should be wary. Harold Wilson once said, “A week is a long time in politics.” Three months is an eternity.
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REDUCED VENOM
Tim Blair
Venomous Kate, having become Voluminous Kate, embarks on a diet. Follow her progress here. Not being an idiot, Kate has declined to connect her weight-loss strategy to demands for a reduction of the planet’s temperature.
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LAND OF DANGEROUS SENTIMENTS
Tim Blair
Proud Canadian Mark Steyn enjoys a Michelle Obama moment:
I’ve waited my entire life for “Canada’s image” to “lie in tatters” and, if it takes laying the entire planet to waste, I say go for it.Mark’s pride is understandable. It isn’t every day that Canada is denounced as a “thuggish petro-state” by the Guardian‘s George Monbiot (now returned to reliable crankdom after recent outbreaks of sanity). But Canada still cannot compare with Australia, for we have now made the entire Guardian cry. This editorial is beautiful:
Australia may soon hold the first election in which not just the proper response to climate change but even its existence are leading issues.We be bad.
The Liberal party has thrown out one leader for backing a government bill limiting greenhouse emissions and voted in another who has described climate change as “absolute crap” … by rejecting [Turnbull] Australia’s Liberals have sided with the sceptics. It may be a forerunner of similar confrontations to come elsewhere.
The new Liberal leader is Tony Abbott, a raucous, London-born rightwinger dubbed the Mad Monk. He describes emissions trading as a “$120bn tax on the Australian public” and couches his scepticism in insidious terms that would attract support in Britain too … Sentiments like this, from a country which can afford the costs of adaptation, are dangerous.
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PLENTY OF ICE
Tim Blair
Any excuse for a party.
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GOT YER PSYCHOLOGY OF DENIAL RIGHT HERE
Tim Blair
The worst attempt yet to explain away Climategate:
Last week, a private exchange of emails among climate scientists stoked a firestorm of skepticism after it was hacked and posted on the Web.This, incidentally, is from a piece aiming to dissect “the psychology of climate denial.” Via Alan R.M. Jones, who sends his own explanation of an earlier scandal:
The memos expressed frustration at the scientists’ inability to explain what they described as a temporary slowdown in warming, and discussed ways to counter the campaigns of climate naysayers.
The Watergate tapes expressed frustration at the White House’s inability to explain why five plumbers were waylaid while carrying out routine maintenance at DNC headquarters, and discussed ways to counter underground parking lot meetings and overzealous congressional committees.
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THE SECRET LIFE OF A CAR GUY
Tim Blair
Chris Masters confesses:
When I left the ABC last year, Andrew Denton interviewed me on Enough Rope outing me as a petrolhead. He wanted to know why I liked cars and motor racing.Read on.
Explaining myself proved a little difficult. When passion is a driver, logic is often a hard-working navigator.
But here goes.
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TORY FOLLOWS TONY
Tim Blair
Tony Abbott shows the way for British conservatives:
Tory backbencher David Davis today launched an open challenge to David Cameron’s climate change policies by criticising the ‘fixation’ of the green movement.In other world-leading developments, Australian geologist Ian Plimer is now front-page news in the UK. Nice weather over there for a global warming debate.
The former shadow Home Secretary said the focus on environmental issues would impose tougher targets for reducing carbon emissions that could bring ‘crippling’ costs to the economy.
The comments are likely to be viewed as a direct challenge to David Cameron who has put tackling climate change high on the Tory party’s agenda.
UPDATE. Climategate is too big for Google.
UPDATE II. Danish carbon fraud! James Delingpole reports:
Carbon trading is the Emperor’s New Clothes of international finance. It was invented by none other than Ken Lay, whose Enron would currently be one of the prime beneficiaries in the global alternative energy market, if it hadn’t been shown to be (nearly) as fraudulent as the current AGW scam. It is a licence to fleece, cheat and rob. Still, jolly embarrassing for the Danes to get caught red handed, what with their hosting a conference shortly in which the world’s leaders will try, straight-faced, to persuade us that carbon emissions trading is the only viable way of defeating ManBearPig.UPDATE III. “Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was in the US but could barely crack a mention in the New York Times. But there was plenty about some bloke called Tony Abbott.”
