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THANKS BRIAN

Queensland lefty Brian Bahnisch reviews the Stern report:

If the apocalyptic scenario envisaged by James Lovelock comes to be, Stern will be forgotten by the surviving breeding pairs who regenerate the human race in Antarctica, while the planet takes 100,000 years to repair itself. Stern’s comprehensive review of the scientific literature on global warming demonstrates that the Lovelock scenario is all too possible.

Select your breeding partners, surviving Antarctic humans! Judging by adoring comments, Brian won’t lack for partners himself:

• “Thanks, Brian. I believe this to be the first comprehensive post on Stern in the Australian blogosphere!”

• “Excellent post Brian. Thank you.”

• “Thanks for this Brian.”

• “Nice review Brian.”

• “Nice work Brian!”

• “Thanks Brian. I actually am quite alarmed by all this ... It’s scary. We don’t know what’s going to happen, but it could be very very bad indeed.”

Prediction: many children in the post-Antarctic human regeneration era will be named Brian in honour of their all-wise, future-knowing God.

Posted by Tim B. on 11/14/2006 at 11:22 AM
  1. We don’t know what’s going to happen, but it could be very very bad indeed.

    ...or it could be good. Or it could be indifferent… 

    Priceless. “I have no idea what’s going to happen, so we must do something! Silence, denialist!”

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 11 14 at 11:40 AM • permalink

  2. The Stern Review: The Situation is Serious

    Can riotous laughter be far behind?

    Posted by paco on 2006 11 14 at 11:41 AM • permalink

  3. Prediction: many children in the post-Antarctic human regeneration era will be named Brian in honour of their all-wise, future-knowing God.

    Brian: I’m not the Messiah! Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah, do you understand? Honestly!

    Girl: Only the true Messiah denies His divinity!

    Brian: What? Well, what sort of chance does that give me? All right! I am the Messiah!

    Followers: He is! He is the Messiah!

    Brian: Now, fuck off!

    [silence]

    Arthur: How shall we fuck off, O Lord?

    Posted by Dave S. on 2006 11 14 at 11:47 AM • permalink

  4. Crucify him!

    Posted by paco on 2006 11 14 at 11:55 AM • permalink

  5. Thanks for this Brian.

    If anyone’s stumped for Xmas presents, buy carbon offset for cars/houses/flights etc.

    that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever read on the internets, but there is profit potential in Paco’s Amalgamated Carbon Offsets

    Posted by paulris on 2006 11 14 at 11:57 AM • permalink

  6. You earthlings make my antennae hurt.

    I work my claws to the chitin to give you a warm and comfortable planet and what does it get me - ulcers in my exothorax.

    I’m outta here!

    Your Insect Overlord

    Posted by trainer on 2006 11 14 at 12:27 PM • permalink

  7. When do we start sending the breeding pairs of humans to Antarctica?  I say we start now.  We’ll send all the global warming faithful down there to freeze live.

    Posted by kbiel on 2006 11 14 at 12:32 PM • permalink

  8. GAIA worshipers, Move to Antartica in advance and beat the rush.

    You do beleive the sky is falling?  Don’t you?

    Posted by Rob Read on 2006 11 14 at 12:34 PM • permalink

  9. Prediction: many children in the post-Antarctic human regeneration era will be named Brian in honour of their all-wise, future-knowing God.

    Well, considering that some multinational global hegemonic industrial complex of a conglomerate named PACO Industries has been taking over all the good land and building condos there, I rather doubt it.  More likely it will be Paco, Karl, or maybe Junior Johnson

    As for me, I think I probably better attend the condo wine and cheese party my Ross Ice Shelf condo complex is throwing this weekend.  The ladies there might be the only source for babies when the ultimate flooding comes.  I sure hope they’re all babes and not like those heifers that marched in the Beasts Breasts Not Bombs parade in San Francisco.  Especially the one that had a blonde beard.  eeewwwwwwww

    Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 14 at 12:37 PM • permalink

  10. #5 Paulris: Our carbon offset certificates are well-known for their high quality and aesthetic appeal. Printed on genuine rag paper (U.S. bank note quality!), they feature an engraved picture of a smokestack with a cork in it, and lovely Gaia-style maidens dancing around it in various stages of classical deshabille. Printed in denominations of 50, 100 and 1000 Gorebloons, they are WHAT YOU NEED to prove your size 4, AA carbon footprint.

    #9 wronwright,thanks for reminding me. Hey, El Cid, RebeccaH: what’s the current level of presales on the Penguin Downs complex? And what’s with the shooting gallery in the club house? Can we get liability coverage on that?

    Posted by paco on 2006 11 14 at 12:56 PM • permalink

  11. What do we want?  Global warming!

    When do we want it?  Now!

