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August 18 – the SMH’s Wendy Frew condemns wealth as a cause of global warming:
Over-consumption is, literally, costing the earth … Every $100 spent on clothing
generates
August 21 – the SMH’s Wendy Frew wins a big cash prize:
Sydney Morning Herald Environment writer Wendy Frew has been awarded the 2007 Australian Government Peter Hunt Eureka Prize for Environmental Journalism for an impressive series of articles on climate change …
The Australian Government Peter Hunt Eureka Prize for Environmental Journalism is Australia’s most significant cash
Whoa! Just like me with the cash prize I’ll receive for being the first to post to their comment thread. Let’s see. Should I donate the money
to Greenpeace? How about the church?Well fuck that shit. I’m getting me a Hummer. And maybe a zoot suit
.Posted by wronwright on 2007 08 23 at 05:22 AM • permalink
Have a gander through the other winners and the categories they won. They’re very 5/10 at best and embarrassing at worst, excluding the entry that won the Science Photography award – Levitated Drop Of Blood.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 08 23 at 05:28 AM • permalink
What a peachy coincidence. I am in possession of some first rate carbon credits which I simply must offload to a person of virtue fair and true. You can contact me through the bloghead, Wendy.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 08 23 at 05:34 AM • permalink
Only one ethical place to spend the money – Big Al’s Carbon Credit Mega Barn. And if you place your order
before midnight Sunday, you receive one DVD of An Inconvenient Truth!After Sunday they go back to their regular deal
, five copies of the DVD per purchase.Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 08 23 at 05:38 AM • permalink
- If you’re not cooling us, you’re warming us. Die! Yeah, er… thanks, Wendy.
Here’s an even better idea, while we’re on the subject. Instead of carping about Australians producing more warmy stuff per capita, let’s measure warmy stuff output per square kilometre of each country’s land mass.
It’ll put the rampant overpopulators on the basis where they should be.
From the Australian Museum site.
The even-handed and insightful manner in which Frew addresses each subject, weighing all possibilities and opinions against each other and providing her readership with the tools
to make up their own minds, sets her writing apartSo I’m glad she’s been even handed.
She has provided her readers with links to sites such as climateaudit.org, Michael Crichton’s speeches (Crichton was in the running for this award but sadly, was ruled out because he was not Australian) and articles by prominent skeptics (Richard Lindzen, for instance, has been interviewed by her numerous times so much so that she has been referred to unflatteringly as a “Lindzenite” by warming believers).
She has written profiles of prominent Australian skeptics such as Ian Plimer, and given informed yet concise summaries of the main skeptical arguments, including those made in the Intelligence Squared debate.
She has pointed out the futility of the Kyoto treaty now that the largest CO2 producer is China (having recently overtaken the US for the top spot), a nation that is not, and never was, a signatory to the treaty.
Her review of The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg was superb, and her explanation of the arguments surrounding arcane issues such as the hockey stick hoax, the heat island effect and its importance in understanding the Brazilian heat record, were outstanding. Her fearless questioning of NASA spokespeople over the recalibrating last year of all existing US temperature data (NASA now admits that 1934, not 1998, was the hottest year ever, although they say this is doesn’t matter), makes her worthy of the highest accolades of journalism.Posted by daddy dave on 2007 08 23 at 05:56 AM • permalink
- Posted by daddy dave on 2007 08 23 at 06:16 AM • permalink
She’s already announced that she intends to compost the cash
.Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2007 08 23 at 06:38 AM • permalink
#7 DD, I think that China might actually be a signatory to Kyoto, but, as a developig country, is only required to enjoy a warm and fuzzy feeling for having done so.
(I noticed that I had misspelt developing, but on reflection the misspelling was strangely fitting in the context of carbon emissions, so I left it alone)
“She will likely donate it to an environmental organization rather than spend it on clothes or perhaps a new car
. Right Wendy?”No, she can’t do that. Because the environmental organization would then spend the money, and that would Destroy The Earth. To be true to her stated principles, Wendy must make sure that no one spends this money on anything.
