tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81679729203769894812024-03-19T21:51:59.530+13:00Micky's Muses...from the Antipodes“THE UNPALATABLE TRUTH IS THAT THE ANTI-NUCLEAR LOBBY HAS MISLED US ALL" George Monbiot, Columnist, UK Guardian. "Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsiblity to bring that about?” Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme.
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act” George OrwellAyrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.comBlogger693125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-79761875360350629432011-11-28T21:32:00.002+13:002011-11-28T21:35:49.609+13:00Canada to pull out of Kyoto......making Kyoto an irrelevance, and an embarrassment...Canada will announce next month that it will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, CTV News has learned. The Harper government has tentatively planned an announcement for a few days before Christmas, CTV's Roger Smith reported Sunday evening. The developments come as Environment Minister Peter Kent prepares for a climate conference in Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-76964340576730670822011-11-27T13:25:00.007+13:002011-11-30T05:49:42.022+13:00The scary swindle is over... ...as we wake to the first day of a new electoral cycle here in NZ, we look to PM John Key's centre right government to address the herd of elephants that clutter up our living space. The king of the herd is the ETS. My last posts have mentioned the collapsing international carbon trading market and the recognition that the Durban environmental summit will be a waste of time. It is therefore Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-46117209641829708592011-11-23T16:23:00.008+13:002011-11-24T05:04:58.943+13:00Collapse of the carbon market... ...is underway, and with it the hopes of the idealists and swindlers who hoped to change the world. This, from Reuters, spotted by sharp eyed commenter anon. is, as he describes "a game changer..."LONDON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - European Union carbon prices could shed some 70 percent from current levels, as the bloc struggles with a mounting debt crisis and a glut of supply in the carbon market is Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-9130429828533877632011-11-09T16:31:00.005+13:002011-11-23T20:01:31.834+13:00We told ya so... ...while the media have given every possible encouragement to governments to commit national economic suicide, and while they have parrotted every greenpeace sob and scare story, many scientists, politicians and members of the public have remained unimpressed. A few politicians such as Julia Gillard and Bob Brown in Australia have written their names in the great book of lunacy by committing Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-61095904740021472152011-11-02T18:16:00.014+13:002011-11-03T17:16:56.848+13:00Matt Ridley. Gamechanger... ...Courtesy of eco-warrior Bishop Hill... The text of the Angus Millar Memorial Lecture. Delivered by Matt Ridley (author of The Rational Optimist) in Edinburgh 31st October 2011....My topic today is scientific heresy. When are scientific heretics right and when are they mad? How do you tell the difference between science and pseudoscience?Let us run through some issues, starting with the easy Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-23707103663283810992011-10-29T16:46:00.002+13:002011-10-29T16:47:48.120+13:00Occupy Wall Street......the early years...Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-2727300199015000662011-10-25T16:57:00.009+13:002011-10-29T16:41:34.295+13:00Is this man psychic ? ...this man being our greatest cartoonist - Tom Scott. The cartoon appeared in the Wellington Dominion the day before the final. And what a game. The stat's aren't out yet, but it's a safe bet that cardiac arrests were widespread during the last 40 minutes as the horror of a loss dawned upon us after years of hope and hype... Of course we won the game - thanks to a Stephen Donald "easy kick" ! Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-72202204918283371982011-10-15T13:29:00.009+13:002011-10-19T06:45:14.007+13:00Occupy Wall Street... ...is the catchcry in the USA; a present day "Aux barricades !" to lefties and the disillusioned everywhere. While media interest is sustained the protestors have a cause and a forum. When attention wanes the left will have to fan the flames a little brighter to maintain interest . What is the aim of this protest though ? and why now ? Could it be that the sands have at last run out for the Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-69113866588170158872011-09-08T17:25:00.014+12:002011-09-10T06:50:17.526+12:00Moaning about greenies ? Forget it... ...this cup; The Webb Ellis Trophy, will dominate our consciousness for 6 weeks, and the panic and the passion of it all will mean very little blogging from me during that time. Panic ? why's that ? Because yikes, we might not win ! never mind, we here in NZ are going to have a GREAT TIME and forget about life for a while...Here's some UK comment about the tournament, and I couldn't have put it Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-17744073800507674692011-09-06T20:49:00.005+12:002011-09-07T06:14:07.407+12:00Oh no ! My neighbour's a greenie nutter... ...and a sanctimonious twit. Think this'll impress him ?And just so you'll know I'm still on the job, isn't it strange that George Soros and Al Gore haven't taken legal action against the authors of statement like these...The super-corrupt left keeps funneling billions in taxpayer dollars to the modeling racketeers who crank out more press releases for even scarier headlines. Human gullibility Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-49666775222214890452011-08-27T00:06:00.013+12:002011-08-27T22:40:01.436+12:00Trust science ? Part 2... ...Of all the unknown factors regarding our weather and climate, the role of clouds and their relationship and interaction with cosmic rays from the sun remains the most significant. While the red/greens and the IPPC state the science is settled, scientists at heart know there is much to learn. What is known for sure however, is that clouds contain water vapour, and water vapour constitutes an Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-10448260549481542192011-08-15T06:30:00.009+12:002011-08-18T17:29:37.215+12:00Trust science, and scientists ? Sure can... ...Some media commentators with a special interest in science think they detect a palpable lack of trust within the community for science and scientists. As is often the case, such a lack of trust is over-stated. Its existence however, is real, and may be growing. It is seen in limited areas, particularly healthcare (and the billion dollar alternative medicine industry is responsible for this. Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-32872034793333081512011-08-11T07:48:00.002+12:002011-08-11T07:57:39.970+12:00The London riots... ...which are spreading across England will of course be seen by the left as a symptom of inequality and by the right as a symptom of judicial weakness and political correctness. Both are probably partially correct. Like any complex issue, there are many facets and causes. Whatever the cause though, we here in NZ are likely to see the same anarchy in due course simply because our social Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-60378402896902608882011-08-04T06:04:00.007+12:002011-08-04T06:26:07.720+12:00Polar bears and satellites... Global warming proponents can catch up on the sleep they lost worrying about the planet getting hotter with each passing day. (And polar bear fetishists can relax too,"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that the polar bear population is currently at 20,000 to 25,000 bears, up from as low as 5,000-10,000 bears in the 1950s and 1960s.)A NASA study which analyzes satellite data from the Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-29184505974132775222011-07-29T19:50:00.009+12:002011-08-04T16:32:08.953+12:00Be careful what you wish for... ..AND WHATEVER IT IS, if you don't get it, blame ex-President George W. Bush. He is responsible, check it out here... Ask the German greens, and greens worldwide who have been barking mad and nuclearphobic since their conception. Their fear of nuclear energy arises from the fact that nuclear energy represents the spectre of cheap electricity, and cheap electricity represents unbridled and Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-3832637916958381652011-07-27T17:34:00.008+12:002011-07-27T20:14:53.338+12:00The demonisation of Christians... ...is a predictable response from the political left after the Norwegian massacre. Never mind that Christianity's 2 main tenets are to love God, and to love "thy neighbour as thyself"...two principles that the perpetrator Breivik ignored on his rampage. Breivik may think he is a Christian, but he will be remembered as a psychopathic monster... as a response to media stereotyping, this from the Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-18676269552047308972011-07-25T08:15:00.013+12:002011-07-27T19:24:29.714+12:00Well done that man... ...whoever he is, who leaked the emails from the UEA Climate Research Unit. He deserves accolades and our thanks. If Al Gore was thought fit to receive the Nobel Prize, Mr/Ms Anon should be similarly honoured. His