Posts by Farmer Green
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Hard News: Done like a dinner, in reply to Sacha,
I tend to judge whether something is worth engaging with by how it’s presented and by whom
And you are like most human beings? Hmmm.
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Hard News: Done like a dinner, in reply to BenWilson,
But why do you need government involvement? It's either a good economic idea or it's not.
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Hard News: Done like a dinner, in reply to Sacha,
Of course. Always far better to shoot the messanger.
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Hard News: Done like a dinner, in reply to Bart Janssen,
it looks like a wind turbine (far enough away from the house to not hear the noise) is a better bet than solar at the moment.
No need for any noise. And it’s really not so ugly.
http://www.leviathanenergyinc.com/wind-tulip.html
Combined with one of these (from Powerco) with a bit less PV , and you can be selling (net) power instead of buying it.
http://www.powerco.co.nz/Divisions/BASEPOWER/Photo-Gallery/Whanganui-Trial/
The way prices are going , why wouldn’t you?
Don’t hold your breath for prices to fall when Tiwai Point closes.
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Funny ; all this talk about keeping warm.
O ye of little faith!
Meanwhile the bad news keeps rolling in.
Imminent catastrophe "postponed" !
Good news for producers of wool garments perhaps; it sure is an ill wind . . .http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/more-global-warming-myths-exposed-ng-p-137955
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Hard News: Violence in the streets, in reply to Chris Waugh,
, but sports stars seem to be held to an entirely different standard to others.
Possibly just a hangover from those days, long gone, when sports persons were relatively unpaid i.e. non-professional.
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Hard News: Violence in the streets, in reply to Chris Waugh,
FG would like to see the NZ public get over its attitude to all entertainers and so called "celebrities".
Some chance.
FG's experience as a musician leads him to think that sports stars are different only in the degree of physicality they display for entertainment purposes. Possibly the public response reflects that.
But being attacked in some way, not necessarily physical, is routine for those in the "circus " business.Between shows , one disappears
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Hard News: Violence in the streets, in reply to Russell Brown,
All entertainers are public property. Unless they take positive steps to avoid public appearance outside of their chosen form of entertainment, be it sport , art, celebrity narcissism, etc. then they will get unwanted attention.
Best to get over it.There is more than one reason to be a reclusive farmer ensconced at the end of a no exit road.
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Hard News: Violence in the streets, in reply to Jarno van der Linden,
Where have you been? Aunty Helen commented on trivia at every opportunity to the point where the 6 a.m. news on National Radio always carried an item beginning ; "the prime Minister Helen Clark said . . . '
It is vital that the PM of Godzone advise the sheeple on all matters ; what to 'think'; what to 'feel'; what it 'means'.You propose that people should think for themselves?
What are you; an anarchist?
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After reviewing the scientific literature the reports concludes that the standstill is an empirical fact and a reality that challenges current climate models. During the time that the Earth’s global temperature has remained static the atmospheric composition of carbon dioxide has increased from 370 to 390 ppm.
“The standstill is a reality and is not the result of cherry-picking start and end points. Its commencement can be seen clearly in the data, and it continues to this day,” said Dr David Whitehouse, the author of the new report.
The report shows that the temperature standstill has been a much discussed topic in peer-reviewed scientific literature for years, but that this scientific debate has neither been followed by most of the media, nor acknowledged by climate campaigners, scientific societies and prominent scientists.
The report also surveys how those few journalists who have looked at the issue have been reporting the standstill, with many far too ready to dismiss it or lacking a sense of journalistic inquiry, preferring to reports squabbles rather than the science.
”If the standstill continues for a few more years it will mean that no one who has just reached adulthood, or younger, will have witnessed the Earth get warmer during their lifetime,” said the report’s author, Dr David Whitehouse.
In his foreword, Lord Turnbull, former Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service, commented:
“Dr Whitehouse is a man who deserves to be listened to. He has consistently followed an approach of examining observations rather than projections of large scale computer models, which are too often cited as ‘evidence’. He looks dispassionately at the data, trying to establish what message it tells us, rather than using it to confirm a pre-held view.”