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Reuters – dear old calm and sensible Reuters – reports:
Australia’s cities are drought-parched and its desert outback drenched by floods, but climate change has not yet killed the country’s famed surf beaches …
It hasn’t exactly killed anything in the drenched outback, either. Quite the opposite:
Vegetation in the surrounding countryside appears to be springing back to life, with a faint green tinge spreading across the underlying pinkish-tan terrain.
But evidently deserts should always remain as deserts. As they say at treehugger.com:
We are fundamentally against change …
Their emphasis. They’ll be out there in the Australian desert any minute now, torching plants and erasing the hated “faint green tinge”.
- After they tidy up the greening desert they really should do something about plate tectonics. I mean, if something isn’t done now, the continents as we know them will cease to exist!!!![Posted by nobody important on 2007 03 01 at 11:41 AM • permalink
- How can you kill surf in an ocean that is rising to consume us all? Do these people even bother to check their slogans against each other anymore?
The left doesn’t need ideologues, it needs copyeditors.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 01 at 11:41 AM • permalink
- #1, do all that, so that we the Keepers of the Climate may continue to jet around the world in private planes, maintain multiple homes the size of small towns, and be driven in any of several gas-guzzling luxury autos we like (except when we want to be seen in the Prius, just so the peasants know we’re still one of them).
- “We should become the new conservatives, the defenders of the status quo. We like things the way they are- cold winters, tolerable summers, stable water levels, cute polar bears. We are fundamentally against change, and things that cause it (like coal plants, low density suburbs and big SUV’s).” (full paragraph).
Yeesh these people are stupid—things do not stay the way they are. Period. 200 years ago they’d be against endind slavery. 100 years ago they’d be against women voting. I’m sure if they went back far enough in time they’d be against Pangea breaking up. “Save the cute dinosaurs!”
- If you’re fundamentally against change then you are fundamentally anti-Gaia. She’s all about change.
(The treehuggers should go ask those Vikings in Greenland how they feel about the current climate. Except they can’t, of course, because the current cold climate drove the Vikings out of Greenland centuries ago. Somehow, though, it’s self-evident that this climate is obviously better and more right than that climate was.)
- These people aren’t “conservatives” or “conservationists”…..they are for preservation. I call them “preservationists”. And no, I did not originate that.
No, they are for, in their own words, the “status quo”. The current condition. Which is ludicrous, because (as others here have noted), the environment is all about change.
And I do not consider genuine environmental problems (e.g., dumping raw sewage into streams) as “change”—that’s a problem. One that is caused by people, and can be addressed.
If the climate is shifting from dry to wet, warm to cold, and that shift is natural (i.e., Mankind hasn’t got a say in the matter), that is something that we need to live with, and not be as so arrogant as to try and maintain the status quo.
I really can’t decide if these preservationists are stupid, arrogant, or just slick scam artists, sucking money from the pockets of marks all around the world.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 01 at 12:59 PM • permalink
Electricity is generated when waves wash into a funnel facing the ocean, driving air through a pipe and into a turbine capable of pumping 500kw of clean power each day into the local grid.
The A$6 million ($4.7 million) floating plant, built to withstand a 1-in-100 year storm, can also desalinate 2,000 litres of drinking water each day for almost as many homes as it powers.
Really?! How very clever of you Ozites. And to think that all this was done without government mandate or taxpayer money (it was, wasn’t it?).
From another link at that site: Climate change as dangerous as war – UN chief Ban
Climate change poses as much danger to the world as war, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday as he urged the United States to take the lead in the fight against global warming.
In his first address on the subject, Ban said he would make climate crisis the focus of talks with leaders at a meeting of the Group of Eight industrialized nations—Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain, the United States and Russia.
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Ban said the world needed a more coherent system of international environmental governance and that he hoped the United States would take the lead in looking toward the climate change fight beyond Kyoto’s end in 2012.
“I hope that United States, while they have taken their role in innovative technologies as well as promoting cleaner energies, will also take the lead in this very important and urgent issue,” Ban said.
I dunno, Ban. You guys didn’t care much for the lead we took in the fight against global Islamic terrorism (you do remember global Islamic terrorism, don’t you). Chances are you’ll like our response to this climate hysteria even less.
I had some small hope when Kofi left, but this guy is pretty much Kofi-lite. Guess we can start calling him Ban Ki-moonbat. Sigh.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 01 at 04:16 PM • permalink
- It’s always annoyed me when lazy songwriters include lyrics like “I need you like the desert needs the rain”. The desert doesn’t need the rain – if it rained it wouldn’t be a desert.
The desert fears the rain, like a Frenchman fears work.
Posted by Don Charleone on 2007 03 01 at 06:03 PM • permalink
- Finally a good news story not from Reuters, but about Reuters.
Reuters Group has reported a 30 per cent drop in annual profit as it continued its investment program targeting new markets, but the news and financial information provider was upbeat about 2007.
Going the same way as NYT?
- The Australian outback after rain is truly one of the great sites in nature. Abundant life springs almost instantly, creating a rich tapestry of flora and fauna… sorry, I can’t write in a floral style. Believe me, the desert after rain is fookin’ brilliant.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 01 at 07:40 PM • permalink
- The A$6 million ($4.7 million) floating plant, built to withstand a 1-in-100 year storm, can also desalinate 2,000 litres of drinking water each day for almost as many homes as it powers.
And how do they plan to deliver the 4 litres per day (half a watering can) to each of the 500 households? Well, I suppose they’ll find a way and then at least the water crisis will be solved.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 03 01 at 07:49 PM • permalink
- I wonder why Treehugger.com censored my comment on that thread, last week? —
“We are not Green Moonies.”
True. You’re more like Scientologists.
“It is time to push back.”
See what I mean?
Posted by Copious Maximus on 2007 03 01 at 11:14 PM • permalink
The desert fears the rain, like a Frenchman fears work.
Bono, eat your heart out.
Posted by daddy dave on 2007 03 02 at 12:38 AM • permalink
- A developer is a person who wants to build a house in the woods.
A conservationist is a person who already has one.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 03 02 at 12:39 AM • permalink
- RK—cook over an open fire pit? Are you mad?Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 02 at 02:06 AM • permalink
I’m inclined to agree: Nobody gets out of this life alive.
Whew! What a relief. I’ve been brooding over my own mortality lately.
Posted by nobody important on 2007 03 02 at 06:07 PM • permalink
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