Talk about a crisis in reptile confidence, down there with forgetting lines and drying on stage …
What could the reptiles possibly do with the new SloMo "plan", a pitiful re-run of the onion muncher's notions?
What could the reptiles possibly do with the new SloMo "plan", a pitiful re-run of the onion muncher's notions?
Nothing much, came the answer.
Anyone interested could spot it down the page on the tree killer edition, exeunt bottom right, below the reptiles worrying about the banks …because everyone loves and cares about the banks so …though the banks and the dawn service probably seemed like the best way of hiding the bad poll news … one scare campaign down, and Simon left to conduct the funeral rites …
Anyone interested could spot it down the page on the tree killer edition, exeunt bottom right, below the reptiles worrying about the banks …because everyone loves and cares about the banks so …though the banks and the dawn service probably seemed like the best way of hiding the bad poll news … one scare campaign down, and Simon left to conduct the funeral rites …
It was left to Lloydie to rise to the challenge and make something of of the "new" climate policy, and build it up big …
Of course Lloydie is usually more comfortable recycling IPA propaganda, and scribbling climate science denialist drivel, so it was a tough ask …but no doubt he lathered up reams and reams of slobbering support ...
That's it, that's all, he wrote? ...
Pathetic, really, but then it's a tough sell.
After explaining all these years why climate science is a nonsense, and clean dinkum true blue Oz coal is the planet's salvation, it takes an incredibly resourceful actor to emanate sincerity …
Alas, poor coal lover, we knew him well ...
Pathetic, really, but then it's a tough sell.
After explaining all these years why climate science is a nonsense, and clean dinkum true blue Oz coal is the planet's salvation, it takes an incredibly resourceful actor to emanate sincerity …
Alas, poor coal lover, we knew him well ...
Is that a lump I see before me?
And what of the Surry Hills 'leet? How could they adjust their performance? Here the pond thought stagecraft might provide an answer. Should they go full, glowering Marlon method? Or should they adopt the blithe insouciance of Larry, and why not try acting ... just act, dear boy, just act …
And what of the Surry Hills 'leet? How could they adjust their performance? Here the pond thought stagecraft might provide an answer. Should they go full, glowering Marlon method? Or should they adopt the blithe insouciance of Larry, and why not try acting ... just act, dear boy, just act …
The Swiss bank account man didn't bother with any method nonsense … he stayed honest and true, by explaining that climate science is little more than mindless stupidity ...
And there was a parade of like minds, with the dog botherer out and about …and naturally it was all the fault of the ABC ...
Apparently in the valley of the twits, the one-eyed dog botherer is king … and what you know, Brian Fisher was dusted off yet again ...
For those who came in late to the story, the pond felt the need to re-run a piece it borrowed from Crikey what seems like aeons ago …
Ah that feels better, how good to be back in 2001, the pond feels a lot livelier.
And better still, there's only a short gobbet of the minor war criminal to go ...
And better still, there's only a short gobbet of the minor war criminal to go ...
Never mind, this is a major day for the reptiles. The government announces its new climate policy, the reptiles bury it, and all the loons come out on stage, and the pond must pay attention …
Why there's the Caterist, going all Larry, and suddenly pretending he gives a flying fuck about emissions and climate and all the rest of it …
Well he could hardly go method, could he? He's an honest thespian, with government cash in the paw for his performance, and he'll do it all like a survivor of repertory in provincial England …
And what do you know, that Crikey piece will still come in handy ...
And what do you know, that Crikey piece will still come in handy ...
Fisher, Fisher, Fisher … what a murmuration of fuckwits, all chanting the same song. But it makes performing easy. No chance of going dry. Prompt, next line … oh just say Fisher … or perhaps blather a bunch of meaningless statistics so mind boggling that you'll have them rolling in the aisles ...
Um, actually, if they read the lizard Oz, they'd be reminded on a daily basis that BoM is a conspiracy, climate science a hoax and a fraud and the IPA the shining light on the hill …and the Caterists would be out there chanting along that there's no such thing as global warming, so why do anything …and yet, suddenly the wretched tosser wants us to believe he gives a flying toss ...
Dear sweet long absent lord, it must be hard to take to the stage day after day to explain what a nonsense climate science is, and then get back up and explain how the lizards of Oz are ably assisting the federal government to produce an astonishing policy response to climate science … and everything's for the best in a warming world, which isn't actually warming, but never mind, just for the sake of the argument and the performance, we must pretend that it is ...
Naturally the pond saved the best performance to last … if you're going to go through a three hour plus Oscar ramble, the best picture must be the last gong to come out … and the Major is surely the best lizard gong of all …(is that why he's so obsessed with lost medals?)
