Friday, August 17, 2018

In which the pond winds down, while hoping for a horror movie denialist weekend ...


The pond makes no apologies …

The pond felt like a break, like a little light relief, like a light Friday lunch, and then a weekend hopefully watching a right royal battle in the herpetarium …

The bouffant one has written a nice trailer for the horror movie … plenty of cutting, an excited narrator, an abundance of intriguing plot points, and the promise of blood, which should attract the male demographic, even if there's not enough sex …


Indeed, indeed, and in that short space, the trailer jumped from the dogs barking to a dog's breakfast …oh it's a doggy do world ...


Now the pond could have spent time tending to Henry, as he worried about more holes in the bucket …


Or it could have spent time marvelling at the reptiles' ongoing obsession …


The pond swears that Abdel-Magied would only have to let off a discreet fart for it to become the source of consternating, top of the digital page, news for the lizards of Oz …

Inflammatory? Only when gazing at your navel … please, get a life ...

But the sense of impending Malware doom is enough for the pond, which noted yesterday that the savvy Savva was sounding remarkably glum …


Finally the work of the reptiles, the onion muncher, the climate science denialists might come to a conclusion, and the rocket, now only a stick, might fall back into the mud, leaving only the glorious NBN behind as a tribute to the glorious rocket's work …

Speaking of denialists, the pond should also concede a point to the Bolter …


The Bolter is perfectly correct.

"Climate deniers" makes absolutely no sense. How can anyone possibly deny the climate? That's King Canute or onion muncher territory …



No, the correct term has to be "climate science denialist" … as here


Ah the "Lord", how he was once at one with Dame Slap, the Bolter, Miranda the Devine and the rest of the reptile denialists …

Denialist? Perhaps the Bolter needs some help with the English language ...

Denialism is the refusal to accept well-established theory, law, fact or evidence. "Denialist" is pejorative. 
In scientific contexts, the denialist can deny a cause (carbon dioxide does not cause global warming), an effect (the Earth is not warming), the association between the two (CO2 levels are rising and the Earth is warming, but not because of the carbon dioxide), the direction of the cause-and-effect relationship (carbon dioxide concentrations are increasing because the earth is warming) or the identification of the cause-and-effect relationship (other factors than greenhouse gases are causing the Earth to warm). Often denialists practice minimization (the Earth is warming, but it's not harmful) and use misplaced skepticism to give an unwarranted veneer of scientific thinking. 
Major scientific targets of denialism include evolution, global warming, the link between HIV and AIDS, the link between smoking and lung cancer, and evidence that there is no correlation between vaccination and autism… (more for Greg Hunters here).

The Bolter should be proud to be called a denialist and stand alongside the IPA, and their proud denialist work for the tobacco lobby …

Fucking the planet is a difficult business that requires dedication and hard work … and no one can deny that the Bolter's climate science denialism has been an epic slog, via narcissist-attention seeking, finally to reach the doors of Valhalla, with Malware at last in his and the onion muncher's sights …

Revenge shall be mine, sayeth the denialists ...


Yes, if only he'd gone full luddite and sang a lusty song of dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, how happy the reptiles and the denialists would have been …

And now, since somehow dogs seem to have entered the political discourse yet again, David Rowe did a portrait of a dog that's worth celebrating, at least until the pond gets taken away for assaulting the incessantly whiny, yappy dog lurking next door (oh and as always there's more Rowe here).


On the weekend? Stay tuned for episode two, titled The Denialist Dog ate Malware's climate science policy ...


5 comments:

  1. Dorothy - Scott of the Antarctic is on GEM!

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    1. The pond missed this note. Much appreciated, but of course the pond has the show on the Shield so it can step out of the tent at any time … and without those idiot bugs, watermarks or DOGS in the corner. Death to FTA!

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  2. Dennis the Shanner: "At the last minute, Turnbull is trying to offer changes to stop generators price gouging ..."

    He really likes the "wait until the last possible moment" approach doesn't he. For instance "wait until the last possible moment before calling for a financial services royal commission." And again: "wait until the last possible moment before accepting that the financial services royal commission won't spend all its time and effort attacking industry super groups."

    Besides, it was really "gentailers" (generators who retail as well) not just generators. You know, like AGL. Who mentioned that evil word "Kennett" ?

    Shanners again: "MPs are frustrated that he did not act ...[on] the advantage of being seen to embrace reliable coal fired power."

    The "advantage" ? How about this then, as recently as June 21 this year:
    Released yesterday, the Lowy Institute Poll 2018 found 84% of those surveyed believe the Australian Government should focus on renewables, even if this means potentially needing to invest more in infrastructure for the sake of reliability.
    https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/poll-renewables-coal-mb0635/

    Some "advantage", huh ?

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  3. One of the things that provides a bit of comic relief is the involuntary spasm from the reptiles when a nerve is touched. Someone just has to say "Getup!" or "Yassmin Abdel-Magied" (it may be the head scarf).

    Then there is "climate denier" - it is just so manifestly self-evident that they are not, in any sense sceptics. They hate it!

    Skepticism requires reasoned, critical investigation. It is really the basis of the scientific method. Nothing could be further from a skeptical approach than what we see with the Bolts, Marohasys and Maurices. It's like calling the vitriolic abuse we see in the media "debate". You can get a "debate" any Friday night down at The Exchange by just saying "who you looking at?"

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    1. You once could get a passionate "debate" in any pub in Fitzroy (and especially those in Gertrude St) just by putting your empty glass upside-down on the bar. Dunno about these days though, creeping "gentrification" is upon us everywhere. And I think it's reached The Exchange in Port Melbourne too, if that's the one you meant.

      But yes indeed Bef, the motto of the Australian Skeptics was (and may still be, I hope) "seek the evidence". It was never a matter of maintaining disbelief come what may, it was always a matter of wanting good reasons. Though I guess that means you have to be able to recognise a good reason when you encounter one, and we both know this is a skill that reptiles simply have never acquired.

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