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BREAK DOWN AND LIE
Tim Blair
No big deal:
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s plane has broken down for the second time in as many days.Interestingly, however, the PM’s office felt the need to lie about it:
While Mr Rudd’s office denied the plane had been grounded again, saying they were simply refuelling, when Mr Chisholm was asked if he could confirm the plane had broken down again he said: “Yep.”
He added it was not Mr Rudd who told him, it was, “just the chief of staff”.
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None so blind
Andrew Bolt
That pesky real-world data keeps wrongfooting the poor alarmists. This time it’s ABC PM’s Mark Colvin, who introduces yet another story about how global warming will devastate us:
MARK COLVIN: Prospects don’t look good for soil moisture in Australia, one of the most important drivers of agricultural productivity. New long-term projections for soil conditions in south-eastern Australia, just released, predict a dramatic impact on soil moisture if the temperature of the globe rises by two degrees. That in turn will affect farm production.Oh, no! Global warming is drying out our continent!
But then the reporter checks a farmer’s rain gauges and gets a surprise:
MADELEINE GENNER: Now John Ive has used his data along with information from the Bureau of Meteorology to work out long-term trends. He looked at data dating back to 1889 and climate projections to the year 2100.Oven odder is that this is the only real-world data offered in the entire report to justify the spooky premise that we’re drying out.
JOHN IVE: If we are looking in 20 year slices, the driest period we’ve experienced since 1889 to the present was from September 1926 to September 1946 which is you know almost getting beyond most people’s living memory anyway. Whereas the wettest period, this came as a bit of a surprise to me is from March 1983 to March 2003
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Gatto does Melbourne University Press proud
Andrew Bolt
Let’s catch up with Melbourne University Press’s latest big signing, the gangland figure it so kindly promoted as one sweet and charming guy:
THE millionaire director of the Autobarn spare parts retailer, Garry Dumbrell, has been accused of hiring gangland enforcers Mick Gatto and John Khoury to negotiate in a land dispute with his elderly neighbours.“Stealing” is a tough word, and we’ll all wait for Dumbrell and Gatto’s responses.
Mr Dumbrell, who last week paid a record of almost $21 million for a Hawthorn mansion in Shakespeare Grove, is now preparing his home, Strathroy, on Barkers Road for sale…
Neighbours Alan and Colline Muir, aged in their 80s, said they were away at their hobby farm last week but rushed home after friends warned of unexpected works along their boundary. Another neighbour, who did not want to be named, said she was one of several who witnessed the building works and her husband and another neighbour confronted Mr Gatto.
‘’They had just moved a shipping container 20 metres and erected a new fence 25 metres in,’’ she said. ‘’Basically stealing land from the elderly couple, who are scared to take action.’’
But I can’t wait for MUP chairman and Alan Kohler to explain this one away, too, and until then I’ll add Autobarn to the list of companies which do not deserve my custom.
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A much more useful Tiger
Andrew Bolt
Who needs Tiger himself, when his avatar acts out the story with more frankness? Mind you, even Taiwan’s Apple Action News had to skip the bit in Tiger’s story about his wife using the golf club to actually smash a window to get him out. The animators couldn’t figure how to explain why she broke the back window rather than the one right next to her husband. But they could sure imagine the rest.
We’re not long off having news bulletins that show the world as a journalist imagines it should be, rather than as it is. As the coverup of Climategate shows, we’re not that far from that already.
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Climategate: ABC filters working beautifully
Andrew Bolt
Number of results returned when searching “Climategate” on Google:
21,400,000
Number of results returned when searching “Climategate” on ABC Online:
One.
One got through? But relax. It was just a reader’s response to yet another article by a warmist scientist.
UPDATE
The ABC now grudgingly adds a story to its site!
Climate expert steps down after hacked emailsBut even then, the ABC’s report cites two warmist spokesmen reassuring us there’s nothing to worry about, and not a single sceptic to explain why the emails are in fact so devastating.
Why this coverup, guys?
UPDATE 2
James Delingpole helpfully collates the news the ABC has missed in the unravelling of Climategate.
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Still one to go, though
Andrew Bolt
Muntadhar al-Zaidi gets his shoe back. Odd that his friends suddenly don’t get the joke.
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Reef alarmist bleached again
Andrew Bolt
Oh, dear. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, the warmist scientist who is most responsible for Kevin Rudd’s claim that global warming will kill the Great Barrier Reef, is contradicted yet again by the real-world data.
