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A Gore-like effect is observed across South Africa:
The South African Weather Service recorded 54 weather records in the icy, wet and snowy weather this week.
On Monday, there were 34 new records and on Tuesday, another 20. Almost all were for the lowest maximum and minimum daily temperatures in towns across the country.
The weird thing is, known chill-maker Al Gore was nowhere near the place. He was instead visiting, ahem, Chile. Meanwhile, despite annual hysteria over the threat to Australian skiing posed by gloybill wooming …
“The whole place has gone completely white. It’s fully covered the whole resort,” said Mr Grant, [Perisher Blue Ski Resort’s] marketing manager. “It was a wild, wintry night. It just blizzarded. The snow was coming in from all directions.”
Some ski enthusiasts have taken advantage of the cold climate and started the ski season early. The official season kicks off on June 9.
(Via F.F. J-G)
UPDATE. Snowcams for all!
- I’m pretty sure that as the glaciers close in on New York, the Glibful Warmingistas will claim it’s just another sign of excess CO2.Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 05 23 at 05:38 PM • permalink
- Damn, but the Gorebot’s good!
He doesn’t even have to be on the same continent to “bless” countries with his “special” effect.
I’m a believer…. 😀
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2007 05 23 at 05:48 PM • permalink
- Tim, you’re not with the program. Unusual weather is only caused by global warming if it’s unusually warm weather. Blizzards, early winter and so on are due to natural variation.Posted by daddy dave on 2007 05 23 at 05:52 PM • permalink
- Before global warming was caused by conservatives and assorted capitalist death beasts, the weather was controlled by leftist elves from Camelot:
It’s true! It’s true! The crown has made it clear.
The climate must be perfect all the year.A law was made a distant moon ago here:
July and August cannot be too hot.
And there’s a legal limit to the snow here
In Camelot.
The winter is forbidden till December
And exits March the second on the dot.
By order, summer lingers through September
In Camelot.
Camelot! Camelot!
I know it sounds a bit bizarre,
But in Camelot, Camelot
That’s how conditions are.
The rain may never fall till after sundown.
By eight, the morning fog must disappear.
In short, there’s simply not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-aftering than here
In Camelot.Camelot! Camelot!
I know it gives a person pause,
But in Camelot, Camelot
Those are the legal laws.
The snow may never slush upon the hillside.
By nine p.m. the moonlight must appear.
In short, there’s simply not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-aftering than here
In Camelot.
- #6 Don’t worry Dave, the experts will change it all around in a year or two.Posted by dean martin on 2007 05 23 at 06:25 PM • permalink
- Forget glowball whamming. I’ve found the hysterical left’s next big disaster. Oh, the humanity!
- I just can’t get over irony of the muslim named Al Gore’s title for his new book “Assault on Reason”. I guess at least he believes in honesty in advertizing.
How about this piece of truthery:
It is simply no longer possible to ignore the strangeness of our public discourse
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No, Al, you’re quite right. It’s all warmed up and over-heated.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 05 23 at 06:37 PM • permalink
- Might I venture the notion that Al Gore has betruthed us?Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 05 23 at 06:38 PM • permalink
- #11, RebeccaH:
So that’s what the evilchimpymcbushitlerhalibrutonazifascist has been up to all these years in office!?!
He’s been pushing us into the path of the avenging galaxy Andromeda!
Impeach him now! That eeveel dood should be up to his eyeballs in peaches and peach like substances already, what are we waiting for!
- #11 [running around in circles waving hands in the air] Oh no, we’re all going to die, die! [/running around in circles waving hands in the air]Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 05 23 at 07:18 PM • permalink
- #11 Seriously, RebeccaH, when I was 11 I was very worried by the expanding and collapsing universe, trying to imagine a teaspoon of a neutron star weighing one million tons.
Now I have attained the age of 13 😉 I am a little more philosophical about such things. Like, for example, if I can do something about something, I will, otherwise I won’t waste my time. Global warming being an example, as I cannot control the sun.
[running around in circles waving hands in the air] Oh no, we’re all going to die, die! [/running around in circles waving hands in the air]..hnmmm, maybe I can shorten that to [RAICWHITA]
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 05 23 at 07:27 PM • permalink
- VDH has a good piece on Gore d’Almighty and the serial purchasers of penances:
”… serial confessions simply encouraged serial sinning. The calculating sinner would do good things in one place to offset his premeditated bad in another. The corruption surrounding these cynical penances and indulgences helped anger Martin Luther and cause the Reformation.
