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Yes.
The saddest thing is that regardless of whether we can save the planet we will run out of Fossil Fuels sooner rather than later and whether Tony Abbott lives to see the day If populations continue to grow as predicted given a few nasty Tsunamis,Earthquakes, might dent a few.Some day the world must have renewable energy.Coal dust must gave got into their grey cells!
heh, did you catch Charlie Verran on radio national today
? – perhaps we should get him in touch with the neo-climate-sceptic Tony A. I just find it so sad when true scientific observation is being ignored and loud ignorent voices are being reported so comprehensively and destructively in the local press etc
I don’t know about that eleni!
I have always thought of tony abbot as more the fallen Angel and I suggested to Sun Herald maybe all we need do is wait for Tony to receive his instruction manual on how to build an Ark! The way we are going it will not be crowded out with birds and animals and if we leave off all the fringe dwellers { who never counted anyway } there should be plenty of room for the climate septics OOPS sceptics to go on one long cruise!!
Actually what will they do without those nice Pacific Islands? No Pinacoladas I guess!
would have more respect for Abbott if he’d said that the outcomes were too soft at Copenhagen and greater thought needed to go into realisable deep cuts to emissions (bearing in mind the increase the planet has endured in recent years – cuts to proposed cuts to the rates of increase are decryable not laughable – we need absolute cuts to total emissions to even make a slight impact on what is already accrued and continuing to accrue. As corals bleach and seas acidigy and rise, as the earth is drained of its sweet surface water springing from aged glaciers and equally deprived of its stores of underground resources, as desalination plants spring up to make the sea cry ever saltier tears …. as breeding cycles on land and sea are interrupted by changing weather patterns …
Perhaps we should call upon St Anthony, patron saint of lost articles, lost causes, of sailors and fishermen, a gentle but powerful preacher and teacher, follower of earth’s gentle saint, St Francis, who saw all creation as a part of God’s great family and a beneficiary of God’s love … so that these two Anthonys may become far better acquainted … a converso, a conversation, a conversion, perhaps it is that for which we should pray?
Nice work Tom and Liz! Keep on phoning I’m sure they’ll take your calls eventually. I’m sure ABC talk knows climate change will slam us every week if we don’t act now!
Tom You are lucky I got told that the phone is being inundated with my sort of calls and they had my number but guess what they never got back!
ABC talk said they had climate change LAST WEEK
Dear GetUp Folk
Thanks for inviting me. I was just on 4BC Brisbane. It’s SO dry here, the grass is turning grey, and these folks are saying nothing’s wrong. There was a story about firefighters up just north of Bris-vegas, at Burpengary, just before I came on air. I referred to them, and briefly to the Victorian fires earlier this year, but mainly to the dryness of the grass outside – “Have a look outside the studio”.
In response the DJ said there’s a greenie scare campaign going on (i.e. some video with a child in it), as if that makes Tony Abbott’s scare campaign OK, and, anyway, what can one person do about it? “You’re going to stop climate change, are you?” he said.
Those were his two main “points”, I think. “Play the man, never the ball”, was the motto of the Bodyline series!
I got through to be on air pretty quickly.
Thanks again for alerting me.
Cheers,
t
While it is fair that everyone’s opinions are aired about any issue, the media coverage of climate change has been particularly poor lately in favour of minority group of skeptics – but as Tom rightly mentions, the majority of Australians have concerns about this issue, and it’s an important thought to remember.
Abbott’s act of playing to Australians’ financial concerns and making up his own ubsubstantiated figures for how much the cprs will cost Australia was a low blow!
Thanks for the update. I don’t want Tony Abbott and his team of sceptics to ruin the chance of a strong agreement in Copenhagen – I look forward to hearing everyone on the radio!
This is a great idea. The skeptics have been running riot in the media lately. We’ve got to get back out there to remind everyone that most Australians are really worried about this problem and are sick of all the games from the Opposition and Government alike.
p.s. First comment!
I heard that Abbott wants to create an “army” of fellow climate sceptics. That’s somewhat appropriate, because such an army would lead to massive devastation and loss of life.
We need to tell Abbott and his sceptics that climate change is real, it’s happening and the world has to do something about it.