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Bunch of environmental conferences in Australia recently. Alan Oxley reports:
For the first time in Australia, Australia’s leading advocates of the Kyoto model were required to publicly defend the “official” UN science supporting Kyoto to their peers. They were not successful. Doubts about the UN science are increasing in Australia.
Meanwhile, the Kyoto Protocol is moribund. This was crystal clear at the UN climate change conference in Argentina last November. The US, Italy, China and developing countries decided Kyoto would not extend beyond 2012. Overtures by the EU to extend it were rejected.
Most greens pretend this did not occur. They also ignore something else. Most governments around the world are not persuaded by the claims that global warming presents a cataclysmic threat. It they were, they would not have walked away from the Kyoto Protocol.
Meanwhile, in Kyoto-exempt China:
Angry club-wielding villagers clashed with police in riot gear, overturned police cars and hurled rocks at policemen holed up in a local high school, villagers and local officials said by telephone.
The women were protesting against pollution from nearby chemical factories.
Get to work, Greenpeace! Take on the corrupt commie chemical companies! And now, some serious environmental news:
A deadly parasite has destroyed the second-largest producer of the internationally-renowned Sydney rock oyster.
And there are fears it may wipe out the entire Sydney rock oyster industry unless it is contained.
“The commercial oyster industry at the Hawkesbury is finished,” said Roger Clark, president of the Oyster Farmers’ Association of NSW.
This … this is … I’m sorry. I can’t find the words.
“The commercial oyster industry at the Hawkesbury is finished…”
Another plot by the dread pharmaceutical industry! They’ll have us all taking Viagra yet.
Personally I blame John Howard.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2005 04 11 at 11:49 AM • permalinkOne of the few reasons to prefer Sydney over Melbourne is the abundance of those oysters.
Pacific oysters? Blue points? These are as nothing compared to the Sydney rock. I’d rather eat the shell of a Sydney rock oyster than the flesh of a lesser mollusc. These oyster-destroying parasites are the Hamas of NSW waterways.
I pro[e]scribe a one-week course of long, forced all-oyster lunches. With EXPENSIVE WINE.
Good advice. I spent a significant part of the weekend taking such a cure. I apologise for my personal impact on oyster shortage in the West.
Posted by Dean McAskil on 2005 04 11 at 12:38 PM • permalinkMargo Kingston was seen french-kissing an oyster just prior to the outbreak. Coincidence??
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2005 04 11 at 04:30 PM • permalinkMake sure everybody has matching towels!
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 04 11 at 05:54 PM • permalinkSounds like Tim needs to get moving on those genetically-interbred mollusc cows.
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2005 04 11 at 07:00 PM • permalinkI think the Greens in China probably face the same fate as the jihadis in china, they are either shot or jailed or both. Not known for their political sensitivity those Chinese.
As for the oysters I feel bad for the folks trying to make a living but I would not eat one of those slimey devils if you put a gun to my head.
no sir…my ex and his Dad used to eat those things raw, they would just open their mouths and let them slide down their throats.
gag a maggot.
Port Stephens and Moreton Bay still have plenty of Sydney Rock Oysters- the Hawkesbury is doomed, as I believe Phillip Adams once sounded just downstream of the Brooklyn Bridge, and that much effluent ambergris is too much for any ecological system to survive. If the worst case scenario comes, there’s always those Kiwi Bluffs- a little bland, but bigger than your head. (I have an oyster man on Bribie Is where I get a sack for $20, and no I’m not telling).
I’d like to see the QX that could take on this mo’fo; could have the makings of a pretty classy Jap monster movie- QX vs Oystera.
Sydney Oyster Crisis!!
Now is the time for the evil mad scientists in the world-threatening GM labs to get to work.
While you are at it, evil mad scientists, could you make Sydney oysters about the size of a football?
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2005 04 11 at 10:30 PM • permalinkIf you’d ever tasted a Sydney Rock Oyster, you woldn’t joke about it. This is serious.
If swallowing live snot-coloured molluscs isn’t your thing, try Oysters Kilpatrick.
Sprinkle worcestershire sauce on oysters on the half-shell, add a small inch-square slice of well-cooked bacon, top with shredded cheese.
Grill till cheese is brown.
Hmmmmm… Oysters…...
Tragedy, Tim, it’s a tragedy - but you can have my share, I’m with terryelee and Max Power; if I want to eat snot I’ll eat my own, thanks!
My Dad loved oysters and one year when I was a kid the familiy vacationed down the coast from Sydney where I got the oysters off the rocks for Dad while he was fishing.
We also had abalone fresh off the rocks near the Victorian border, delicious! (We were camping and Mum asked Dad how to cook them, he said bash them on a rock in a sugar bag to tenderise them - no sugar bag, so mum sliced them very thin, dipped them in flour and quickly shallow fried them in butter, mmmmmmmmmmm.) Never had as nice since, the abalone in restaurants is usually from a can - yeecch.There are few things more disgusting than eating raw oysters. I liked oysters until I had to shuck a pailfull of them. The horror, the horror!
Allegedly true story. The legislature of Washington state in the USA was preparing to vote on moving the capital from Olympia to Vancouver (across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon), a much larger and more prosperous city at that time. The bill was set to pass by an large margin when the opponents pointed out that if they moved, the legislators would no longer be able to get fresh Olympia oysters. The bill was defeated by an overwhelming margin, giving up their fresh oysters was too much of a sacrifice for the politicos.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2005 04 11 at 11:58 PM • permalinkaebrain: The Kilpatrick is an amateur’s oyster topping. Oysters should not be desecrated by having some awful English sauce poured all over them.
If you truly don’t want to eat your oysters raw the way God intended, check out the Ostras Del Diablo at Gauchos if you’re ever in Adelaide. Oven baked with bacon, cream, ginger, coriander, chilli and various other stuff. That’s a topping. Oysters Madras aren’t bad either.
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Look for dead silence from the Greens on China.
The oyster thing, though, is a point for legitimate concern. It’s amusing to laugh: “oh, no, a funny-sounding animal we never heard of died”, but the similar near-destruction of the American shrimping trade caused serious economic hardship in several coastal states.