Maybe it was inevitable that the old practice of paid absolution would appeal to elite baby boomers — a class and generation that always seems to want it both ways by compartmentalizing their lives. The only difference is that the new sinners are not so worried about God’s wrath as they are about their reputation among their judgmental liberal gods.”
Full article here.
Them Boomers is a caution, land sakes a’gosh’n!!
- #22
Phatty’s now worried about Sun Spot Explosions … isn’t he impervious, being a supermassive black hole ‘n all?
- OMG, one of the Al Gore clones has escaped! Perfect Al Clone Org takes no responsibility for this; our records show strict security measures were adhered to at all times. Well, at least we know in which country’s he’s hiding. A Pretorian Al Capture Operative will be dispatched immediately (See, we do have contingency plans).
- You greedy Australian skiers STOLE that snow from the drought-stricken territories. Put it back this instant…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 23 at 08:34 PM • permalink
This less-than-sunny news comes from Harvard astronomer Thomas Cox and his colleague Avi Loeb, who used a supercomputer model to predict how the two galaxies will begin colliding in about 2 billion years.
How can this be? I thought the whole thing about the Big Bang is that everything is supposed to be getting further apart. You know, the red shift and all that. Maybe the science behind the BB is as shaky as the science behind AGW.
- Luckily for us the performers at the upcoming Aussie Live Earth concert have decided to come clean on the whole “carbon neutral” bullshit.
Gaia will be pleased and snowfalls will soon return to normal.
- That MercoPress article is just one big South-of-the-Border Goregasm. Al ought to consider staying down there; maybe deck himself out in the uniform of a Paraguayan admiral, and travel the continent as a global warming caudillo-in-waiting.
Saw a recent picture of Gore. He looked like the man in the moon. I honestly thought he was looking goofier, the older he gets, but now I’m not so sure. I particularly like that last shot; you just know that Bill has invited Al to a private lap-dancing club, and that it’s Al’s very first time.
- #11: Milky Way and Andromeda bound to merge in 2 billion years
The question is, do I short Milky Way stock and go long on the common shares of Andromeda, stake out a substantial direct equity holding in each, or just shoot the whole works on the Andromeda convertible bonds? Tough call. At least I’ve got some time to think about it. Thanks for the inside info, Rebecca.
- By the way, Andrea, if it really is your birthday, I hope you have a great one! Wronwright asked me to ask you how old you are, but I told him that, regardless of how old you are, I’d like to live long enough to be a whole lot older, so if he wants to know, he’ll have to ask you. He says it has to do with getting the number of candles right on the cake, but still . .
- Paco—take a flyer and go long on M35…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 23 at 09:12 PM • permalink
- #35
Local gravity effects?
Current merging galaxies pics
AFAIK even universal constants such as gravity are now called into question, thus devaluing Einstein’s fudge factor and so dark matter …
- Australia has skiing? Wow. I thought the only mountain was that one in the middle there…. By Alice Springs. Ayer’s Rock.
Consulting 1976 edition National Geographic Atlas of the World… Wow, I’m about even at 7000 feet (metric: a whole lot of meters) here in central New Mexico, USA as Australia’s highest point Mount Koseiuska. And you have skiing? That Gore effect is amazing!
- #43, Dminor:
That sounds like a fantastic organization. I would join in a micro second…
But there’s that whole jihadi Apocalypse thing, then there’s the resurgent commie bastards and the Apocalypse they’re wanting, then the EU’s due to get all apocalyptic on us and after we get through that, it should be just about time for China to step up and fill the apocalyptic hole.
- US$200,000 for a 40 minute presentation. Then back into the executive Gulfstream for the next gig. Why didn’t we think of this first?Posted by The Leadster on 2007 05 23 at 09:47 PM • permalink
- #8 Blogstrop, why is it that whenever I hear of Camelot I think of this?Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 05 23 at 10:03 PM • permalink
- #32 I’m sure that Ian and Richard, the blokes who own ski.com.au, will be happy with the spike in traffic due to your link. Having a look at the cams, the snow is disappearing on the lower slopes but still holding on well up high. 6 weeks to go until I’m back on the boards, woohoo!
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- I saw a near positive article on the Iraq surge in Time. (via the PuppyBlender) So maybe the Global Warming consensus can break down.
- Thanx 1.618 (did I get your number right? I am bad with numbers)
The Wine Fund is open for contributions, by the way. I was at the grocery store and was forced to leave the wine aisle untouched because I had to buy stupid stuff like food. Frown!
