I’ve always thought the whole ‘i remember when I was a kid we had hot days too’ line and ‘we’ve always lived in a sunburnt country just like the poem says’ and similar quasi-arguments are basically the climate change equivalent of those numpties in every footy crowd who always scream ‘just kick the thing long!’ in every possible situation.
It’s the triumph of anecdote over data, the lazy refusal to learn about a complex topic before sounding off about it, and a profoundly arrogant ‘my ignorance is down-to-earth common sense while your expertise is overcomplicated elitism’ contempt for people who’ve made it their life’s work to uncover the ins and outs of this stuff.
I’ve actually read more informative comments in this thread than from our 10 second sound bite politicians. The standard of discourse is more mature as well, (mostly).
Greens calling on the SA Liberal government to publicly release a state commission into the Murray River Water stuffs, said commision was commissioned by the previous labor government
To be fair that was mid 90s (IIRC), the state of Vic has twice the population now, god knows how many more houses/office blocks/hospitals/shopping centres, and I don’t think much capacity has been built since, but not much.
But that’s a pointer in itself. If it was a good investment, it would have been.
It’s almost like wind energy was only introduced in the late 80’s in Australia and in 2017 equaled production of hydro for the first time. It’s almost like new, cleaner technology takes time to be incorporated, especially given corporate lobby and governmental resistance to it for far too long. I hope you’re retired Sorfed, otherwise you spend a ■■■■■■■ lot of time finding silly little info bites to post here when you should be doing whatever you you should be doing.
The difference between climate and weather has been mentioned about 200 times in this thread, but denialists and buffoons (like Trump) keep bringing it up.