I look forward to seeing her burn the money
—no, scratch that. Burning produces greenhouse gases. That would be eeeeeevil.I look forward to seeing her feed the money into a shredder in a public ceremony on the steps of the SMH’s corporate headquarters. The resulting mulch can be spread on the plantation of trees that I assume the SMH maintains to replace the ones that are slaughtered every day and sacrificed to produce the SMH’s print edition.
- Posted by daddy dave on 2007 08 23 at 06:53 AM • permalink
You square-o Nixonian flat tyres just don’t get it, man- it’s only when you consumer-fascists spend your own money on facile goods and luxury services that Gaiea gets cornholed and pops a fever, when the perpetually anxious, caring and supevisory are given a wedge of your cash
, they invest it in dunking Mother Earth in an ice bath. After all, when you crochet your own tampons, excrete your own yoghurt (due to cultivation of postive chi bacteria in bodily orifi) and are one with cetaceans, you have no need for filthy capitalist cash- the term “cash prize” used in the press release was a contextual insert so dumb proles could understand the concept- what she’s getting is in fact a wheelbarrow full of smug, which she will lavish on other stratospheric descent believers.Recycled material sourced bicycles
and hemp undies for everyone!!(BTW- I listened during the week to a ratbag describing how he made his rock festival carbon neutral- the University of NSW gave him a dump-truck full of ackers which he blew on buying a stand of bamboo some cunning cockie was going to bulldoze and burn, which they used to build a tent from which to hector attendees on the evils of their very existence. Most wandered past to get wasted, dump garbage everywhere, pollute the air with their malodourous armpits, overpriced Mullumbimby ditchweed and parasite-infested dreadlocks, further pollute the air and clog the roads with their oil-fume belching Kombis and fill the composting dunnies to overflowing with their explosive diahorrea-fueled emissions; they did however have power to the site provided by biodiesel gensets and solar panels- what comes out the exhaust of a biodiesel fueled engine, Einstein, patchouli vapours? What are solar cells
made from- discarded bodyhair? Bugger Blairs Law- I reckon Habibs Law* has moved from theory to confirmed and irrefutable) .*Evolution peaked in the early sixties, and devolution kicked in. Homo Sapiens has been getting steadily stupider since, and at an accelerating rate. Within ten generations
the dominant species will probably be cats, or those sharks from Deep Blue Sea.
Note- like all laws applying to natural
selection, there are exceptions to the general trend- muatations are always possible, and not always retrograde.
Appears Frew dosn’t like talking to scientists:
Thanks
for the plug for the article in Cosmos Magazine (http://www.cosmosmagazine.com). I was disappointed to see ABC TV’s Lateline – and later ABC News Online – do the piece without attribution. But obviously, there are observant people out there who spotted it.I think it’s incredibly important
to discuss future energy options rationally, and the article oin thorium reactors is our contribution. Just don’t try and bring it up with the SMH in Sydney – you will get shouted down (and hung up on), as I was today by Wendy Frew, author of this strangely unbalanced piece (see below).Cheers,
Wilson da Silva
Editor, Cosmos MagazineNuclear no cure for climate change, scientists warn
- Habib, kae, rednuts make up 50/50 of my immediate and extended family. No prizes for guessing the ethnic origins. Shades of autumn from ginger blond toeye-popping russet to deep auburn. Also white blond and darkest boring brown. The red doesn’t seem to be breeding out either, as the younger kids are also throwing red in varying shades.
