This relates in a general way.  And should please those who consider me a quack.

You do know the 'Carbon Tax' was intended to make those 'corporations' you despise so much to actually pay their way...so the likes of Rinehart don't have a personal income of $2000000 per hour.

Needless to say Mister Budgie-Smuggler is repealing that because he has her as a pin-up to get all hot and sweaty over.

With the simple reality of what will soon be the richest person on the planet getting away with it...and a Govt making bloody sure she does...we're all in the same handbasket.

You want 'pockets'?  Gina and her bunch have our current Govt by the balls.....and fondling vigorously....

Yeah, the line of criticism from your link is certainly fair in some cases.  But it doesn't really apply to this specific field.

Its a MASSIVE problem in Biology and medical fields.  There is enormous pressure from corporate sources (which are a much bigger source of funding than most fields in bio/medicine) to produce certain results.  And for whatever reasons, bio/medical is extremely intolerant of null results.  Which is bad science, but since the relationship with corporate overlords is there...yeah, its a problem.

But its not as large a problem in other fields.  After all, the major criticism from your link is that groups don't attempt to reproduce each other's results.  But, we all know that there are actually many different, INDEPENDENT groups that do global warming modeling who all happen to find similar results.  So, since multiple groups are essentially reproducing each other's results, the link isn't directly relevant in this case.

But yeah, I won't deny that science should spend more money and time trying to reproduce previous results.

It's her personal wealth that needs taxing.....and a kick in the gonads for even suggesting importing Asian labour for peanuts.

Yep, pay offsite for people to take Australia's mineral wealth offsite...and the ONLY people to benefit will be her...amd her scab labour.

And no....the Libs have the numbers on their own...so the tax is sunk.

There was [past tense] a time when Oz was seen as 'visionary'....leaders rather than followers when it came to ensuring Industry paid appropriately....but not anymore....we too are poisoned by capitalism-at-all-costs.

It probably took me 5 minutes to post this comment.

In that time Rinehart TOOK $170,000 out of Australia's mineral wealth and stuffed it up her panties.

That fat Mining slug in QLD was to be taxed a squillion....but now he's elected to govt he gets to vote for it to be dumped.

How 'bout dat?

With a bit of luck he'll sink with his Titanic 2....and drown....

Climate science has more in common with political science than with any physical science.  It's, to be generous, one of the 'soft' sciences, where the hypotheses are not subject to falsification.  It's also not nearly as transparent as it should be.

Flame away.

Why do armchair scientists think they know better than the real ones? You do know that 97% of all scientific studies support global warming, right?

What they're not nearly so unanimous on is the cause.  Take CO2, as the biggest hot button issue.  Study after study has shown a correlation between atmospheric CO2 and the warming trend.  However, the geologic and fossil records show similar correlation in many other historic warming periods that far predate Homo Sapiens.  So where is the *causality* amidst the correlation?  The simple answer is: we don't know but we damn well better find out.

On a side note to those who may feel sorry for Gaia for her own sake: don't fret, the planet will be fine.  Worst case, we'll just get wiped out as a viable civilized species, knocked back to the stone age or further while our remains supply the fossil fuels for the next sapient to come along.

Woohoo, I haven't needed the air-con today... the world is cooling, the world is cooling.... hooray, hooray!

Um, I don't fret for the planet, got more than enough 'global warmers' jumping up and down doing that, and I'll leave it to the 'experts'

As for the planet being okay, no it won't!  Mankind is too greedy and stupid to stop raping and pillaging it for everything it can extract to amass ever greater profit.  Now if the global warming people were actually campaigning for the right cause, rather than something which has too many natural variables to blame it entirely on industry, then I might actually join them.  However, I will not support something designed to confiscate more of the average Joe's money.

True, mankind needs to clean up its act to save the planet - can't say to keep the planet safe because we've already feched it -  but it needs to be done from a genuine perspective, by targeting true ecological villains who are doing the most to destroy natural environments... the structure of the mantle upon which we and all species live.  It may not happen in my lifetime, and people may scoff when I say the planet is in grave danger if we do not cease our relentless pursuit of more and more oil, coal and other minerals.... and God help us if some bright spark decides its a good idea to copy science fiction and drills down to the layer of magma to extract a new and clean energy source.

See, that's the thing, here!  There is enough combined stupidity within the human race to inflict immeasurable damage on an already decimated planet, and while that combined stupidity, greed and reckless endangerment  continues to be ignored - "Oh, that could never happen." - the closer we come to shitting in our own nest and spilling out of it.  Wait!!!l  We actually have shit in our own nest already, it's just the stench hasn't become too unbearable as yet.

There's a suburb not far from me, Collingwood Park, where several houses have needed significant repairs or have been demolished due to sink holes and subsidence cause by underground coal mines.... yet mining still continues around the wider Ipswich area.  Again, it might not happen in my lifetime and people may scoff at what I say, but it would only take a severe natural event - earthquake, flooding - for the entire suburb to just disappear, well at least large parts of it. And that is only one location of thousands upon thousands around the world where mankind has seriously altered the geology of the area/region.  And that's where the greed and combined stupidity... the reckless endangerment come into play... mankind doesn't know when to stop.  Hence we are the ticking time bomb to an ever increasingly fragile planet.

Nope, not in the slightest... everyone is expendable, many are irrelevant and others are just a waste of space.

So, given that I'm expendable, I feel pretty darned good about myself.

As for the 'Hot Earth Society'... the phrase I just coined to better label global warming proponents, they belong to both the other categories, for mine.

Their message under its present iteration, is irrelevant to me, thus making them a waste of space regarding both the big and small pictures

Of course the average Joe's money counts in the big picture/wider scheme of things.  Without his money... and the hours he toiled to earn it, the upper crust would have nobody to take it from.  With the exception of a very, very few, less than one percent, the rich and wealthy get where they are off the blood, sweat and tears of the average Joe, so don't try to pass off the little man's contribution as anything less than enormous

I met a few rich people over the years, and all but one of 'em were parasites leeching off everything and everyone around them, and all but one had never done an honest day's work in their lives.,.. or between them.

In fact, given how I watched them fritter away millions on self-absorbed and exorbitant lifestyles, I'd say the average Joe's money counts for a hell of a lot more.

Looks like someone's on a mission...

Okay, so we any closer to getting this sucker locked up? 

And while we're at it, how about locking the thread to prevent any more global warming nuts adding to it.

Sorry Daiwa, I just couldn't help myself..... well I could have but chose not to.