Of course a reptile never forgets … climate science is a hoax, and the future is dinkum clean Oz true blue coal, oi, oi, oi ...
So much pain, and all for a hoax, and only the reptiles ready to reveal the hoax and the folly of trying to do anything, because you know, any coal that Australia ships abroad has got nothing to do with anything.
Why for all the exporter knows, they might try to make diamonds as big as the Ritz out of the stuff. Some might burn a little, but what's that got to do with us?
Yes, follow the logic. China is the largest emitter, and much of that will be fired by Australian coal, but Australia is doing nothing to make things worse, because … climate science is a hoax, and the Chinese know it, and it's all a conspiracy, and besides …
Yes, Crikey spotted it, but got the detail a little wrong …
Surely it should be the Oz Fishers …
Oh to the Major, still back in the good old days, when a scare campaign meant something and the enemies were clear - the wicked Fairfaxians, the derelict ABC, and the humbug Graudian was just a foreign gleam in the eye - and a few bits of coal dust were likely to send these wretches into a cry-baby funk …
How times have changed. Who could imagine it, a time when the reptiles could suddenly find it in their hardened hearts to cheer on the CFMEU and its bullying tactics, because anyone who loves coal is a friend of the lizard Oz … especially if it helps the scare campaign, what with the boats and the mutton Dutton and border security apparently a bit of a fizzle …
Yes, the reptiles, the Daily Terror, the lizard Oz and the Major all lining up with the CFMEU to save dear sweet innocent clean dinkum Oz coal ...
Oh fucketty fucketty fuck, how many times is it that the reptiles have trotted out Brian Fisher this day? And did that Crikey reminder come in handy or what?
Yes, it's coal, coal, coal, oi, oi, oi, the murmuration of loons mumble in a method way …
No improvisation is allowed, stick to the script, and it's Fisher for us, a fisher for coal and a fisher for denialism, but for the pond, the Major's most singular advance was that at last he'd stopped talking of Fairfax, and instead used the peculiar construction "parts of the Channel Nine media."
No improvisation is allowed, stick to the script, and it's Fisher for us, a fisher for coal and a fisher for denialism, but for the pond, the Major's most singular advance was that at last he'd stopped talking of Fairfax, and instead used the peculiar construction "parts of the Channel Nine media."
Oh you know who you are, parts of the Nine media … you bloody Fairfaxians by another name, with your fiendish coal hating and your wretched attacks on the noble onion muncher, under assault by globalists who dare to drive expensive European cars … as opposed to the honest little Citroën 2CV the Major trundles about in when he's not using his battery-powered bicycle. Say what, it's French … oh, will the globalists ruin everything?
Now some might think it would have been simpler just to run the Fisher yarn again, instead of all these little Sir Echoes, and some might wonder if the pond understands there's a real world out there, beyond the reptile bubble …
But reptile obsessions are roughly the same as having a pacifier in the mouth, and everybody loves a pacifier …
If it's not Caroline Overington, it's John Anderson, though being rustic, he prefers to have his thumb in his mouth …
Sorry Jordan, but if you've got a man with a few sheep short in the top paddock as your supporter, no story or reptile splash can possibly redeem you …
Life's about more than happiness?
Life's about dinkum clean Oz true blue coal, you Canadian loon …you can only get a warm fuzzy feeling from climate science denialism, and if that results in a suffering planet, there's your happiness and your meaning all in one ...
And now, thanks to Rowe, the pond feels the need to note the real world, even if it only involves stand-up comedy on a global scale, with more comedy to be found here …
Yes, we're a long way from plum pudding but clicking on the image will produce a larger slice ...
Fisher or CSIRO? Hmmm - hard choice.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2018/Annual-update-finds-renewables-are-cheapest-new-build-power
No point fact checking these loons, you would be here all day only to come to the same conclusion as every other day you have done this.
I have to bite on one point however - the LNP are "problem-solvers"? Even someone unfamiliar with Australian politics would notice that the LNP talk almost exclusively about what Labor might do not what they have done themselves. Their singular achievement, if you can call it that, offshore processing dates back a decade and was aided and abetted by Labor in any case.
Conservative reactionaries seem to live in a hazy time-warp where everything can and should remain the same. Coal plants wont be "sacrificed" for ideology, the coal units average 33 years of age, breakdowns and the cost of repairs will do them in. Hazelwood had a 400 million repair cost. A bit like granddad's old clunker, the maintenance costs on something with very poor utility make the decision very easy.
"Economics has a longer pedigree than climatology" says the Caterist. And astrology has an even longer pedigree! Or, as Galbraith said, "the only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable".