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 05 23 at 10:58 PM • permalink
- OT Windschuttle denies climate doco pressure:
High-profile ABC board member Keith Windschuttle has said he has no knowledge of any ABC board member putting pressure on programming to purchase a controversial British documentary that questions the science behind climate change.
Seems the greenies are getting all jihadi.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 24 at 12:24 AM • permalink
- #22 Wimpy Canadian
[running around in circles waving hands in the air] Oh no, we’re all going to die, die! [/running around in circles waving hands in the air]
I’m a teapot! I’m a teapot!
(Tim Brook-Taylor, The Goodies)Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 24 at 12:35 AM • permalink
- #28 Grimmy
Dealing with all the emergencies facing humanity, both real and imagined, I wonder if maybe we shouldn’t try taking Occam’s Razor to Schrodinger’s Box.
Wasn’t Schrodinger was a man?
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 24 at 12:37 AM • permalink
- But Mr Williams said he was concerned the public would believe views on the causes of climate change were divided 50:50 rather than 1:10,000.
More exaggeration from our Mr Williams.
Our prescriptive ABC not wishing to show excessive tilt to Joe Public? Gimme a break.
- #58 Wasn’t Schrodinger a man? PIMFPosted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 24 at 12:52 AM • permalink
- #61 All this confusion wouldn’t have happened if only Schrodinger had used a rooster.Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 24 at 01:23 AM • permalink
- #63 Missing link. Try here if you use bit torrent. (I recommend the utorrent client.)Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 24 at 01:33 AM • permalink
- I’m screening the global warming swindle tonight at the local bowler, should be an interesting night. I’m wondering how many moonbats will turn up – this film will certainly test their faith, but at least I wont have to worry about being burnt at the stake, cause, you know, that would be human generated CO2, and thats bad!. :D.
- OT:
An honest mistake: RuddIs that akin to ‘I did not knowingly lie’?
Note the typo’s – looks like FauxFacts got that out ASAP …
- Nevermind Al Gore and frozen Yarpies.
Where is the Ron Paul coverage?
Posted by eraserhead on 2007 05 24 at 04:44 AM • permalink
- #35 Janice
“This less-than-sunny news comes from Harvard astronomer Thomas Cox and his colleague Avi Loeb, who used a supercomputer model to predict how the two galaxies will begin colliding in about 2 billion years.”
How can this be? I thought the whole thing about the Big Bang is that everything is supposed to be getting further apart. You know, the red shift and all that. Maybe the science behind the BB is as shaky as the science behind AGW.
Sheesh, Janice, no matter HOW we look at it, we’re all dooooooomed! 5-15 years or two billion years…
- paco: I’m eleventy-one! Or at least, that’s how old I feel before six in the morning.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 05 24 at 05:47 AM • permalink
- #11 etc. It’s a good thing we have an expert on Far Stars and Future Times who hangs around here.Posted by Chris Chittleborough on 2007 05 24 at 08:46 AM • permalink
- ABC Lateline just had an item on how they’re being forced to broadcast an edited version of The Great Global Warming Swindle, and failed to disclose what was edited and why.
To support the transmission of a program “we” want shown on “our” ABC, they had Andrew Bolt, introduced with the epithet CONSERVATIVE COMMENTATOR, which seems to have the same effect on this channel as being labelled “Convicted Neo-natal Necrophilliac” ; to oppose, George Monbiot, who somehow missed out on being prefixed as SERIAL DINGBAT CONSPIRACY NUT AND FASCIST APOLOGIST– must have been an error in the edit.
The four-eyed twat running the item appeared at the end, making it plain that it’s being forced on the ABC by the neocon running dogs in the boardroom, and if he and his comrades had their way the filmakers and anyone caught viewing the doco would be rounded up and shipped off to the salt mines. On second thought, all these pansies would be on low sodium diets, but being shipped off to the extra virgin olive oil press just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Straight after they’ve got dinosaur expert Tim Flummery on, telling us of his plan to hose power consumers for daring to use electric light to avoid walking into doors in the dark and gas to broil our carbon-overloaded lot-fed sirloin. He then finished by admitting that there’s a “10% chance that skeptics are right”, but then used the fatuous anology of a doctor prescribing a drug that had a 90% success rate. One is a proven treatment for a disease which can be established through clinical testing, the other is a theory from publicity and grant-hungry cynics which has no imperical evidence and is based on a doomsday scenario to generate fear; he would have been better using the example of a Filipino faith healer.
