The both siderist NY Times has recently been running fear stories about the mad King and science:
How Trump Is Dismantling America’s Scientific Research Machine (*intermittent archive link)
The American Brain Drain Claims Another Scientist (*intermittent archive link)
Hah. The lizard Oz down under is blessed with a superabundance of scientists, though somehow they only seem to specialise in climate science denying faux science.
Pick of this litter is the Bjørn-again one, who these days is so widely disregarded that he can only find homes in the likes of the Bangkok Post (*intermittent archive) and the New York Post...
Yes, don't worry about what climate change might produce. Do absolutely nothing beyond a few simple alarms, and all will be well.
Elsewhere in the rag, the climate, and an accompanying tinge of climate science denialism was strong this day ...
The pond could only hint at these delights with teaser trailers ...
Billionaires at odds over ‘UN get-together’
Billionaires Ryan Stokes and Andrew Forrest clash over Chris Bowen’s COP31 climate summit
A stark divide has emerged over climate action as business leaders weigh Australia’s push for global ambition with an economic crunch at home.
By Perry Williams and Jacquelin Magnay
How the reptiles love confusion, chaos, clashings and conflict in this arena ... while Ben was also packing it ...
Revealed: Bowen climate ‘integrity’ unit’s COP31 talking points
Chris Bowen’s ‘information integrity’ unit puts positive spin on COP31, power prices
A taxpayer-funded kit tells businesses and community groups to ‘add your own logo’ to government climate claims ahead of the conference.
By Ben Packham
Sam was on hand to unveil yet another deep pockets conspiracy ...
Meet the new deep-pocketed climate activist making a $1.1bn splash
Major Australian philanthropists launch $1.1bn climate funding initiative modelled on US anti-coal group
Australia’s most influential climate donors are backing a new group aiming to unlock $1.1bn for climate causes by 2031, modelled on a US coal plant slayer.
By Samantha Hutchinson
Not dear, sweet, precious, virginal, innocent, deeply clean Oz coal?!
The pond could only offer teaser trailers because over on the extreme far right of the digital edition, simpleton Simon was sounding alarums ...
Those dastardly perfidious Europeans were involved in a major climate stitch up ...
By Simon Benson
Forget the archive, please allow the pond to swallow it whole ...
Just look at her ... malignant, stern, like some bloody headmistress ready to give us all a caning.
No wonder simplistic Simon was right to blow the whistle ...
Terrifying. The pond rarely pays attention to simpleton Simon, but the thought that Australia might actually have to pay more than lip service to action on climate probably sent the hive mind into a kind of Jonestown fever, a complete Kool-aid meltdown ...
The pond simply couldn't resist asking the lizard Oz's AI a question ...
Why was the pond disappointed and surprised?With all the fuss about climate the go, the pond decided that there was no room for the Major's rather standard slagging off of rival media - that bloody turncoat Speersie - but realising he has many fans, decided to allocate him the rare honour of a late 4 pm pond slot.
That gave the pond room to contemplate the flood waters whisperer, on hand with a most important missive pertaining to the bros ...
And after that little outburst came the capper, with the pond deciding to put it in print rather than in screen cap form ...
The intelligentsia’s determination to elevate misogyny into an all-purpose explanation for murderous extremism suggests a calculated reluctance to confront a far more uncomfortable truth.
There you have it ...
the antisemitic-adjacent cause of Palestine
So voicing any concern about the ethnic cleansing currently being conducted in Gaza and the West Bank makes you antisemitic adjacent?
At least it's out there in print ... the sociopathic embrace of climate science denialism, and the joys of ethnic cleansing, and life with the boofhead, headkicking lizard Oz bros, down there with the droogs of of the moment...
And so to the Rowe of the day ...
The immortal Rowe shared an explanation of the scaffolding he uses to erect his wondrous portraits, and the pond felt compelled to share it ...
Meanwhile ...
"There you have it ...
ReplyDeletethe antisemitic-adjacent cause of Palestine
"So voicing any concern about the ethnic cleansing currently being conducted in Gaza and the West Bank makes you antisemitic adjacent?"
3QD today by David Winner...
"I shudder when yet another person defends Israel as the ostensible “only democracy in the Middle East” as it sets up a chilling Shirley Jacksonesque scenario in which people voluntarily opt to murder. Most likely Jackson’s characters from The Lottery would have voted for the sacrifice if there had been a referendum as Israel seems to have voted to keep Netanyahu in power, democracy and genocide going hand in hand.
...
"The ultra-Orthodox in our neighborhood, who (judging from a friend who grew up in 70’s Queens fearing Arab bombs exploding over Corona Heights) might be made anxious and angry if we placed a “Free Palestine” sign outside of our house.
"Therefore, we have no such sign. We live on a crowded street, so many more people would see our Free Palestine banner if we had one then will read this column, but nevertheless I will write it here and write it loud.
Free Palestine!
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2026/11/free-palestine.html#more-314377
Lucky the Palastinian's are unaware they have a ticket in...
""The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948.[a] The story describes a fictional small Gaza community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens. The lottery, its preparations, and its execution are all described in detail, though it is not revealed until the end what actually happens to the person selected by the random lottery: the selected member of the community is stoned to death by the IDF.[1]"
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2026/11/free-palestine.html#more-314377
'The Lottery"
By Shirley Jackson
June 19, 1948
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery
There's been quite a fair bit of "voting for sacrifice" in human history - after all, a significant majority of people voted for Hitler and Mussolini (and Franco and Salazar). Not to mention all those who voted for the sacrifice of native peoples in Africa and Australia and various Asian lands - which includes mainland China - and both North and South America. And, of course, India.
Delete"So what to do when climate change aids in the production of a major disaster near you? Simple. Install an alarm, heed the warning, and run like hell"...
ReplyDeleteBecause of ... "the sociopathic embrace of climate science denialism".
And Australia's greed.
"Australia’s fossil fuel exports generated more emissions than 44 least developed countries combined over a decade
... But new Global Witness analysis of Australian government data reveals the country is doing far less to help the rest of the world get off fossil fuels, with Australia’s annual emissions from exported fossil fuels remaining vast and largely unchanged in the decade since COP21 in Paris.
Australia’s exported fossil fuelsundermine domestic emissions reductions
Australia exports emissions by sending fossil fuels like coal, gas and oil to other countries.
Our analysis of official export records between January 2016 and March 2026 found that these represent 12.4 billion tonnes of climate-wrecking carbon emissions – around a third of the entire EU’s domestic emissions for the same period, or more than the combined domestic emissions of the world’s 44 "least developed countries."
The analysis also finds that the Australian government expects to offshore a further 6.9 billion tonnes of emissions by 2031.
That would take the total emissions between 2016 and 2032 to 19.3 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent – a figure that equates to around 3.4% of the world’s remaining carbon budget (from a 2016 baseline) for a good chance of keeping global heating below 1.5°C.
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https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/fossil-fuels/australias-exported-fossil-fuels-emit-more-than-44-least-developed-countries-combined/
And it's not even a case of 'left hand-right hand' is it.
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ReplyDeleteThe Caterist rant is especially galling today. Too many holes in his argument to list so I’ll just get to the crux of his problem. Apologies to Bernie and Elton’s Sorry seems to be...
ReplyDeleteA Nasty Word
Nothing you can do to make the Caterist listen
Nothing you can do to make him care
Understanding isn’t in in his nature
And there’s a word that leads him to despair
This word’s…so bad
It causes him such irritation
You’d think it was the worst he’s ever heard
He’s mad…so mad
That he just cannot stand it
And to a sexist such as he
Misogyny is such a nasty word!