The pond has noted before, and no doubt will note again at some point, the way that talk of climate, or even the weather, or the climate and weather together, has been disappeared, or shunned in best Amish style, by the reptiles of the lizard Oz...
While real world events go on unheeded or ignored, climate science denialism still flourishes, and none is more versed in the art than the quarry waters whisperer himself, regularly on hand on a Monday to do what he can to prevent any meaningful action being taken...
There's plenty of calamity to go around at the moment, but the reptiles routinely manage to go around it ...
As usual the Graudian was on the case ...
But that's to expected of the Graudian. Must we also regularly expect serves of the Caterist? Indeedy do ...
Meanwhile, all the pathetic remnants of the reptile graphics department could come up with was another huge but no doubt free and easy snap ...
"It is easy to disregard the physical damage to the natural landscape and loss of biodiversity..."
Read it and weep for the planet ...
There's almost something admirable in the righteous carryon of a denialist, still feasting on cash in the paw from the federal government, blathering about the "grip of an intelligentsia that lacks the wisdom to recognise the boundaries of its own ignorance" ...
Sayeth the sublimely stupid sociology student and expert flood waters in quarries whisperer ...
Truly, if they ever devise a court for climate criminals, the Caterist should be among the first locals to front the bench and the beak ...
But it's not just the Caterist. The Killer, still full of Kovid Kapers, was also at it, though this time in the form of a triptych of grievances ...
Perhaps Killer should get out a little more, or scan the Killer Koverage in other papers, such as the NY Times ...
And so on and endlessly forth, while all the remnants of the graphics department can produce is a shot of some smirking suits ...
Meanwhile, having established his scientific credentials, Killer was keeping up his Ukraine Kampaign ...
The pond could have pursued any one of them, done its usual gobbet sampling, but instead perforce must note that the idle lizard Oz graphics department had rustled up a shot of a sociopath as a little Killer filler ...
Why RFK Jr couldn't beat that one, though he's constantly trying ... Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Conspiracy Theories Finally Get Around to the Jews COVID-19 was “ethnically targeted”? Uh, sure.
What started this fever swamp of Killer Konspiracies?
Well credit where credit is due, News Corp and Faux Noise were up there with the worst of them, and Killer himself is something of a Killer Karlson ...
What else?
Well the pond was triggered by simplistic "here no conflict of interest" Simon in the comments section, demanding that the PM step in and save the Voice ... from News Corp and the reptiles ... and that level of meta irony meant that the pond must look for a reptile voice deep into Irony...
So naturally the pond had to skip the grave Sexton and Innes sticking up for the right to screw casuals, as reptiles are wont to do, and turn to the Major for yet another example of Voice dissing and endless blather about Irony.
Surely simplistic Simon should have been scribbling "who can rescue the Voice from a pack of ravening reptiles, led by a Major doofus?"
And so with admirable skill, the Major manages to conflate and confuse, and add another reptile voice to the chorus ensuring that the Voice will perish. Making the Voice accountable for the entirety of present and future spending? Try selling that one ... and the Major doesn't bother, because he's quick to undercut his own suggestion.
The pond left the final gobbet knowing that Voice denialism was in safe a pair of hands as Kovid and Klimate denialism was, when left in the hands of the Katerist and the Killer ...
Yep, that last flourish was a doozy. Nothing like talking of various corruption findings after proposing that the Voice be responsible for all current and future spending, and then because it all starts to get too difficult for the Major's parrot-sized brain, suggesting that it all be changed or delayed ...
The reptiles succeeded in making the country tug the forelock to King Chuck for the foreseeable future, and they might well do the same for the Voice, and as for stuffing the planet, another top notch job this day ... but as always there's an upside ...
NickC: "We learn the turbines, solar panels, transmission lines and assorted paraphernalia will cover 20,179sqkm or about half the size of Victoria." Now according the that great oracle, the web, the surface area of Victoria is actually 227,444sqkm (or 87,817sqmiles). Where does the floodwater whisperer get his stuff from ? And why isn't Lloydie giving us this ? Why has Cater suddenly become the environmental spokesperson ? It can't be because he knows any of it.
