Someone at the lizard Oz has a rich sense of comedy ... what a juxtaposition this morning ...
Sadly the pond wasn't in the mood for the Major blathering about the voice - red card on the spot - because there was one media story doing the rounds that is a genuine delight, and unfortunately the Major couldn't touch it with the proverbial ten foot barge pole...
Google as you please, you'll find more juice and Succession-style entertainment, liars defending their lies, just not from the Major ...
The pond would have accepted a variation if the Major had taken the time to note the latest in the Clarence Thomas saga ...
Not to worry, it's no Major loss for the pond because the reptiles produced some astonishing outings this day ...
Look, there's Moorice, in top notch climate science denialist form, taking the reptiles back to long ago, almost forgotten days ...
But like the planet, Moorice was just warming up ... you know, Climategate and all that, and climate catastrophists, and ...
Say what? Heretics let loose to run riot with heresies in the lizard Oz!?
What's that? It was in the business section, so the reptiles hoped nobody would notice?
Luckily there was a response from the readership ... who knows, perhaps it was Lloydie of the Amazon, or Moorice himself, scribbling under deep cover, quarking away as QuarkIan...
Indeed, indeed, what a splendid readership the reptiles have, and at this point in the Moorice piece, the reptiles ran a snap of the man in charge of the local branch of the global conspiracy ... and naturally the pond cut it down to size, lest a stray Oz reader stumble on the snap and quark themselves into a frenzy ...
Then there was a final burst of quarking from Moorice, celebrating the intrepid work of Lloydie of the Amazon ...
Yet again John Abbott of the IPA ... memorialised way back in 2017 ...with partner Jennifer ...
People who work for climate science denial thinktanks tend not to spend all that much time worrying about getting stuff into scientific journals.
Perhaps because it’s easier, people who are paid to tell the public and policy makers that human-caused climate change is overblown bunk would rather pump out newspaper columns, do softball interviews or push out their own self-published reports. There’s a lot less scrutiny in that kind of public relations.
So when two staffers at Australia’s Institute of Public Affairs managed to get some “science” into a journal earlier this month, there was much delight in conservative media outlets, together with a distinct lack of any genuine scepticism.
“Global Warming Is Almost Entirely Natural, Study Confirms,” wrote Breitbart. “Advanced Computer Models Suggest Most Global Warming Is From Natural Forces,” said the Daily Caller.
One of the authors, Jennifer Marohasy, took to the Spectator to claim her research had shown that recent global warming was almost entirely natural. The web traffic behemoth the Drudge Report also linked to Marohasy’s article.
None of the writers bothered to ask a single other genuine climate scientist for their view on the paper.
I asked five. They variously summarised the research as “junk science” and seriously flawed. Oh dear...
Perhaps because it’s easier, people who are paid to tell the public and policy makers that human-caused climate change is overblown bunk would rather pump out newspaper columns, do softball interviews or push out their own self-published reports. There’s a lot less scrutiny in that kind of public relations.
So when two staffers at Australia’s Institute of Public Affairs managed to get some “science” into a journal earlier this month, there was much delight in conservative media outlets, together with a distinct lack of any genuine scepticism.
“Global Warming Is Almost Entirely Natural, Study Confirms,” wrote Breitbart. “Advanced Computer Models Suggest Most Global Warming Is From Natural Forces,” said the Daily Caller.
One of the authors, Jennifer Marohasy, took to the Spectator to claim her research had shown that recent global warming was almost entirely natural. The web traffic behemoth the Drudge Report also linked to Marohasy’s article.
None of the writers bothered to ask a single other genuine climate scientist for their view on the paper.
I asked five. They variously summarised the research as “junk science” and seriously flawed. Oh dear...
Oh dear, and did Moorice just suggest that the planet is filling up with hot air? And possibly hot oceans, and possibly hot earth?
Bring back the dinosaurs, the pond says in a quarking frenzy, and speaking of dinosaurs, the Caterist was also out and about this day ...
Relax, it's just a couple of institutes in the ring, with the Caterist protecting his turf, as you'd expect in a pissing contest ...
And he does have turf to protect, because he has a nice little earner on the side ...
And so to a final treat, and the Killer was on the loose this day, still brooding about Covid ...
Yes, in a way, it's tragic, verging on the pathetic ... but the pond always pauses to listen...
Indeed, indeed, no biggie and how kindly of Killer to ignore the latest news ... though it would have been easy enough to find and mention ...
What's truly terrifying for Killer is the sight of people in masks, and sure enough the reptiles obliged with a snap of a dictator hiding behind a sinister mask ...
