Warning, there will be an excess of cartoons ahead, but first some genuine comedy ... with the Killer doing climate change ...
So how goes the news from Sweden?
The problem of course is that Killer is just following the company line, one featured in gobbets at SBS here ... we all remember the fuss, but perhaps another reminder is in order ...
Of course it's offensive to be quoting Malware, a man who fucked many things, not least the NBN, and it's equally offensive to speak of "Ned" as a great writer and journalist, when really he's just your specialist News Corp hack, but where was "Ned" this day in the lizard Oz?
Ah there he is, just across the way, up SloMo's bum in the usual reptile way, while a short stroll would have led him to bump into the Killer, going nuke in the standard reptile way, when confronted by the obscene Satanic notion of renewables ...
Naturally the infallible Pope was on hand to weave together these assorted ironies ...
And now, oh irony of ironies, the Killer, famous for his Swedish Waterloo, leads off with the pandemic producing a library of wildly wrong expert predictions, while failing to note his famous place in that library ...
Indeed, indeed, and where is nattering "Ned's" natter when it's needed?
And where is the Killer heading with all this?
Yep, that report curiously doesn't mention nuclear power.
This could be, of course, because nuclear has been comprehensively debunked as a solution, or it could simply be that the Killer, expert climate scientist that he is, caught up in the fog of News Corp climate wars, wants to lay out the sort of chaff used to confuse radar back in the old days of aerial combat ...
Yes, yes, go nuke, and by the way, things are going terribly well in Sweden, and there's the Killer at his glorious best ...
And now to a confession. The pond hasn't the slightest interest in the shock and horror that littered the News Corp rags in recent times about a 4 Corners story, but by golly, does it keep reverberating, which is why the pond simply couldn't let Dame Slap go ...
It will be famously remembered that Dame Slap donned a MAGA hat and slipped out into the streets of New York at night to celebrate the elevation of the Donald, what with him being a pussy groper of the first water, and so you might expect Dame Slap to be as expert on workplace bullying as she was devoted to a master pussy groper, the two things going so well together ...
Okay, the pond always shows its workings as it comes to a solution ... and the solution is to run Dame Slap to show the outrage machine at work, but also to celebrate Dame Slap's one-time love of the pussy groper in chief, and where that has led the United States and the world ...
It goes without saying that when it came to the pussy groper in chief, Dame Slap suspended her critical faculties ... so where are we now, apart from that troop drawdown, recently announced?
The pond apologises if this seems a frivolous approach to workplace issues, but the pond sees something akin to the Killer's coming out for nukes in Dame Slap talking of workplace bullying, without the faintest memory of her love for the master pussy groper ...
It will be noted that in all this, Dame Slap is playing the person rather than the issue. The pond is happy to note that this has long been her bullying style, long before she was infatuated with that master bully and pussy groper, now lurking in his bunker as the thousand year reich comes to a grinding halt ...
Frankly cartoons were the only reason the pond could get through its breach of Hunger Games rules and give Dame Slap a platform for her bullying ... with her final gobbet pretending that the Department of Finance was the right body to investigate such matters, a deplorable piece of stupidity down there with the government's incompetence in handling the matter, and ending with the notion that Dame Slap gives a fig or a toss for "genuine cases of bullying", after a career as a bullying commentator ...
After all that has gone down at Fox News in recent years - what a nest of sexist vipers - News Corp is suddenly a haven for those who care about the culture of a workplace?
Is it any wonder that the pond resorted to cartoons? Is it even more amazing that even Ramirez can be making jokes about the Donald?
Creighton: "cold-related health problems... would obviously decline." And that is why no one (with more than naught brains) pays any attention to the writings of Creighton (except to laugh at him). Climate change is about extremes, we are going to have a lot more hot weather, and a lot more cold weather - see e.g. https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-polar-vortex-1.4998820
ReplyDeleteShe's a way with an adjective does the Dame.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't a "relationship" with Tudge, it was a "failed relationship" - you see? Let's frame it another way. This time I'll try: "a relationship imbalanced by a completely inappropriate agency of ultimate power by one member".
Yeah, I think that sits perhaps a little more accurately.
Let me know if you're okay with that Slapper.
Yeah, not sure I'd trust any of that lot - Porter, Tudge or Cash - to know anything much about human interactions - other than in pursuing, and possibly enforcing, their own personal desires.
DeleteOK - I wasn’t going to comment on the Killer because it is all just so trite, and a long long way away from any kind of discussion of economics as that study is generally approached. Yet again - here is a report, the numbers are all quite unrealistic, so, in lieu of numbers - nuclear.
ReplyDeleteOn his record with response to COVID, we cannot assume that the Creighton is suggesting nuclear installations (and waste disposal) to the highest level of human security - after all, there is an economy to boost. But even with the sloppiest of design and construction - how long would he suggest it might take to power Girtby from nuclear plants? Oh - that must be in that ‘option value of waiting.’
Meanwhile - the Hornsdale battery was built within 100 days from inking the contract, and is (couldn’t resist) transforming the issue of managing distribution and regulation of wind and solar inputs to the grid.
Must say I can't recall ever having heard of that Pindyck chap though. Is he just another one on the reptile list of 'people who say what we want to hear' ? And if so, what would he have to say about Killer C's pronouncement that
Delete"a better option than an expensive and implausible 'green new deal' that only makes sense if the rest of the world does too" is "replacing ageing coal-fired power stations with the next generation of nuclear facilities" which I guess only makes sense if the rest of the world does too.
Pindyck, according to Killer C, is known for "his concept of 'the option value of waiting'. It's far better to wait and see how events turn out tomorrow rather than lock yourself into a particular strategy today you might regret." I guess this is the "do nothing until it's urgent and half of the human race has been annihilated" option - which does seem to accord with the way Sweden has reacted to COVID.
If you'd like a discussion on Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) and why RCP8.5 isn't to be ignored, then here:
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/33/19656
Then you can explain it all to me.
GB - again, thank you for that link. Interesting that that article was compiled in response to communication to 'Nature', main author from the 'Breakthrough Institute' in Oakland, California. Breakthrough Institute has some familiar names on its site - one of its founders being Michael Shellenberger - and it promotes nuclear energy, artificial fertilizers and genetically modified foods as the 'new' conservation. What goes around . . .
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure, Chad. And I do have to confess that I'd be 100% supportive of nuclear fission power, artificial fertilizers and GMO foods if only I could be assured that would conserve the environment - but it won't, sadly because too many reptiles, wingnuts and their running dog lackeys are of the "wait until it's inescapable catastrophe before doing anything" brand as espoused by Pindyck.
DeleteBut not bothering with nuclear - since the increasing solar energy and increasing wind circulation (plus green hydrogen-ammonia and green metallurgy etc) - plus large acreages of rooftop farming plus 'vegieburgers' and we might just be able to manage artificial fertilizer and GMO crops without significant impact on the 'natural world'.
But truth is, it's already too late: what is in train now - like no Arctic freezing and release of underground, and under ice, methane (like is happily bubbling away all over Siberia, even as we speak) will do for our world quite nicely, thanks.