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Last updated on August 6th, 2017 at 01:07 pm

Whoa! Sorry I’m late, but that pile of tyres in the yard just would not ignite. Let’s see what’s happening on Channel Ten’s Cool Aid shame-a-thon …

UPDATE. Host Sandra Sully: “A carbon catastrophe! Who wants to be called that?” ME!

UPDATE II. The gruelling carbon test to which our celebrities are subject appears to have been designed by a vegan named Caitlin.

UPDATE III. Correction. It’s not a carbon test; it’s a carbon audit. You know, like the audits run by Scientologists.

UPDATE IV. The intro music after an ad break features these lyrics: “Look out, look out, the sky is falling.” Seriously.

UPDATE V. Toni Collette drives a hybrid! Of course. She became a fan after hiring one while she was in LA …

UPDATE VI. Now Dr Karl Kruzzlewizzle is on. They should ask what he drives: it’s a V8 Monaro. Dr Karl is a petrolhead.

UPDATE VII. Sully: “We’ve seen how loaded with carbon morning showers can be …” Try using water, Sandra.

UPDATE VIII. Appropriately ill-lit, Malcolm Turnbull is carrying on about energy-efficient lightbulbs. Live from an outside broadcast at Tamworth, someone called Felicity just mentioned that bulb-changing volunteers had celebrated with a sausage sizzle – but a few minutes earlier, Caitlin had explained that meat-eating was BAD.

UPDATE IX. Big Al is a “greenhouse guru” who asks that we “don’t be part of the problem. Be part of the solution.”

UPDATE X. Moon-tanned Caitlin admonishes the band Evermore for drinking imported beer. Take thatHabib!

UPDATE XI. Footage (from LA!) of a hydrogen car revealed that head restraints had been removed so talent could be filmed from the rear seat. Unsafe! Reckless!

UPDATE XII. That Corinne Grant sure is a polished TV performer.

UPDATE XIII. Scary footage of Port Adelaide being swamped by a projected water rise of six metres. Well, scary if you live in Port Adelaide. The rest of Australia would be delighted.

UPDATE XIV. Now Sandra’s in Tokyo interviewing monster-consumer Al Gore. Al: “This climate crisis is completely different to anything we’ver faced before.” Yep; it’s fictitious. Sandra (admiringly): “Your family is carbon neutral.”

UPDATE XV. Al wants Australia to sign on to Kyoto. He’s MEDDLING IN DOMESTIC POLITICS!

UPDATE XVI. Peter Garrett is on … and he’s wearing the saggy blue shirt of legend. Can’t afford new clothes, Pete?

UPDATE XVII. Did wild-eyed Tim Flannery just say there’d be no polar ice-caps within five to fifteen years?? Not sure I heard that correctly. This is accurate, however: “It’s likely to be too late for the polar bear.” Better tell that to the indigenous communities who hunt them every year, Flumbo. Another line from Dr Gloom: “It’s just so depressing at the moment.” A great TV moment: the Doc points at a snow leopard and says: “The snow leopard needs snow to live.” Except for that snow leopard, apparently. It’s doing fine in Sydney’s zoo.

UPDATE XVIII. Toni Collette: “You can’t afford to be ignorant.” That’s never stopped Toni.

UPDATE XIX.  Having flown to Tokyo for five minutes face-time with Gore, Sandra presents the next carbon-audit question: “How much do you fly?” Also, people who eat red meat every day score three bad-carbonation points.

UPDATE XX. Whippy: “Heyyyy….Dr.Karl Schnitzelgruben just pointed out that if you turn appliances off…they use NO POWER. Amazing.”

UPDATE XXI. Musical interlude from Evermore. It’s the Global Warming Variety Show.

UPDATE XXII. Habib: “Why does Labcoat Lulu seem to have hickies all over her scrawny neck? Or are they Global Warming blisters!”

UPDATE XXIII. Pretty Erin goes to a book launch, accompanied by carbon harridan Caitlin. Meat is condemned, again.

UPDATE XXIV. It costs $22 to see a Toni Collette show? Jesus. By the way, it turns out Toni is the performer of that “sky is falling” crap.

UPDATE XXV. Quote of the night, from Carbon Cait: “People are a lot better off going to Toni’s gig than buying products they don’t really need.

UPDATE XXVI. Sandra demands that even if you’re a minimal carbon producer, there’s always room for improvement. OK, babe: no more Channel Ten for me.

UPDATE XXVII. Now Port Melbourne is being swamped.

UPDATE XXVIII. Flannery – a tilter – in that priestly garb he’s so fond of: “My nightmare scenario would be in 20-30 years, vastly rising sea levels would cause thousands of people to be displaced … we are causing the problem … vote for someone who cares about this.” Another Great TV Moment – Flannery gestures to the sky and mentions “this pollution”. None is evident.

UPDATE XXIX. Sandra: “By 2050, this is what a six metre storm surge could do to Sydney. Yes, Sydney is underwater.” Could be worse, says Sandra; some scenarios predict a 30 metre rise!

UPDATE XXX. Dr Karl dismisses warming sceptics because none of them are climatologists.

UPDATE XXXI. Nilkarf: “ I can’t wait to make enough money to get a farking huge gaia-raping monster. I’ve been quite happy tootling around in little 4 cylinder toys, but enough is enough. If our planet is dying, then I’m going out in style. Time to piss off the zealots the way they are pissing me off.” YOU GO, GIRL!

UPDATE XXXII. Readers report impressively high carbon scores. Well done.

UPDATE XXXIII. Asked if Ten had any old polluty computers lying around, Sandra answers: “There are none.” Ha! She’s such a kidder.

UPDATE XXXIV. Garrett takes us on a tour of Parliament. His presentation style would be suited to a kids’ educational TV show. For very young kids. At least Malcolm Turnbull is pitching his lines to an audience aged around, say, 14.

UPDATE XXXV. Caitlin (in a fetching off-the-shoulder black number) rates the celebs and their output: Toni Collette is second-worst of all.

UPDATE XXXVI. To get Toni off the hook, a second audit is presented – with carbon outputs from flights removed. Hey presto! Toni is now the cleanest and bestest! Sandra: “Toni’s been green for a long time.”

