wow cant see too many dramas there?! cant see our country being under water by 2100 thats for sure just looks like all natural increase to me. I was under the impression that we are in diabolical trouble. Disasters happening the end of the world!!!
wow dont trees need co2 to survive? what about Australias pollution do you really think we made a significant contribution to these levels compared to Russia,India,China,Brazil,USA etc:??
id like to put money on interest rates being the highest in our history shortly without a dought.Everything Labor has touched has turned to rubbish and our bad times have only just begun especially if they keep borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars a day! oh well the Liberal party will get our debt payed AGAIN.
straight talker wrote:id like to put money on interest rates being the highest in our history shortly without a dought.Everything Labor has touched has turned to rubbish and our bad times have only just begun especially if they keep borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars a day! oh well the Liberal party will get our debt payed AGAIN.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jnr.
Maybe the science about anthropogenic climate change isn't settled, maybe it is ...
What if the probability that it's real and that a catastrophe is imminent if no effective action is taken soon is say, 60%, or maybe 30%, or even just 5% or 1% ... should we start doing something about it?
Or another way of looking at it.
What if the chance of you being killed crossing the road at anytime is 60% ... would you cross?
If it was 30%, would your answer be the same?
What if it was just 1% ... that is a 1% chance that if you crossed a given road you would be killed? ... would you be game?
Are you familiar with risk management principles?
You know ... likelihood & consequence determines the risk rating.
So if the likelihood of anthropogenic climate change is extremely low, but the consequence is extreme, the risk rating will normally still be high (maybe not extreme).
It is beyond reasonable doubt that human activities – the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation – are triggering the changes we are witnessing in the global climate. A very large body of observations, experiments, analyses, and physical theory points to increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere – with carbon dioxide being the most important – as the primary cause of the observed warming. Increasing carbon dioxide emissions are primarily produced by the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, as well as deforestation. Natural factors, like changes in the Earth’s orbit or solar activity, cannot explain the world-wide warming trend.
only time will tell and i dont think it will be long. One things for sure swan wouldnt deserve to do up costellos bootlaces. As im sure you would appreciate the splendid job Howard and Costello done in fixing up Labors mess concerning the terrible debt they racked up whilst in power and what do you know its on the cards AGAIN.
i am no good at going back to remarks and bringing them back to a blog and then posting i have no idea how to do that. How can we be going good when we are borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars a day? How much debt did we have when Labor exited office before howard and costello took over? How much debt did we have when howard and costello left office and poor old kevin07 took over? how much debt do we have now???
straight talker wrote:only time will tell and i dont think it will be long. One things for sure swan wouldnt deserve to do up costellos bootlaces. As im sure you would appreciate the splendid job Howard and Costello done in fixing up Labors mess concerning the terrible debt they racked up whilst in power and what do you know its on the cards AGAIN.
Just like Hawke and Keating did after Fraser and Howard ... and without the reforms of Hawke/Keating era, then Howard/Costello wouldn't have reaped as many benefits as they did, something that Howard and Costello have both acknowledged.
Whitlam was a basketcase financially, I'll give you that ...
A global recession doesn't get factored into it? ... or the fact that Howard/Costello managed the balance sheet mainly by selling assets, namely Telstra?
ah i thought that would be the reason, no incompetence involved? why are we now borrowing hundreds of million dollars a day if we have been and still are in the middle of a massive mining boom? and the government says this.
no offence intended, but you do have an understanding of how an economy works? ... monetary policy? ... exchange rates? ... GDP? ... government deficits?
