What the hell?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/poli...ce-with-Keisha
So an uneducated actress who struck it lucky as a child and then proceeded to screw up every opportunity that lucky break created for her, now has the intellectual fortitude to enter a debate on climate change and expect an apology from the PM when he says what we're all thinking? She has an opinion, nothing more. We all know what opinions are worth.
It is the domain of those of us Middle Aged and even more experienced to look around and "see" the "decay" in our society, but this bullshit is up there on the bullshit-o-meter right next to the Toyota Prius.
I have a friend who worked for NIWA for many, many years. He manages Geophysical Surveys using many scientific disciplines and is trusted to coordinate the activities of civilian and military data collection efforts from below the sea to 100 miles out, to the very edge of space, across the resources of many countries.
As for the argument that the climate has never changed this quickly? Fairy tale. We have at least ONE episode called the K-T boundary where most plants and animals are represented by a thin, black line of carbon deposits. No one knows why, though there are many theories.
It was he who suggested the technique of using random unreferenced numbers in any Climate Change debate I entered into, just to demonstrate how much fun making stuff up is when people know no different. (Awesome fun until being completely busted by Badjelly.) He has maps on his wall at home, showing the results of the last big survey he worked on. Sea Level isn't uniform. There are "craters" in the surface of the sea, local distortions caused by magnetic field distortions, the make up of the water itself, tidal effects, and undersea activity. Some of these craters are 200m deep. Yet no one takes him seriously when he suggests that we simply don't have enough data to predict weather 48 hours hence, let alone long reaching climactic change as the result of human activity. To this end he suggested stepping up the efforts to collect more data to develop an empirically based model. More funding goes to lobby groups in the US who are pushing Al Gore's distorted message than goes into global climate data collection.
Point a bunch of Kiwis at some slappers on the telly though, and we're all "signing up" because of the "children". Won't somebody think of the "children".
As much as the Climate Change debate has been turned into a noble crusade, that changing the way society works fundamentally needs to happen to prevent us drowning in our own filth, we deserve EVERYTHING we get when we start listening and reacting to the scripted blitherings of a chick who rode a digital whale.
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Originally Posted by Gubb
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