Here’s Hoegh-Guldberg four years ago, telling Robyn ”100 metres” Williams that our warmist gases would destroy shell-fish by acidifying the seas:
If we go to industries that depend on crustaceans, crabs and lobsters and things, those too are seeing really interesting diseases popping up which are basically because things are not calcifying anymore, and they’re not calcifying at a rate that keeps up with the processes that take away that calcium carbonate.But here’s the latest study that says he’s wrong again:
In a striking finding that raises new questions about carbon dioxide’s (CO2) impact on marine life, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists report that some shell-building creatures—such as crabs, shrimp and lobsters—unexpectedly build more shell when exposed to ocean acidification caused by elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2).This is far from the first time that Hoegh-Guldberg’s profitable alarmism gets debunked:
In 1999, Hoegh-Guldberg warned that the Great Barrier Reef was under pressure from global warming, and much of it had turned white.I did try to warn Australian Story about Hoegh-Gulberg’s alarming tendency of alarmism when I was on the show (pic above), but would it listen?
In fact, he later admitted the reef had made a “surprising” recovery.
In 2006, he warned high temperatures meant “between 30 and 40 per cent of coral on Queensland’s great Barrier Reef could die within a month”.
In fact, he later admitted this bleaching had “a minimal impact”.
In 2007, he warned that temperature changes of the kind caused by global warming were again bleaching the reef.
In fact, the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network last week said there had been no big damage to the reef caused by climate change in the four years since its last report, and veteran diver Ben Cropp said this week that in 50 years he’d seen none at all.
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Climategate - even John Stewart understands. But doesn’t absorb
Andrew Bolt
Climategate is so outrageous that even a comedian of the Left laughs at the sheer effrontery of it…
UPDATE
Even the Sydney Morning Herald’s Elizabeth Farrelly, a green of the Hamilton extreme, has been shaken:
This is what renders Phil Jones’s climate-gate treason unpardonable. In fudging the crucial facts, Professor Jones and his colleagues fed the Minchinsaur deniers steroids, strengthening their inertia and encouraging the very catastrophe they hoped to avert.But wait, Elizabeth. Your dismay is of Stewart’s self-deluding sort: you are dismayed that the people caught faking a warming scare will make others think their scare is a, well, fake. Don’t you think you’re in denial about something here? Isn’t it time to worry not about the seeming of this fake but the reality?
UPDATE
Add Lord Stern to the list of warmists who say they trust the “consensus” produced by exactly the corrupt processes they can’t defend:
The former World Bank economist refused to comment on the University of East Anglia scandal itself, but said that anyone denying the science of climate change was “fundamentally wrong”...Who is in denial now?
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Climategate: not news to me, says Shaviv
Andrew Bolt
Brilliant young astrophysicist Professor Nir Shaviv says he’s not surprised at all by Climategate, whether it’s the revelation that data was destroyed to prevent checking, or evidence that sceptics were blocked from publication:
(F)rom what I’ve read in blogsphere, the e-mails did not reveal anything I didn’t think was happening anyway (though it may help the general public get a glimpse of that)....Shaviv was also nastily attacked and smeared by RealClimate, exposed in the Climategate emails as an arm of the Climategate conspiracy.
An editor of one of the more prominent journals wrote a colleague of mine that ”any paper which doesn’t support the anthropogenic GHG theory is politically motivated, and therefore has to be rejected”.
There are many more examples. As I said, these e-mails do not surprise me. They just provide a window to whatever I had thought was happening anyway.
But he has known for some time that this warmist bubble would burst:
The hysteria surrounding the concept of ‘global warming’ will fade over the years… People will see that the apocalyptic forecasts are not coming true. Today there is no fingerprint attesting that carbon dioxide emission causes a rise in temperature.His own explanation for the warming that stopped in 2001: the effect on cosmic rays on cloud formation.
Shaviv is coming to Melbourne this week for Albert Dadon’s Australia Israel Leadership Forum, where I shall be only too pleased to meet him. And a little proud, too, since it was my suggestion he be invited. I hope you’ll hear from him, too, on this visit.
