In which the pond checks out the reptile narrative, thanks to Lloydie and Moorice ...

Media Watch returned to the safe ground of giving Lloydie a good mocking, starting with his bold claim about being fearless ...

Every so often the pond wonders why Lloydie exists and how he manages to live with himself, but the reptile thumb gives a clue ...

Well you know what they say about butterflies in the Amazon producing a cyclone on the other side of the world ...

It's the usual theory of rogues, charlatans and thieves that a little not-for-profit work elsewhere will excuse the shameless, grubby, for-profit work being done at home ...

The question is, is it fair to slag off good old Lloydie for being a one-sided git, and a positive danger to the country and the world, and to complain about his conspicuously fearful absence from reporting on recent stories about coral bleaching?

Well yes, because as Media Watch notes - the show is available here - during the first round of reports, Lloydie took to the battlefield with ceaseless reporting ...

And good old Lloydie tilted at windmills and jousted with Media Watch when it questioned his reporting...

That show, which dug up Lloydie's reliance on Jim Steele, science teacher at Everett Middle School and Wallenberg High School - anything to keep the debate going - can still be found here ...

The current show noted that Lloydie had cited the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority in his defence first time around ... "which of course is the authority behind all this year's warnings" - and ended with a note that the reptiles of Oz had declined to respond or explain the lack of coverage by them and Lloydie ... so "... our guess is it just doesn't fit their narrative."

But that implies there is a narrative.

What on earth could that narrative be?

Well as the pond anxiously waits for the injured Lloydie to reply, to lash back, marvellous Moorice has stepped up this day to explain and confirm the reptile narrative ...

The pond has been here many times before, and is frequently honoured and delighted that one of the world's greatest climate scientists should become a decorative ornament on its pages ...

Now as usual with Moorice, it's worthwhile having a few facts at the ready to supplement his astonishing and immaculate science. 

It is, for example, exceptionally pleasing to note that as a result of rising CO2, the planet will get better and better in every way, and will be able to feed more people than ever, and we need spare not a thought for any other minor consequences ... such as ocean acidification, rising seas, more variable weather, melting ice caps, droughts, and so on and so forth ...

All this is mere desiderata compared to Moorice's grand vision of a giving planet ...

As for the matter of Hazelwood, we should mourn the loss of brown coal, and cluck at these idle statistics ...

That was back in September 2016 in The Conversation here, and the pond does apologise for introducing something closer to reality, because we have much more Moorice to get through, and much more data to misrepresent, distort and malign ...

And there, in a nutshell, is the reptile of Oz's narrative, distilled and laid bare by eminent climate scientist Moorice ...

Climate denialism, replete with climate science conspiracy thinking, full blooded, full throated, rip roaring, nostril snorting, as loud and as subtle as a Harley exhaust pipe.

A grand spouting of the usual nonsense and tripe, as if Moorice and the reptiles alone had the science and the understanding ... though the pond is disappointed to note that there is still no resolution to the question of whether it's a United Nations world government conspiracy or a Chinese government world government conspiracy ...

And that's the company Lloydie travels with, supports, and provides comfort to ...

How a gesture in Peru is designed to fix this level of malignant fuckwittery is beyond the pond ...

Let's hope that Lloydie avoids looking into mirrors and or at paintings of himself ...

The consciousness of degradation? That's not a bad alternative narrative ...