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maccamax
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Climate Change ----- The Tooth Fairy & Santa Claus .
WHICH ONE IS A DELUSION ????? |
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Passing Through
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Global investment in coal tumbles by 75% in three years, as lenders lose appetite for fossil fuelMore coal power stations around the world came offline last year than were approved for perhaps first time since industrial revolution, report says
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maccamax
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Load that beautiful Black stuff ... You can't beat a boot full of coal .
Phase it out = BS = They will phase SEX out before Coal. |
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Isaac soloman
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Yes, China needs the coal to make steel from the iron ore supplied by BHP, FMG, RIO, Hancock, of which A LOT on here would have SHARES in.
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Dr E
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Don't know about anyone else, but this Global Warming is freezin' my nuts off!!! ... brrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
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In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!
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maccamax
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Send em to Chloe --- She needs a new set. . |
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Softy
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For someone who alludes to sex a fair bit you sure do seem to get upset when other people are having it.
Any psychological reasons behind this, that you can think of? |
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maccamax
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YES SOFTON..
Me Bloody equipment doesn't work any more and firing pin can't be relied on. I had the " 2 of sand & 1 of cement" injection to overcome erectile dysfunction , but now I'm left with 8 cylinders that don't fire. Like playing snooker with rope for a cue. |
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Every Australian owns shares through super. Here's how to make a start at ethical investingThe establishment of compulsory superannuation in Australia means every single worker in this country is effectively an investor. Since different super funds help finance various industries and businesses, without realising it you could be giving money to things you have major moral objections to.he thought of this may be overwhelming, but the solution is easier than you might think. While you may not be able to list off causes you passionately support, chances are you know the types of industries and companies you want nothing to do with. Eliza Katsourakis, 23, is one of many keen to invest her money in companies that are doing their part for the environment and treating their workers fairly and equally. She wrote to the |
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Gay3
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Why are species going extinct?
Posted on by alloporus
Species go extinct because of the process that created them. Ah ha, not the answer you were expecting. You thought I was going to say habitat loss, pollution, introduced pests, climate change or some other lefty topic sung about by old hippies and youngsters frightened for their future. Indulge me for a few minutes and follow this little sequence of logic to the end of the post and you’ll see why extinction is more about the process of evolution than it is about humanity. Polar bears and koala (not) bearsIf you go to northern Manitoba, Canada, you can go out to the wilds and see a polar bear. There are even tour operators who will take you and look after you so the bears don’t rip your Gortex jacket. You cannot see a wild polar bear in Australia. However, if you go out to the Australian bush, into the right habitat types, keep your eyes keen, and have a bit of luck, you will see a koala. And, yes, a koala is not a bear, it is a marsupial mammal. There are no wild koalas in Canada. Canada, polar bears; Australia, koalas. This we know and take for granted. The reason is that all species have regions where they occur in the wild and regions where they do not go and have never been seen, except in a zoo. It’s called their geographic range. Let’s extend this idea a little. Bird species in AustraliaThere are 828 bird species in Australia that are known to be present. Some are rare, others common. Some occur everywhere and some are found in just one or two places or in the case of the King Island scrub tit, on one island. It would take a lifetime of twitching holidays to personally see all these species because it is also nature’s way that species have certain habitats and places they prefer. Some species are super specialists and only occur in certain very specific habitats, for example, old growth forest. As there is not much of this habitat left, these species have a narrow range. You need to hike into the forest and be very patient in order to see one. Other species are just about everywhere. The Indian myna or the house sparrow are familiar to half the people on the planet, even those who have never owned a pair of binoculars. Even in a habitat that occurs everywhere, like open woodland or backyards, not all species occur everywhere. There will be a dozen or so species in the average Aussie backyard in Sydney only several of the species in the Melbourne suburbs will be different, and those in Brisbane different again. This