A media ideologist rightfully takes the Federal Government to task in its poor choice of street corner doom-sayers, but takes the opportunity to marginalise anyone that disagrees with his own extremist the Earth is doomed stance.

Forget Cate when it comes to climate

Adam Ferrier | The Australian | May 30, 2011

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/forget-cate-when-it-comes-to-climate/story-fn59niix-1226065155258

Extract: “Apart from some on the lunatic fringe everyone has already said yes – more or less. Yes, we all agree there is an issue with climate change, and yes we would like to do something about it.”

Yes, you are an advertising guru that is 100% right on the reasons not to use Cate Blanchett for the campaign, but you are on the lunatic fringe that says let’s disregard history and only take into account weather stats since 1900 or so. The reality is very different to what those in your fringe camp think. The average person will accept anything, right or wrong if it does not interfere with their beer, TV and football, but will scrutinise everything to the infinite degree if it even threatens to interfere with their beer, TV and football – of that at least we can agree. But do not make the mistake of confusing the laissez-faire attitude of the average Australian as acceptance of man made climate change, and inquiry into the whys and wherefores of political exploitation as proof people are part of a lunatic (supposedly denialist) fringe, because it is sweeping statements like that which reveal to anyone capable of reading it, that you are talking from the lunatic (warmist) fringe.

Cailen Cambeul of Adelaide, SA.

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http://www.news.com.au/national/mass-migration-kills-aussie-culture-says-demographer-bob-birrell/story-e6frfkvr-1225844560248

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/expert-warning-to-slash-migrant-intake/story-e6frf7l6-1225844478890

- Monash University population expert Dr Bob Birrell
- ‘Migration causes social problems’
- Population expected to hit 35 million by 2050
- Calls for enquiry into migration numbers

TRADITIONS based on heritage, sporting culture and common language are threatened by mass immigration, leading demographer Dr Bob Birrell has warned.

“This is not a pretty picture,” he said. “Social divisions are becoming more obvious and geographically concentrated and certain areas are being overlain by an ethnic identification.”

Meanwhile: PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has admitted he does not have any official advice [read idea] on the ideal future population figure for Australia.

Article: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,26901720-29277,00.html

You don’t need a piece of paper handed out by a university to know that immigration of non-Whites is destroying Australian culture and immigration of any kind is untenable given Australia’s limited natural resources. Yet, it seems that you do need that piece of paper to prevent the unthinking masses from shouting “RACIST!” and demanding your head. However, at least the various immigration issues have been raised and might get the public debate they so desperately need.

Cut immigration AND bring back the White Australia Policy now!

Cailen.

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Original Meaning: An ability or a faculty that distinguishes whether one’s actions are right or wrong, leading to feelings of remorse when one does things against his or her moral values.

Relates To: reconciliation/recon$iliation, indiginous/indiginou$, holocaust/holoco$t, feminism/femini$m and global warming hysteria/global warming hy$teria.

Cailen.

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http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/comments/0,,24028794-5006301,00.html

HOUSEHOLD electricity prices and other essential living costs will rise when the Government introduces an emissions trading scheme.

But pensioners, carers and the least well off will get tax cuts and increased welfare benefits to meet rising costs.

Climate Change Minister Penny Wong released the Government’s widely anticipated policy green paper yesterday, declaring the economy-wide impact would be “profound” and that there was no “cost-free way to tackle climate change”.

Describing climate change from unrestrained air pollution as “the greatest market failure the world has seen”, she committed Australia to a radical new cost structure which places a price on carbon pollution and imposes downstream price increases on virtually all goods and services. [more ...]

Why doesn’t the magnificent Prime Minister KRudd just say “Sorry” to the environment? It will fix everything.

Posted by: Cailen Cambeul of Adelaide 9:19am today
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http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23974940-5006301,00.html

KEVIN Rudd wants all Australians to pay more for power and petrol to help save the planet – except himself.

The Prime Minister has revealed he will continue to allow taxpayers to pick up his power and petrol bills, despite saying everyone must share the pain of increased costs to help stop climate change.

The Government is set to introduce a national Emissions Trading System by 2010 in the wake of the Garnaut Report released on Friday.

Energy bills and the cost of fuel will sharply increase under the system.

The Sunday Mail asked Mr Rudd if he would share the pain with the people by picking up the tab for power, lighting and heating bills at The Lodge when the scheme is introduced.

The Sunday Mail also asked whether he would start to pay his own petrol bills for his chauffeur-driven car when the trading scheme begins.

Both the bills for the car and The Lodge are footed by taxpayers. Mr Rudd has constantly stressed that for a carbon trading system to work, consumers will have to be hit with a price signal in order for them to begin reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But he will not share the hip-pocket pain of voters.