UPDATE XXXVII. Sandra hypes Toni, whose ghastly overall carbon output has immediately been forgotten: “A woman who takes her climate change seriously … she actually has a hybrid car.” Toni: “I love nature and I love life … I have a pretty green lifestyle.” No, she doesn’t; we just saw the damn numbers. She’s a hog.

UPDATE XXXVIII. Toni performs her little song (not acoustic, as it happens): “Look out, look out, the sky is falling … people laughing in the face of danger [that would be us – ed]… the streets are bleeding, the rivers flooding, and the boats are sinking, the lights are fading … we can’t sleep, we can only weep.”

UPDATE XXXVIV. The whole sickening farce is over. My air-con has been running all this time. And the wine I’m drinking comes from far, far away. Tomorrow: must seek out an earth-chomping second car, something colossal.

Posted by Tim B. on 03/04/2007 at 05:45 AM
    1. Oh, Sandra’s really laying on the guilt thick. So I promptly lit the fireplace and took off my sweater. Gotta keep warm somehow.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 03 04 at 05:48 AM • permalink

 

    1. You know, like the audits run by Scientologists.

      Nah, more like the IRS or the Australian Taxation Office.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 03 04 at 05:50 AM • permalink

 

    1. Isn’t it great when the global warming fundies (fundamentalists) can’t avoid tripping over their own language.

      Surely to Christ they had someone with some memory of the mass suicide at Jonestown in the 1970’s where cult leader Jim Jones had his followers ingest a powdered drink called Kool Aid that’d been laced with cyanide.

      http://www.wordspy.com/words/drinktheKool-Aid.asp

      Perhaps they’ve been drinking too much “Cool Aid” themselves to notice the pun.

      Posted by ausdiplomad on 2007 03 04 at 05:51 AM • permalink

 

    1. I’d love to be watching Chanel No 10 with you, but my wife is too busy watching Kylie burn up MegaWh with her stage show on ABC
      Hope to join you soon…

      Posted by sleek on 2007 03 04 at 05:59 AM • permalink

 

    1. I wouldn’t want to fire up the 2nd TV of course… It’d be against the spirit of the whole thing…

      Posted by sleek on 2007 03 04 at 06:01 AM • permalink

 

    1. Since we’re all carbon based, step forward the person who is not a catastrophe.

      Posted by regional on 2007 03 04 at 06:04 AM • permalink

 

    1. Waaahh!! Up here in the Deep North, we’re not cottoning on to that radical, way out daylight saving, so we’ve gotta wait an hour ‘til we get spanked by Sandy!

      I want my tongue-lashing now!!

      I’ve extra naughty this weekend as well, seasoning a new aquarium and washing gravel- I must have wasted a gigalitre or more, to set up something that introduces non-native species to an artificially lit and heated environment (extra heating needed due to near freezing airconditioning), keeping them in cruel captivity instead of introducing them to their natural marine environment, where they could be scarfed on by barracouda or scooped up by a deep trawl.

      I’m such a naughty, wasteful, consumerist cad- Sandy, I need to be chastised!!

      I took Tim Flannery’s name in vain! I’ve worshiped graven images (or at least pixilated ones- Clint Eastwood marathon yesterday, with a case of Tuborg, shipped at huge carbon cost halfway ‘round the world)!!

      I’ve covetted my neighbours SUV!!

      I’ve blasphemed- I said Al Gore was a brilliant capitalist- after all he’s making a bomb out of an idea so daffy it wouldn’t normally be believed by Scientologists!!

      Whip me! Beat me!! Tie me up and call me names!!!

      Posted by Habib on 2007 03 04 at 06:04 AM • permalink

 

    1. “A carbon catastrophe! Who wants to be called that?”

      Every Ted Rall cartoon ever.

      Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 03 04 at 06:06 AM • permalink

 

    1. I quite like the chicks in white coats.

      Quick Mamma, Warm my glow balls!!!

      Yeah Baby.

      Posted by gubbaboy on 2007 03 04 at 06:10 AM • permalink

 

    1. #3,

      I thought this post must be about Kevni committing political suicide.  But I’m old and remember Jonestown.

      Still, the title is pretty apt given that most of the ecofanatics appear to want us all dead.

      Posted by Janice on 2007 03 04 at 06:10 AM • permalink

 

    1. Janice, didn’t the Greens in 2004 have as part of their platform reduction of Australia’s population from 20 mil to 12-14 mil. I wonder how they planned on doing that?

      Posted by Matthew Lawrence on 2007 03 04 at 06:12 AM • permalink

 

    1. What’s the carbon cost of an unnecessary outside broadcast, and associated satellite/microwave uplinks?

      What also is the carbon cost of the panelbeating required in makeup to make most of those appearing on this frightfest look vaguely young, vital and human?

      Posted by Habib on 2007 03 04 at 06:13 AM • permalink

 

    1. Just on this thing about Al Gore being the Anti-Christ. I want it known that I predicted Hilary Clinton to be the AC months ago, way before some Monsignor Johnny come lately started making predictions.

      I will concede though that Big Al is shaping up as a contender. Perhaps the 3.5 years of tribulation are the consequences of living green?

      Posted by gubbaboy on 2007 03 04 at 06:20 AM • permalink

 

    1. Let’s see if I’ve got this right. They’re making hydrogen cars that release water. So won’t that be the cause of rising sea levels?

      At least Corinne just admitted she’s a moron.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 03 04 at 06:25 AM • permalink

 

    1. Is it me, or is Sandra really sullying her reputation (sorry) by taking part in this… She doesn’t sound very convinced…

      Posted by sleek on 2007 03 04 at 06:29 AM • permalink

 

    1. #15, she also looks quite revolted by having to sit across from Gore.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 03 04 at 06:34 AM • permalink

 

    1. Al Gore admits he was sceptical that his SLIDE SHOW could be made into a movie. He was right to be sceptical.

      Posted by CO² max on 2007 03 04 at 06:35 AM • permalink

 

    1. And he explains how easy it was for his family to be carbon neutral. Asshole.

      Posted by CO² max on 2007 03 04 at 06:36 AM • permalink

 

    1. Your family is carbon neutral…
      Yes… It’s easier than you think…
      If you fiddle your carbon credits and make money in the process…

      Posted by sleek on 2007 03 04 at 06:37 AM • permalink

 

    1. #18, it is easy, when you’re buying the carbon credits from yourself.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 03 04 at 06:37 AM • permalink

 

    1. Note that Sandra Sully looked like she was dressed up for a trip to regions with sub-zero temperatures when she was in Tokyo to talk about global warming.