is normal and always has been. Some species are rare, some are common. Some are localised others are everywhere. Welcome to nature. In fact, nearly half, 400 or so, of the 828 bird species in Australia occur nowhere else on earth. They are endemic or unique to the island continent or both. Alright, I’ve laboured this enough. The point is that this is what the process of evolution does, it creates diversity. Random mutation alongside natural selection results in diversity as organisms focus on the most efficient way to harness resources that they convert into more organisms. If you prefer to replace organisms in the last sentence with genes, you get Richard Dawkins, Selfish Gene. I use organisms because a gene does not do it on its own, it needs other genes to make a vehicle that can travel forward in intergenerational time. But, of course, Dawkins is right, really it is genes that are selected. We are so familiar with the result of natural selection, namely a huge variety of species unevenly spread across regions and habitats, that we take it for granted. Don’t be stupid, everybody knows that there are no wild polar bears in Australia, it’s too hot for them. Nature is made up of gene combinations that are the most efficient at converting the resources in a given place, given the conditions. This is what evolution does all the time, everywhere. This is the bit you need to follow… given the conditions. Specialisation happens as an inevitable result of natural selection. There are still generalists with a fine working model of existence, crocodiles for example, that have not changed much, but the majority of species become quite specialised. The problem with specialisation is what to do when the conditions change. Just ask the dinosaurs how that went for them. Again we accept that mass extinction 66 million years ago without blinking. A huge, diverse group of land animals all die out in a short space of time because a meteorite hit the earth and changed the conditions. They couldn’t cope with what the impact and its aftermath did to their food and shelter. It disrupted things too much for them to adapt fast enough. Except for the crocodiles who could switch to fish. The 5th mass extinction that knocked out the dinosaurs and 76% of species alive at the time, is a dramatic, iconic example of change. Only, the thing is that conditions change all the time. And this means that species go extinct all the time. It is an inevitable part of the process. I’ll just say this again. If conditions change (and they always do) and they change fast enough, big enough or for long enough, some species cannot survive and go extinct. Period. This is just a consequence of natural selection creating diversity and the whirlwind of a spinning planet with a complex atmosphere, ocean currents and mobile continents generating change. The flip side of change that causes extinction is the opportunity for diversity. Change things and gaps open up for new species to exploit. But we’ll save that idea for another time. Today we are on the extinction consequence. Change and extinction are inevitableOnly this is not what you are told. Take this example from the front page of the Guardian online feed on 31 March 2019 stating that record numbers of Australian mammals face ‘imminent extinction’ that includes this quote
Pause and read that quote again. This person is asking you to believe that extinction, a law of nature that has a history as long and deep as life itself, can be overturned by muppets in Canberra. Come on, get over yourselves. You are not that important. Human activity is the biggest current agent of change sure, but to think that a specific political decision can rewrite evolution means you really do not understand the challenge. We could leave it there as today’s healthy thought. Only there is just… One more thingThinking we can ‘save the koala’ forces us into a bind. We are now imagining that extinction is terrible, an awful result that must be prevented. So important is this premise we even ask the politicians to make a policy to stop it happening. We would have a very different view of conservation if extinction were an acceptable option because that is what happens in nature. The choice to save a species from extinction becomes a conscious one made with a clear understanding of cost and benefit. We may still want to save the koala or the panda or the Southern Corroboree frog but if we do it’s a positive choice. Important postscriptThis post simplified natural selection as just about honing a solution to shelter and food and secretly implied that competition for these resources is what sorts out the weaker options. This is true but it’s not the only way. There is also sexual competition that drives specialisation. Just so you know, Charles Darwin figured this one out too. Amazing. |
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maccamax
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Good read gay3 ... So many reasons , include the free go some predators get today that weren't available ( say 50 years ago ) Introduced species eg feral cats .
I'm always sad when I return to where I spent so much of my childhood , The Birds were plentiful and truly beautiful .. Parrots , Finches & the like , added so much .. Today almost NIL. Plenty of increase in the Eagle , Feral cats , dogs , foxes . ( few rabbits ) Has changed the mix. |
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CLIMATE CHANGE IS FIXED >
Queensland Labor Government has AL GORE lecturing ... At taxpayer Expense. WOT t/f are we doing. |
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Bit nippy in Sydney at the moment Macca. This climate change stuff has got a bit of a Trump / Morrison feel about it !
