"There are some other good Antipodean blogs that regularly touch on climate change. The mainstream view is represented by the University of NSW's Tim Lambert at scienceblogs.com/deltoid, while the sceptics get a run at my favourite environmental website, jennifermarohasy.com/blog. Marohasy is a biologist and a fellow with the Institute of Public Affairs."
Michael Duffy, The Sydney Morning Herald: New climate figures would make a great debate them
"It is striking, in view of the colossal implications of the current response to "the greatest challenge confronting mankind" - as our politicians love to call it - how this hugely important debate is almost entirely overlooked by the media, and is instead conducted largely on the internet, through expert websites such as those run by Mr McIntyre and Mr Watts."
Christopher Booker, The Sunday Telegraph: Watch the web for climate change truths
Secret army of commies?
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2008/747/38663
As news headlines report riots and food shortages in Third World nations, during March and April more than 5000 people on Australia’s eastern seaboard were able to hear the inspiring story of Cuba’s survival when faced with starvation and its transition to ecological sustainability.
http://devonsocialistarticles.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/marxism-and-climate-change/
SB is correct that, under capitalism, there can be no solution to the environmental problems that we face. The massive corporations that rule the world economy are concerned first and foremost with maximising their own profits. Any moves towards environmentally friendly practices, such as investing in renewable energy, are purely because they either see a profit in those ventures themselves, or profit in appearing to be a company that cares about the environment. Only a democratically planned economy which invests massively in renewable sources of energy and plans sustainable production (of food and other goods) close to where it is needed will lead to a society that is sustainable in use of resources and pollution.
http://www.socialistunity.com/?p=2198
Building a Red Green Alliance:
While it may be urgent that we create a red green alliance to strengthen radical social action to stop climate change, our collective problem is how are we going to do that?
The Climate Change Social Change Conference held in Sydney Australia during April tried to tackle that challenge.This was a bold attempt to bring together left and green activists in order to locate a shared perspective around which we could begin more consciously....
Mud in your eye 3PO.
Good for a laugh, Wes. But your free enterprise system you are so keen to defend is not showing the slightest interest in defending itself from the secret army of commies waiting to take it over.
Alarmist Creep,
Once again we see the global warmers, on losing the argument start attacking the man, in this case Wes George as "just another denialist ranter stereotype".
We have had 10 years of temperature stasis or maybe a decline, and yet it is maintained that the underlying trend is still rising. Just what forces are in play that are negating the assumed human component is just another proof the AGW is a pseusoscience, or perhaps more accurately according to Irving Langmuire, "Pathological Science".
I still maintain that the use of temperature anomalies rather than the mean temperature itself, is a technque of chartmanship when random noise, suitably filtered can be shown to have specious trends.
Given that most journalists are on the political left, it comes as no surprise that there is an absence of balance in the reporting. Bernard Goldberg pointed to this tendency in his two books about the worlds media.
It's a fact the media are biassed but the tragedy is that they believe they aren't. It's a sincerely held one too, and as Goldberg shows, its because most of the media never come across dissonant views in their social life. They never socialise with the political bete-noires, and so never get to experience different views.
All rather simple really.
SJT - I wouldn't bother with George. Just another denialist ranter stereotype. Tick the bolshiness index checklist so far.
Ah, SJT, you have revealed so much of your soul with so few words. You are a poet. Perhaps a member of the Taliban, but a poet nonetheless. Scantily dressed women? Definite empirical evidence for AGW.
Where to begin? We hold the ABC to a higher standard than channel 7...? Maybe it's just me?
Unlike the ABC, which is taxpayer funded and has a rather specific charter stipulating fairness and the paramount importance of providing citizens with balance coverage of current events, the commercial media live and die in the marketplace and must merely stay out of trouble to maintain their license.
The ABC's sole purpose is to rationally and fairly inform Australians in order that as a knowledgeable citizenry we might function optimally as a democracy. No commercial media shares this contract with the people of Australian in an explicit, legally binding way. I suppose that explains the likes of Melbourne's The Age.
The ABC has utter failed it it's most basic of functions in regard to the climate debate. AGW is presented as settled business, with not an once of journalistic curiosity as to what the post-modern journalistic elites call "alternative narratives," something they eagerly seek out whenever it suits their sociopolitical agenda.
Whatever debate has been presented is always contextualized as scientific consensus versus nutcase "deniers." This is an indictable violation of their charter. Some one should retain a QC and go after management.
Of course, I don't expect SJT to be able to see beyond the Big Brother media cocoon that has been spun around his/her mind in between the weight loss commercials, semi-nude women and dodgy tradesmen.
That's the worry, isn't it? Much of the public is so completely immersed in the daily, hourly, minute by minute, drip by drip media barrage of Orwellian conventional wisdom that it is impossible to extract truth, or even a simple fact, from the morass of an ideological gestalt.
The ABC is the most liable because they are not commercial and have no excuse to have dropped professional journalistic standards and they have a duty of care to the taxpaying public.
But, SJT's tortured soul is a real piece of work. "Why can't the free enterprise do it's own dirty work. Does it really expect the taxpayer to do that for it?"
An image of SJT swilling a warm VB, bleary eyed, blue in the glow of the tube waiting for Thursday to collect his next dole check has flashed before my eyes. Maybe i'm psychic, maybe I'm not.
Whatever, it's almost refreshing his stolidly bourgeois faith in the free enterprise system, if it weren't so bloody creepy.
"The fact that there is utterly zero debate going on about the 'Greatest challenge facing mankind" in the mass media,especially the publicly funded ABC, is probably the greatest journalistic bias scandal of our time. I don't count 1 hour of Michael Duffy on Radio National as a proper balance to the rest of the week and across all mediims."
There are endless hours of big brother, weight loss, "Current affairs", reality, fantasy, , stars, crime, dodgy tradesmen, cars, big screen TVs, fashion, humour, scantily dressed women, on numerous TV channels and radio press. Why can't 'free enterprise' do it's own dirty work? Does it really expect the taxpayer to do that for it?
"So Louis do you think your comments about warmers have always been fair."
Pardon?
Does anyone really care about any of this name-calling any more?
In case anyone hasn't been paying attention, 'Global Warming' is over -- at least to the extent that the Alarmist fruitcakes will find it practically impossible to impose their 'Back to the Stone Age' solution on everyone else.
Gotta dash. I have an appointment to see a car dealer about a new Hummer.
Bye for now.
So Louis do you think your comments about warmers have always been fair. "Hand grenades into the blogosphere" and all that ...
Presumably the sceptics are the dishonest ones Alarmist Creep?
Or the honest versus the dishonest?