      Posted by Matthew Lawrence on 2007 03 04 at 06:39 AM • permalink

 

    1. #14
      Isn’t water vapour the biggest greenhouse gas?

      Posted by lotocoti on 2007 03 04 at 06:40 AM • permalink

 

    1. Malcolm Turnbull on Kyoto: “Its not good enough. It doesn’t go far enough.”

      Jesus, get your hand off it. You’ve decided that companies ought not to lose a cent, so just say that!

      Posted by Wolves Evolve on 2007 03 04 at 06:41 AM • permalink

 

    1. What’s with all this paranoia about nuclear reactors…Homer Simpson has a lot to answer for.

      Posted by Matthew Lawrence on 2007 03 04 at 06:41 AM • permalink

 

    1. Hmmm… Kyoto actually promotes global warming… (Turnbull)… Haven’t heard that one before, but must remember it…

      Posted by sleek on 2007 03 04 at 06:42 AM • permalink

 

    1. To get in the spirit of things:

      Father Al, it has been some time since my last confession. After running the air-con and leaving the computer on all day, I put a few steaks on the BBQ for dinner.

      Forgive me Gaia, for I have sinned…

      Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 03 04 at 06:42 AM • permalink

 

    1. #22, Yep, but considering Australia has none, it’s easier to blame carbon for our problems.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 03 04 at 06:42 AM • permalink

 

    1. Sandra’s grilling big Mal T. Will he ever recover?

      Posted by CO² max on 2007 03 04 at 06:43 AM • permalink

 

    1. #28, I’m pretty sure he’ll pull through. It’s not like she’s very scary.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 03 04 at 06:44 AM • permalink

 

    1. And why should they, Wolfy, to placate fruitcakes?

      Companies generally are in business to make money, not hand it over to scammers, flimflam artistsand bunko artists.

      Hey Caitlin, I drink imported beer, no make that guzzle- all the time!!

      You and Sandy had better pop over and discipline me licketty-split!

      Posted by Habib on 2007 03 04 at 06:45 AM • permalink

 

    1. How can we dance when our earth is warming
      Probably coz our beds are burning

      Posted by sleek on 2007 03 04 at 06:46 AM • permalink

 

    1. Re: Tim’s Update XIII.

      Probably the best thing that could happen to Port Adelaide from what I’ve heard.

      Posted by CO² max on 2007 03 04 at 06:47 AM • permalink

 

    1. Wolves, if you did some research before shooting your mouth off, you’d know that plenty of companies, consumers and taxpayers are already paying for this government’s policies on goebbels warming.

      I suggest you start here.

      Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 03 04 at 06:48 AM • permalink

 

    1. #30

      You could probably use some help I suppose Habib. Well…OK then…I’ll be there in 5 with a case of Leffe Blonde.

      Posted by CO² max on 2007 03 04 at 06:50 AM • permalink

 

    1. No, I don’t believe it, drinking imported beer is bad for Gaia? What else is the Czech Republic good for? Beer makes use of Gaia’s goodies in the form of hops, wheat, barley, water, its practically worshipping her goodness everytime we drink it.

      Ill smote that lot, time to get a gruntier car.

      Posted by Nic on 2007 03 04 at 06:51 AM • permalink

 

    1. Heyyyy….Dr.Karl Schnitzelgruben just pointed out that if you turn appliances off…they use NO POWER. Amazing.

      Posted by CO² max on 2007 03 04 at 06:52 AM • permalink

 

    1. Yay… KK proves live that it’s OK to leave my Plasma etc.. on standby… 2W – Bargain…

      Posted by sleek on 2007 03 04 at 06:53 AM • permalink

 

    1. Why does Labcoat Lulu seem to have hickies all over her scrawny neck?

      Or are they Global Warming blisters! Yikes, they’re right!! Isn’t tinfoil a good heat reflector? We need a coat as well as hats!

      #15- This a buckethead who hosts such illuminating exercises as Who’s Our Smartest Soap Opera Bit Player ?

      Strangley enough all the ads so far have been flogging assorted hippy power scams, carbon credit diddles and oddly enough beer, cable TV and video games- three products that enough couch potatoes to remain on the couch, burning carbon, emitting methane and not plant trees.

      Posted by Habib on 2007 03 04 at 06:53 AM • permalink

 

    1. Flannery has just declared that it’s already too late for the polar bears. “It’s so depressing” he moans.

      Posted by CO² max on 2007 03 04 at 06:55 AM • permalink

 

    1. #36, you’re kidding?! They don’t?!

      And it’s all about the polar bears again.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 03 04 at 06:56 AM • permalink

 

    1. PIMF- make that encourage, not enough.

      Toni Collette on why she bought a hybrid- “It inflates my smug sense of superiority.”

      It’s also her “band” car- obviously they don’t play any instruments, so there’s no need for amps, lights, foldback and PA. Must be a fucking dull act*.

      *Big surprise.

      Posted by Habib on 2007 03 04 at 06:58 AM • permalink

 

    1. Can anyone tell me what Dr Karl whatshisname is a Doctor of?

      Posted by 8_8_8 on 2007 03 04 at 06:58 AM • permalink

 

    1. They seem to be spending a lot of time measuring the # of Tonnes / Kilos of emissions – I must admit that I missed the start of the programme, but I’m assuming that they conclusively proved that CO2 emissions cause some horrendous catastrophe or other… Or did they take that as a given?

      Posted by sleek on 2007 03 04 at 06:59 AM • permalink

 

    1. I thought it was physics. I’ll just go and check…according to wiki B Science in physics and maths, masters in astrophysics, bachelor of medicine…no PHD, i guess the B Medicine makes him a doctor

      Posted by Matthew Lawrence on 2007 03 04 at 07:02 AM • permalink

 

    1. #42

      An annoying knowall who is Doctor of all sciences and master of none (obviously has an aversion to AGW research).

      Posted by CO² max on 2007 03 04 at 07:03 AM • permalink

 

    1. Toni Collette: “You can’t afford to be ignorant.”

      But she can, from money from those shit movies she made.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 03 04 at 07:04 AM • permalink

 

    1. Gee meats taking a hiding.

      Posted by raider580 on 2007 03 04 at 07:05 AM • permalink

 

    1. This is just freakin’ crazy.

      Tim Flannery and Al Gore sound so harmless and cuddly, kinda like they are trying to imitate endangered koala bears in an endangered eucalyptus forest.
      Look at Al’s eyebrows. Evil eyebrows. Evil.
      Not koala-like at all.

