Creation Science and Flat Earth for Australia!
Having watched Ian Plimer manipulating, evading, and repeating patently obvious untruths – I continue to marvel at Australia’s Climate Sceptics, and even more, I marvel at the media coverage they get! . Obviously, Australia’s Chief Scientist must be a complete fool, taken in by the global warming international conspiracy.
I want to join the denialist throng. Why shouldn’t Australia be a real leader in the field? Now I want to start my own movement, and get a showing on ABC TV. I want to start a Creation Science movement, and also a Flat Earther one.
We’ve added more C02 to the atmosphere. This diagram, showing how greenhouse gases, especially C02, trap heat in the atmosphere – why it’s all nonsense, isn’t it?
Big money in denying climate change
Dr Karl: ‘Something fishy about climate sceptics’ Adelaide Now CLARE PEDDIE December 17, 2009 CLIMATE change is a fact, sceptics are fishy, says Australia’s favourite scientist, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki.
Dr Karl is in town to promote his first game, Fact or Fishy?, and 28th book, Never Mind the Bullocks, Here’s the Science. Continue reading
China’s nuclear program mired in corruption and dubious safety
Nuclear Power Expansion in China Stirs Concerns The New York Times By KEITH BRADSHER 15 Dec 09 “………. inside and outside the country, the speed of the construction program has raised safety concerns.
The last country to carry out such a rapid nuclear expansion was the United States in the 1970s, in a binge of reactor construction that ended with the Three Mile Island accident Continue reading
Nuclear to cure climate change – it’s a joke
Nuclear power as a cure for climate change is a sick joke. As climate changes, extreme weather events endanger uranium mines and nuclear facilities – as mentioned in today’s items on tropical cyclones, and France’s extreme cold.
Cyclone flood danger to uranium mines
Australia Issues Red Alert as Tropical Cyclone Approaches Coast By Jason ScottDec. 16 (Bloomberg) — Australia issued its highest storm alert as Tropical Cyclone Laurence’s winds strengthened to as high as 285 kilometers (177 miles) per hour as it approached the northwestern coast, where offshore oil and gas rigs were evacuated earlier………..
Cyclone George in March 2007 caused flooding at Energy Resources of Australia Ltd.’s Ranger uranium mine in the Northern Territory.
Australia Issues Red Alert as Tropical Cyclone Approaches Coast – Bloomberg.com
France’s nukes vulnerable to extreme weather
French Nuclear Power Struggles in a Cold Snap Business Week by: Carol Matlack on December 16 “…… the system also has shortcomings, as became evident this week when a cold snap sent electricity demand soaring. Continue reading
A positive view of the Nuclear Disarmament Commission
A real chance for a world free of nuclear weapons Sydney Morning Herald MARK DAVIS December 17, 2009 “…………………The original “grand bargain” of the NPT was that the nuclear-armed states signing up agreed to negotiate disarmament while the states without nukes agreed not to develop or obtain weapons. Continue reading
A negative view of the Disarmament Commission
Report on nuke threat is a dud Greg Sheridan, Foreign editor : The Australian December 17, 2009 “……………The world has more than 20,000 nuclear weapons and it would be a good thing if this number were substantially reduced. Continue reading
Utah opposes import of depleted uranium waste
Utah gov to DOE: Halt depleted uranium shipment By BROCK VERGAKIS (AP) 16 Dec 09 SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert sent Energy Secretary Steven Chu a letter Tuesday asking him to halt the shipment of nearly 15,000 drums of low-level radioactive waste from South Carolina for disposal in Utah. Continue reading
South Australia: incentives for renewable energy
Tax break boost for solar, wind projects ABC News Dec 16, 2009
A new renewable energy tax rebate has been announced and the South Australian Government hopes it will boost investment in the industry.
From next July, investors will get payroll tax rebates of up to $5 million for large solar energy projects and up to $1 million for wind power projects.
SA Premier Mike Rann says the rebates will help create jobs.
“We’re aiming to get 33 per cent of our power from renewables by 2020, but I also want to establish South Australia as the renewable energy hub for the eastern seaboard,” he said.
Tax break boost for solar, wind projects – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Switch to renewables, says Australian Academy of Science
Green power feasible Cheryl Jones The Australian December 16, 2009 THE federal government has the opportunity to switch the nation’s power to renewable energy but favours attempts to make “dirty coal clean”, Continue reading
US troops face continued depleted uranium danger
Army Again Turns to Depleted Uranium for New Weaponry Wired By David Hambling December 15, 2009 “………….Now, the U.S. Army is upgrading to a new 120mm Advanced Kinetic Energy round, and about the only thing we know for sure is that it will be made of DU. The generation after that… may be an improved version of DU called Stakalloy…………. It should also be mentioned that the idea of tungsten being introduced as a “clean” alternative to “dirty” DU took something of a knock when it was found that military-grade tungsten alloy is highly carcinogenic in rats.
Antinuclear 