An unusually warm spring

I have completely and carelessly misread Robertson’s comment. I retract my own, and apologise for it unreservedly.

Woody Mann-Caruso said :

It’s just weather, and weather displays variation. And it’s local, not global.

And all of the world’s climate scientists are collectively wrong, and have been since the 60s. Also, gravity is just a theory. It could be God’s invisible angels pulling us downward to stop us getting into Heaven, and you can’t prove it isn’t.

Your first name isn’t ‘Pat’ by any chance, is it?

Robertson’s point is that there is a difference between weather and climate. The difference between weather and climate is a measure of time. Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere “behaves” over relatively long periods of time. Similalry, you can’t make global predictions based on localised changes.

milkman said :

IrishPete said :

wildturkeycanoe said :

Perhaps the alarming swing toward the Liberal party at the election means a there will be an eventual slide into Liberalism until the world stalls into a lethargic desire to not get up in the morning.

1% is an alarming swing? With respect, it doesn’t take much to alarm you. The swing was AGAINST Labor and the Greens. The ultimate beneficiaries of these votes were not the Liberals and Nationals, but people like Patter and Kalmer.

IP

Voters were punishing Labor for their piss poor performance. The Libs didn’t suddenly become massively desirable.

Massively desirable? I naturally get an instant soft-on every time Mr Abbott appears on my TV. Most women I know experience the female equivalent. “Desirable” and ‘Liberal” are two words that just don’t go together.

It’s just weather, and weather displays variation. And it’s local, not global.

And all of the world’s climate scientists are collectively wrong, and have been since the 60s. Also, gravity is just a theory. It could be God’s invisible angels pulling us downward to stop us getting into Heaven, and you can’t prove it isn’t.

Your first name isn’t ‘Pat’ by any chance, is it?

That is a wonderful photograph.

(And that’s not an attempt to minimise the threat of climate change. I just like the photo.)

IrishPete said :

wildturkeycanoe said :

Perhaps the alarming swing toward the Liberal party at the election means a there will be an eventual slide into Liberalism until the world stalls into a lethargic desire to not get up in the morning.

1% is an alarming swing? With respect, it doesn’t take much to alarm you. The swing was AGAINST Labor and the Greens. The ultimate beneficiaries of these votes were not the Liberals and Nationals, but people like Patter and Kalmer.

IP

Voters were punishing Labor for their piss poor performance. The Libs didn’t suddenly become massively desirable.

A “Special Climate Statement” about how we’re all gonna fry?

Someone should tell them who won the election. Somewhere on the long list of Things To Do is cleaning out the BOM of alarmist propagandists and refocusing them on the job of recording and forecasting the weather.

IrishPete said :

wildturkeycanoe said :

Perhaps the alarming swing toward the Liberal party at the election means a there will be an eventual slide into Liberalism until the world stalls into a lethargic desire to not get up in the morning.

1% is an alarming swing? With respect, it doesn’t take much to alarm you. The swing was AGAINST Labor and the Greens. The ultimate beneficiaries of these votes were not the Liberals and Nationals, but people like Patter and Kalmer.

IP

Sorry, my sarcasm got lost somewhere in the second half of my longneck. I was drawing a parallel between global warming and politics, deducing that by the same logic used in the global warming debate, we can take the results of this election to mean we will see the Liberal party continue to grow stronger till the destruction of the earth results. Greenies take the last few hundred/thousand years worth of temperature records and make claims that we are causing our own demise, whilst the previous hundreds of thousands of years show this to be a normal peak in our planet’s cycle.
Twas a far fetched attempt, but like I said, it was the beer talking.

The cat did it said :

Dr Jensen has a PhD in Ceramics from Monash Uni. Such expertise is commendable, but a long way from climate science.

His facebook page (thanks for the link davo101) is a collection of unrelated material that seems to be drawn from the Lavoisier Group (Ian Plimer’s crowd), and trots out the standard denialist arguments that have been knocked over time and time again by mainstream climate science.

Jensen apparently has ambition to be appointed as Coalition Science Minister, but I doubt Mr Abbott is such a risk-taker.

Err, if Abbott is not a risk taker, why is he taking risks with our planet?

IP

wildturkeycanoe said :

Perhaps the alarming swing toward the Liberal party at the election means a there will be an eventual slide into Liberalism until the world stalls into a lethargic desire to not get up in the morning.

1% is an alarming swing? With respect, it doesn’t take much to alarm you. The swing was AGAINST Labor and the Greens. The ultimate beneficiaries of these votes were not the Liberals and Nationals, but people like Patter and Kalmer.

IP