What's the bet the Bjorn-again one will also make an appearance? No, don't take the bet, the pond would feel guilty about taking your money ...
If you're old, you've gotta go sometime, and you might as well go with a dose of Covid as the sinister, hideous alternative ... making the Killer wear a mask!
Don't forget that tyranny! And it wasn't a fun mask either ... you know like the one that Hugo got to wear ...
The pond thought it should slip that one in because naturally Killer wraps up this time in the killing fields with a rant about freedumb ... with the freedumb to die high on Killer's list of civic virtues ...
Mandatory mask-wearing? Oh not the bromancer's beloved Hindu fundamentalists as well ...
Dr Griffin says people appear to have forgotten about aerosolised spread, so, he says: "we really need to wear the appropriate filter masks, improve indoor air quality and ventilate rooms."
Never mind the kids copping a dose of conjunctivitis, will Killer's suffering never end? Will he have to endure another bout of living with mask-lovers?
And so, with the pond bloated by climate science and Covid denialism, and slavering at the thought of sharing some cash in the paw with the Caterist, it's time to wrap things up with an immortal Rowe for the day ... a shout-out to the sadly red-carded Major ...
Ah Major, Major, it's always in the details, look, there's that news of the roadkill ...
It’s Nostalgia Monday!
ReplyDeleteMoorice taken out of mothballs, dusting off the ol’ tinfoil hat and whinging about the BOM’s data conspiracy like it’s 2014 - I don’t know what proportion of the agency’s staff work full-time on doctoring records and hiding their workings, but I suggest that Moorice, Dr Jennifer and the rest of the hard-working conspiracists take a good hard look at its Org. Chart. Perhaps this QuarkIan chap could have a sticky-beak?
Then it’s the Caterist, once again hypocritically whinging about excessive government expenditure on things other than Right Wing think tanks, and providing the day’s obligatory reference to Menzies. Nick seems to have taken his demotion pretty well, and it’s reassuring to know that the GFC was an insignificant blip.
As for the Killer, how many times has he rehashed his complaints about Covid prevention measures, and masks in particular, and the saga of his heroic resistance? What’s he going to do if he ever needs some new material? When are we going to get some detail on his “torrent of hate mail”, which I suspect was probably more a tiny trickle of polite contrary views, because really, does anyone really think that thousands out there read Killer’s scribblings, let along bother responding? Still, at least he’s given the Hole in the Bucket Man some competition, unearthing another long-dead statesman as a source of impressive but meaningless quotes.
All accompanied by a typical selection of shithouse graphics, mostly of long-departed pollies. Is it editorial policy to include at least one pic of the Lying Rodent?
Ah, the Oz - where every day, everything old is…. well, still old.
It was Anon, they were spinning the platters that matter and the pond was swept back in time, and as for Killer's torrents of hate mail, does this mean that the lizard Oz paywall is porous and any riff raff can access the thoughts of the reptiles without handing over a shekel or three to chairman Rupert?
DeleteThe pond almost felt like doing Kez, but is no match for the master...
Out on the road today
I saw a Deadhead Moorice sticker on a gas-guzzling Cadillac
A little voice inside my head said
“Don't look back, you can never look back”
I thought he knew what climate science was, what did I know?
Those days are gone forever
I should just let him go but...
I can see him
His balding pate comb over shining in the sun
He got the top pulled down and the
Lizard Oz open, baby
I can tell your climate science denialism will still be strong
Long after the dinosaurs of blazing hot summers have gone
Nice one DP. I especially like your use of odd metre to accentuate the dysphoric imagery of Jack Nicholson wannabe Moorice prowling around LA in a 6 mpg Caddie.
DeleteThis one's for recidivist Moorice. From the same year as Boys Of Summer. Apologies to Cindy Lauper.
Lie After Lie
Lying's
In my blood
Working for
Murdoch
That's nothing new
Endlessly
Sowing
Confusion
Is what I do
Rehash
Rewrite
Till I'm going
Blind
Repeating
Fallacies
Lie after...
Some nights
I sit here
With tinfoil
Upon my head
I wear it
So I
Won't hear
What's being said
If I
Did so
I would lose my mind
My brain would
Just unwind
If I'm faced
With the facts
Then I'll deny them
Time after time
If it's not
Pseudo-science
I'll debate it
Lie after lie
All I do is
Is bang on
About the climate
Time after time
Its my job
To write crap and
Regurgitate it
Lie after lie...
:)³ That lyric, lie after lie, could come in handy for almost any reptile on any given day at the lizard Oz ...