      Posted by Mike_W on 2007 03 04 at 07:06 AM • permalink

 

    1. Just to restore my faith in humanity the missus sent me a post from one of those “pink girly” chat boards.
      One of the ladies did a big post on that “save the earth by switching off the power for an hour” scam.
      Not one reply.
      Sank to the bottom of the page and dissapered without a trace.
      When this crap hits reality and self interest I think I know which to bet on…

      Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 03 04 at 07:08 AM • permalink

 

    1. #42- he’s a GP with a good publicist. He’s diddled around a bit in physics and maths, no actual quals as far as I know.

      Just had a an outside broadcast piece on:- Airhead on camera flibbertygibbet:- “The people of Tamworth have spoken!”

      F/X:- Crickets chirp……

      What should have followed this spray was:-

      “And what did they say?”

      “Hoooeee!! Squeel, piggy! SQUEEEELL!!”

      Posted by Habib on 2007 03 04 at 07:09 AM • permalink

 

    1. #47, not the first time some of these numbats have given their meat a thrashing.

      Posted by Nic on 2007 03 04 at 07:09 AM • permalink

 

    1. Mike, you just made a cardinal mistake…nobody calls them koala bears

      Posted by Matthew Lawrence on 2007 03 04 at 07:09 AM • permalink

 

    1. If it’s three “You Evil Heathen!” points for eating red meat once a day, how many is it for eating red meat for each meal every day?

      And how much carbon is produced by having the band play on those evil electric instruments?

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 03 04 at 07:10 AM • permalink

 

    1. re Tim’s update XVIII.

      Toni Collette: “You can’t afford to be ignorant.”

      Unless of course you’re an overpaid undertalented ‘actress/singer’ who drives a Prius because it makes her feel better about her anti-Gaia consumption.

      Posted by CO² max on 2007 03 04 at 07:10 AM • permalink

 

    1. Yay… Eating out is environMENTALLY friendly…
      Tell us about home delivery…

      Posted by sleek on 2007 03 04 at 07:17 AM • permalink

 

    1. “Imported beer is high in carbon costs- better to drink a local brew.”

      Is Labcoat in the pay of Lion Nathan and Carlton United?

      What if you’re drinking room temperature, flat Pommy beer? No refrigeration involved, and no carbon-dioxidey belches and bottom burps-

      Run those figures, calculaor girl!

      Posted by Habib on 2007 03 04 at 07:20 AM • permalink

 

    1. Please can we have that Sam Neill “We’re made to eat it” ad?

      Posted by lotocoti on 2007 03 04 at 07:21 AM • permalink

 

    1. I’m a Carbon Catastrophe!

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 03 04 at 07:21 AM • permalink

 

    1. I scored 77 points… Does that make me bad?

      Posted by sleek on 2007 03 04 at 07:21 AM • permalink

 

    1. Hands up all CARBON CATASTROPHISTS! Everyone. Very good people!

      Posted by CO² max on 2007 03 04 at 07:22 AM • permalink

 

    1. #59, No, it makes you good. Not as good as my 81 though.

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 03 04 at 07:23 AM • permalink

 

    1. What a sham… subtely underlined by the ads for Prius, Bendy bank’s Carbon Cons and Jack Green’s thingys…

      Posted by sleek on 2007 03 04 at 07:24 AM • permalink

 

    1. Sandra, I’m doing my part! Surely my airconditioners running 24hrs a day must counteract the warmening to some degree?

      And I have purchased life jackets for all my family in preparation for the splashening.

      Posted by Penguin on 2007 03 04 at 07:24 AM • permalink

 

    1. Update XXV

      “People are a lot better off going to Toni’s gig than buying products they don’t really need.”

      What…like (imported) beer…and meat? BULLSHIIIT!

      Posted by CO² max on 2007 03 04 at 07:26 AM • permalink

 

    1. Telling people they can’t have beer and meat…haven’t sports grounds been doing that for a while now?

      Posted by Matthew Lawrence on 2007 03 04 at 07:27 AM • permalink

 

    1. BTW, what is Toni’s band named? I hope something apt like ‘the oxygen thieves’

      Posted by Nic on 2007 03 04 at 07:29 AM • permalink

 

    1. Dr.Karl Schnitzelgruben just pointed out that if you turn appliances off…they use NO POWER.

      Lava lamps need power to live.

      Posted by rhhardin on 2007 03 04 at 07:31 AM • permalink

 

    1. Considering how much wine we export i don’t think Australia really wants to get on the “imported beer/wine/coca cola etc is bad” bandwagon.

      But as we are a very geographically isolated continent, adopting that anti-import stuff from the Europeans (which is really just their typical protectionist stance dressed up as environmental concern) would seem to be lunacy of the highest order.

      Posted by Francis H on 2007 03 04 at 07:31 AM • permalink

 

    1. I am so glad I missed this nauseating claptrap. Well, all but the last 10 minutes or so.

      I am so sick to death of being preached at, I can’t wait to make enough money to get a farking huge gaia-raping monster. I’ve been quite happy tootling around in little 4 cylinder toys, but enough is enough.

      If our planet is dying, then I’m going out in style.

      Time to piss off the zealots the way they are pissing me off.

      Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 03 04 at 07:31 AM • permalink

 

    1. OFFICIAL: 6 metres sea rise is optimistic
      Some estimates as high as 30m… WTF???

      Posted by sleek on 2007 03 04 at 07:32 AM • permalink

 

    1. #57. FOr you.

      Can someone send me some rusty razorblades, please? I just realised it’s still going on.

      Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 03 04 at 07:33 AM • permalink

 

    1. #69

      I can’t wait to make enough money to get a farking huge gaia-raping monster.

      Noble Aspirations. More power to you.

      Posted by CO² max on 2007 03 04 at 07:34 AM • permalink

 

    1. #46 precisely how much money does one need before one can afford to be ignorant? is it necessary to own a Lear jet, like the Goreat Goreen ex-vice-Pres Al Gorebot, or just two homes like Toni? can one fudge it and get away with 1 home and an investment property?

