The ARC Centre for Excellence in Coral Reef Studies and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority is where I’m getting my info, where are you getting yours? Cos it sounds to me like you took a holiday to the whitsundays, which is right at the southernmost and coolest point of the Reef, went on a snorkel trip, saw some coral, and decided it was all ok (yeah, cos I’m sure the tour guide would have taken you to a dead reef, they have to make a buck too…)
Here’s a handy map for you. Notice how the reef is dead in warmer places and hanging on in cooler places? Notice how the comfy touristy places that you’ve visited are right down south in the cooler water where the impact has been lowest so far?
(FWIW I went to Cape Tribulation in the Daintree, right up in the red zone, back in 09 and then again last year, and the difference was horrifying. And that’s at the BEST bits, where the tour boats take people to see good coral)
You are on to something, though. My mistake was not saying anti-intellectual.
Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English.[1] He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements. His satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the “Monkey Trial”, also gained him attention.
If you consider him anti-intellectual your IQ must be off the scale and make Newton and Einstein look like the village idiots.
Instead of trolling I could start giving examples of failed climate predictions.
Still, nobody has come up with a figure of how many wind turbines Victoria will need to achieve Dan Andrews 45% renewable target.
With minimum demand during the holiday period at night I figure a minimum of 16,500.
You are all highly educated so let’s see your figures.
Hitler was a right-wing authoritarian and while his Party had “Socialist” and “Workers” in its name translated from the German, they were about as left wing as our LNP is liberal.
In fact, Hitler murdered most of the Leftwing leaders in his Party in 1936.
And while the NAZI’s had policy to build National Parks and plans to get Germans to commune with Nature, they never actually enacted anything and we more interested in global domination and killing Jews.
A Solar cycle lasts a bit more than 11 years. Every 11 or so years, the solar poles flip. At the start and end of each cycle the solar activity is diminished. This is called the solar minimum.
In the middle of each solar cycle, solar activity is typically higher…this is called the solar maximum.
Sometimes the minimums and maximums can be more intense.
When a solar minimum happens occassionally the solar activity stays sub-dued for a longer period of time than the normal 3 or 4 years, so no maximums in the cycle…this is called a grand solar minimum…these happen every couple of hundred years and can lead to climate cooling…this mostly happens in the Northen Hemisphere. It is commonly thought that these events are minor in comparison to MMCC but others claim it will impact on global food supplies.