    These lefty types say they want to stop global warming, but really, deep down, they can’t wait for it to happen so they can all move into bamboo huts in the Antarctic and start shtupping like rabbits.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 11 14 at 01:00 PM • permalink

  12. #10, sadly we are being trounced in sales by the bamboo cartel down the beach.  That’s what happens when you don’t advertise.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 11 14 at 01:03 PM • permalink

  13. ”...buy carbon offset for cars/houses/flights etc.

    Do they come in different colours?

    Posted by PW on 2006 11 14 at 01:44 PM • permalink

  14. Maybe we should start up a dating service for panic driven, Antarctic bound envirotards.  Might be that we could make a handsome profit while using the database to find ourselves some hot dates.  I’ll fake being a leftie for a night!

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 14 at 01:49 PM • permalink

  15. #14: Maybe we should start up a dating service for panic driven, Antarctic bound envirotards.

    Premium Austral Canoodling Organizers, at your service!

    Posted by paco on 2006 11 14 at 02:23 PM • permalink

  16. Obviously, Australia needs to start sending more citizens to Antartica as a hedge against global warming.  I suggest we start mining the Australian Antarctic Territories immediately.

    Posted by 2dogs on 2006 11 14 at 02:43 PM • permalink

  17. Well yes because when I want verification of dodgy scientific doomsday predictions I turn to an Economist!  Any one else remember that joke about the economist stuck on a desert island with a can of beans ...... ?

    Posted by Just Another Bloody Lawyer on 2006 11 14 at 04:33 PM • permalink

  18. Me, I’m staying right where I am.  So the Olympic Peninsula becomes the Olympic Archipelago, I’m okay.  Got boats, got guns, got ammo, and if those hysterical pants wetting ninnies think they’re going to provide the breeding pairs (pairs?  that post apocalyptic scenario looks tailor made to abandon monogamy!) they won’t know what’s hit them.  I might save a few gelded metrosexuals (if it’s actually going to be necessary to geld them - I suspect not) to slave in the arugula mines, but that’s it.  Their genes won’t be populating the Brave New World.

    Now excuse me while I place another internet order with Post Apocalyptic Conservative Outfitters - with luck there’s time for one more delivery before the waters rise.  They have this jerky drier that can do an entire polar bear side at a time.

    Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 11 14 at 04:43 PM • permalink

  19. #17 - You mean the one that ends with “FIrst, assume a can opener?”

    Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 11 14 at 04:46 PM • permalink

  20. Stern’s comprehensive review

    Translation: A ‘Dismal Scientist’ doing Dismal Science to Order.

    Posted by Barrie on 2006 11 14 at 05:19 PM • permalink

  21. Top work, Brian

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 11 14 at 05:29 PM • permalink

  22. Brian = brain corruption.

    Posted by LaVallette on 2006 11 14 at 05:43 PM • permalink

  23. “Breeding pairs”???  I’m counting on a brace of 72 virgins for my post-warming population-restocking program.

    Posted by anthony_r on 2006 11 14 at 06:01 PM • permalink

  24. I still need to visit South America, Australia, and Antarctica.  I just wanted to visit Antarctica so I can say I visited all seven continents, but if any young women want to join me… I’d prefer them to be on the pill though.

    Posted by aaron_ on 2006 11 14 at 06:08 PM • permalink

  25. So does this mean I can now use the pick up line, “What to become my Antartic breeding partner?”

    Posted by youngy on 2006 11 14 at 06:13 PM • permalink

  26. Oh, sure. You Aussies are almost in Antarctica, already.

    You’ll rush in first and take all the good breeding spots….I know you will!

    Posted by rinardman on 2006 11 14 at 06:23 PM • permalink

  27. Stern Review II, The Turnaround: The Icebergs Conquer Morocco.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 11 14 at 06:26 PM • permalink

  28. Breeding pairs? Surely in the interests of survival there should be at least 3 women for every man.

    Posted by lingus4 on 2006 11 14 at 06:43 PM • permalink

  29. They won’t want breeding pairs of anything that thinks.  It is thinking and making choices that these people feel is the whole problem.  I.e., it is the very nature of man that makes man unnatural and, therefore, a plague on the earth. 

    The unthinking, such as the virotards, won’t be breeding, either.  They’ll have drowned long before, being too damn stupid to step back from the rising tides, much less rising sea levels.

    Doomed.  And gloomed, too.

    Posted by saltydog on 2006 11 14 at 07:04 PM • permalink

  30. I left my blog excursion comment (1.618).

    http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/11/13/the-stern-review-the-situation-is-serious/#comments

    It’s the very last one!

    Blogg excursions are fun!

    Posted by 1.618 on 2006 11 14 at 07:08 PM • permalink

  31. Continued..26#


    The chunk that collapsed into the Weddell Sea in 2002 was 3,250 sq kms (1,255 sq miles), bigger than Luxembourg or the U.S. state of Rhode Island, and I’m thinking we Aussie’s, could sell it off and put duplex homes on the ice site and market it as a waterfront property for the retirees.