In response to the Sunday Mail’s questions, Mr Rudd’s office said: “The Prime Minister will not be changing the long-standing practices of previous prime ministers in relation to these matters.

“The Prime Minister understands the cost-of-living pressures that confront Australia’s working families, carers and seniors.

“He also understands that Australians want the Australian Government to take action on climate change.” Mr Rudd declined to say how much The Lodge and his chauffeur-driven car cost taxpayers last year, referring the Sunday Mail to Government annual reports.

According to Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet portfolio estimates, the cost of running both The Lodge and Kirribilli House in Sydney is projected to be $1.8 million this financial year, including costs such as staff and the wine cellar.

Mr Rudd, whose wife Therese Rein’s companies turned over about $260 million last year, also has a taxpayer-subsidised nanny for his youngest son and a taxpayer-funded butler paid $78,000 a year.

As Prime Minister, Mr Rudd earns $370,000 a year, including allowances.

In February, he applied a year’s wage freeze to politicians’ salaries, including his own.

“We need to be able to face the Australian community in the eye and say that we in a privileged position in this place are doing one small bit when it comes to exercising some wage restraint,” he said at the time.

In December, after signing the Kyoto Protocol at the Bali Climate Change Summit, Mr Rudd declared: “We must all share the burden.”

“Perhaps people are forgetting that prior to the last election when KRudd first took the reigns of power in the Labor Party, he promised to at least triple the cost of electricity in this country. If KRudd gets his way, there will arise such a gap between rich and poor that it will no longer be the standard “have and have not” of frivolities, but the “have and have not” of essentials such as electricity, water and petrol.”

Cailen Cambeul, Adelaide.

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By the time of Columbus in 1492, global cooling had again taken place making it impossible for farming communities to survive in Greenland, and the route the Vikings used to get to North America being via Greenland, was no longer viable, therefore North America was effectively closed off to Europeans until another and more direct route accross the ocean was discovered.

By the way: It is known that Viking maps would have been available to Columbus, and being the skilled navigator he was, Columbus would not have ignored any maps of the region he was potentially entering. Especially when those maps were common knowledge to the seafaring communities of Europe.

So when I first heard about how we are causing global warming and must do something about it now! I thought, “What a load of bullshit!”

Don’t get me wrong. I agree that we should conserve natural resources. I agree that we should not needlessly pollute the air. I agree that the ecosystem should be protected from big business, urban encroachment, vandals and the like. But buggered if I’m going to believe that I am ruining the planet because I have a car, a computer, a light and a fan.

We know that global warming and cooling is both an historical and an ongoing fact. That being said, why do they bother with the guilt trip they are forcing on us?

Like all guilt trips, look to see who gains from your feelings of guilt and the actions or lack of action they give rise to.

Following this little rant is an article by Robert Kemp, on global warming. The original can be found at http://www.right-now.org. It explains everything I have already said, and much more. Amongst other things, it also explains why I’m not the only person to doubt the lack of self interest behind the global warming, guilt-enhancement lobby.

Cailen

P.S. Watch the BBC documentary, The Great Global Warming Swindle on YouTube.

Robert Kemp writes: We are constantly being told by ‘experts’ that global warming is upon us and that in order to avert catastrophe, we must modify our behaviour in various ways, all of which involve self-denial and unpleasant consequences.

Even worse, if we do not Repent, the consequences of our selfishness will be even more dire. Whilst not denying that this very well might be the case, as an old and weary cynic, I mutter sotto voce to myself “Cui bono?”

I remain utterly unconvinced of the disinterestedness of those who are doing the shouting.

Global warming is being pushed as an incontrovertible fact, and a bad fact at that. No-one has a good word to say for it. Another universally accepted truth (unless you live in Alabama) is Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. It is one of those things that everyone just knows to be right, without having even to think about it, but Darwin’s theory has never actually been proved to be true. I rather suspect that Darwin did in fact get it more or less right but, nevertheless, no-one has ever actually proved him to be right. Likewise, in some areas of measurement, there is solid evidence that the world is now a warmer place than it was a hundred years ago, but that doesn’t justify worldwide hysteria. And in any case, even if the world is getting warmer, is that necessarily a bad thing?

It seems to me that the temperature of the earth has always fluctuated and it has been getting warmer and colder for centuries. In the 17th Century, they used to roast whole oxen on fires lit on the ice covering the river Thames at London.

Can you remember the last Frost Fair, or even the last time that the Thames froze from bank to bank? No, neither can I, so the world must be getting warmer, but it doesn’t seem to have done us much harm.

