Each day the pond has to make some brutal choices, as many reptiles come calling, but only some can be chosen ...
Look at today's line up, as seen blearily by the pond early in the morning to the sound of a steady trickle of rain, a sound which has been the constant companion for those living in certain areas of the east for some time ...
The pond rarely looks at ancient Troy, but how could the pond give up on a good groaning?
Up against a good groaning, surely the Killer and his obsession with masks was expendable ...or at least deserving only a select gobbet ... because the pond long ago gave up on Killer's Freudian obsession with masks ... and so the pond decided to offer only a single gobbet, just enough of a taster to keep punters wanting more ...
Terrified of being cancelled? Is that the same as being terrified of sociopathic Vlad the impaler's bombs?
Yes, there's a war going down, and all that Killer could scribble about was his fear of masks ...
Killer is deeply concerned about the suffering of immortal students, immune to Covid. Is there an elderly teacher in the tutorial room? Don't you worry about that, let's clear out the deadwood of ageing academics, and with a bit of luck, reptiles scribbling for the lizard Oz ...
At least Dame Groan knew the right sort of thing to have a good groaning about.
Up the ante from fucking Ukraine to fucking the planet ... (yes, the pond did get some relief from John Oliver calling Putin a fucking dickhead, but sticks and stones and all that).
So it's on with the groaning, and whatever you do, don't mention actual climate science ...
It should go without saying to experienced herpetologists that Dame Groan is a climate science denialist, and everything she scribbles should be read with that in mind.
The pond is sure that Dame Groan would, if she could, link migrants and big Australia to the problem of a warming planet, but she can't, can she, because that would mean accepting that climate science is an issue ...
Yes, there's been a huge dump of rain in the east ... and meanwhile, in the west ...
And so on, but neither wet nor heat will get Dame Groan agitated ... it's on with coal and burning fossil fuels.
Indeed, indeed, and as for the planet? Or perhaps just down the road, where at least driving through the local flooding has washed the redbacks out of the bottom of the pond's car?
And so to the last gobbet of a good groaning ...
Meanwhile, in another country on another planet far removed from Planet Dame Groan (which moves in the same universe as Dame Slap's, above the faraway tree), help is on the way from DumDom and SloMo ...
And for those wondering what Wilcox (and the infallible Pope earlier in the day) were referencing, here's the tweet ... with video ...
"Yes, there's a war going down, and all that Killer could scribble about was his fear of masks..." I think that's just Parkinson's Law of Triviality, DP. When you are a reptile of vanishingly small brain, you can only comprehend vanishingly small things. Pity that applies to the vast majority of homo saps saps.
ReplyDelete"Yes, there's been a huge dump of rain in the east ... and meanwhile, in the west..."
ReplyDeleteNow, now, there's no point bringing up record heat and rain, you know that the Doggy Bov will simply quote the "corrections" made to sun and rain records to show that it's been exactly like that for at least one billion years (and maybe two).
After all, eukaryotes have been on the planet for nearly 2.7 billion years and they're still around (they is us and we is them).
Great Groaning re a 'green hydrogen' generator plant: "In reality, this policy position makes no sense, requiring even more renewable energy to generate the hydrogen and undercutting the commercial case for the plant." Except, of course, that the "renewable energy generators" already generate, over the sunny period of the day, more energy than is needed for domestic and most industrial use, so the excess can just be used to electrolyse a lot of seawater (using the Stanford Uni long lasting electrodes) and then create bulk ammonia which can be shipped around the world - especially to Japan and maybe even to the EU.
ReplyDeleteAnd just wait until we get all those lovely offshore wind generators at East Gippsland where the wind never rests.
Then there's the "inertia" setup too:
Onward inertia! The secret source for keeping the lights on and greening the grid
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/07/onward-inertia-the-secret-source-for-keeping-the-lights-on-and-greening-the-grid
Oh my, the Groany knows even less than the Killer.
However, say on, Groany: "the Coalition's policy approach ... focuses on technological solutions rather than using taxes to induce lower emissions." What do we think it would take to get the reptiles and wingnuts to actually notice that basically we already have the essential technology and that it's mainly a matter of getting it set up and used. For which "tax imposts" (and the relief thereof) can be a great motivator.
"the Coalition's policy approach ... focuses on technological solutions rather than using taxes to induce lower emissions." Taking these guy's advice on technology is a bit like taking diet advice from Clive Palmer.
DeleteThe odd thing is that a high penetration of renewables is much easier in Oz than most other countries.
https://twitter.com/DavidOsmond8/status/1232927149654327296
Dame Groan is actually right in criticising Labor, but for the wrong reason of course. The Kurri plant will be a white elephant, take a look at the Colongra gas peaker on the central coast
https://twitter.com/simonahac/status/1307843315920826370
https://theconversation.com/labors-plan-to-green-the-kurri-kurri-gas-power-plant-makes-no-sense-176157
The power station proposal is basically an anchor project justifying an extension of the Moomba Sydney pipeline. It's a solution looking for a problem with big doses of political expedience and grift added in.
Thank the long absent lord that there are readers who do more than groan at the Groaner groaning away ...
DeleteDoing things that "make no sense" (other than 'expedience and grift') is basically an article of faith for Australia's politicians, Bef. Part of the problem seems to be that neither the Libs nor the Labs consult with people who actually know what they're talking about. Hence 'government' in Australia has been an 'identity politics' shamble for some time.
DeleteAnd thanks for the pointer to Woodley's Kurri article, I missed that one.
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteIs this too obvious?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4av6Ba88hNM
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The autoplay led me on to the next segment with Francis holding a gun to his head. Even that's too subtle for the reptiles ...
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