Dateline Brisbane, October 2013.
I was told this is Tony (Climate Change is bunkum) Abbott, our newly elected Prime Minister relaxing in downtown Brisbane before taking off to Bowen to open the largest coal loader in the world.
Pic borrowed from ABC Australia Images.
I hear you Stafford :( I can't even watch the news this week it is so depressing.
ReplyDeleteMy friend Jo returned last week from a cruise up the Mekong. She came back convinced that all those millions of people depending on delta farms will not survive the century. Repeat that story on all the big deltas and we are up to billions of people. Not the most elegant way to control population growth but it is now probably inevitable.
DeleteI understand your sentiments but I just stared at this for several minutes wondering when you guys had had and Election and why I hadn't heard about it! Then I clocked the date.
ReplyDeleteI depend on my reader to be astute and observant. I am rarely disappointed.:-)
Deleteoh lordy- could we please please just fire all these #$@!^& and get some common sense and less ego going? GAH- I am with ya Stafford!
ReplyDeleteOld King Coal was a dirty old soul ... The world continues to use coal because it is cheap. And it's abundant. We have managed to reduce reduced (a bit) the amount of coal we use here for electricity .. natural gas the alternative. Air pollution regulations are putting pressure on our power plants to clean up emissions ~ or shut down. It can be less expensive to make the conversion to natural gas. We also need to work more diligently in the wind and solar areas!!!! Is it all too little too late?
ReplyDeleteNo more sad, OK?
Absolutely! Natural gas, wind and solar are the way to go! And I am not saying that because Malaysia has abundance of natural gas, wind and sun!
DeleteNever fear Staff, we are about to run out of oul, 20- 30 yrs of status quo, tops. Forget all the shale oil, it requires one for one in terms of energy invested vs returned. We are headed for a much smaller , localised world, retaining some of the technological communications gadgets of the late industrial age. Populstion Oil and Warming m all interlinked. Hopefully we run out before we set off a climatic greenhouse gas chain reaction . Cheers Mate
ReplyDeleteYou are right about the cost of producing shale oil, but watch the slight of hand as coal is burned (perhaps as coal seam gas) to power shale oil plants.
DeleteThen we are really in deep s...t as a species , but the planet will be fine, it will maybe take a measly ten thousand years or so to reset itself, who knows, perhaps they will one day be burning our fossilised black slime as a fuel, thinking " isnt thus wonderful stuff. Best show for some perspective on the massive time scales we are talking, sbs " time travellers guide to australia " , doco . Mind boggling .
ReplyDeleteThen we are really in deep s...t as a species , but the planet will be fine, it will maybe take a measly ten thousand years or so to reset itself, who knows, perhaps they will one day be burning our fossilised black slime as a fuel, thinking " isnt thus wonderful stuff. Best show for some perspective on the massive time scales we are talking, sbs " time travellers guide to australia " , doco . Mind boggling .
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