      Posted by hooligan on 2007 03 04 at 07:34 AM • permalink

 

    1. you just made a cardinal mistake…nobody calls them koala bears

      Oh no, if Goresballs Warning don’t get me the koala police will.
      I’m Doomed!
      Doomed I tells ya!
      AAAARRGGHHHHH!!!
      *Runs screaming into the carbon emissions*

      Posted by Mike_W on 2007 03 04 at 07:35 AM • permalink

 

    1. Ha ha ha! Dr Karl just said that we can’t take scientists seriously if they aren’t climate scientists.

      And now he’s using a discredited paper as evidence!

      And comparing skeptics to Tobacco Companies.

      Will this guy get a fucking brain?

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 03 04 at 07:35 AM • permalink

 

    1. Oooh… An acknowledgment of climate change sceptics…
      Oh… Wait a mo…
      Doctor K says “Yes, but they’re not climatologists”

      STOP PRESS: Neither are Doctor K, Tim Flannery, or Al Gore…

      What a crock of s(*&

      Posted by sleek on 2007 03 04 at 07:36 AM • permalink

 

    1. Dr. Karl uses the Naomi Oreskes defence. HUH?

      Posted by CO² max on 2007 03 04 at 07:36 AM • permalink

 

    1. People are a lot better off going to Toni’s gig than buying products they don’t really need

      You mean like sending an SMS to the TV network with your ‘test results’?

      Meanwhile, Channel Ten’s Cool-Aid website is a monument to not spending money, with a list of (mostly minor) celebrities appearing on the show, and this postscript: “With more names to come…” Uhh… The show’s just been and gone. I’m sure they’ll issue an update tomorrow.

      Meanwhile www.coolaid.com is chilling.

      Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 03 04 at 07:38 AM • permalink

 

    1. #71
      Thankee kindly
      Otherwise I was going to charge up the soda siphon and go on a pure CO2 polar bear thrill kill spree.

      Posted by lotocoti on 2007 03 04 at 07:41 AM • permalink

 

    1. We’re all going to die!!!!!

      Posted by bondo on 2007 03 04 at 07:44 AM • permalink

 

    1. Honda’s just on, shilling it’s hydrogen car- a bit late, you procrastinators!

      Joh Bjelke Petersen and Steven Horvath had one on the go before Al Gore invented the internet!

      MT Head on now, spruiking that the Feds support this suspect scare show. Nothing like a good scare campaign to justify a big increase in government.

      Garrett just on saying we have a lot of gas- speak for yourself, you bald-headed fart.

      Posted by Habib on 2007 03 04 at 07:44 AM • permalink

 

    1. The Syrian Moaning Harold is shilling [url=http://earthhour.smh.com.au/]Earth Hour and demanding Australians turn off their electricity.

      I bet Channel Ten aren’t participating.

      Wouldn’t it be funny though, if all the ‘save the world, stop using electricity’ events clashed on the same day?

      Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 03 04 at 07:44 AM • permalink

 

    1. #82
      I am saving the world one tag at a time.

      Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 03 04 at 07:45 AM • permalink

 

    1. 5000 people work in the parliament – all of which can use the pool – and there’s one person in there! Lazy c***s!

      Posted by CO² max on 2007 03 04 at 07:48 AM • permalink

 

    1. #84, maybe they’re all busy working out ways to escape the Burke curse.

      Posted by Matthew Lawrence on 2007 03 04 at 07:51 AM • permalink

 

    1. I hope it finishes on time, I need to tape The Shield.

      I’m boycotting Channel 10.

      Posted by kae on 2007 03 04 at 07:52 AM • permalink

 

    1. Big Mal T on the train. Ha. I’m tipping that’s a first.

      Posted by CO² max on 2007 03 04 at 07:52 AM • permalink

 

    1. “UPDATE XIII. Scary footage of Port Adelaide being swamped by a projected water rise of six metres. Well, scary if you live in Port Adelaide. The rest of Australia would be delighted.”

      Truer words were never spoken…

      Posted by Scott W on 2007 03 04 at 07:52 AM • permalink

 

    1. ohh, the Cool Aid site has a forum.

      Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 03 04 at 07:53 AM • permalink

 

    1. #85, so am I, now that I’ve found alternative ways to watch NCIS.

      Posted by Matthew Lawrence on 2007 03 04 at 07:53 AM • permalink

 

    1. UPDATE XXXIII. Asked if Ten had any old polluty computers lying around, Sandra answers: “There are none.”
      “So long as ABC Qld doesn’t lift any ceiling tiles.” sotto voce sandra

      Posted by lotocoti on 2007 03 04 at 07:53 AM • permalink

 

    1. #90, that should be #86

      Posted by Matthew Lawrence on 2007 03 04 at 07:54 AM • permalink

 

    1. Toni used to lie down on a blanket on a roundabout and she ached for nature. Sounds like a dream I keep having a friend of mine keeps having….

      Posted by CO² max on 2007 03 04 at 08:01 AM • permalink

 

    1. HEY…We’re all in the top five percentile!

      Posted by CO² max on 2007 03 04 at 08:02 AM • permalink

 

    1. I need sponsors for next years Mardi Gras float

      Sandra Sully and the Carbon Scrubbers

      Posted by Ductilis on 2007 03 04 at 08:02 AM • permalink

 

    1. Hey, Toni Collette promised to make herself green and carbon neutral if John Howard won the last election– we’re still waiting, Tones.

      Do it for Gaiea, and you’d no longer have to get a travel discount to be a C+ in CO2.

      Posted by Habib on 2007 03 04 at 08:04 AM • permalink

 

    1. Updates 35-37, isn’t fudging/ignoring numbers what climate change scaremongering is all about?

      Posted by Matthew Lawrence on 2007 03 04 at 08:05 AM • permalink

 

    1. She’ll always be Muriel to me…

      Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 03 04 at 08:06 AM • permalink

 

    1. #97
      What? Inconvenient truths?

      Posted by lotocoti on 2007 03 04 at 08:10 AM • permalink

 

    1. Hang on, I have the answer!

      Global Warming = BAD, right?

      Remember back in the 80s all that panic about ‘Nuclear Winter’ after the inevitable nuclear war?