In the 19th Century, when our collective subconscious formed its notions of the traditional Christmas, it was still pretty damned cold, as is witnessed by all those Christmas cards with skaters and holly and snow-drifts and what-not.

So the world must be getting warmer. QED, one might say, but before getting too excited, let us turn to the Greenland Question.

Greenland is the biggest island in the world, nominally part of Denmark, but virtually uninhabited and moreover largely uninhabitable. But it wasn’t always so.

When you come to think about it, Greenland is a pretty weird name for anyone to give to a country that is now 99% glacier or barren rock and 1% lichens. Not the sort of name that springs to mind for such a grey, treeless and windswept place, is it?

But wait. A thousand years ago, Greenland was settled by the Vikings, who prospered, and grew wheat and flax there, and it was at that time that it received its name.

It was, 1,000 years ago, genuinely a green land.

At about the same time, monks in Yorkshire were tending their vines.

If the Vikings could grow wheat in Greenland, and monks in Yorkshire could grow grapes, it was pretty certain that those two spots did not enjoy the same climatic blessings as they do today.

Since wheat growing in Greenland is now impossible and grape growing in Yorkshire would be a distinctly unprofitable occupation, I would incline to the view that we could have a good deal more global warming without coming to too much harm.

If it was fine for the world to be that warm then, what’s the problem with it being quite a good bit colder now, even if the temperature is going up?

It should not be forgotten that these terrible doomsday scenarios are being peddled by those who have a vested interest in our believing them. Whether they are true or not is immaterial; it is whether we will swallow them which is important.

Those who propagate the global-warming-equals-catastrophe thesis are scientists, and other pseudo-scientific hangers-on, but they are first and foremost human beings, with the ordinary worries about ordinary life. Just like the rest of us, they want bigger and newer cars; they want more frequent and more exotic holidays; they want bigger houses; they want to be able to send their children to private schools and so on. Their ordinary life depends upon there being a pay-check every month, and the pay-check depends on there being a crisis. No Global Warming Crisis, and instead you have a domestic balance of payments crisis, consequent upon being fired by your lab.

No-one is going to cough up research grants to a laboratory which comes up with the notion that “It’s alright, chaps, nothing to fret about, just a minor blip well within the earth’s natural variation; just relax and pour another G&T”

Not many new Volvos in that kind of report, but plenty of P45s. Far be it from me to suggest that the scientists involved are corrupt, or self-serving, but they are hardly disinterested observers either and their findings should be viewed with scepticism.

Thousands of jobs worldwide are dependent upon the menace of global warming, and these people aren’t going to roll over and join the dole queue without a fight. For them, global warming has to be right; the mortgage payments depend upon it.

I remember 30 or 40 years ago the boffins were predicting that the next ice-age would shortly be upon us, with the Channel clogged, not by ferries and container ships, but by icebergs. The oil would have all been used up by 1990 and we should go to work on an egg, as it was good for us. Oh yeah?

The wallies who made all those alarming and totally wrong predictions are either now dead, or safely enjoying an index-linked retirement, in their egg-free, oil-fired homes, with nary even an ice-floe in sight, let alone a proper full-size ‘berg to scare them. Will one of the survivors kindly explain why we haven’t all died of salmonella poisoning or frozen to death in our unheated houses? If they could be that wrong then, why should we believe that the next generation of so-called experts is any better at getting it right?

When a scientist can convince me that it was fine for it to be warm enough to grow wheat in Greenland a thousand years ago, but that to move back to the same climate would be a catastrophe now, then I might start to get worried.

Till then, while we wait for some real scientists to do some proper research, pass me another G&T, there’s a good fellow.

Robert Kemp

Australian astronomical Society warns of global COOLING as Sun’s activity ‘significantly diminishes’

EPW Blog | June 29, 2008

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3709

A new paper published by the Astronomical Society of Australia has a warning to global warming believers not immediately obvious from the summary: Based on our claim that changes in the Sun’s equatorial rotation rate are synchronized with changes in the Sun’s orbital motion about the barycentre, we propose that the mean period for the Sun’s meridional flow is set by a Synodic resonance between the flow period (~22.3 yr), the overall 178.7-yr repetition period for the solar orbital motion, and the 19.86-yr synodic period of Jupiter and Saturn.

Or as one of the authors, Ian Wilson, kindly explained to me: It supports the contention that the level of activity on the Sun will significantly diminish sometime in the next decade and remain low for about 20 – 30 years. On each occasion that the Sun has done this in the past the World’s mean temperature has dropped by ~ 1 – 2 C. Oh. Global cooling coming, then. Obvious, really.

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