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maccamax
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Coldest June day in Brisbane in 86 years yesterday.
The Weather Station didn't give me that information, Me "knockers" did , at 7.05 AM. |
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The Push for More Wind and Solar Is Already Costing You Money & Damaging the Environment.... In other words, home-owners are paying high prices for the government’s mistaken belief that it is doing something beneficial for the environment or the Earth’s climate. The government’s actions are based on their nonsensical stance that human CO2 emissions have become the dominant controller of Earth’s climate. Canadian historical climate Dr. Tim Ball explainedhow ridiculous this is: “Many years ago, I compared the claim that human CO2 was causing global warming was analogous to determining what was causing your car to falter. To simplify the analysis, you decided to not look at the engine, the transmission, the gearbox, the drive shaft, the differential, the axle, and the wheel, to focus attention on one portion of the thread of one bolt of one nut on the right rear wheel.” Dr. Ball expanded on this further in a more recent article: “When the leaders learned that carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, was increasing and global warming was inevitable, they didn’t know enough to even ask the right questions. They didn’t know that it was only 4% of the total greenhouse gases and the human portion was only 0.4% of that. They didn’t know the people presenting this information deliberately limited themselves to only looking at human causes of climate change, thus ignoring all natural, that is, non-human, causes.” Here are some of the non-CO2 causes of climate change:
This is just a partial list. Do we have your attention yet? .... |
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In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!
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is this post made to make us feel better about ourselves and habitat destruction? Did trump publish it or some 10 year old son of an industrialist? what an absolute self serving load of garbage. Did foxes rabbits, cats, goats, camels make it to australia on their own? did two thirds of the worlds forests disappear because they felt sick or did a bulldozer have something to do with it. astoundingly stupid
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Afros
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Thanks for the post supporting climate change. |
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Dr E
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Nobody disputes climate change, there are about a million causes and it's been happening forever Afros ... surely you knew that?
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In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!
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Afros
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Nobody is claiming that the climate has ever been static. |
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Softy
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Oh some think it has been Afros lol.
They can’t discern the difference between 3’ over 360 million years and 360 years though. It’s just a few little zeros. |
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And the difference between climate and weather confuses them, so they dont worry about it.
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Move on - dead issue
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Softy
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Some look to the future oneone and some look to the past 😉
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Afros
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Why don't you post that anecdote about how it got hot once in the 1890s so therefore Climate Change must be fake? |
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Dr E
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I can't believe that so many people completely missed the Climate Change Election, can you oneone... ?
They keep slapping on about it, but at least Labor was paying attention - AlboSleazy and PalAshamed and their "progressive" party are ALL in favor of #StartAdani now - I think they've even stopped using sunscreen! ... they certainly don't give a toss about our flora and fauna anymore! ... think I might have to go online and buy a breeding pair of Black Throated Finch ... just in case!
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In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT!
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You really think Climate Change was why the LNP (with Clive and Pauline helping) is why Qld voted so strongly against the ALP?
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I thought it was the franking credits election, or the Adani election, or the fundamentalist religion(PVO) election, or the fiscal rectitude election or the (insert anything you like) election. Seems this scrawny one seat bastard has suddenly found a thousand fathers. |
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I think your starting to accept PT that the Folau blow up did in fact crystalise an anti-left vote.
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Not quite climate change but change nonetheless
Michael Mosley shares secrets to successful ageing at Science on the Swan conferencebut this really caught my attention "He also called for more incentives for doctors to help patients lose weight. “You get paid as a GP for putting people on medication,” Dr Mosley said. “You do not get paid for helping them lose weight.” He also warned against the effects of the rise of technology. Dr Mosley pointed to the Flynn effect, which suggests while average IQs have risen by about three percentage points every decade between the 1930s and the 1980s — likely because of better health, education and more stimulating environments — they have declined at the same rate since the 1990s with the arrival of the internet. |
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If that is so, how do explain the fact the LNP vote was down 0.6% this election on the previous. |
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