actions precipitated ClimateGate, and for the alarmist greens life has never been the same. We now have a level of public debate and satire that is succeeding in turning public opinionAyrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-62515515657402383282011-07-21T08:05:00.019+12:002011-07-31T08:08:10.198+12:00An environmental reformation... ...is at hand. Fossils of the environmental movement are on their knees, stunned by the influence of neo-liberal thinkers who see that decades of Malthusian doom gloom and catastrophe have failed. This reformation is profound and universal and will eventually see remants of the discredited green watermelons seek their political vehicle elsewhere. In NZ we think of relics such as Sue Bradford, Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-46680855848757618912011-07-18T19:09:00.012+12:002011-07-18T21:57:19.721+12:00You're obsolete my baby... ...my poor old fashoned baby...sang the Rolling Stones (and the Ramones) in the 70's. If Mick, Keith or anyone else chose to re-launch the song these days, they could dedicate it to a carbon or emissions trading scheme. Any Western political enthusiast for such a dingbat scheme has to sell the fact that it will cost billions or trillions and it will have a negligible impact on the global Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-38127968530571424912011-07-15T22:37:00.010+12:002011-07-21T08:04:22.328+12:00Kraut angst... ...over nuclear energy seems to be delivering a surprise or two. Germany of course is to phase out its nuclear energy industry in the wake of the Fukushima "meltdown". (A catastrophe that killed no-one, unlike the European mung bean massacre recently where up to 30 deaths were reported...a single organic farm in Germany has recently killed more people than have all the nuclear power plants Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-49780022673817093662011-07-05T05:50:00.016+12:002011-07-25T21:26:53.727+12:00A greenie pie thrower recants (2) ...you mustn't believe green zealots - and I should know, I was one says the confession in this morning's UK Daily Mail. This is from Mark Lynas, who sadly escaped a broken nose after throwing a pie in Bjorn Lomborg's face. Perhaps his hooter may yet receive attention from his angry lefty ex-friends ... However, we must be charitable, and recognise his penitence. He now joins George Monbiot who Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-33047017600762081332011-07-02T06:48:00.008+12:002011-07-02T14:01:54.263+12:00Watch THIS space... ...from the UK Guardian comes news that the University of East Angliahas been forced to release up to 4million individual thermometer readings taken from 4,000 weather stations over the past 160 years, data that is the life's work of the head of the UEA's Climatic Research Unit, Phil (Hide the Decline) Jones. The same Phil who wrote ... "Why should I make the data available to you, when your aimAyrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-63465935142952119632011-07-02T06:29:00.004+12:002011-07-02T06:45:55.687+12:00An anguished hippy... ...speaks for many deluded "progressives" who had hoped to use fear of climatastrophe to advance their cause. This poor soul sees that his "progressive and environmentalist" cause has been mortally wounded, and calls for a refocus towards "system change not climate change"......I’m a planet lover, progressive and environmentalist and I for one am happy and relieved my children will not die an Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-23145742325517120102011-06-30T05:24:00.010+12:002011-06-30T08:08:39.651+12:00The "Good Lie"... ...is a lie that may be necessary or excusable to advance a greater cause. Thus, Phil Jones of Climategate infamy felt obligated to use a "good lie" to "hide the decline". History abounds with thousands of other examples. A storm of controversy is brewing on Twitter and elsewhere about the professional conduct of Johann Hari, the Left-wing Independent columnist and winner of the Orwell Prize forAyrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167972920376989481.post-29138514195498995892011-06-25T12:44:00.015+12:002011-06-29T06:59:13.915+12:00Headline of the week... ...The science is settled (1) : US liberals really are the dumbest creatures on the planet... guess what these liberals believe the problem with Climate Change is? Go on: think of the most stupid, reality-denying, fact-ignoring, evidence-torturing tosh anyone involved in the media could possibly have to say on the subject... H/T Climate Depot...They think that the naughty yellow pixies who pull Ayrdalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12277759681727009183noreply@blogger.com3