Tired of the history and culture wars?
Enjoyed the use of "love" as a term of abuse, and had fun celebrating the hate, but now want to move on?
How about a good old-fashioned bout of climate denialism?
There's nothing like a hurricane with a force and a fury not seen in recent times to bring out the best in the reptiles, and sure enough, with impeccable timing, the reptiles trotted out the Lomborg ...
His message was that climate change wasn't any particularly big deal, a minor economic trifle with a bit of collateral damage here and there, always an inspiring message for those caught up in a hurricane.
Now while some dared to go there - Houston, you have a problem, and some of it of your own making - the reptiles preferred to play it like the Australian cricket team in Bangladesh, with a dead bat, a steady pair of hands, and a Caterist, with the usual astonishing results ...
While the pond could tip-toe around a Lomborg doing the denialist rag, it could never do that to a Caterist.
After all, how else to discover what uses the Australian taxpayer dollar is being put to?
This is splendid stuff.
It's not directly climate denialist, it skirts around the point, starting with the hip pocket nerve of Prius owners (somebody should tell the citizens of LA - according to the pond's partner, the streets are now littered with electric vehicles).
The Caterists know all about the hip pocket, since they're expect at picking it ...
The Caterists work hard for the money.
See how in that first gobbet they seek to conflate, confuse, deny, befuddle, downgrade and raise saucy doubts and fears, while sounding terribly market driven.
Because there's nothing like bludging on government grants to make you very market driven ...
Bludging on the government puts you in a tremendously wise position to bemoan the hapless mugs known as taxpayers and the deviant governments which have abandoned the rules of supply and demand.
Think of it this way. The Caterists demand government subsidy, and the Department of Finance supplies it. That makes pure economics 101 sense to the pond.
And so to the final gobbet of undiluted free market enterprise ...
Indeed, indeed. The pond can remember the astute way that the Caterists decried the intertubes and stood stoutly and steadfastly by the carrier pigeon, noting that technological breakthroughs do not work to government timetables ...
No, the only thing that works well, provided you throw enough money at them, are the creators of saucy doubts and fears at quangos like the MRC. They're much more reliable than the average electric car ...
Of course it would have been simpler for the Caterists to just scribble "dinkum Aussie coal, coal, coal, oi, oi, oi", but there's little doubt that the sponsors of the MRC will be pleased with this fine day's work ...
Meanwhile, back in the real world, the Pope produced another astute encyclical, with more papery here ...
Here's the discussion Cater was citing.
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Not only did Cater fail to accurately quote his source, he failed to accurately capture the character of the discussion.
Tell you what, that Caterist's onto something. I dunno how many billions of years Ra can keep it up but the Aussie taxpayer is giving him a run for his money. If I were onto such a cushy number as the Caterist, I'd be placing all my faith in my sinecure provider, too.
ReplyDelete"...stuck behind a prius" wtf does that mean? Oh, it's just a meaningless preamble as he can't come up with a coherent introduction to his substandard column. And from a 2014 thread on a forum which, as anon points out, is cherry picked to suit his tenuous thesis.
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