Rural climate change sceptics shock kayaker
From ABC Rural Thursday, 09/08/2007
A man paddling and pulling his kayak from Brisbane to Adelaide to promote the need for action on climate change says he is disappointed with the sceptical nature of outback Australians.
Steve Posselt, who is pulling his kayak along the Darling River road due to a lack of water, says that many rural people do not believe in climate change.
He says he did not expect so many people to doubt what the majority of climate scientists agree on.
"I've been astounded by the actual lack of belief on this trip," he said.
"Many people want to argue the issue about whether there is such a thing as global warming.
"You can talk to blokes in the pub and they say yep winters aren't what they used to be, they're a lot shorter.
"And you say, 'well do you believe in climate change? No, mate its just a cycle'."
-- but I think Steve, above, deserves an honorable mention in view of his citation.
Ian Mott, thank you for some excellent insight and the best laugh I've had in some time.
Some narcissistic suburban drop kick drags his engorged ego and a Kayak down a dry creek bed and the stupid poop can't figure out why the country folk are sceptical?
Let me spell this out for the slow ones. City folk are masters at communication but have only very casual relationship with reality. So when they start talking about climate they give a first rate demonstration of the genus, "articulate bimbo".
The image of this Kayaking boofhead trying to lecture a bunch of folks, many of whom can recall things like the actual pattern of rainfall in a particular year more than half a century ago, and how it affected the flowering of more than two dozen tree and shrub species, and how a particular kind of parrot is especially abundant when all those elements coincide, merely highlights the extraordinary extent of urban oafishness.
The most telling point about this story is the fact that we got to hear about what some itinerant village idiot thought while those with the deepest understanding of local climatic variation went unreported.
Well it depends on the ear colour - more white bunnies have higher albedo.