    Posted by 1.618 on 2006 11 14 at 07:23 PM • permalink

  32. He made a boo boo in his spelling I had to correct it, you know you are all correcting mine, so I’ve learnt something here.. tee hee hee

    http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/11/13/the-stern-review-the-situation-is-serious/#comments

    Posted by 1.618 on 2006 11 14 at 08:22 PM • permalink

  33. “Paco’s Amalgamated Carbon Offsets”.  Hmmm, recursive acronyms.

    Posted by Brett_McS on 2006 11 14 at 09:08 PM • permalink

  34. Global Warming - the revenge of all those who were baffled by science in high school.

    And,

    If getting to Antartica proves a bit tricky, you could always move to Mebourne. There’s not much difference in the weather.

    Posted by phil_b on 2006 11 14 at 09:09 PM • permalink

  35. Too late, too late by far to claim the antarctic

    My reliable souces inform me.

    http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/SecretWar1.html

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 11 14 at 09:37 PM • permalink

  36. I DEMAND my global warming.  I’m long on Kansas rice futures…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 11 14 at 10:08 PM • permalink

  37. I’m long on Kansas rice futures…

    And the Club Med proposed for Anchorage…

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 11 14 at 10:36 PM • permalink

  38. Better make that Fairbanks, SwinishCapitalist.  Anchorage is currently at sea level, and will be inundated soon enough.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 14 at 10:52 PM • permalink

  39. btw, Bolta has a cracker of a post on Al Gore’s visit to Australia coinciding with some rather odd weather conditions:

    Al Gore does it again

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 11 14 at 11:06 PM • permalink

  40. Bummer, TRJS!
    This is what I get for trying to be cute with other people’s geography.

    Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 11 14 at 11:09 PM • permalink

  41. Monty Python have already produced his hagiography “The Life of brian”.

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 14 at 11:29 PM • permalink

  42. On the bright side, I doubt anyone will pull the typo of “Brain” while typing his name.

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 11 14 at 11:32 PM • permalink

  43. #7 kbiel, your onto something here. We can put together a complete travel package, from Perth, one way. We could make donations to the greenie publications so they would advertise us mention us in editorials.

    We could publish glowing reports of the egalitarian community freezing to death basking in the sun. I’ve got a map on my fridge of Antartica. This is a good idea.

    We would relieve them of their capitalist, Gaiaiaia oppressor guilt by taking their money and .... etc. for a more creative writer.

    Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 14 at 11:37 PM • permalink

  44. Some global heating would be good here in southern Victoria today; 12deg.C and getting colder. Larvartus Prodeo ,is there no end to these wankers.

    Posted by Paulm on 2006 11 15 at 12:39 AM • permalink

  45. #47 WC - have you tried to actually pronounce “Gaiaiaia?”  It comes across disconcertingly like ululation.

    In fact, I defy you to try it and tell me it isn’t ululation.

    Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 11 15 at 01:45 AM • permalink

  46. Hey guys. When it comes time to considering harem sizes for apocalyptic survivaling, dont forget the important part.

    X*PMS*4 where X = number of females; PMS = number of mornings with potential for waking up with your penis chopped off and a knife stuck in your chest, per month.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 11 15 at 03:09 AM • permalink

  47. #46 Grimmy, the thing to remember about pms is that when a few women are in the one place, there is often a tendency for hormonal cycles to synchronise with the dominant female.

    This means that you’ll have only a few days a month to deal with it, but it will be all the women at once.

    Good luck, and keep a large store of chocolate on hand. You’ll need it.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 11 15 at 07:10 AM • permalink

  48. This has got to be a joke:

    dk.au  on 14 November 2006 at 9:08 am
    Thanks for this Brian.

    If anyone’s stumped for Xmas presents, buy carbon offset for cars/houses/flights etc.

    Gee thanks…Carbon Credits…what I’ve always wanted…

    Posted by murph on 2006 11 15 at 09:18 AM • permalink

  49. murph, it’s no joke.  That’s paco soliciting the Christmas shopping crowd.  Don’t laugh.  I’ve heard he’s selling carbon credits like a baker selling eclairs.

    Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 15 at 10:02 AM • permalink

  50. Carbon credits?  Aren’t those what our parents told us Santa would leave in our stockings if we were naughty?

    Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 11 15 at 01:51 PM • permalink

  51. #49: That’s right! #10, above is right out of Paco’s All-you-want-for Christmas Orderbook!

    BTW, thanks to whoever it was here who enlightened me on the subject of recursive acronyms. Now I am “one up”.

    Posted by paco on 2006 11 15 at 02:16 PM • permalink

  52. So, instead of actual carbon, we’re now to get carbon credits in our stockings if we’ve been bad?

    Posted by saltydog on 2006 11 15 at 03:19 PM • permalink

  53. Maybe we can all try to get cheques from our companies/employers for the Carbon Funds: funds for carbon?

    Posted by andycanuck on 2006 11 16 at 12:02 AM • permalink

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