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COALING BEATS WARMING
Before last year’s election:
The CFMEU’s new anti-government ad features a coal miner calling for John Howard to sign the Kyoto protocol, and demanding a government that will “take climate change seriously”.
And now:
The Rudd Government and unions are preparing to reap the huge financial rewards of strong demand for Australia’s high-priced coal exports, despite the problems posed for Labor’s avowed green credentials. Amid an expected increase in accompanying carbon emissions from coal that Labor says it wants to limit, unions say Australian resource companies could open a further 10 mines and employ thousands more workers to take advantage of the boom in coal exports to China ...
The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union is ready to welcome a bigger local mining workforce as members.
Bring on the global anti-coal protesters! A confrontation between them and CFMEU goons could be more fun than 2006’s meat and chains party.
Yeah, remember the CFMEU adverts for Kevvie 07.
It’ll be interesting to see how they’re going to be all carbon neutral and keep working.
Yeah, ain’t free trade a bitch?
Over here in the US, Hillary, beholden to unions, is denouncing a Bush sponsored free trade pact between the US and Colombia because...um...it’ll hurt our domestic coffee growers and emerald miners?
Meanwhile, we’re supposed to lift the Cuban trade embargo because Fidel is old and the plucky Cubans are literate and surprisingly healthy, given the evil Amerikkkan sanctions, so…
Makes one’s head hurt.
If the government really believed that carbon emissions were imperilling the world, then they wouldn’t sell coal to anybody, and nuke power stations would currently be well on the drawing board - thus...I don’t believe the government believes.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 04 08 at 09:14 PM • permalinkI’m absolutely fascinated to watch how your new “fluently Mandarin” PM will handle all the internal contradictions of his followers (the environment - or “chums with China”?) while managing their diverse political expectations (Free Tibet - or “chums with China”?).
Posted by JJM Ballantyne on 2008 04 08 at 09:22 PM • permalinkNot only are those evil miners raping the bowels of Gaia - if my drives to the wine areas of the Hunter are any indication, they are splurging their ill-gotten gains on Porsches, Monaros and other beasts that spew CO2 with wild abandon.
Try telling a coal miner that he has to trade in his V8 for a prius.
ha ha ha.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 08 at 09:38 PM • permalinkThe CFMEU’s new anti-government ad features a coal miner calling for John Howard to sign the Kyoto protocol, and demanding a government that will “take climate change seriously”.
Presumably he’d take it in good humour when higher coal prices relative to demand cause him and several dozen of his mates to become laid-off.
Dear Sensible folk,
I’m actually typing this in the office off the turbine hall of Yallourn Power Station I can see unit 1 about twenty metres away through the window, what a footprint, they sprinkle coal dust on their lunch down here.
What I wanted to note was the coy way the expression “climate change” is replacing “global warming”, obliging highly respected journalists to spout frogshit like “Climate change is now happening even faster than the experts predicted” (Tim Colebatch, The Age). What on Earth does that mean? Didn’t some “expert” ten years ago predict that it was going to get warmer? “Faster change” means acceleration? And which aspect of the climate exactly is changing faster? “The capacity of the climate to provide evidentiary basis for our half-arsed and politically motivated pronouncements” perhaps.
Then this morning, Kylie on Ellen De Generes’s show reporting that she was actually misdiagnosed and only found she had cancer after a second opinion. She then goes on to say sternly “Just because someone is wearing a white coat and has lots of expensive equipment doesn’t mean they are right” and the morning show hosts nod sagely.
Except in the case of the climate of course! Of which we have much better opportunity to study up close than a clinician has to examines Kylie’s breasts!
The idiocy is vast.Posted by ooh honey honey on 2008 04 08 at 11:48 PM • permalink#20 - OHH, where did you pick up the expression “frogshit”?
I picked it up from a mate a few years back - I’m interested in how an expression like that spreads through society.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 08 at 11:52 PM • permalinkWould it help if we painted the coal green before loading it for export?
Maybe it would get an even highe price if it was labelled organic?
Then again, by definition, coal is organic, so using it must be a good thing. Right?
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 08 at 11:57 PM • permalinkALP policy changes quicker than the climate.
Depends on which Button is pressed.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 09 at 12:37 AM • permalinkMy Dad I think, from many years ago. He sometimes prefaced it with “hopping” for extra value.
Neologistic propagation is an interest of mine too. Blogs work great these days in that regard.Posted by ooh honey honey on 2008 04 09 at 12:37 AM • permalinkmore or less round the topic
The Lifestyle channel has been advertising a new garden show (like we don’t have enough of them) and the host has been announcing he will be showing us how to make a “climate friendly garden” WTF???Posted by Blokehitchedwith2 on 2008 04 09 at 03:52 AM • permalinkI wonder if the woodducks that think that Nuclear is an intractable problem because of the necessity of ensuring radioactive waste must be securely stored for many years (ref. Ziggy Switkowski’s letter to The Age the other day comparing the amount of waste vs. the amount of carbon dioxide that would need to be sequestered) have ever heard of the Lake Nyos disaster:-
On August 21,1986, a cloud of carbon dioxide gas was released from Lake Nyos. Because carbon dioxide is more dense than air it hugged the ground and flowed down valleys. The cloud traveled as far as 15 miles (25 km) from the lake. It was moving fast enough to flatten vegetation, including a few trees. 1,700 deaths were caused by suffocation. 845 people were hospitalized.
Link here. That stuff can kill, and silently too! At least when Chernobyl went off, people knew it was happening, and only about 50 people were killed.#22 I think you’re on to something there - Premium Australian Coal, Organic.
Posted by SouthernCrusader on 2008 04 09 at 07:29 AM • permalinkRe #25:
The Lifestyle channel has been advertising a new garden show (like we don’t have enough of them) and the host has been announcing he will be showing us how to make a “climate friendly garden” WTF???
He’s planting a green garden. ;-P
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 04 09 at 08:43 PM • permalink
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Hehe ... cop that, Mr & Mrs Phatty ...
Phatty’s input to the 2020 Wankfest: Young Kev, I’ve got this little problem with all of these coalmines in my backyard in the Hunter Valley (wiki: the world’s largest coal export port).
Phatt chance!