First up is the admirable way that the onion muncher keeps on keeping on …
This time it was nattering "Ned" himself given the duty of lifting the onion muncher out of the muck and the mud and making him the focus of the story …
So much for the poor buggers who fought on the Kokoda track to stop the Japanese advance … but then the onion muncher probably doesn't like to think too much about World War II, Singapore, and the Poms leaving Australia to its own devices …
As soon as the pond reads a line like "our single greatest achievement", the pond smells the stench of political aggrandisement, mixed with a generous dose of rank stupidity …
It's like all the other mindless, meaningless, meretricious arguments about the single best novel or play or piece of music or movie, and reflects a maverick intent on an argument rather than any useful insight …
But kudos to the reptiles for catering to the naked parade of the most destructive ego Australian politics has seen in recent times, speaking of olden times as we are, up there with Billy Hughes himself …
And while on the subject of mavericks the pond must note the reptiles' decision to reproduce a solemn WSJ note …
It slowly builds to a punchline …as it seems even a few in the reptile empire worry about the Donald's penchant for porkies ...
What, the snake oil salesman is peddling fibs? Who would have thunk it?
Finally, the pond is pleased to see that the Canavan continues to sail on …
Naturally the reptiles were keen to report on this devout supporter of dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi … and naturally the onion muncher was mentioned in passing ...
Sadly while there was one valiant supporter of the caterwauling Canavan, there were also a few negative comments from the leftist twitterati that haunts the Major Mitchell's dreaming ...
So unfair to bring up the Canavan's ability to understand a form, and in caps too, as if form-reading had anything to do with his day job as rocket scientist and coal lover …
But as the Chinese hoax has once again reared its ugly head, the pond would like to note that it made many sacrifices this week, not least giving up the oscillating fan urging Malware to delay and delay, and Henry 'hole in the bucket' Ergas brooding about Karl Marx, and dammit the entire Speccie crew once again went missing in action …
The pond would like to supply evidence in relation to the Speccie mob …the feature was Andrew L. Urban, demonstrating why a lifetime watching movies was perhaps not the most ideal preparation for either writing about climate science or attempting satire …
A sample ...
At this point, the pond didn't see below, and thought that this feeble outing might serve as the turnip or the carrot in the bits and bobs stew.
Please allow the pond to remind stray viewers of Urban's impeccable scientific credentials, as outlined here …
Please allow the pond to remind stray viewers of Urban's impeccable scientific credentials, as outlined here …
The pond resolved not to watch a movie for a week … it might be too late to save the pond's mind in its entirety, but fears it might also be far too late for for Andrew (L.) Urban …
Oh, best not end on an intellectual note, best end with a cartoon …
Canavan's claim that Finkel said wind+storage is 70% more expensive than coal is, of course, bullshit, in the context of Schott's comment.
ReplyDeleteFinkel did find the cost of existing coal generation is cheaper than existing wind+storage, which is hardly surprising because the capital cost of building steampunk generators has been recovered years ago - their principal cost is just fuel. But Schott is talking about new construction, for which Finkel observed that new wind+new storage is already cheaper than new coal*.
So Schott is right, and the only explanation that needs to be offered to Matteo is "RTFM, you bonehead".
*Actually Finkel priced them at about equal just on build and operation atm, with wind falling and coal rising, but the cost of raising capital for a coal plant is higher, because even the risk that some future government might impose a price on carbon at any point during the life of the new coal plant harms its margins. This additional cost of finance makes new coal more expensive right now.
It won't make any difference, FD. Mattie could "read" the actual documentation as many times as you might like, and still all he would ever see is the litany of lies his 'identity cohort' have told him to believe.
DeleteBut I have to say I was most entertained by Andrew Urban and his tame "doctor", Michael Crawford. Oh no, CO2 isn't 'dirty' and it isn't a 'pollutant' - it's clean and lovely (and both it and H2O are contained in beer and champagne, for instance, so how could they possibly be bad ?).
But what really gets deep into my mind is just how incredibly perspicacious and accurate they are in self-appraisal as when Urban says:
"Such a parasite is slave to groupthink pressure, feigns principles but shuns evidence-based policy formulation, supports government largesse to Parasites Plebeian and Academus, lacks courage and fails the nation."
Now here's a few clues, perhaps:
1. Psychological projection is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against their own unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others.
2. The classic use of the term transference comes from psychoanalysis and includes: “the redirection of feelings and desires and especially of those unconsciously retained from childhood toward a new object.”
But we can't expect them to understand any of that either, can we.