I think it will take longer than 95 years to breed the red out of my family.BTW, Habib, the cats have already taken over, most people just haven’t realised. Be very afraid of ginger toms.
egg—that wasn’t the only mistake you made, I removed the stray italics tag, and also enclosed your quote in the proper “quote” tag (that’s what that button’s for), and I also put your long url into a link (that’s what that button is for). I did all that because I’m in a good mood. At the moment. Those moments are few and far between—use the Preview button to make sure your formatting is done right.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 08 23 at 08:12 AM • permalink
“excrete your own yoghurt”
Tried it… its overrated….Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 08 23 at 08:24 AM • permalink
- #32 🙂
I think what our mistress is saying is that the (rest of) the entire page will still be formatted in italics in preview mode to indicate that you haven’t successfully closed off the italics, even if italics close is the last entry of your post? … apologies for the pedantry, trying to make it easier for all (esp the boss)
/normal viewing
- Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 08 23 at 08:46 AM • permalink
Appears Frew dosn’t like talking to scientists
That explains a lot. As the old saying goes, “Never let the facts get in the way of a good story.”
Posted by daddy dave on 2007 08 23 at 08:47 AM • permalink
Hmmm. Behind the news cycle again, I see
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 08 23 at 08:59 AM • permalink
Looks like the Rudder’s been hanging around bars since a kid
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy habib’s back
the imams have pronounced on recycling:
Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, SunniPath Academy Teacher
Is it permissible to recycle in Islam i.e put waste in black recycling boxes for the council to collect.Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,
I pray this finds you in the best of health and spirits.
Waste—using things beyond need—is reprehensible in Islam; and economy is praiseworthy. Insofar as recycling promotes waste-reduction and economy, it is praiseworthy and those who recycle would be worthy of reward if their intentions are correct.
And Allah alone gives success.
Whale’s flesh on toast and koala fur mittens
Lots of cleared forest and species gone missing
All the fun that a large V8 brings
These are a frew of my favorite thingsWhen the SMH prints shite
and my head rings
When I’m feeling madder than mad
I simply remember a frew of my favorite things
And then I don’t feel so bad
I have a really simple question – why in Science’s name is a government handing out awards to journalists? That, on the face of it, just seems wrong to me.
One way or another it’s a case of government sanctioning journalism and the subject matter and point of view of that journalism. And the journalist. That shouldn’t be any government’s role, as far as I can see. In the US, not only do we believe in the separation of Church and State, but also the separation of Journalism and State. Surely taxpayer money would be better spent on addressing national priorities of all citizens and not in granting government approval to a specific journalistic point of view.
- Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 08 23 at 10:23 AM • permalink
the 2007 Australian Government Peter Hunt Eureka Prize for Environmental Journalism .
And just who the fuck is/was Peter Hunt?
Is he any relation to Mike?
And why is the ozgov giving taxpayer money away to ecofascist fuckheads?
Paco – sorry, I’m back in Vietnam and then to Africa.
Alas, no Chinggis hat this time
Posted by Jack from Montreal on 2007 08 23 at 10:46 AM • permalink
Australian Government Peter Hunt Eureka Prize for Environmental Journalism
The Australian Government Peter Hunt Eureka Prize for Environmental Journalism is sponsored by the Commonwealth Department of Environment and Heritage and is named after the late Australian Broadcasting Corporation science broadcaster, Dr Peter Hunt.
(In fugly quote format, for the conformists).
Kylie & a Firebird: Some kind of bliss
Just frew that in for Wendy’s (burger joint?)
Save the planet, walk around stark naked.
…
I wonder if that’ll catch on with college co-ed?
Posted by memomachine on 2007 08 23 at 03:37 PM • permalink
Egg: fixed the quote. The blockquote formatting is rather plain. I might add a light shading to it or something, to better distinguish it from the regular text.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 08 23 at 05:11 PM • permalink
The Frew, the Plod, the Martini …
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 08 23 at 05:20 PM • permalink
You mean there was an italics/boldbath last night and I MISSED IT?
Sheesh.
That was a lucky escape, egg!
******
Allah alone gives success.