DeleteThanks DP. Just change the pronouns and it becomes their mission statement.
DeleteJust in passing, NickyC: "There was a time when governments that persistently spent more money than they received were considered irresponsible." Oh yeah, national economies are really just the same as household budgets, aren't they. NickyC knows as much about economies as he knows about floodwaters.
ReplyDeleteBut anyway, a comment fom Stephen Koukoulas (MD of Market Economics) back in 2014:
"I was having a look at that 42-odd years of complete history on budgets,’ he says, ‘and in those 42 years, roughly half of those years we've had a surplus, roughly half we've had a deficit ...". Yeah, a half-and-half economy.
And:
"The notion of balanced budgets is tied to the idea that we want to have a society in which we are not implicitly taxing the future to pay for our consumption today,’ says [David Primo, Assoc Prof, Rochester Uni]. ‘That is, in essence, what deficit spending and government debt does; we are pushing the bill out until later but enjoying the benefits of the government spending today.’"
Both quotes from: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/a-history-of-australian-budget-surpluses-and-deficits/5446434
GB - perhaps the Nicky is scrimping and saving to accumulate the slab of money he should pay to the Wagners. Coming from the UK, and being a man of personal honour, we could be sure that he will not rest until he has settled that debt, in the finest spirit of accountability. Of course, it will take deeply dedicated scrimping to accumulate a cool million, which might explain his near obsession with household budgetting.
DeleteOh of course, Chad: just an honourable gentleman endeavouring to pay off his honour-bound obligation. How could I have thought otherwise.
DeleteBut he clearly has much difficulty with the concept of 'borrowing from yourself' doesn't he - as apparently does the reserve bank. But anybody who has ever taken out a mortgage that's many times their annual earnings understands that; it may be via a bank, but you are borrowing from yourself by way of expected future earnings.
reighton: Historians will not look back at the figures of how many died from or with Covid-19. Instead they will look at excess deaths, the number of deaths compared to what might have been expected.”
ReplyDeleteLeaving aside that this is not what historians have done with regard to previous pandemics, let’s take the Murdochian economic logic of Creighton and transpose it to Cater’s dilemma on spending and budgets.
So: we only should look at spending which is in excess of what we expect and Cater is expecting the Labor Party to spend 27% of GDP, so what’s his problem, Creighton would ask. It’s only the excess we should count (that is, more than 27 % percent).
Let’s face it, the inland rail white elephant has blown out way more than we expected and yet the Murdochians, including Cater, don’t mention it at all.
If we’re predicting the focus of future historians of the pandemic, I wager they’ll take a great interest in the actions of the Reptiles, the kissing cousins at Fox and their influence on the MAGA mob.
DeleteWell here's just a few numbers to consider:
Delete.................Per Mill Total Infections
Sweden 2,265 23,897 2,702,703
Australia 760 19,906 11,153,745
So how can Sweden with nearly 3 times the Australian number for 'Deaths per Million' and 1.2 times the Total number of deaths with a population that's 40% of Australia's (10.41 vs 26 million) be counted as in any way at all - other than the usual reptile bullshit lies - as a better result that Australia ?
Oops: and look at the Infections cases numbers: for far fewer Infections cases than Australia, Sweden had many more deaths. How does that work ? How does that reflect in the 'excess deaths' count ?
DeleteThe numbers come from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rates_by_country#Map_of_death_rates
Hard to imagine how historians have managed through the millenia without editorial notes from Killer, or Polonious, or bless his warm tin hat, the delectable Moorice!
DeleteYet somehow they manage.
Only just though, Anony, only just.
DeleteOne might wonder if Maurice Newman went about researching possible investments for Deutsche Bank in the same way he considers 'reaearch' into climate data. His 'Wiki' entry shows someone who clearly was very good at being in the club - the remarkably small number of people who occupy the majority of corporate board positions in Australia, but, as has often been observed, the prime qualification for acceptance there is being generally a 'good chap', and 'collegial'. The one individual company he is listed as chairing - 'ACRUX' pharmaceutical, seems to have had a share price around 70cents when he stood down in 2003. It subsequently hit peaks around $4 through 2011-2013, but is on offer at 6cents this day. Otherwise, much of his 'business' career involved appointments to assorted 'advisory' or other government bodies, by the Howard/Costello administration (including, of course, the ABC - with a brief to 'sort it out').
