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MAN APPEASES EARTH GODDESS, HOPES TO BE SPARED
Environmaniac Tim Flannery actually mentioned “Gaia” five minutes ago during his appearance on Lateline. You could hear people being sick in the studio. Or maybe that was me.
UPDATE. Oddly, Flannery pronounced the word as “gayer”, when all good dirt-worshippers know it’s guy-uh. That’ll be a challenge for the transcribers.
That’s right Timmy, you and your wingnut friends just keep those heads buried in the sand. After all there’s going to be a lot more of it. :-)
How’s the Bulletin going? Surely the circulation can’t going any lower, after all you’re not that bad a writer are you?
Posted by tims a wingnut on 2005 09 26 at 09:14 AM • permalink...Flannery pronounced the word [Gaia] as “gayer”...
First time I ever heard that Mother Earth might have a gender identity issue.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 09 26 at 09:23 AM • permalinkWhy is it OK to let the religious beliefs of the left dictate science policy, but not the religious beliefs of the right?
What’s wrong with not letting anyone’s religious beliefs dictate science policy?
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2005 09 26 at 09:30 AM • permalinkIrriverence toward Gaia REALLY brings the out-patients out in force, doesn’t it?
Posted by Susan Norton on 2005 09 26 at 10:03 AM • permalinkAll Hail, erh Gag-
Earth Mother, Madonna/Messiah of the Mecca-
We are one with the organism or something…
She is watching YOU!
{No it is NOT the one with the pen in her mouth!}
Posted by madawaskan on 2005 09 26 at 10:54 AM • permalinkThat’s right Timmy, you and your wingnut friends just keep those heads buried in the sand. After all there’s going to be a lot more of it. :-)
I thought it was all going to be under water?
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2005 09 26 at 10:54 AM • permalinkPerhaps it was a reference to Renee Geyer, a great Australian singer.
Posted by lewisinnyc on 2005 09 26 at 11:27 AM • permalinkPerhaps he said or meant to say “Maia,” meaning Maia Morgenstern, whose portrayal of Mary was so moving in The Passion of the Christ. Obviously so moved was this gentleman that he mistook Ms. Morgenstern for the actual Mary.
Look, it makes more sense than the truth.
Posted by Monroe Doctrine on 2005 09 26 at 03:50 PM • permalinkSaw Flannery on the 7.30 report - they seemed to give much greater cred to his views than to the actual climate/meteorological expert from JCU who was arguing against their nonsense.
As a good counterpoint I turned over to South Park at 8.30 and here were the boys being subjected to ‘Earth Day Brainwashing Festival’.
Our little hippy town is having its annual Global Carnival this weekend so the whole town will be full of these Chicken Little retards. That and anti Bush, Anti Howard, free the reffos, all the rest of it, bullshit. Gaia will be prominent.Hail Gaia! Full of Grace! The Lord is with thee.
Did you know Gaia had sex with her own son? A son named Uranus?
Just wanted to get that out there, of course…
Posted by Quentin George on 2005 09 26 at 05:31 PM • permalinkSo let’s get this straight.
Tim Flannery, a biologist trained/career administrater working as a museum manager has published a book on greenhouse/global warming.
For this he gets extensive coverage in a major broadsheet (SMH), coverage on the ABC not only on The World Today, but the 7.30 report and lateline, and again in the SMH’s editorial today.
But actual cliamtologists are given less credibility (7.30 report)?
If it wasn’t so stupid it would be hilarious.
Today’s instalment in the Age of Flannery’s crapfest (thankfully the last) has an hilarious table of ‘what you can do’ to save Gaia, equating ACTIONs with IMPACTs: the last ‘action’ on the list is ‘Write to a politician about climate change’. The impact? ’Can change the world‘. Student magazines would be embarrassed to publish crap like this.
As a good counterpoint I turned over to South Park at 8.30 and here were the boys being subjected to ‘Earth Day Brainwashing Festival’.
Heh, I saw it too !
Gotta love the brainwashing.. the jedi mind trick that the greenies tried on the crowd:
“Republicans are destroying the planet”
“The environment is even more important than your lives”IIRC, “Gaia” was first used by a scientist as a shorthand name for the interactions of all life on Earth—he was sort of thinking of Earth’s ecology as a single superorganism, like an anthill. Later the term was misapplied as sort of a vagueish tree-hugging god stand-in, which has nothing to do with the original concept. Dunno what context Flannery was using it in,
Posted by John Nowak on 2005 09 27 at 10:32 AM • permalinkHere’s a great quote from Ender about how simple it is to model climate change:
And how do you calculate the probability of climate change?? You set up the Earth’s analog in a computer and run some numbers to see what happens
Chortle! Guffaw! Yeah, piece of cake - just set up a computer model of the entire freakin’ biosphere. He left out a vital first step - “Become godlike.”
Unbelievable hubris.
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Dont worry, at the ‘life’ cafe in HK, you can get a ‘Gaia’ shake and a ‘Shepherdess pie’, snigger.