Eeeuuww … not sure what happened there, but let me try that link again:
Comment on JC on NPR by Hilary Ostrov (aka hro001)
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Comment on JC on NPR by kim
Heh, had they heard the unexpurgated Judy, without the framing, the NPR audience would have been twiddling the tuning, ‘Where’s NPR? Dang radio’s not working, it must be the weird weather’.
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Comment on JC on NPR by Brandon Shollenberger
Hey Judith, you should check out the Skeptical Science's Dana Nuccitelli's "<a href="https://twitter.com/dana1981/status/370734436372844544" rel="nofollow">depuffing</a>" of your piece. It's entertainingly bad.
It's not quite as bad as Andrew Dessler's recent <a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/dessler-decision-making-under-uncertainty.html" rel="nofollow">offering</a> though. If you haven't seen that yet, you should check it out. It's probably the worst treatment of uncertainty I've ever seen. I could write a ten page paper on it and still not cover everything he gets wrong.
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Comment on Open thread weekend by Faustino
Alexander, ask Judith’s dogs about the paws. I’m sure there’ll be a shaggy-dog story in there somewhere.
Woof, woof!
(Yes, I’m very tired.)
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Comment on Open thread weekend by Faustino
Gary, no need for France to create a new carbon tax, Australia will soon have a used one going cheap.
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Comment on JC on NPR by Peter Lang
K Scott Denison and Peter Davies,
Yes. So many stories to tell. I made a Super 8 Movie of the whole shearing process from mustering, to return to their paddocks and all process in between with the kelpies the key workers in nearly all processes.
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Comment on Open thread weekend by Peter Lang
And life thrived!
So what’s wrong with the tropical climates extending to Europe, Russia, Canada, China. IPCC says the area of deserts shrinks when the planet is warmer and expands when colder (AR4, WG1, Chapter 6). Looks good to me.
So what’s the enormous issue that would justify the damage that the proposed policies (like carbon pricing and high cost renewable energy) would bring to the world (and are already bringing to Europe and Australia?
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Comment on Open thread weekend by Peter Lang
+1
Here is 60 second clip on Australia’s election campaign:
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Comment on Open thread weekend by GaryM
Faustino,
They should have no trouble buying it. The government is only spending 57 percent of GDP so far. What’s another 43 percent?
“The problem in France — for both the Left and Right — is that nobody has the bravery to slash state spending, which has now reached 57 per cent of GDP. Just how high can it go?”
Europe, with its PIGS (or after this article maybe we should refer to the FIGS), is the canary in the “state run capitalism” (ie. economic fascism) coal mine. It is only a matter of time until one of the economic basket cases of the euro-socialist utopian EU implodes. We shall see how the “leaders” handle it then, since there is frankly no conservative opposition anywhere to take over after a collapse.
At least the Communist Chinese have the benefit of real totalitarian control to keep their people under control when the economic feces hit the fan. Though they seem, to be having trouble too. “China saw 180,000 protests, riots, and mass demonstrations in 2010 alone — on average about 500 every day — a number that has likely since increased. The villagers’ complaints were common ones: local officials exploiting land sales for personal gain and violently repressing dissent (a village advocate had died while in police custody).”
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Comment on Open thread weekend by Chief Hydrologist
How M’Dougal Topped the Score – is a favourite and M’Dougal was a “Scotchman” after all.
So we sent for old M’Dougal, and he stated in reply
That he’d never played at cricket, but he’d half a mind to try.
He couldn’t come to practise – he was getting in his hay,
But he guessed he’d show the beggars from Molongo how to play.
Now, M’Dougal was a Scotchman, and a canny one at that,
So he started in to practise with a pailing for a bat.
He got Mrs Mac. to bowl him, but she couldn’t run at all,
So he trained is sheep-dog, Pincher, how to scout and fetch the ball…
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Comment on Open thread weekend by Chief Hydrologist
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Comment on Open thread weekend by Chief Hydrologist
Red Dog – a favourite doggy movie. Such a talent.
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Comment on Open thread weekend by Faustino
Gary, I hope that Steven Gaurin reads this. But we aren’t selling the carbon tax – we’ll pay to have it taken away!
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Comment on JC on NPR by Michael
It’s not unknown for older academics to never quite get over “a certain young PhD” doing very well and getting more accolades than themselves.
Apropos of nothing.
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Comment on Open thread weekend by Faustino
Peter, in a e-mail to Des Moore on another topic, I noted that “My local candidate, Bill Glasson, expected that, locally, after a couple of weeks’ bounce, there would be a backlash against Rudd, and the the seat of Griffith was still winnable. Rudd gained about a 2% swing in 2010 – that was primarily because of boundary changes, with my area (West End/South Brisbane), the most left-wing in Queensland, moving into Rudd’s electorate. The demographic changes since then – there is rapid population growth in West End – will have worked against Rudd. Fingers crossed.
“Many in Queensland know of the decades of fierce animosity between Rudd and Beattie, and loathe Beattie, a typical Rudd misjudgement which is proving counter-productive.”
The latest Newspoll & Nielsen polls show Rudd 4-5 points behind. Yea!
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Comment on Open thread weekend by Beth Cooper
I could tell you a reel story not a pome from when i wus
a teen-aged lassie, about a sheep dog that came home …
Me family had this border collie name of Kishga that we
loved dearly. When me father had ter do a trip up north
and asked me mother ter come too they arranged fer me
aunt and uncle ter stay with me, sister was away at the time.
In the weekend, busy Saturday night, when i went ter stay
with another cousin fer the week end, they drive to their own
home takin’ our dog with them During the night Kishga
scratches on the door ter go outside and they let him out…
Tten minutes later, no Kishga in the back yard.., Oh no!
Two anxious relatives rise at dawn, drive along the busy
highway over intersections, rail crossings, …. the 20 km
or so back to my joint. Kishga hobbles down the drive ter
welcome them.) Lassie come home. Laddie in this case.
Bts
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Comment on Open thread weekend by Beth Cooper
That red dog cood do Shakespeare lol.
bts
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Comment on Open thread weekend by Peter Lang
Faustino,
I’ve been following this electorate closely. I didn’t realise you live in his electorate. there is nothing I would like to see more than Rudd lose the election by an enormous margin and lose his seat as well!! I can’t stand the slimy, dishonest b-stard, or hos team of incompetent ministers (mostly ex-union leaders, almost none of their life has been in real work, never managed any sort of business, and one has never even had a credit card, a loan not owns a house and she’s responsible for a department.
Back to your electorate, which Rudd represents, I see two recent polls have Dr Bill Glasson ahead 52:48 and 54:46.
He is an opthamologist and was president of the Australian Medical Association in 2003 and 2004.
He has practised as a medical specialist in Brisbane since 1988, while also providing services to rural Queensland. He worked as a volunteer aid specialist overseas for several years, predominantly in East Timor.
http://carindaleconnect.com.au/community/2013/03/bill-glasson-lnp-candidate-griffith/
This is an example of the stark difference between the Labor candidates and Liberal candidates. Rudd was a bureaucrat.
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Comment on Open thread weekend by Beth Cooper
Our Prime MInister says,
‘spend, spend, spend, spend,
ter the power of ten ‘n then …
spend, spend, spend, spend agen.
( Some serf’s wunder where
the money’s comin’ from.)
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Comment on Open thread weekend by Peter Lang
Chief, thanks for the poem. I love them. And great photo of a red kelpie.
So many stories to tell. I’ve asked them what they think of CAGW, and they look at me as if I am a loony to even consider discussing such nonsense.
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