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Indeed it is a good read.

Never mind Mars has been warming up as well.

Been reading the dissenting report from the Coalition backbenchers have we Ralph? I think Annabelle Crabb summed that up well yesterday when she pointed out 1/ that their report also called Titan a planet and 2/ that the quoting of Titan was sweetly ironic, given that Titan has an orbit that goes the opposite way from all the other major objects in our solar system…

they tell us to use less water but they keap building new suburbs.
wheres all the water gonna come from for all these new suburbs?

Science relies on testing hypotheses, not concensus.

Funny, those other planets in the solar system seem to be heating up as well.

Noodle: I think you need to re-read my comment. It was completely supporting of the release of more commercial land in Gungahlin (not just to be wasted on surface-level carparks I might add) for exactly the reasons you mention.

The only thing wrong with it is exactly as you say – something is holding the release of land up – but it isn’t with ACTPLA (for Gungahlin anyway) because I’ve had that conversation with Neil Savery – it seems to be in the CMO as they are in charge of “strategic land releases”. (Land availability around Deakin may have more to do with the delays getting the redrafted Territory Plan finished.)

Ralph: you are right and I stand corrected. It is your absolute right to ignore the overwhelming weight of evidence and scientific opinion from the great majority of the world’s experts in the field. Much the same I guess as it was the right of the world’s religious leaders to ignore for centuries all the evidence that the world wasn’t actually flat until Cook went and physically sailed around it.

So by extension, I guess the only ‘compelling enough argument’ of climate change that will be good enough for you will be when you actually see the crisis hit you in the face. Pity it won’t happen with Hollywood-style overnight speed. Here’s hoping you are still around to see it though…

Gunghalin Al – what’s wrong with releasing commercial land? People have to work somewhere. I’ve got friends in an office in Deakin desperate to find somewhere else, cos they’re bursting at the seams, but there’s some bottleneck at ACTPLA which is preventing them from getting a site (they’re a medical practice by the way, so need to be located near the hospital and not Gungahlin).

Defence Housing is not run by the Military.

The Military has given them a minimum standard of service they expect, and DHA apply that standard.

If that standard is not equivalent to the minimum standard of production for that particular region, then the fault is with building inspectors not doing their job properly.

That said, DHA tennants think themselves more precious than gold in most instances, you’d think young soldiers were all hanging out at country clubs and horse riding establishments to meet their … ladies.

“Can anyone please tell me why when the Federal Government has 5.5 star minimums on the design of all new government commercial tenancies, that Defence Housing can produce such poor buildings for the government in defiance of that standard?”

Defence, has, does, and will continue, to do their own thing. They do not believe themselves accountable to ‘civvies’.

I think you should replace your sentence where it says ‘doesn’t believe’, with, ‘believes that the science does not present a compelling enough argument’. That would be a more accurate representation of my position.

Questioning scientific arguments was always regarded as healthy, but not so according to the green ideologues.

Ralph: and you don’t think that they’ll be shifting their emphasis from places like DEWR over to climate change initiatives?? Oh – that’s right – Ralph doesn’t believe in climate change…