Unlike most top scientists, he not only has a blog, but a highly readable one (if too infrequently updated). For instance, there was this after Israel’s Earth Hour:
The Israeli populous saved a “whopping” 65,000 KWhr… In fact, if you compare it to the annual electricity usage of the Al Gore household, of 210,000 KWhr, you realize that Israelis saved a third of what Al Gore wastes in a year. :
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Psychoanalyse this dupe instead
Andrew Bolt
The very first word signals the devious evasion to come in this Sydney Morning Herald piece:
If the evidence is overwhelming that man-made climate change is already upon us and set to wreak planetary havoc, why do so many people refuse to believe it?Well, “if” that evidence were indeed overwhelming, sceptics like me would be, well, overwhelmed.
But on that false presumption, or evasion, the writer proceeds to psychoanalyse the people he claims don’t look at the evidence of which he himself seems stunningly ignorant.
Here are his various theories as to what’s really motivating sceptics:
.... the individual reluctance to give up our comfortable lifestyles… the reality of climate change impinges on core aspects of our identity ...We are told a thousand times a day, notably through advertising, that the way to a happy, successful and meaningful life is through consumption ... the human instinct to shut out or modify a terrifying truth ... when it comes to disasters, people do not allow themselves to believe what they know...All these theories are given more space than the central problem which has informed so many sceptics, and which now alarms even warmist scientists: the plain fact that the world isn’t warming in a way consistent with the theory that man is heating the world with his gases.
Here is the only nod the writer gives to the science - let alone the fakery, fraud, censorship and bullying by warmist scientists - which actually makes all his psychoanalysing so much effrontery:
Last week, a private exchange of emails among climate scientists stoked a firestorm of skepticism after it was hacked and posted on the Web. The memos expressed frustration at the scientists’ inability to explain what they described as a temporary slowdown in warming...That’s it.
In fact, that’s true denialism. And that’s the point where we may begin to speculate on the psychological state of not sceptics, but this writer.
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Going Google-eyed over Copenhagen
Andrew Bolt
Google Australia still doesn’t autosuggest Climategate, despite having more than 16.5 million results. I guess the Google Australia staff were simply far too busy, having to compose this appeal for support for the Copenhagen warmist summit.
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NERD FOILED, FARCE SHUNNED
Tim Blair
The WSJ’s James Taranto notes this AP story – “Rudd had wanted the legislation passed before he attends next week’s U.N. summit on climate change in Copenhagen so he could portray Australia as a world leader on the issue” – and responds:
The AP makes Rudd sound like an insecure high school student, doing something foolish merely in order to look cool. But what’s really astonishing is that this is described as if it were a perfectly reasonable way for adults to behave.In other summit news, James Hansen won’t be taking a private jet to Copenhagen – or any other means of transportation:
A leading scientist acclaimed as the grandfather of global warming has denounced the Copenhagen summit on climate change next week as a farce.Not only is the science unsettled, so too are the scientists. Where’s the consensus? And over at Ace’s: Iowahawk explains the cult of the Virgin Gaia.
James Hansen, the director of Nasa’s Goddard Insitute for Space Studies, told The Times that he planned to boycott the UN conference because it was seeking a counter-productive agreement to limit emissions through a “cap and trade” system.
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CLIMATE BUNNIKINS
Tim Blair
A perfect word to describe desperate, superheated attempts at swatting away Climategate: Debuniking!
(Via Treacher, who writes: “Hey, my typing fingers would be shaky too if I was watching my dreams die.")
UPDATE. From Leonard Nimoy’s fear of global cooling to poley bears from heaven … Ed Driscoll presents a quick history of Bunnikins Panic:
UPDATE II. Hockey stick chipmunk Michael Mann gets with the debuniking.
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Turnbull’s revenge looks more like suicide
Andrew Bolt
Malcolm Turnbull demonstrates again why he’s not fit to lead. Now his angry email exchange with his former deputy, Julie Bishop, have been leaked to make her seem two-faced and untrustworthy, even though they reveal that Bishop showed a loyalty to Turnbull that this megalomaniac could not return.
Warning: entrust Turnbull with no private emails, and no confidences. Not that I’m accusing Turnbull of leaking them, of course. I mean, it might have been Bishop instead, right?
(Note: interesting that the ABC and Age show far more interest in Turnbull’s leaked emails than in these.)
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