It is the will of Allah.Funny how it’s all up to Allah, but the absolute shitholes* they live in and their stupidity and inability to progress into the 21st Century have all been caused by Amerikka and the decadent west.
Morons.
And they’re trying to turn the west into a backward shithole, too.
Thus spake our dread mistress:
The blockquote formatting is rather plain. I might add a light shading to it or something, to better distinguish it from the regular text.
Ooh! Ooh! Would you, would you please,O Gracious and Terrible One? Pretty please with mead, whipped puree of leftie, and Tim Flannery’s nuts on top???
Seriously, I, for one, would find it much easier to read. Little Green Footballs (yes—gasp!—I’m one of *THEM*, too) also uses a slightly smaller typeface for blockquotes, but I think that just having the shading would be better.
Posted by Mary in LA on 2007 08 23 at 06:18 PM • permalink
#23 marees
Oh, I dunno, I thought that Professor James Allan got a few knuckles on the eyebrows on Burnside and that lepoard skin tradgedy ?
I thought it was a goody..McMullen thought it was his usual 3/1 set up but slipped on his arse
- It’s Friday.
It’s raining – but we need it. (A low pressure system off the east coast and now one in central Queensland have given us weather rather reminsicent of that I endured in New Caldeonia over the new year…)Here’s something I just received via email. Have a laugh.Jim & Edna were both patients in a mental hospital.
One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Jim suddenly jumped into the deep end.
He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there.
Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled Jim out.When the Head Nurse Director became aware of Edna’s heroic act, she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as she now considered her to be mentally stable.
When she went to tell Edna the news she said, ‘Edna, I have good news and bad news. The good news is you’re being discharged; since you were able to rationally to a crisis by jumping in the pool and saving the life of another person.’
‘The bad news is… Jim, the patient you saved, hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but he’s dead’.
Edna laughed and replied, ‘He didn’t hang himself, I put him there to dry.
How soon can I go home?’
Sans Flannery’s nuts, tks.
Oh, gee, egg_, now you tell me! Well, just scrape ‘em off… good luck picking them out from between the chocolate sprinkles, though… 😉
Posted by Mary in LA on 2007 08 23 at 07:36 PM • permalink
One sick joke deserves another! 🙂
A farmer drove past the local mental institution, pulling a trailerload of manure behind his tractor. One of the patients waved at him over the garden fence and called out, “What’s in the trailer?”
“Manure,” replied the farmer.
“What’re you going to do with it?”
“Put it on strawberries.”
Said the patient, “You ought to live in here! We get sugar and cream on them.”Posted by Mary in LA on 2007 08 23 at 07:41 PM • permalink
Rudd targets Howard on Wikipedia changes
But to engage public servants to go out there and re-edit history, strikes me as odd to say the least.
Rudd being the authority on such matters:
Hour or so…40 minute… 15 minute strip club visit
Too drunk… didn’t finish one beerMr Incredible!
I have a really simple question – why in Science’s name is a government handing out awards to journalists? That, on the face of it, just seems wrong to me.
a very good point, kcom.
I would amend that to
“why for f***‘s sake is a Conservative Government doing this?” I think it shows that the power of the Government to keep the bureaucracy in line is limited.Posted by daddy dave on 2007 08 23 at 07:55 PM • permalink
Gosh I feel ever so smart today!
Tim Blair keeps posting things people are saying cause global warming… So i’m keeping track – so we know what we will be missing out on, once we go progressively towards a 90% reduction…
Posted by Admonkeystrator on 2007 08 23 at 07:57 PM • permalink
High Court judge criticises media coverage
Justice Kirby told young lawyers in Sydney last night the media sometimes treats court cases in a superficial manner and over-simplifies important issues.
He says journalists should keep their personal value judgments out of their stories.But it’s OK for Haneef’s lawyer to dump stuff into the public arena?
Jackass!
- #95 I’m in two minds about this wikipedia scandal.
