The Journal
2009
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No Lack of Rationality at Copenhagen
I’d be a believer too if I thought I’d be up for billions in grants, cars, holidays, Swiss bank accounts. There are vast amounts of money to be made in being victims of climate change. So…
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Will Rudd Do Anything For A Headline?
Apparently so. Like Tony Abbott, I don’t object to Mr Rudd going to Mass. I don’t even object to his interest in the canonisation of Blessed Mary Mackillop. I am interested in that too, and have…
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Consensus, Consensus, Consensus
I said it three times, so it must be true. Or it was true back in the seventies. No matter how much they try to deny it now (just as in five years time they will…
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Wild Things
This afternoon Kathy and I went to see the movie of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. We were the only adults in the cinema who were not accompanied by children. I wrote in April: if…
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Temperature Changing
Even when it hasn’t changed. This kind of ‘adjustment’ appears to have been so common it is hardly worth commenting on any more. Except that we are still waiting for any kind of acknowledgement of these…
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Avatar
Darn. Early previews of Avatar were stunning. But it looked preachy right from the beginning – like a magnificent sci-fi retelling of the noble green fight against logging in Tasmania. Jim Schembri at The Age has…
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Well Done President Obama
Whenever I am at a social gathering, or any other kind of gathering, for that matter, and someone says ‘Violence never solves anything,’ I make an excuse (sometimes even a polite excuse) and go and look…
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Showing Potential, That’s a Peace Prize!
Being a black guy, that’s a peace prize! Making a sandwich, that’s a peace prize! From PJTV. Hilarious!
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Plaintively, From Off Stage – ‘But, All the Scientists Agree …’
Well, not quite: His Excellency Ban Ki Moon Secretary-General, United Nations New York, NY United States of America 8 December 2009 Dear Secretary-General, Climate change science is in a period of ‘negative discovery’ – the more…
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No Posting Day Post Three
Just one more thing before the lager and nuts: From Town Hall. And finally (no I really mean it this time), if you are still in any doubt that scary AGW is a fraud, bad science,…
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Disaster of Unprecedented Proportions
Or that’s what the AGW alarmists would have you believe, with ever more shrill warnings about melting ice, starving Africans, extinct frogs, and the hottest decade ever in Australia. No really, you have to believe me.…
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Sorry
Dear Reader, There are lots of things I am not sorry for. But I am sorry about thin posting yesterday, and no posts today. It has been hectically busy at work, which is good, although the…
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Violence Due To Rising Fundamentalism
The Daily Mail manages to write nearly 1,000 words on the problem of increasing violence caused by a growth in fundamentalism, without once mentioning what kind of fundamentalism this might be. Those pesky Baptists just won’t stop…
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Give It Up Kevin, We’re Not Buying It
Mr Rudd announced today that families would be compensated for the extra costs caused by Labor’s planned ETS. But what exactly is the point of a tax if the businesses who will pay the tax are going to…
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A Teensy Little Gloat
Despite the morbid prognostications of Mr Mackerras and the left-wing locos, I said before the Higgins and Bradfield by-elections that both seats would be retained easily by the Liberals, that neither would go to preferences, and…