      Stick with me here, I’m going somewhere with this – its obvious, all we need is a nuclear war!  we could start with a small one (say Syria) and if that doesn’t balance the Global Warming enough, we whack Iran, we can keep Nth Korea up the sleeve just in case we need a bit more Nuclear Wintery goodness and then its just a matter of running down the ‘whos been a bad boy’ list and mallet them until we have a pleasant temperature again.

      Posted by Harry Buttle on 2007 03 04 at 08:10 AM • permalink

 

    1. Heh.
      It just started raining.

      Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 03 04 at 08:11 AM • permalink

 

    1. #93

      I’d prefer that she lie down on the road.

      Posted by kae on 2007 03 04 at 08:13 AM • permalink

 

    1. Metting of the minds just on- Merrick and Rosso chat to their mate Tim Flannery, while a quizzical giraffe looks on, an expression on it’s dial that seems to indicate it thinking “who are these retards? Give me another carrot, you tossers.”

      Sandra Sully now on, sucking up to crap MOTR Kiwi band Evermore, who apparently are going to convert their Tarago to pedal power. Coincidentally they have just released a new single, with a film clip on the Coolaid website. Apparently the single is to be pressed on recycled organic free-range hemp, so the audio quality will be somewhat muffled, a real bonus for music lovers.

      Posted by Habib on 2007 03 04 at 08:15 AM • permalink

 

    1. #100

      Remember back in the 80s all that panic about ‘Nuclear Winter’ after the inevitable nuclear war?

      Personally, I’m still waiting for us all to die of Avian Flu, though I think the media’s since moved on to the next crisis.

      Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 03 04 at 08:17 AM • permalink

 

    1. If I refuse to give up red meat, but promise to eat Caitlin, do I win anything?

      Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 03 04 at 08:18 AM • permalink

 

    1. Toni Collette now on, preaching gibberish. Is a big arse carbon neutral?

      PIMF again- Meeting, not metting.

      Posted by Habib on 2007 03 04 at 08:18 AM • permalink

 

    1. But wait… There’s more..

      The programme following this Crap (Being John Malkovitch) featured the opening line “I’m a walking cliché”… Are they trying to send us a message here???

      Posted by sleek on 2007 03 04 at 08:22 AM • permalink

 

    1. Ha ha!! I loved Al’s line about harnessing “streams of energies” to reach our (his) goals. At that I burst out laughing and changed the channel. You can’t say he doesn’t know his target audience.

      Posted by Kobaal on 2007 03 04 at 08:25 AM • permalink

 

    1. $105. Get Caitlin over to your place to witness your output.

      Posted by Hank Reardon on 2007 03 04 at 08:26 AM • permalink

 

    1. Funny how they ‘ignore’ and chuckle about Toni’s air travel. Bet you she travels at the pointy end of the plane too, taking up space that could be used for 3 or more passengers.

      Sacrifice is only for the unwashed and the gullible. Business class for me, they serve foreign goodies there.

      Posted by Nic on 2007 03 04 at 08:31 AM • permalink

 

    1. Tim Flannery:- “I’ve been on a carbon diet for some time…..”

      So at least one of these dingbats is putting his money where his mouth is, cutting the burning of fossil fuels by eating coal.

      Posted by Habib on 2007 03 04 at 08:31 AM • permalink

 

    1. Cooool!

      I got 94.8 – only upset I didn’t make 100.

      Still, busy year coming up and lots of air travel – might just get me there.  Also only installed my airconditioning in December so I’ve got all those lovely warmening winter months to use it before the end of the year.

      With 14.92 being the Australia average, I’m pleased Sandra was able to confirm what I long suspected – I’m more than 6.3 times better than my neighbours!!

      Posted by Vincent Gerome on 2007 03 04 at 08:32 AM • permalink

 

    1. Now some ratbag who was the first imbecile to ski across the Antarctic, now heading to Greenland to annoy the wildlife and pester the locals.

      Must be going to take a while to get there by the only suitable carbon neutral method available.

      Posted by Habib on 2007 03 04 at 08:35 AM • permalink

 

    1. Didn’t bother totting up a score, but I’m sure I flambe‘ enough fossil fuel to cause a collective conniption fit among this gathering of gormless green goons and gargoyles.

      Bit peeved though that my power bill is down by a 3rd from last year at this time, as I’ve had to throttle back the aircons due to the lack of blistering heat, and I swapped to inverters, which just don’t seem to be able to munch megawatts like the old buggers I binned (but at least we let the ozone depleting R12 loose into the atmosphere, where it could roam free and improve the tans of Emperor penguins.

      Posted by Habib on 2007 03 04 at 08:43 AM • permalink

 

    1. Oops, left the italics door open, now they’re running amok.

      Posted by Habib on 2007 03 04 at 08:44 AM • permalink

 

    1. My considered response to cool aid and the climate zombies. No doubt the effect was made worse by Tonis imitation of an akward suicidal 13 year old reciting bad poetry to music.

      Posted by bondo on 2007 03 04 at 08:51 AM • permalink

 

    1. When I was in Vancouver, I remember hearing about a shop that had fresh loaves of bread flown in from Paris every day. I’m tempted to start up the same business model here, just to anger the leftoids.

      Posted by Ian Deans on 2007 03 04 at 09:02 AM • permalink

 

    1. What was Perfesser Quiggin doing playing bass for Toni Collette?

      Posted by Habib on 2007 03 04 at 09:04 AM • permalink

 

    1. Has there ever been a greater inanity presented as science/information on Australian TV?

      I may well have early onset Alzheimers but I can’t think of anything.

      Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 03 04 at 09:06 AM • permalink

 

    1. Thank god that bullshit is over.
      My favourite part was when Toni Collette came in second worst of the group. Then Channel 10 decide to make Toni feel better by running a new scenario without flights.

      Posted by Hank Reardon on 2007 03 04 at 09:16 AM • permalink

 

    1. Does anyone remember a glitzy apocolyptic TV special that aired in Australian in the late 80s, early 90s that told us to stop using the dishwasher, turn off lights etc – followed a family around and told us how good or bad they were depending on their actions?

      My favourite bit was the show castigating those “dumb” people who refused to believe the claims – invariably they were having bbqs, driving their v8 commodores etc, not turning off their lights.

      I’d love to see a copy of this today because there were a whole lot of wacko predictions made about what would happen by the year 2000 if we didn’t all change our terrible ways.

      I’m sure one of them was Sydney being swamped by rising sea levels.