He then claimed the ABC was running it “for ratings”- if everyone’s convinced, professori, where would the viewers come from for a discredited polemic?
I think these bastards are starting to get worried.
- Bolta was briefly on Lateline a little earlier discussing the ABC’s decision to show the Great Global Warming Swindle (which will be cut by 30 minutes apparently).
(lateline site: no transcript yet)
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 05 24 at 09:11 AM • permalink
- re #96, brilliant summary Habib!Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 05 24 at 09:13 AM • permalink
- I have just watched my copy of Great Global Warming Swindle (thanks Brett_McS) and it will be interesting to see which 30 minutes are cut by the ABC.
If I was inclined to believe in conspiracies I would be working on one to explain why the copy of GGWS that I ordered from Amazon UK in April has just had its delivery date blown out from mid-May to mid-October.
It could be a case of demand exceeding supply of course, but a five-month delay in delivery…?
- Mothers jailed for aiding incest:
THREE Singaporean Muslim women, all married to the same man, have been sentenced to jail for persuading some of his under-age daughters to have sex with him.
I am disgusted by this racist reporting.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 05 24 at 10:04 AM • permalink
- #94 *whistles innocently*Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 05 24 at 10:13 AM • permalink
- Happy Birthday, Andrea. Wishing you a very good year.
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 05 24 at 10:44 AM • permalink
- #32 Snowcams! I could feel right at home in Oz.Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 05 24 at 12:18 PM • permalink
- paco, I don’t think it would be a good idea. Lately she’s been using her lightning fast reflexes to
manhandlewomanhandle innocent people who unfortunately made sudden movements that surprised her. It’s like watching old Hai Karate commercials from the 1970’s.In fact, you might have heard what happened last week when MarkL walked around the curved hallway in headquarters carrying a tray of sandwiches. Andrea gave out a AYYYYYY, gave him a karate chop, and threw him threw a window. Thankfully he fell into the water fountain. And to his credit, he kept the sandwiches from getting wet.
I worry about the possibilty of her swinging me around the banquet room while screaming NOOOOOOOO.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 05 24 at 12:59 PM • permalink
- Yes, well not so long ago there was a dithering but well spoken professor who wore a long white coat and coke-bottle glasses. He was studying the effects of solar flares, and as we all know, he died of natural causes.
That is, until wronwright backed over him for a second time.
Now, don’t get me wrong here… I know that fate can deal an uneven hand. But ya can’t help wondering what fantabulous knowledge might have been lost in the grand scale of things.
- Actually he’s in fine spirits. Most minions are treating him as a minor celebrity, being one of a very few persons who actually survived an Andrea Attack.
And yes, he’s wearing a neck tie. Regulations are regulations.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 05 24 at 02:04 PM • permalink
- Oh, no! Al Gore: movie mogul. Son of Inconvenient Goof?
- OT
SMH Poll: Rudd and his wife’s business
Should she give up business so he can be PM?
Currently running No: 71%; Yes: 29%At our well-balanced ABC this a.m., Franny was frothing at the mouth about the Telegraph article on the Rudds’ biz and, yet again, the sportscaster, Warwick Hadfield, was commenting: ‘playing the man, not the ball’ – prolly cos Kevni’s got no balls, mate!
- Did you get the birthday midget yet sent to you by PACO International, Andrea?Posted by andycanuck on 2007 05 24 at 06:49 PM • permalink
- The Flim Flan man’s put a price on his plan to bring Australians up to the climate-aware levels of power consumption folled currently in Nth Korea and previously anywhere in the Soviet Union, and has said “This is not an end of the world scenario for the average consumer*.”
Lateline last night was preceeded by the aptly named Crude– unrefined indeed in its ham-fisted attempt to push the AGW barrow (or in this case, drag it behind an SUV; I note the promo says it’s a CO2 free production, but the presenter spent most of the time barrelling around the Persian Gulf states in a Nissan Patrol, and I’m betting it wasn’t a diesel or hybrid). The Jurassic Period featured heavily, and its documented warming was continually brought up- the depth of cloud cover was mentioned at the start, then ignored thereafter as cloud cover and sunspot activity have no place in a polemic that suits the ABC’s Rousseauian agenda for humanity.
*This is provisional on the term “average consumer” referring to someone who commands US$50,000 for an hours diatribe, and who has thus been able to cut himself off the grid and doesn’t give a fuck what mug punters get gouged by state monopolies. BTW- has anyone asked how The Flannster accesses his green utopia on the Hawkesbury, seeing as apparently it is only accessable by boat? Does Timmeh row to and from his various appointments and engagements? Or is a hypocritical whiskery fart?
