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Discussion in 'Australia' started by Aircon, Apr 26, 2011.

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  1. IanB

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    It's only people of a certain age who can remember that it was actually quite hot in the past, before our friends (employed by taxpayers) "homogenised" the historical temperature record in order to exaggerate the current warming trend. The 20-something social justice warriors have no such perspective.

    This is on the BoM website, January 23rd this year, about Marble Bar, famously the hottest place in Australia:
    "Bureau of Meteorology duty forecaster Edward Boyles said while there was still a possibility of the temperature going beyond the town's record high of 49.2 degrees which was set in January 1922"

    In 1975, on a road trip in Western Australia, I stayed in Marble Bar. The temperature showing on a thermometer in the shade was 52.1 degrees, confirmed on the evening news that night.
     
  2. kerrari

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    Was your thermometer actually at the BOM station? Doesn't take much positional shift to get that amount of variation.
    But I do agree with your observation about the 'breathless' reporting on weather these days... everything is 'the worst since...'. When I was a kid in Qld no one mentioned hot until it got close to 100d F (38c) and the hysteria about the 2011 floods in Brisbane when the water line was some 2kilometers away from where it got to in 1974! it's all just click-bait headlines
     
  3. jmillard308

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    +2

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  4. Gizzi

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    He could have been using a Vet’s thermometer


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  5. Ferraridoc

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    "Not in your mouth!!"
     
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  8. Aircon

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    Wes posted it.... What do you reckon?
     
  9. Horse

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    Poor Wes.


    This is when he went out and bought a green car.


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  10. kerrari

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    " The greening in China is from forests (42%) and croplands (32%), but in India is mostly from croplands (82%) with minor contribution from forests (4.4%)."
    another failed attempt at telling half-truth?
     
  12. kerrari

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    Yes, by the article 'headliner' who seems to think a total increase of 5% leaf area (so less than 2.5% forest) justfies such a headline.
     
  13. Aircon

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    Isn't it better than the alternative by a huge margin?
     
  14. kerrari

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    It's good that some effort is being made to turn the tide, but I hate cherry-picked crap headlines - I could easily find something to say 'Amazon forests disappearing faster than ever' or 'Malaysian rainforests disappearing' both of which are true, but which some action is being brought to bear upon them. These guys are hiding the trees under the leaf cover to suggest there's no problem still remaining.
     
  15. Aircon

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    Veteran journalist Mike Willesee has died aged 76 after a long battle with throat cancer.

    Willesee, who graced television screens around the country for more than 50 years, was diagnosed with the disease at the end of 2016.

    He began his career with the ABC in 1967 and joined the Seven Network in 1975, appearing as a host for ‘This is Your Life’ and current affairs program ‘Willesee at Seven’.
     
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    Thanks Karen!

    My response to the gender wage gap is the New Zealand study that shows that, over the course of their lifetime, women consume $150,000 more in tax than they contribute, making them effectively reliant on men. Over a century of feminism and they're still 100% reliant on men. Then they mention "Oh, but it's not fair to compare ALL women to ALL men", even though that's the exact metric used to end up with the gender wage gap myth.

    https://relampagofurioso.com/2018/03/12/the-gender-tax-gap-men-pay-200-more-taxes-than-women/
     
  17. 4_Eff_Sake

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    Shots fired...


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  18. kerrari

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    LOL!
     
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    Men duck
     
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    Hahaha, what a great website! So over the top - talk about establishing a contrary position to rabid feminism!
     
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  24. kerrari

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    But it'll never happen because it's actually too expensive... I can't find it now but years ago I posted my HK electricity bill which actually setout the costs per kW for electricity from each of the different sources HK Electric uses. In those days alternatives were only a tiny fraction, the rest was oil, gas, coal, small hydro and nuclear (from Daya Bay in China). The nuclear component was by far the most expensive. Don't know if the price included the late night government TV ads of "what to do in the case of an accident at Daya Bay" I'm not joking, the announcements are staples of late night TV and, yes, the answer is pretty much kiss ya goodbye!
     

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