On the one hand, it shows how easily wikipedia is corruptable. Some of us already knew that, but apparently this is news to most people.But on the other hand, it’s the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. That’s its weakness and its strength.
Anyone includes people who know lots about the topic. Those people usually have a vested interest in the topic. For instance, nobody will be able to contribute more factual information about the Departmnet of Defence than someone who actually works there. It might also happen that they have a pro-DoD slant, but that’s how it goes. Everyone has a slant.Besides, until this wiki-PR thing really took off, wikipedia had a somewhat left-wing bias, but I don’t think that you could say that today.
Posted by daddy dave on 2007 08 23 at 08:01 PM • permalink
Kevni – time to come outta the closet?
Maybe his ‘ladyfriend’ was packing extra luggage downstairs?
Kevin Bloody Rudd (the Born Again Piss Tank) should learn to exercise caution in such unguarded moments
#11 …but…but…as that mulch mulches (?) there will be CO2 generated!!!
Oh no!!! We are all going to die!!! DIE, I TELL YOU, DIE
(runs around in circles waving arms in air)Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 08 23 at 09:03 PM • permalink
#95 EGG_, don’t be so hard on Kevni… he was obviously rudderless at the time.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 08 23 at 09:08 PM • permalink
Ok, Andycanuck, wimpycanadian: I’m afraid we’re going to have to ask you boys for some DNA samples.
Somewhere in Australia, Tim Flimflammery is crouching in a corner, lovingly stroking whatever stupid tchotchke he was given when he was made Australian! Of! The! Year!, and hissing to himself, “The nasty Wendy-woman wins a prize, but it’s not you, my precious! Nasty Wendy-woman – she can never have you, precious! The thought of her touching you as Australian of the Year burns us, it does!”
Then again, he may very well be too busy bumping uglies with Mo Dawood-Hicks to have heard about this yet.
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 08 23 at 09:32 PM • permalink
Anyone who can find the amount of the prize-money is obviously a better google driver than me. This seems to be a state secret.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 08 23 at 09:36 PM • permalink
Hey, yojimbo, Old Tanker; think you could handle one of these?
While we wait for Wronwright’s baby picture, thought y’all might like to see some photos from the Paco family album.
Speaking of Wronwright, looks like that boy has some ‘splainin’ to do.
Every $100 spent on clothing generates 70 kilograms of greenhouse pollution…
How much pollution does a koala suit generate? And I am thinking of the entire life cycle costs here, which includes all the hot air spouted by those wearing the suit as they stand on the footpath annoying innocent passers-by.
As for Andrea fixing the italics, does that constitute a form of recycling? If she takes them back, do they go into a bucket where they can be reused by someone else? If that’s the case, then on principal, shouldn’t we set fire to them or something?
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 08 23 at 11:51 PM • permalink
10 grand is a bit more than a pat on the back isn’t it? – no wonder they are embarrassed to report on it.
Enough for 7 tonnes of clothing related greenhouse emissions.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 08 24 at 12:16 AM • permalink
Wendy Frew for sustained, critical and probing coverage throughout the year of Australia’s climate change debate. (Sydney Morning Herald)
How on God’s green earth do you cover a deabte that’s not only settled, but not taking place? Hand back the 10,000 clams you smug twat.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 08 24 at 12:40 AM • permalink
#122
FYI: Auntie’s code of practice, subject of the Minister’s complaint
- #128
Haneef’s colleague sacked– AN Indian doctor who admitted to forging his resume has been dismissed from his job at the Gold Coast Hospital.
Queensland Health said Dr Mohammed Asif Ali’s employment had been terminated based on his admission that he deliberately included false information in the resume he provided to the department.
I just heard this on the radio.
Interesting that we’ve been told his medical ability hasn’t been questioned, it’s just thebig fat hairy liesfibs he told on his CV that are the problem.I’ve heard that it happens all the time, people embellish their CVs. Well, I never have and I never would. It’s dishonest.
