Comments on: Another one from that Liberal playbook http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-38/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:14:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-38/#comment-44217 Tom McLoughlin Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:26:52 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-38/#comment-44217 Agree the Rees leadership stories post web 2.0 political reality suffer a streak of wishful thinking or as Shakespeare wrote: Something like - 'drunk on Big Media power increases the urge and diminishes the performance', meaning tabloid News Corp are sobering up to the fact a front page blow torch no longer breaks a premiership/Opposition leadership like the old days. Hurts yes, but lacks that fatal impact (or as C Kerr used to say 'wet work'), allowing recovery in the week on week big media 24 hour cycle. A bloated ratbag like Della Bosca maybe but Rees is a class above judging by his interview on Stateline NSW last Friday. Tougher than Simon Benson or Clennell for that matter will ever be. And that's not a vote for Rees either. ............................. Green as 'a new religion' - this old cliche. I graduated in evolutionary ecology at university. (Before that I was a Catholic alter boy.) It's all hard science with things like statistics and computer models and science labs and repeatable testable experiments and dissections in laboraties, and peer reviewed journals. That's why I became an ecologist and green voter, learning how Australia's forests have been f*cked up despite the dross you get from pseudo science forestry schools and their industry stooges in big media or ALP governments for that matter (Michael O'Connor ALP national executive). I mean the Cardinal Pells and fellow travellers at say The Oz so scared of ecological science are pathetic, grasping for some relevance around some non existent religious competition with 'a green ideology' as if it is godless communism. And here's the hammer blow to such as Pell - his own Papal leadership demonstrably rejects these dinosaur views on climate change with various public statements about AGW. Pell/Plimer arguably are anti Roman Catholicism. How ironic is that? Why doesn't Pell set up his own rogue religion so real Christianity get on? Refer: The Age Pope puts focus on climate change, environment John Vidal and Tom Kington, Rome April 28, 2007 THE Vatican has added its voice to warnings from churches around the world that climate change and abuse of the environment is against God's will. At a Vatican conference on climate change, Pope Benedict XVI urged bishops, scientists and politicians to "respect Creation" while "focusing on the needs of sustainable development". The Pope's message follows a series of increasingly strong statements about climate change and the environment, including a warning earlier this year that "disregard for the environment always harms human coexistence and vice versa". Agree the Rees leadership stories post web 2.0 political reality suffer a streak of wishful thinking or as Shakespeare wrote: Something like - ‘drunk on Big Media power increases the urge and diminishes the performance’, meaning tabloid News Corp are sobering up to the fact a front page blow torch no longer breaks a premiership/Opposition leadership like the old days. Hurts yes, but lacks that fatal impact (or as C Kerr used to say ‘wet work’), allowing recovery in the week on week big media 24 hour cycle.

A bloated ratbag like Della Bosca maybe but Rees is a class above judging by his interview on Stateline NSW last Friday. Tougher than Simon Benson or Clennell for that matter will ever be. And that’s not a vote for Rees either.

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Green as ‘a new religion’ - this old cliche. I graduated in evolutionary ecology at university. (Before that I was a Catholic alter boy.) It’s all hard science with things like statistics and computer models and science labs and repeatable testable experiments and dissections in laboraties, and peer reviewed journals. That’s why I became an ecologist and green voter, learning how Australia’s forests have been f*cked up despite the dross you get from pseudo science forestry schools and their industry stooges in big media or ALP governments for that matter (Michael O’Connor ALP national executive).

I mean the Cardinal Pells and fellow travellers at say The Oz so scared of ecological science are pathetic, grasping for some relevance around some non existent religious competition with ‘a green ideology’ as if it is godless communism. And here’s the hammer blow to such as Pell - his own Papal leadership demonstrably rejects these dinosaur views on climate change with various public statements about AGW. Pell/Plimer arguably are anti Roman Catholicism. How ironic is that? Why doesn’t Pell set up his own rogue religion so real Christianity get on?

Refer: The Age

Pope puts focus on climate change, environment

John Vidal and Tom Kington, Rome
April 28, 2007

THE Vatican has added its voice to warnings from churches around the world that climate change and abuse of the environment is against God’s will.

At a Vatican conference on climate change, Pope Benedict XVI urged bishops, scientists and politicians to “respect Creation” while “focusing on the needs of sustainable development”.

The Pope’s message follows a series of increasingly strong statements about climate change and the environment, including a warning earlier this year that “disregard for the environment always harms human coexistence and vice versa”.

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