      Posted by Vincent Gerome on 2007 03 04 at 09:20 AM • permalink

 

    1. Too bad the cars Hugh Grant and Eddie Murphy were in didn’t have head restraints! BTW, a busy Monday morning is it, Tim? (Or a busy Sunday night liveblogging?)

      Posted by andycanuck on 2007 03 04 at 10:07 AM • permalink

 

    1. I read the posts above and realized with a shudder that Australia’s “Cool Aid” show was just a trial run for the U.S. version. I’ll bet money that it’s coming, and it will be even bigger and an order of magnitude more horrible.

      Posted by ErnieG on 2007 03 04 at 10:08 AM • permalink

 

    1. That’s it then, I’m leaving on the airconditioning all night.  Gotta keep up with the Geromes.

      Posted by Crossie on 2007 03 04 at 10:12 AM • permalink

 

    1. toni collete has out-luvvied all the thespians that have ever lived.  meanwhile, back at the ranch, am cogitating over how to upgrade the hovel’s carbon churning potential.  am considering installing a pizza oven to enable the cooking of sucking pigs & haunches of beef.  and taking out the clothesline, which, let’s face it, is fairly unaesthetic, & using the dryer all the time instead.  a tv wall would be nice for watching 15 different shows at once.  plus perhaps a nice powerful electric pump to raise bore water so the garden never need be thirsty again.  along with an outdoor hot tub kept permanently hot & bubbling.  if i had a licence, i’d get one the only two genuine factory built GT40s ever imported to australia (the one used in the petrol ad decades ago, not the one that’s been crashed a lot) & burn a lot of oil & fuel driving it very slowly round & round the block – guaranteed to deliver satisfying amounts of smoke & unburnt fuel to the gaiasphere

      Posted by KK on 2007 03 04 at 10:41 AM • permalink

 

    1. You know, like the audits run by Scientologists.

      Hey, those psychic powers Tom Cruise promised me are going to kick in ANY DAY NOW and then all youse Evil Thetans is gonna be sorry, boy!

      “It’s likely to be too late for the polar bear.”

      That’s it!  It’s time to organize the Planetary Arctic Critter Organbank.  With careful management we can keep the Chinese bear liver market afloat for decades yet!

      As an alternative, let’s get the evil GM scientists to leave our vegetables alone and start implanting polar bear DNA in koalas.  The polar bear may be doomed but the Drop Bear may yet live!

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 04 at 11:39 AM • permalink

 

    1. THURSDAY 08 MARCH
      Documentary
      The Great Global Warming Swindle
      9:00pm – 10:35pm
      Channel 4

      The Great Global Warmin Swindle

      In a polemical and thought-provoking documentary, film-maker Martin Durkin argues that the theory of man-made global warming has become such a powerful political force that other explanations for climate change are not being properly aired.

      The film brings together the arguments of leading scientists who disagree with the prevailing consensus that a ‘greenhouse effect’ of carbon dioxide released by human activity is the cause of rising global temperatures.

      Instead the documentary highlights recent research that the effect of the sun’s radiation on the atmosphere may be a better explanation for the regular swings of climate from ice ages to warm interglacial periods and back again.

      The film argues that the earth’s climate is always changing, and that rapid warmings and coolings took place long before the burning of fossil fuels. It argues that the present single-minded focus on reducing carbon emissions not only may have little impact on climate change, it may also have the unintended consequence of stifling development in the third world, prolonging endemic poverty and disease.

      The film features an impressive roll-call of experts, including nine professors – experts in climatology, oceanography, meteorology, environmental science, biogeography and paleoclimatology – from such reputable institutions as MIT, NASA, the International Arctic Research Centre, the Institut Pasteur, the Danish National Space Center and the Universities of London, Ottawa, Jerusalem, Winnipeg, Alabama and Virginia.

      The film hears from scientists who dispute the link between carbon dioxide levels and global temperatures.

      Posted by Rob Read on 2007 03 04 at 11:41 AM • permalink

 

    1. I’ve got the TV on, while listening to CD’s, surfing the Internet on my laptop, and leaving the hot plate and coffee maker running.

      Hey, it’s a small apartment, best I can do…

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 04 at 01:50 PM • permalink

 

    1. Somebody needs to start an Australian version of Hot Air. I want to see these dummies!

      Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 03 04 at 01:58 PM • permalink

 

    1. #89. The Cool Aid forum is taking some flak. Seems like many don’t agree. Heretics.

      Posted by JAFA on 2007 03 04 at 03:12 PM • permalink

 

    1. Concluded Cool Aid was actually just a very longwinded blonde joke.

      However think I have got it. Gran with her 3 incandescent light globes and her 10 year old car is destroying the planet.

      Gore and his ilk with their fluorescently flood lit mansions and their hybrids in which they pop down to the boutiques, (always use a limo to the airport, parking would be such a bore) are saving the planet.

      Idiot woman, don’t feel too guilty, just a few changes and you can save the planet.

      Underlying this c**p is one of the worst cases in my life of the middle and upper classes screwing the poor. That is aside from the poor in Africa whose food crops don’t count for carbon credit while the cash crops of the Europeans planted in their place do. Catch a ferry to work, or a train, maybe even, oh horror a bus. That would be good if you didn’t live in the outer western suburbs of Sydney, where there is virtually no public transport. Catch a ferry, oh what a hardship that is.

      Posted by Ros on 2007 03 04 at 04:28 PM • permalink

 

    1. Sodom Morning Herald

      Posted by regional on 2007 03 04 at 05:17 PM • permalink

 

    1. Hmmmm.

      1. Snow leopards don’t actually, you know, *eat* snow.  They live on small to medium game.  Game which generally depend on grasses and other plants to survive.  Which generally depend on sun and warmth to grow.

      So if there’s more sun and more warmth, then there’ll be more plants.  Which in turn will supply more small to medium game for the Snow Leopard to hunt.

