tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post338193824512024210..comments2024-03-28T22:51:37.034+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond insists on having another serve of gruel and nattering "Ned" ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-28198658551305126192017-06-15T08:29:12.201+10:002017-06-15T08:29:12.201+10:00Credit to the reader who made the link Kez. The po...Credit to the reader who made the link Kez. The pond loves the tips and nods it scores in the comments section, and used to mention xkcd much more in the early days ... this remains a fun way in to his world ...http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Pagedorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-48585644737625480812017-06-15T08:11:40.733+10:002017-06-15T08:11:40.733+10:00+ 1 on Kez' comment. The cartoon is the most e...+ 1 on Kez' comment. The cartoon is the most enjoyable, and plain frightening presentation of the data that I have seen. Much sharing ahead....via collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14342963456605644101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-22948978830480976812017-06-15T04:56:16.693+10:002017-06-15T04:56:16.693+10:00Ned quotes Yeats: "the centre cannot hold&qu...Ned quotes Yeats: "<i>the centre cannot hold</i>".<br /><br />From the same poem: "<i>the worst are full of passionate intensity</i>" and "Ned is nothing if not intensely passionate.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-8977955957422122722017-06-15T00:45:27.021+10:002017-06-15T00:45:27.021+10:00Thanks for that cartoon link DP - it should be man...Thanks for that cartoon link DP - it should be mandatory viewing for all schoolchildren and politicians. Such a clear, logical way of presenting data, (witty too). So many websites and blogs show graphs about global warming that are incomprehensible to non-numerates like myself. Then they go on arguing incessantly about skew points and axes and things and my brain glazes over. Fact is, I don't really understand the deep science but I do trust the dedicated people who are doing the measurements, like BOM, NASA and NOAA. And I definitely trust their word over that of the denialist shills who work for Big Coal like Moorice and the Caterist. In that light it's quite interesting to hear Joke Frydenberg this morning talking about "trusting the experts" on the topic of whether isolating terrorist criminals in their own maximum security gulag is a good idea or not. So...it's okay to respect some experts (criminologists), and ignore others (climatologists). Honestly, the scorn heaped on people who know and care that the world is warming up is beyond belief.Keznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-35737818140643470402017-06-14T22:48:04.121+10:002017-06-14T22:48:04.121+10:00At-Large is fucking right......dear Ned,is he a go...At-Large is fucking right......dear Ned,is he a god? Some omni-worded seer?<br />All jokes aside,Neddy needs to retire.Like yourself DP,I had to do a double take on "The West these days is too democratic to stage horror events such as the French or Russian revolutions ..."<br />"The arrogance of the powered elites suggests a brainless divorce from reality" <br />Well Ned would know all about such affairs...it appears to be his stock in trade.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-12310545139556701302017-06-14T19:52:09.421+10:002017-06-14T19:52:09.421+10:00The conservatives are unable to understand anythin...The conservatives are unable to understand anything outside their very narrow world view. Ned is inadvertently making a case for Corbyn by pointing out that he has opposed most of the Tory follies of recent decades.Befuddledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16201490489888639207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-73346132122551622132017-06-14T18:34:04.459+10:002017-06-14T18:34:04.459+10:00Murdoch is evil and so are those that scribble the...Murdoch is evil and so are those that scribble their dribble for him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com