ReplyDeleteFor your amusement:
Deletehttps://steinbuch.wordpress.com/2017/06/12/photovoltaic-growth-reality-versus-projections-of-the-international-energy-agency/
You can find similar for other renewables or storage. The idiocy really stands out in a graphical representation. Picking away at individual data points doesn't show the overall pattern.
As for economics, you only have to go back to the GFC. The masters of the universe didn't have the faintest what was going to happen or what would follow. V shaped or U shaped recovery? Hyperinflation, stagflation or deflation? The orthodox models all had a strong reversion to mean built in however, saying tomorrow will be like today isn't really forecasting.
These observations may not tell you who to believe but they do tell who you should probably ignore.
On "the enduring popularity of financial astrology, even today", see https://aeon.co/essays/how-economists-rode-maths-to-become-our-era-s-astrologers
DeleteWell economics can be considered to 'predate' climatology, but even so, not by as much as may be commonly thought.
Delete'Economics' as a modern 'science' is considered to have commenced with the work of William Petty in 1687:
http://www.timelinesdb.com/listevents.php?subjid=464&title=economics
Whereas climatology as an identifiable separate science (ie not just consisting of meteorology and related studies) is considered to date from Joseph Fourier in 1824:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/03/31/Intro.timeline/index.html
So, about 137 years, but neither economics nor climatology burst onto the scene. They both started slowly, and gradually crept up on us.
Now here's something from the Mad Maj. Mitch that I'm grappling just a little bit with: "We have already lost the car assembly business ..."
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that "we" actually had a "car assembly business" to lose. We certainly had a "car manufacturing industry" - comprising GM-Holden, Ford and Toyota, also Nissan until fairly recently, which was closed down by The Muncher for ideological reasons - and I know that there was always some assembly work to do on most of the imported autos, since few arrived in fully road-capable condition; but a car assembly business ?
And even if we did have one, why would an "assembly" business be closed down because of a power "shortage" ? It'd just be a basic bit of motor and bodywork 'engineering' on some sort of assembly line, wouldn't it ? Not a huge power grabber I would have thought.
So, can anybody interpret The Maj's meanderings for us, please ? Or is he just trying to distract us from thinking about Lenin Medals, d'you think ?
Sure we had an assembly business, some of which evolved into full-scale manufacture. VW used to assemble models including Golfs here from CKD (completely knocked down) kits at Clayton. Also, we assembled Triumphs at Port Melbourne (where they later manufactured Toyotas) and BMC/BL vehicles at Zetland in Sydney. Not being an expert on assembly plants, I can't remember the others but I think they assembled stuff in Brisbane and Adelaide as well. It was a 'thing' for a while.
DeleteDon't get me wrong, Mitchell is an idiot, but the real issue is that a lot of people put in a lot of effort for a long time into industrial development here and it took Hockey and Abbott five minutes to pull it all down. My contempt for these idiots is boundless. Slomo is merely a hack in comparison and none of us can afford to rest until they are all consigned to the dustbin of history and Merde-och starts paying taxes.
Thanks for that, Anony. I am, of course, vaguely aware that we 'assembled' a lot of our imported motors since we clearly didn't manufacture them - and, as noted, I expect we do some amount of assembly even now and we will continue to do some amount of assembly for quite some time to come. But of course BMC/BL is, amongst others, long gone, so why would Mitchell be referring to them as an "assembly business" that has somehow been "lost" now ?
DeleteAnd for all those who think it only works when the sun shines:
ReplyDeleteFrom the Washington Post, “The next money crop for farmers: Solar panels”:
"ORION, Ill.— Randy DeBaillie pointed to the power meter on his snow-covered farm: Even on a foggy, monochromatic day, with the sun barely piercing the clouds, the flat black panels planted nearby in two long rows were generating electricity.
“There’s enough energy produced to run the whole complex,” said DeBaillie, 50, who farms 6,500 acres with his brother and cousin. They typically grow corn and soybeans each spring, but this year they want to put more solar panels on 15 acres — and sell the energy.
The earnings, he said, would be about three times what an average harvest would yield there."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-next-money-crop-for-farmers-solar-panels/2019/02/22/2cf99e8c-3601-11e9-854a-7a14d7fec96a_story.html?utm_term=.660ab3eb5273
Ummm...$2 billion over 10 years, $200 mill a year, with an abatement cost of $12 per tonne. That's 17 million tonnes per year, out of Australia's total emissions of 560 million tonnes per year; 3%. If the were only putting up $1 billion, they would only be reducing by 1.5%. Remember, Australia's emissions are 1.5% of the global total - insignificant, getting rid of them would make no difference...
ReplyDeleteThat's some bang for your buck. $1 billion - insignificant. $2 billion - big deal. That's reptile economics for you...perhaps the Caterist (or perhaps the Fisher man) can explain?