ReplyDeleteMaurice was involved with the various arms of Deutsche Bank in Australia for 17 years. Deutsche, particularly in the USA, has an unsavory reputation, but then all major banks have plumbed new depths of fiscal depravity through the last 30 years or so, so it is probably unfair to suggest that Maurice was actively involved in the downward plunge; more likely he just took the fees, and otherwise did not make a fuss, just as he did for so many other appointments.
Nothing in his several accessible biogs. hint at any kind of reputation as an incisive researcher for any of his appointments.
Deutsche is truly deplorable Chadders and then of course there's the dance with the Donald ...
DeleteThe Trump Organization had done business with Deutsche Bank since the 1990s, but the pivot point in their shared history came in 2011 when the company switched from the commercial real estate division of the bank to the private wealth management division, according to the complaint.
In September 2011, Jared Kushner introduced his brother-in-law Donald Trump Jr. to Rosemary Vrablic, a managing director and senior banker at Deutsche Bank. Over the next decade, Vrablic would become known as Trump’s “personal banker.” (Vrablic resigned in December 2020 along with fellow Deutsche Bank banker Dominic Scalzi after violating internal bank rules by personally investing in an apartment partially owned by Kushner, a client. Vrablic and Scalzi are currently barred by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or Finra, from acting as brokers. Scalzi is not named in the complaint.)
And so on and on ...
https://qz.com/how-donald-trump-got-his-deutsche-bank-loans-1849580784
Delicate little vignette there, thank you Dorothy.
DeleteLooking into the exchanges between those interfering New York AG people, and Trump attorney Alina Habba, I wondered if the Trump side would try invoking the famous "Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrization of Infinitely Differentiable Riemannian Manifold" as their guide to recalculating the value of real estate holdings as security for Trump's line of loans.
DeleteOK, there is the tiny problem of which author they should credit with that paper, but I think a well-informed judge in the US system would accept Lobachevsky. ;-)
Oh dear, Chad:
Deletehttps://youtu.be/UQHaGhC7C2E
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DeleteThanks for that Chad and DP. I hadn't heard that one before. IMHO Tom Lehrer is the epitome of intellectual satire.
DeleteHe certainly was back in 1953 when I understand that song (Lobachevsky) was brought to an unsuspecting world of tv entertainment. But just think: a maths teacher back then could be paid all of US$3000 per annum - unheard of riches and luxury.
DeleteKez - if we can bring you small pleasures like that, it is only in partial return for the great works you bestow on us when the muse is with you. Incidentally - Lehrer is still with us, at age 95; a treasure to several nations.
DeleteSeconded, Chad. And re Lehrer, some of his works are still word-for-word accurate:
Delete1965 Pollution
https://youtu.be/nz_-KNNl-no
Cheers Chadders and GB. My muse is the pond (the looniverse), by which I mean the works of Dorothy and her commenters. We all share disdain for the reptiles and try to show them up in whatever way we can.
DeleteOde To The Pond
One morn whilst googling aimlessly
I fell into the pond
'Twere as if the Muse of Poesy
Had waved her magic wand
Such wit and such sagacity
Within that lakelet dwelt
As to the Murdoch reptile hordes
Cruel merriment was dealt
And ever since
O'er my morning cup
I thank that fateful day
Into this stimulating spa
I unawares did stray
:)³ blushes
Delete:)
DeleteRita Panahi having several tries at pronouncing 'imprecision', without success, so either Dean or (I guess) Morrow acting as prompt box for her, off camera.
ReplyDeleteGee - we are seeing this too often. More evidence, as if any more were needed, of her steadily declining mental capacity to perform her job on an important national broadcaster.
She's an American born Iranian parentage lass, Chad; you can't expect her to have mastered the pronunciation of esoteric Anglo (from Latin via French) words can you ?
DeleteNot when she regularly claims that Biden's stammer is diagnostic of several neurological conditions that absolutely preclude him from occupying the Oval Office.
DeleteWell she's reached the same stage as Joe, but decades younger: that's an achievement isn't it ?
DeleteWell, when you put it that way, GB . . .
DeleteHmmm. KillerC and pandemics:
ReplyDelete"The pandemic response in Australia and elsewhere was a harbinger of totalitarian future tatsurely none of us want to encourage." Oh right, a "totalitarian future" no less. Haveta lock up Dictator Dan then, I guess, lest he commits the same crime again and again.
Ok, so Axel Oxenstierna: "Do you know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed." Well no, because all the noisiest commentators - the Murdochia but of course - apply far less wisdom that I can fathom.
Hooda thunkit:
ReplyDeleteMelbourne overtakes Sydney as Australia’s most populous city
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/17/melbourne-overtakes-sydney-as-australias-most-populous-city