- BTW, back on topic It’s snowing in Western Canada in late Spring, but a 1-day heat wave in Ontario (when it was snowing in Atlantic Canada just last week), so
global warmingclimate change is, surely, at work.Posted by andycanuck on 2007 05 24 at 07:11 PM • permalink
- #125
ABC News on-line article.
The ABC Radio News soundbites were prolly lifted from Lateline’s audio, meaning that the interview was pre-recorded in the arvo …
- #80 Kae,
Thanks for the lesson on Mount Kosciusko. 6pt text in a thirty year old atlas. Dirty glasses. Bad light angle. I could go on. Learned even more by your link and further research. Mountain named after a Polish fellow, so don’t expect many ‘Murkins outside Chicago to spell it right.
It’s in a continental-spanning (N/S) range called “Great Dividing” in a subset called “Australian Alps” and “Snowy.” Wow.
Regarding the citizenship test, I’ll be looking that up. Maybe as a model, as apparently we (USA) don’t have one.
And it’s “Ayers Rock” not “Ayer’s Rock.”
Thanks again.
- #137: Paco, Aussies don’t wear bow ties, ask around.
I rather suspected they didn’t. I think one sees them in the states primarily among the lawyer class. One of the Directors of our agency wears them from time to time, and the things look preposterous: he fancies bow ties with squared, extra-large “wings”. I saw him walking down the street the other day, and it looked, not so much as if he were wearing a bow tie, but rather, as if a particularly large specimen of the blue morpho butterfly (Morpho didius) had alighted on the front of his collar. He has a red one that gives the impression that he has strapped a box kite around his neck.
- I haven’t bothered with a link, but at LGF there’s a photo from the parking lot of a Gore-athon speech, and almost all of the car’s are SUVs!Posted by andycanuck on 2007 05 25 at 12:05 AM • permalink
- #126 Habib
Last night I watched Flummery on Lateline and I have come to the considered opinion that the man is stark raving mad, i.e., a complete fuckwit. For one thing his body language speaks volumes – the sudden movements, the wide eyed stares, the drivel that rolls off his tongue all interspersed with frequent you knows. However, if nothing else, it’s a fascinating case study of a personal psychosis that also seems to be a key component of the psychosis of that much larger body: The Holy Church of Gorebull Varming.
But to just a few of his remarks: In response to Tony Jones, and a shortage of water for power stations he suggested that power stations need water to supply cooling and water for the steam to drive the turbines. A half truth at best, but really an ignorant remark. The steam cycle is a closed cycle with a very small quantity of water required for make up purposes, to allow mainly for boiler blow down, and that water has to be specially treated prior to use. Water use at power station is mainly for cooling – and that by evaporation – either directly through a water source such as a lake or through cooling towers.
Flummery suggested, at Jones’ prompting, that today we would not build a power station inland, near the coal fields, but rather on the coast where sea water could be used for cooling. What bullshit and hindsight in a time of drought. Going back 50 years we still had city based power stations around this country that used sea water for cooling, and the sea for coal transport to the stations. Why? Because the power loads were in cities, those loads were relatively small and the cost of transmission lines to send power from a power station on the coal fields was too great. Big deal! The whole equation of power station location is based on costs – the cost of the fuel supply, cooling water, available water, connection infrastructure, i.e., the transmission lines, the location of the loads that will be supplied, available land and so on.
As I said, this man is a fuckwit because his answers indicated that he has no idea what he is talking about.
And he thinks that we are about to experience or prove what would happen with a carbon price (i.e. a tax) of $50 per tonne as the cost of power rises on the interconnected grid in response to power shortages. That by the way would be roughly equal to an imposed cost of 5 cents per kWh at the wholesale level. Well more bullshit. Anyone wishing to wade through this report at NEMMCO, will find that the effect of potential generator shortages in the national grid is uncertain and will depend on the circumstances at the time. Water shortage may have an effect, however not the effect that dingbat Flummery is suggesting. Flummery may be disappointed but for his claim to have credence would require the price of all electricity on the national grid to be increased by $50 per MWh and that is most unlikely. I guess all that this shows is that Flummery does not understand how trading markets work! But that shouldn’t be surprising.
So apart from Flummery and his crap, the major issues to be addressed in the national electricity grid is the failure of all State governments to adequately invest in it and/or get out thereby allowing proper investment to take place. No doubt it will be all fun and games in the years to come if/when the first major outages occur due to lack of proper investment rather than water. Then we will see our politicians running frantically in all directions to fix the problems of their own creation.
