Workers scammed despite Fair Work Bill
(25 Sept 2009) From the 7.30 report this is a must watch (Select broad band or dialup from the column on the right-hand side) Workers scammed despite Fair Work Bill
REPOSTED from NOV 2008 The rise of sea Levels is ‘the greatest lie ever told '
(26 September 2009) For more details on the fraudulent claim concerning rising sea levels and the Maldives, from November 2008 Click here and here for the original source from Stockholm University
“......If one thing more than any other is used to justify proposals that the world must spend tens of trillions of dollars on combating global warming, it is the belief that we face a disastrous rise in sea levels. The Antarctic and Greenland ice caps will melt, we are told, warming oceans will expand, and the result will be catastrophe.... But if there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change. And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story. Despite fluctuations down as well as up, "the sea is not rising," he says. "It hasn't risen in 50 years." If there is any rise this century it will "not be more than 10cm (four inches), with an uncertainty of plus or minus 10cm". And quite apart from examining the hard evidence, he says, the elementary laws of physics (latent heat needed to melt ice) tell us that the apocalypse conjured up by Al Gore and Co could not possibly come about......” The rise of sea Levels is ‘the greatest lie ever told ' , Christopher Booker, Sunday Telegraph “.....When running the International Commission on Sea Level Change, he launched a special project on the Maldives, whose leaders have for 20 years been calling for vast sums of international aid to stave off disaster. Six times he and his expert team visited the islands, to confirm that the sea has not risen for half a century. Before announcing his findings, he offered to show the inhabitants a film explaining why they had nothing to worry about. The government refused to let it be shown. Similarly in Tuvalu, where local leaders have been calling for the inhabitants to be evacuated for 20 years, the sea has if anything dropped in recent decades. The only evidence the scaremongers can cite is based on the fact that extracting groundwater for pineapple growing has allowed seawater to seep in to replace it..... When I spoke to Dr Mörner last week, he expressed his continuing dismay at how the IPCC has fed the scare on this crucial issue. When asked to act as an "expert reviewer" on the IPCC's last two reports, he was "astonished to find that not one of their 22 contributing authors on sea levels was a sea level specialist: not one" . Yet the results of all this "deliberate ignorance" and reliance on rigged computer models have become the most powerful single driver of the entire warmist hysteria.....”
Economist clock is ticking as global public debt rises by the second
(22 Sept 2009) “…..With the world's governments now owing a collective $35tn (£21tn) and counting, the Economist has devised an innovative way of getting to grips with the eye-wateringly high mountain of public debt. Called the Global Public Debt Clock , the online guide keeps a running total of the current global public debt – updating every few seconds…..It showed Britain's current public debt is $1.379tn, or 63.7% of GDP, equal to $22,338.7 per capita. By 2011 it is expected to hit $2.083tn, 93.1% of GDP, and $33,311.4 for every man, woman and child…… The Economist warned: "The worst global economic storm since the 1930s may be beginning to clear, but another cloud already looms on the financial horizon: massive public debt."…New figures from economists at the IMF suggest the public debt of the 10 leading rich countries will rise from 78% of GDP in 2007 to 114% by 2014…..” Economist clock is ticking as global public debt rises by the second, The Guardian “…..These governments will then owe about $50,000 for every one of their citizens. Not since the second world war have so many governments borrowed so much so quickly or, collectively, been so heavily in hock…It continued: "Today's debt surge, unlike the wartime one, will not be temporary. Even after the recession ends, few rich countries will be running budgets tight enough to stop their debt from rising further. Worse, today's borrowing binge is taking place just before a slow motion budget bust caused by the pension and healthcare costs of a greying population. By 2050 a third of the rich world's population will be over 60. The demographic bill is likely to be 10 times bigger than the fiscal cost of the financial crisis…..."
REPOSTED from NOV 2007 Interactive representation of sea levels around Australia
This is an absolutely fascinating link. It presents an interactive representation of sea levels around Australia over the last 100,000 years . Have a tool around
(9 Sept 2009) “.....Greenpeace's hostility to geo-engineering - like its opposition to nuclear power, despite the fact that nuclear is vastly cleaner than coal - is revealing. It suggests that modern-day environmentalism is not a specific and focused campaign to tackle the practical problem of climate change, but rather has become a deeply ideological effort to lower people's horizons and expectations. It is about reshaping our behaviour rather than the planet. It is striking that the very people who talk about climate change in the most hysterical terms - as a disaster that will make "genocide and ethnic cleansing look like sideshows at the circus of human suffering", in the words of one columnist - are also the people opposed to taking big techno-steps to tackle it.....Worst of all, the focus on geo-engineering would detract from the social engineering that environmentalists are so keen on.....” Greens Cling to moral fix. Brendon O'neill, The Australian “...... If society were to use technology to try to reshape our climate then that would give ordinary people the green light to continue buying, flying and living as they see fit, and from the environmentalists' perspective that simply will not do. Environmentalism is increasingly a campaign to encourage people to live meeker lives and to realise the error of their greedy ways. And such a movement cannot tolerate any big measures that might allow people to continue consuming and travelling as much as they please. Indeed, one could be forgiven for thinking that some environmentalists - who, like Al Gore, believe that tackling climate change has provided them with "the exhilaration of a compelling moral purpose" - don't really want climate change to be solved. After all, what would they do with themselves then? Their sense of moral purpose, and moral superiority over the wayward masses, is far more important than the small matter of actually preventing climate change.
