Startled, shocked, devastated…the pond drifted off to sleep knowing that in the morning it would wake to the nightmare of no Caterist on a Tuesday …
It was enough to make the pond's skin curl, and as everyone knows skin curling is to be avoided.
Best to send kids to schools to learn fundamentalist bigotry like the PM … Graudian here, Fairfax here …
Even more startling, the pond woke up in the middle of the night and caught a dose of the CrowdScience show on the BBC World Service (podcast here for those who can), and it was full of talk of fish changing sex on a dime, and that being turned into a multi-billion dollar industry for male fish, and Nemo not knowing if he had a mum or a dad, and birds swapping plumage and females going male, and the pond knew at once that it was even more evidence that the BBC was part of the Gramsci-swilling Marxist greenie horde intent on giving ScoMo skin-curling nightmares …
Why it was almost as disturbing as the news that the AFL had somehow invited that terrorist Waleed Ali to change the rules to the AFL without consulting the Bolter, and then somehow Media Watch seemed to think this was just an exemplary indication of the rampant bigotry at work in the HUN, the Bolter and Sam Newman …
The pond woke early in the morning with trans fish on the brain and feeling in need of hopping off the wagon, giving up the porridge and indulging in a stiff drink … but what did the reptiles have to offer as a consolation?
Oh fucketty fuck, but if the pond must, it'll give up talking about the rapture, and talking in tongues and skin curling only when certain politicians give up Swiss bank accounts and Gold Coast hookers …
Such a stupid man, and so lacking in humour ...
Yes, it was all good clean fun last night on Media Watch, but the pond felt in urgent need of a settling.
What could the reptiles offer in lieu of a decent dose of quarry-whispering Caterism? Perhaps a little au pair whispering?
Mr Potato Head turns up the au pair heat?
No, been there, done that, and in the end the pond settled for the top of the opinion page offering, some fair average - and thankfully short - climate science denialism from the dog botherer…
The pond could have doubled down. Dame Groan was also about with her now standard, almost daily rant offering abundant climate denialism, and the pond could have also gone there, but enough already … the reptiles will just have to queue for attention ...
Meanwhile, on another planet far, far away from reptile la la land and the 'leet bunker in Surry Hills …
A practical record and the reptiles howling and yowling to walk away from Paris and all the rest of the nonsense?
Presumably Payne is hoping that the Pacific islanders refuse to read the dog botherer and Dame Groan … but here we go, here we go …
Oh sheesh, the pond knows it's a short one, but the pond is already reaching for a blessed Pope just to make it through the blessed day, with more papal blessings here …
Ah, that feels so much better, the Black Stump gleaming in the distance, and the Bin Chickens out early and caught in the headlight glare … and only a short gobbet of denialism to go …
And remember how the pond couldn't be bothered with Dame Groan doing Paris? Naturally the dog botherer was all over Paris too ...
Oh yes, the dog botherer will never give up … the chance to fuck the planet as much as he managed to help fuck Iraq still lures him on, a glistening prize … and what a change in status, to shift from able minor war criminal to comprehensive planet fucker … why, it's like moving from one of the minor minions helping the Joker to the status of a Lex Luthor ...
What else? Well with climate denialism in the nostrils, the pond thought it might just have another snifter, a heart starter for the day, and who better to help kick into gear without benefit of stiff drink than a national treasure delivering a stiff laugh, with more national treasure Rowe here ...
Hardly worth noting as everyone outside the herpetarium knows already
ReplyDeletehttp://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-03/angus-taylor-energy-minister-power-price-solution-curious/10188496
It seems that Wee Angus, prior to election, was putting a proposal to the the party room that the RET be abandoned and that gas be the preferred option. The interesting thing is just how wrong the projections over pricing were. Wind projects are now coming in at about a third projected cost and gas is around three times projected. The actual is almost the exact reverse of the forecast result.
Which gets us to Chrome Dome above. It's an extension of the "no memory, no shame" paradigm. Ignore your own errors, add a few disproven assumption from the past, throw in a couple false dichotomies and the believers will follow.
Yes but, butt Bef, Angus just hates wind generators with a passion: the noise literally deafens people and there's a 10 foot deep pile of dead birds and bats around every turbine - even the ones out at sea.
DeleteAnd that's what makes wind so damningly expensive, mate.
Doggy Bov quoting Mr Ordinary: "What I won't do is I won't have a 50 per cent renewable energy target ..."
ReplyDeleteI wonder what, if anything, Mr Ordinary has to say about the goings on in the world's fifth largest economy, California. He could try this:
California is this close to its boldest energy target yet: 100% clean electricity
By David Roberts - Updated Sep 2, 2018, 10:34am EDT
Proposed legislation "actually sets three targets for California:
50 percent renewables by 2026
60 percent renewables by 2030
100 percent carbon-free energy by 2045"
See: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/8/31/17799094/california-100-percent-clean-energy-target-brown-de-leon
Just a little bit to compare with Dame Groan's report of renewables disaster in Germany (the world's fourth largest economy, but missing out on California's sun and wind).
Definition of 'factoid': "an item of unreliable information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact."
Doggy Bov: "Yes we have met our [Paris] targets so far -- but haven't we all noticed what that has done to electricity prices and reliability ?"
Haven't we all noticed how chock-a-block with factoids the scribblings of Murdochian reptiles are ? Those two - cost and unreliability due to renewables - are amongst their most favourite.
Correlation does not imply causation, except in the Murdoch press. I guess they can rely on readers not to fact-check.
DeletePersonally, I would be looking at a previous PM still wandering about with a sledge hammer when establishing the cause of high power prices.
For your amusement - The Parrot has kindly demonstrated by his response that he doesn't know what he is talking about
https://theconversation.com/factcheck-does-coal-fired-power-cost-79-kwh-and-wind-power-1502-kwh-44956
I think it was Conan, many years ago, who was talking about megawatt streams in relation to broadband - ouch! It could just be a slip of the tongue but I am pretty sure it is people reeling off talking points about subjects they know nothing about.
And even when correlation does show causation, it isn't always easy to determine in which direction the causality flows.
DeleteBut of course Parrott Jones is one of those favoured persons whose entire life consists of unfalsified factoids. of course he could say $1502 per KWH because he simply has no internal referents to raise any doubts.
I think your reference article (Conversation Fact Check) is a little out of date, too. Wind power these days is more like about $80 per MW.
But the other thing that never, ever gets a mention is the number of premature deaths from lung problems in the vicinity of coal mines - many more premature deaths per year, every year, than the entire death count due to asbestos. But then, we can live without asbestos, can't we; but we could never survive without good ol' Aussie coal oi oi oi.
$52 for Stockyard Hill
DeleteAnd you don't have to keep paying for the railways, roads, vehicles and drivers needed to keep your supply of fuel up.
DeleteBy the way, Bef, have you seen this one:
DeleteAngus Taylor condemns us to another round of energy stupidity
Simon Holmes à Court Tue 4 Sep 2018 13.18 AEST
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/04/angus-taylor-condemns-us-to-another-round-of-energy-stupidity
Fascinating what a Holmes à Court has become. Probably down to his mum rather than his dad, I'd guess.