I wouldn’t be happy about letting him back here to practise, especially if he’s lied about qualifications on his CV.
Qld’s wild weather caused by ‘freak event’
Wot, no mention of AGW, surely not!
The Qld AMA head shot down Rudd’s $2b take over all 750 public hospitals in every state kite.
1. Annual budget in Qld for the public hospitals $7b.
2. How far is $2b between the states and territories’ 750 hospitals OVER FOUR YEARS going to go?
After hearing it explained like that surely people will wake up?
I can’t find any link, sorry.
Warming debate still over
by Wendy Frew
The debate about global warming was still over this afternoon, Sydney time, because denialists are scum suckers who are in the pockets of big oil.
Also, denialists have no real qualifications in weather predicting, according to palaeontologist and Godlike individual Professor Tim Flannery.
“These so called global warming expert denialists can all go choke on a big piece of nuclear waste,” Professor Flannery told an audience of 23,000 at the Honolulu Convention Centre.
“Meanwhile, we can all make do with the buffet. Which side of this debate are you on?”
Later, speaking from Suite 1401, Professor Flannery said the debate was now even more over following his address.
“Scientists have always been good at predicting long-term weather, and new information of consequence never turns up,” Professor Flannery said. “This debate is so over.”
“Can you believe the size of the Toblerone in the mini bar?” Professor Flannery concluded. “Would you like a nibble?”
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 08 24 at 01:06 AM • permalink
Warming debate still over – Lofty disdain still going strong.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 08 24 at 01:09 AM • permalink
#153 – I’d have to answer same. I still think he’s a snivelling, mendacious, fork tongued, moonfaced, twat head.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 08 24 at 01:40 AM • permalink
Cop the undisguised look of anger on the runt after this prickly question to Herr Flick, the facade quickly slips …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Blair
I changed his wiki again.
#165 – A balanced youtube commenter puts forth his view on Howard:
ThE Satanic scumbag Howard has the whole cowardly Australian Media in his pocket ,when this Rat is booted out the (Media) should be questioned by a special court – something similar to the Nuremberg trials
so they will not be allowed to say that they were just following orders. They are as guilty as this War Criminal.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 08 24 at 03:13 AM • permalink
This has been getting a lot of mileage recently, not least on this greatest of blogs. Now I’m an old fashioned sort of cove, …….. the last time I had a carbon footprint my old mum gave me a clip across the lug for tracking it on her new lino when I was bringing in a bucket of briquettes…. about half a century ago.
Now I hear a lot of shit about stuff like doing/not doing this or that is taking 2 million cars off the road, saving/emitting 20 thou tons of carbon, sequestering x tonnes of carbon, blah blah blah.
What I want to know is who works this shit out, from what bodies of data, and how…..or is it something they just reach around for to fish out.
And for once…..pleeaasse try and keep it SERIOUS!!!!! ….at least till I get an answer
Cheers
RodC
Mood here in Blacksburg, Virginia…Hopeful and with positive spirit…but a definite somber and sorrowful pall can be seen in eyes.
Victim name misspelled on memorial stone…apology issued and to be corrected.
#188 What I don’t understand is why the “local communities” should get offended by the phrase “war on terror” if they don’t support or take part in terrorism?
To suggest that an Asian “local community” (what a sickening phrase that is) will get offended by the term is to suggest that it consists of terrorists.
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 08 24 at 11:23 AM • permalink
- Plastic Turkey Sighting!!!!
(Friday’s Counterpunch piece about Michael Deaver.)Posted by bugscuffle on 2007 08 24 at 12:00 PM • permalink
egg loads up the ole jukebox & heads out …
- Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 08 24 at 06:12 PM • permalink
Yes, she won a cash
prize. But that doesn’t mean she will spend it. She will likely donate it to an environmental organization rather than spend it on clothes or perhaps a new car
. Right Wendy? Wendy?