Arctic ice proves to be slippery stuff
(8 Sept 2009) “......BBC viewers were treated last week to the bizarre spectacle of Mr Ban Ki-moon standing on an Arctic ice-floe making a series of statements so laughable that it was hard to believe such a man can be Secretary-General of the UN. Thanks to global warming, he claimed, "100 billion tons" of polar ice are melting each year, so that within 30 years the Arctic could be "ice-free"......Everything about this oft-repeated item was propaganda of the silliest kind. Standing 700 miles from the Pole, as near as the stubbornly present ice would allow his ship to go, Mr Ban seemed unaware that, although some 10 million square kilometres (3.8 million square miles) of sea-ice melts each summer, each September the Arctic starts to freeze again. And the extent of the ice now is 500,000 sq km (190,000 sq m) greater than it was this time last year – which was, in turn, 500,000 sq km more than in September 2007, the lowest point recently recorded (see the Cryosphere Today website). By April, after months of darkness, it will be back up to 14 million sq km (5.4 million sq m) or more......” Arctic ice proves to be slippery stuff, Christopher Booker, UK Telegraph “.......Mr Ban was indulging in this childish publicity stunt for the same reason the BBC, the Royal Society and others have lately been banging on about various mad schemes for "climate engineering", such as putting up vast mirrors in space to keep out the sun's rays or lining our motorways with artificial trees to suck deadly CO2 out of the air, to be taken away and buried in holes in the ground.Why are they all going off their heads like this, in emulation of the "projector" that Gulliver met on his travels, in the Academy of Lagado, who had designed a scheme for extracting sunbeams from cucumbers? It is because they are desperately trying to whip up alarm over global warming before December's planned "climate treaty" in Copenhagen, when all evidence suggests that they are not going to get the successor to the Kyoto Protocol they want.... According to Government figures, however, we in Britain are already committed to spending, under the Climate Change Act, £18 billion every year between now and 2050 on this nonsense – daft light bulbs (see below), electricity blackouts and all. In other words, we are only beginning to see some of the nastier consequences of this crazy make-believe, based on nothing more substantial than the kind of gibberish we got last week from Mr "Light Bulb" Ban and the BBC....”
(8 Sept 2009) “......The stage was set at the Bali climate change conference 18 months ago to propel Kevin Rudd to the front ranks of global environmental heroes. Instead, his announcement of Australia's signing up to the Kyoto Protocol was overshadowed by the dazzling arrival as a green superstar of another Kevin - Kevin Conrad, Papua New Guinea's climate change ambassador. Conrad, also the executive director of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, took the microphone after two draining weeks that appeared doomed to end in a standoff between the US and the rest, and said: "I would ask the US: we ask for your leadership. But if for some reason you're not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us. Please get out of the way.....It had a big effect on the country that Conrad was representing, PNG, where carbon trading has been converted into a cargo cult luring cash from Australian taxpayers, international investors and local villagers alike. This classic 21st-century scam emerging from the global climate change industry is known in PNG as mani bilong skai - sky money - because it appears to be selling air. The country was applauded in multinational arenas for seizing a global lead in plans to sell carbon credits in return for saving ancient rainforests from destruction. But then it jumped the gun, with multimillion-dollar carbon trading deals being set up by the government's new Office of Climate Change before policies or legislation were put in place...Kirk Roberts, a former Australian horse trainer who once ran a Philippines cockfighting business ("it's the equivalent to pokies in Australia"), has been involved in deals central to the OCC inquiry.....” The rush is on for sky money , Rowan Callick, The Australian “..... As excited rumours swept rural PNG about the sit-down money available in return for locking up forests from loggers, the carbon cowboys swept in. These local confidence tricksters have been trawling through rural areas, urging people to register with their fake firms to make millions of kina from trading to developed countries the carbon values embedded in their trees. In Oro province, which contains Kokoda, about 500 villagers paid $500 each to become shareholders, though many remained confused, asking for instance who would pay to transport their burned logs - the raw carbon, as they saw it - to the market in Port Moresby....And in East Sepik, Eric Komang, the Prime Minister's nephew, has approached villagers on behalf of Pacific Carbon Trade to sign land rights away to trade the associated carbon... Two brokers, Earth Sky and Climate Assist PNG, signed memos last year offering to fund the OCC with $10m, in return for the rights to sell $500m worth of carbon offsets, from which the agency would earn 20 per cent. Earth Sky is a one-dollar company run by former boilermaker Greg Corby in Toowomba, and Climate Assist is also a one-dollar company, based in Rockhampton.... Carbon Planet, a South Australian-based unlisted public company, says it expects the total voluntary carbon market to exceed $20bn by 2012. But chairman Jim Johnson says no payment has yet been made to PNG. The company claims on its website that its short-term goal is "to be responsible for reducing excess atmospheric emissions by 1 per cent by the end of 2010......”
(8 Sept 2009) MSNBC & The Great Liberal Narrative: The Truth About The Tyranny of Political Correctness