And oh yes, if I haven’t said it already, Flummery is stark raving mad, i.e., a complete fuckwit.
- #143 Wand
And I note that Jones introduced him as a “popular scientist” I didn’t know if that meant “popular” as in everyone likes him, or “popular” as in “pop”.
I thought he knew about dinosaurs and stuff?
I agree, he certaintly looked shaky to me.
I think this whole thing is about to go bang. As it were.
- #143
A f*ckwitted academic, at best.
As per Tim’s previous thread, Flummery is to Electrical Engineering and Economics as they are Archaeology.Jones had the twit on the ropes with:
TIM FLANNERY: … But even if we get a wet year this year it’s not going to go away. That trend is here to stay now of less water availability. …
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TONY JONES: But if your logic is right, think about it this way, if electricity is already much more expensive because of the drought and the drought continues and then you add a carbon price on top of that won’t that cause the task group to moderate the carbon price so as not to damage the economy?TIM FLANNERY: I guess you could see it that way and you could say, “Why should we bother having a carbon price then if this drought’s going to be permanent?” I really haven’t thought through that.
Bingo! F-wit.
What permanent drought?
Tripped up by your own flummery …
- Slghtly O/T but the Goreicle has an extract from his new tome of wisdom on the gruinads website.
hereThis little bit strikes me as “dont ask what we did prior to 9/11”
“Most Americans have tended to give the Bush-Cheney administration the benefit of the doubt when it comes to its failure to take action in advance of 9/11 to guard against an attack”..And the final section ends with…
“We as Americans should have “known then what we know now”- not only about the invasion of Iraq but also about the climate crisis; what would happen if the levees failed to protect New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina; and about many other fateful choices that have been made on the basis of flawed, and even outright false, information. We could and should have known, because the information was readily available. We should have known years ago about the potential for a global HIV/Aids pandemic. But the larger explanation for this crisis in American decision-making is that reason itself is playing a diminished, less respected, role in our national conversation.”And he should know.
The comments are funny in a “laugh at the deformed lepers” type of way.
Why does “Run Al Run” remind me of Forrest gump so much?Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 05 25 at 03:52 AM • permalink
- China’s got a looooooooooong way to go before it reaches even economic stability, never mind dominance.
There’s lots and many chickens fixing to come home to roost for China that could well knock them back to early Mao daze.
China has about as much real potential to make it past the developmental hurdles as Brazil did when it was predicted to be the next dominant eco powerhouse in the ‘50s.
There’s lots to worry about, but China taking a real preeminence in regional affairs isn’t one of them.
- #150, egg_:
Some of us cringe at the reality that we’ve grown so weak and spineless that we allow such scum continued existance.
And dont get me wrong about China. I, actually, would like to see China grow in real prosperity and develop a solid stable economy. Such a thing would remove much of what drives them into playing the enemy with us.
Also, I dont assume that the US will be a dominant force for ever, or even for much longer. There are events unfolding domestically that may well see the US having to end any real power projection.
In such a situation, with there being no real valid force to emerge as dominant, it may well devolve back into the grab as grab can and the constant low intensity conflict problems of times past.
I have no clue what the power shift would be in the Aussie area. I assume that Australia would have to massivly invest in force projection at least on the sea to safe guard commerce.
It may well work out, if worst comes to worst, that Austalia, Japan, South Korea and Singapore develop into a comprehensive alliance. I left out Tiawan because they just dont seem to be at all interested in the rest of the world, and inviting them in would cause grief with PDRC which could, at least, blockaide the island nation. I dont think PDRC can mount sufficient logistical lines to actually invade and hold it though.
- Actually, I think The Aussault on Reason by Al Gore is a perfect title.
I am still a little miffed at wronwright for missing a chance to use one of my favorite words, ‘defenestrated’. As in, “The rebels stormed the palace, and some men in dark suits and masks defenestrated the president then disappeared into the chaos.”
- From aaron’s #155 link:
The authors, from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, say their findings do not necessarily conflict with recent papers asserting a link between the region’s hurricane activity and human-caused warming of the climate and seas.
What recent papers????!!??? Puleeze, I would be very interested.
- Moptop
“An Inconvenient Truth”, for one.
It’s called CYA.Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2007 05 25 at 05:59 PM • permalink
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He could have added:“Of course it won’t. We do it all the time”.