ReplyDeleteSo: "Nor do they [Greens and Teals] consider the huge environmental cost of reshaping landscapes to accommodate wind, solar, pumped hydro and batteries." Maybe not, but perhaps they do consider the huge cost of making locations such as Melbourne continue to be habitable as the ambient temperature peaks higher and higher.
But to finish: "In economist Thomas Sowell's analysis, the vision of the anointed is partly a vision of themselves as the righteous ones convinced that they alone have the moral fortitude to avert future calamity." So there ya go! Knew there'd have to be a big dose of reptile projection sooner or later.
Mr Cater needs to do his research, "tiny bits of land" for each SMR? seems each SMR requires about 40,000 Sq m of land, Given the average 1/4 acre block of land is about 1,011sq m, it would seem that each SMR would fill up 40 suburban blocks.
DeleteA couple of google searches chased down Nicky's first error in a couple of minutes.
Deletehttps://www.netzeroaustralia.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Net-Zero-Australia-Mobilisation-How-to-make-net-zero-happen-12-July-23.pdf
Page 51, Alt F for 20,179. It's actually 120,179.
I haven't done more than a superficial scan of this report (more than Cater I suspect), but it seems to make the usual assumption that new technology will mimic old technology in it's general architecture. If you look at other transitions, say telephony for instance, they are usually nothing like the legacy model.
Only 40 suburban blocks for each SMR, Anon? Why, if they’re that compact, we should easily be able to fit one in each suburb!
DeletePedant's corner - the median block size is now 407m2, so roughly 98 lots for a 4 hectare site. Add water and power easements, accommodation for the thousands of protesters and parking for a commensurate number of police.
DeleteThat's a very large block, Anony; are you sure you don't come from a country property ? In the days of yore, a "typical (suburban) block" was considered to be 'quarter acre' which is just 1011sqm. Today your "average suburban block" is about 1/6th of an acre or about 675sqm.
DeleteOops, that should read "very small block" - the size you get when a large property is divided into a maximum number of 'stand alone' blocks with no real front or back yard.
DeleteAh. GB, I grew up in Sydney (by the beach) and had enough space in our 1/4 acre block to play "back yard cricket". Now in inner Melbourne our neighbors can lean out their kitchen window and touch the back fence. I figured on the 1/4 acre block because the SMR would all be sited in the surrounding elite suburbs not the inner city Green leaning sites.
Deletehttps://www.eldersrealestate.com.au/the-view/whats-in-a-land-size/
Delete“Nationally, the median lot size at the end of 2016 was 407 square metres which is 5 per cent less than the year before and 11 per cent below the median in December 2014”
Cater sees insurmountable difficulties in installing transmission lines and batteries and problems with tunnel-boring machines (although one must acknowledge the problems of dealing with Murdoch bots whose articles have the capacity to tunnel-bore readers), but apparently no problems building a nuclear reactor. Guess one can be bought off the shelf; just plug in and play.
ReplyDeleteWell, KillerC would have to include Scott Adams, wouldn't he. And it would have to be all about "conspiracy theorists" wouldn't it. So now the idea is how the intelligence agencies assassinated JFK. But not RFK apparently ... I wonder why not ?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, we now have the reptiles list of terrible things that apparently none of us believe. But they do:
. the war in Ukraine (Russia isn't losing)
. climate change (apparently it is real after all)
. Covid-19 (it was just never as bad as we were told. If it was, millions would have died.)
Gee, it's just so great to have investigative journalists of the capability of Sharri Markson and Miranda the Devine, isn't it.
Just think if KillerC had had to go out and dig it all up for himself. And then write it up all by himself.
Maj. Mitch is truly a joy, isn't he. But the bits I liked best were:
ReplyDelete"...the present referendum wording would give the voice a say over any areas of public policy..." and "Nor is it any good Albanese and Burney claiming the voice would not want a say over interest rates..."
Ok, so now it has been obvious for a long while that the Maj. is not very good with English; so it's just vaguely possible that Mitch simply doesn't understand the difference between "voice over" and "voice in".
Maybe he was taught reading and writing via the 'whole word' approach and just doesn't understand even quite simple English.
