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Entries Tagged as 'climate change'

What About this Weather, eh?

July 25th, 2011 · No Comments

On a visit to the Tweed Council, I read of $600,000 being supplied from the national disaster fund to save / rebuild Kingscliff caravan park and an adjoining sports field being eroded by the sea; a linear length of beach at most a couple of kilometres long; the Tweed Council has a seafront of 37 [...]

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Tags: climate change

You shut your goddamn carbon-taxin’ mouth

July 15th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Reprinted from Geoff Lemon’s Heathen Scripture blog. Three days on from Julia Gillard’s policy announcement, and the most striking characteristic of the carbon tax debate is just how closely it resembles a dozen retards trying to fuck a doorknob. The only apparent solution is a massive airdop of Xanax into our reservoirs, because really, everyone [...]

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Tags: carbon tax · climate change

Qld, Dumb State’s Addiction to Carbon

November 7th, 2010 · No Comments

Is ‘Queensland – The Smart State’ ? asks Guy Pearse In his GCI Insight Seminar Series presentation, GCI Research Fellow Guy Pearse takes us behind the ‘Climatesmart’ branding and asks how much longer Queensland expects to tackle climate change by increasing spin rather than cutting emissions.

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Tags: climate change · queensland

Climate Skeptics all A-Tweeter

November 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment

When he tired of arguing with climate change skeptics, one programmer wrote a chatbot to do it for him. Would you argue climate science with this fellow? Nigel Leck, a software developer by day, was tired of arguing with anti-science crackpots on Twitter. So, like any good programmer, he wrote a script to do it [...]

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Tags: climate change · global · technology

Warming to Misanthropy

October 8th, 2010 · No Comments

Misanthropy: Hatred or mistrust of humankind. Man-made global warming theory [AGW] says that climate change is caused by the CO2 emissions from the use of fossil fuels. As the human population increases the inexorable need for energy from fossil fuels increases and therefore the level of AGW increases. AGW is similar to the theory of Thomas [...]

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Tags: climate change · global