      2. You don’t suppose lefties think polar bears actually eat ice do you?

      Posted by memomachine on 2007 03 04 at 05:23 PM • permalink

 

    1. Karbon Kaitlin, if I’m taking too long in the shower, how about you beat me off?

      Posted by anthony_r on 2007 03 04 at 06:29 PM • permalink

 

    1. Update XXIV – that gig was in Parramatta.  Oh, the shame…

      Posted by anthony_r on 2007 03 04 at 06:32 PM • permalink

 

    1. On the 18th of November 1978,deep in the pristine South American jungle,an earlier version of Al conned 912 of his followers into drinking a deadly concoction of Kool-Aid,cyanide,sedatives and tranquilizers.This happy event(for his dedicated flock) became known as the Jonestown Massacre.Yes I know the name of the potion being delivered by CH.10 is spelled differently but I still think they could have chosen a title for their crusade that didn’t revive memories of previous occasion when the deluded led by the demented went blindly to oblivion.

      Posted by Lew on 2007 03 04 at 06:43 PM • permalink

 

    1. Somebody call Richard Branson, a guy named Mike over at the Cool Aid forum has the answer. Responding to the question “won’t Australians loose their job”:

      This whole thing about job losses is a complete furphy. Who cares if we all lose our jobs? Why do we work? Mostly, because we’re in debt. Then to have a roof over our heads (a debt) and food on the table.

      We need to change absolutely EVERYTHING we do. Period.

      All debts should be cancelled and banks closed. Everyone in a house should own it, no questions asked.

      We can pretty well all grow our food (I do).

      If we ALL stopped driving to work and spending money we don’t have on useless stuff we don’t need to impress people we don’t even like/know, the entire problem would be solved. Just like that.

      People in satisfying jobs like doctors and nurses can be fed by those of us they treat. ditto firemen and ambos.

      My footprint is virtually ZERO without a car. Add our small car, and it’s 8.9 planets! Change the car to a hybrid, and it’s 5.9 planets! How sustainable is that? How can ANYONE believe we can reach sustainability with ANY kind of Business as Usual?

      Way to go, Mike!

      Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 04 at 07:21 PM • permalink

 

    1. That’s it, I’m going to call Dermott O’B @10!!
      I’m going to find out !

      Posted by 1.618 on 2007 03 04 at 07:27 PM • permalink

 

    1. Fr Flannery has forgotten that the old style religious apocalypse promises ever-lasting life on the other side. Impending doom works because the punters are suppose to flock to church to seek redemption and a ticket into here-after. But Fr Flannery promises no such after-life, just smouldering cities and 2000 metre high waves, and it’s going to happen TOMORROW!!! No time to switch off the TV and the lights, I’m flying by private jet to Canada with a bazooka to fix those fucking polar bears once and for all.

      Posted by Contrail on 2007 03 04 at 08:16 PM • permalink

 

    1. May I apply for a place in the Carbon Hangar of Infamy.  Currently sinning with –

      73 Landrover
      96 LTD V8 Ford sedan
      00 XR8 V8 Ford ute (supercharged)
      01 Boss Hoss 502ci V8 bike (with NOS)
      02 Dyna
      04 Vrod

      Working on some more…

      Posted by Oldun on 2007 03 04 at 08:17 PM • permalink

 

    1. I’m glad I missed Cool Aid, was in my workshop with everything switched on just listening to the hum and watching the meter spin…..

      Posted by rickw on 2007 03 04 at 10:19 PM • permalink

 

    1. I actually thought Dr Karl’s stint on Cool Aid was quite thought-provoking.  A couple of the more obvious questions:

      If Dr. Karl says we should ignore warming skeptics who aren’t climatologists, does that mean we should aslo ignore him (a trained physicist)?

      If CO2 is directly responsible for global warming, why did the peaks and troughs of Dr Karl’s CO2 vs. Temperature chart not coincide, and more importantly why was the mean temperature change over the last decade dead flat?

      Dr Karl admits climate variation is a natural phenomenon, but that the problem is the growing human population and its apparant affinity for beach front property.  Surely this suggests the problem is not how much carbon we emit, but that we are simply living in the wrong place.  Should we not, therefore, direct our efforts to relocating to higher ground rather than fighting Gaia’s natural rhythms?

      Posted by gelfen on 2007 03 04 at 11:17 PM • permalink

 

    1. Oops, forgot to ask this as well:

      What is the carbon penalty associated with the extra medical and dental care we will all require for treating calcium and protein deficiencies, since we can no longer eat meat and dairy?

      Posted by gelfen on 2007 03 04 at 11:23 PM • permalink

 

    1. you know, life in general is looking more like an episode of South Park every day

      Posted by JonathanH on 2007 03 04 at 11:30 PM • permalink

 

    1. Why are the streets bleeding?  What sort of meteorological event is that?  Is it because the sky fell on them?

      By the way, if you’re looking for a real earth-sodomizer, I hear wonderful things about late 60’s era Cadillac El Dorados.

      Posted by Mark V. on 2007 03 04 at 11:56 PM • permalink

 

    1. Thanks Mark, I’ll be looking for an El Dorado (the very name evokes plunder and despoilation, that’s a great tip!)

      Posted by Oldun on 2007 03 05 at 01:10 AM • permalink

 

    1. Um, “the boats are sinking”? Only if they hit bottom because of insufficiently-deep water.

      Posted by bobpence on 2007 03 05 at 01:46 AM • permalink

 

    1. Ha! I’ve got a ‘72, when they really became steroidal, with the engine balooning out to 500ci (or 8.4 litres in Frogspeak). The steering automatically veers off the road whenever it senses the presence of motor spitir, to feed it’s bottomless, ravenous hunger.

      And it’s the pimpiest thing they ever built, I think they came with a leopardskin brimmed felt panama, a fur coat and platform shoes with fish swimming in the heels as standard. And some beotches and hos. Word, mofos.

      Posted by Habib on 2007 03 05 at 02:00 AM • permalink

 

    1. Okay, so we are going to get 20 meter storm surges now?

      Hmm, was thinking about this today….

      A Cat 5 which is catastrophic (hey it’s the in word) can cause a surge up to 5 meters ergo a storm which causes 20 meter surge would have to be 4 times the force?

      I accept here that there is some mathematic calculation that will so it’s not quite that much but my point is still the same and that is…

      A cat 5 which causes 5 meter storm surges is 250 MPH winds so 4 times that is 1000MPH winds!

      If this is the case and you are living in Sydney and there is a storm coming which is strong enough to cause a 20 meter storm surge, you will not have to worry about the surge because you would have been blown to Calcutta by 1000 MPH winds long before the surge arrives.

      Posted by Looneyc on 2007 03 05 at 04:55 AM • permalink

 

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