If X votes for the left, the reason for voting left makes no difference to the fact X voted for the left, just as if X moves to X's left foot the reason X did so makes no difference to the fact X now stands on X's left foot.
ReplyDeleteAnd is Chris Mitchell dismissing the greatest living Liberal’s view on this:
‘Former prime minister John Howard says the Liberal Party should not be worried about its trouncing at the hands of voters in centre-left Victoria - "the Massachusetts of Australia".’
[https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/the-massachusetts-of-australia-john-howard-plays-down-liberals-drubbing-in-victoria-20181127-p50irf.html]
But perhaps centre-left not left now!
Mitchell suggests the poor have no compassion for other poor and it’s the rich who are compassionate, because compassion apparently is depends upon how comfortable one feels. Not borne out by history though; it’s those in the upper classes and those who have benefited from the status quo who have had shown less compassion for the poor. But it seems it’s easy for those of a certain political persuasions as well as media editors and commentators to dupe the populace.
The whole purpose of the Voice and the Uluru statement was that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples be given a voice in matters relating to decisions about themselves, but here Mitchell determines (as only a privileged upper-class non-indigenous can) that the Voice should oversee all future funding of Aboriginal affairs. (Let’s ignore the insulting insinuation that all money spent on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples has been a waste, which is not what Burney has claimed.)
Is Bain Attwood part of the poor class or is he part of the academia Gerard Henderson forever bemoans and part of “an intelligentsia that lacks the wisdom to recognise the boundaries of its own ignorance”, as Cater states in his article? Perhaps Mitchell needs to quote one of the poor or the Middle Eastern migrants he claims support his view of the world. Oh, hold on, did they vote left last election? Perhaps they woke up to being duped.
Excluding executive Government would mean a Coalition Federal Government could just ignore the Voice or consider any Aboriginal peoples’ opinions on matters directly affecting them, which is why the naysayers, like Mitchell, want this done. Legislating the Voice would allow it to be abolished under a Coalition government, again exactly what the naysayers want. If the Coalition and the naysayers are genuinely concerned with Aboriginal peoples’ welfare, state what the Coalition would do differently to what is happening now. So far the Coalition has offered no new solutions and nor does Mitchell.
Anonymous - this Major (Mitchell) seems to have acquired his understanding of levels of compassion at different levels in society from extremely dubious 'research' coming from the Untied States, which purports to show that Republicans are more likely to contribute to charitable causes than Democrats.
DeleteI would happily offer him the results of my own sociological research, carried out over many years in Adelaide, collecting for the Sally Army 'Red Shield' appeal. I did this, with a friend from the business community, because we had a mutual friend, Sally Army Major, whose work, and attitude, we greatly respected. In those respects, he was much more in the mould of Majors in the Sally Army, than J Winston Howard's favourite, the unlamented Major Brian Watters, who Winston placed on several 'armies' to be sent into the 'war on drugs'; perhaps the most consistent failure in social manipulation in our lifetimes. At no time did my friend and I even mention Watters to our mutual Major.
The progress of our annual 'survey' was simple. Over a couple of years, we learned to bid for the less wealthy suburbs of Adelaide. My collecting friend was inclined to analyse his results in terms of how much money he could expect to collect in each hour going door to door. The more obviously wealthy the suburb, the less we saw per hour. That was partly due to the tiny amounts dropped into our bags, partly to the time wasted while we got long dissertations on how the householders 'gave at the office', or 'like to support a particular charity quite generously, but that is not the - who did you say you were collecting for?' or the set piece on how any kind of charity just encourages indolence and a dependent attitude. Trying any comment about the Sallies turning out for flood or fire simply wasted more of your own time, but invited 'well, isn't that what we pay taxes for? and I can tell you I pay plenty of tax. Plenty!'
In suburbs less apparently blessed, we harvested several multiples of dollars per hour, compared to snootyville, with little time taken in lectures on the indolent. Responses were almost generic at 'Sure mate - they do a great job, sorry it can't be more'.
We did give our mutual Major opportunity for a wry smile or two as we relayed our growing sociological research findings to him.