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Forum: Australia

Jul 17th 2011, 7:34 pm

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Posted By Charismatic

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And Atmospheric Satellite data since '79?
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Forum: Australia

Jul 17th 2011, 2:56 pm

Replies: 364

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Posted By Charismatic

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Quite right :).

Lets see how you reached your conclusions about the viability of this plan.

Meanwhile:

Link (http://www.ptua.org.au/myths/trees.shtml)
Looks like I was actually...

Forum: Australia

Jul 16th 2011, 9:49 pm

Replies: 364

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Posted By Charismatic

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Which sounds great until you realise a 25 year old pine tree uses 6.82kg of carbon dioxide per year (Link (http://www.erasecarbonfootprint.com/reduce-co2.html)).

Someone above said they aim for a...

Forum: Australia

Jul 16th 2011, 9:07 pm

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Posted By Charismatic

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It was ahead of its time, that said buyers didn’t get a bad deal because it came at £499 and sells for a little more today. Can’t say that about many motorcycles or cars from that era ;).

Also it...

Forum: Australia

Jul 16th 2011, 8:27 pm

Replies: 364

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Posted By Charismatic

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Taken from Hitachi Review Vol. 52 (2003),

Link: http://www.hitachi.com/ICSFiles/afieldfile/2004/06/01/1_r2003_02_101.pdf

Better edit Wikipedia, it says they come in sizes more than twice that...

Forum: Australia

Jul 16th 2011, 6:40 pm

Replies: 364

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Posted By Charismatic

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Love this little bit about justifying spending $12 million of taxpayer revenues on TV advertising:
That isn’t quite how consensus is usually reached in science (or politics).

After all if facts...

Forum: Australia

Jul 15th 2011, 10:34 pm

Replies: 364

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Posted By Charismatic

Re: Carbon tax

Pointless to talk about party politics though.

Julia is trying to win over CEOs of big industry and Abbott is riding around with truck drivers. Something is going terribly wrong here from a...

Forum: Australia

Jul 15th 2011, 9:43 pm

Replies: 364

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Posted By Charismatic

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And regardless of what your political persuasion is you have representatives from the two biggest Australian parties taking opposing sides of this debate now :).

Also it’s not the first of last...

Forum: Australia

Jul 15th 2011, 6:07 pm

Replies: 364

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Posted By Charismatic

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That wasn’t as funny because the *****ing man had memorized the tax codes (Obama that is) and so wasn’t as dumbstruck by the question.
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They should have an award for “Member of the...

Forum: Australia

Jul 15th 2011, 3:34 pm

Replies: 364

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Posted By Charismatic

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<Sciences as fast as he can>

Forum: Australia

Jul 15th 2011, 2:59 pm

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Posted By Charismatic

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There is nothing I live more than seeing a politician squirm under an intense questioning by a member of the public, that ticked all the right boxes except Julia didn’t get into a car and call her a...

Forum: Australia

Jul 14th 2011, 9:39 pm

Replies: 364

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Posted By Charismatic

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So if it goes to custard you don't end up with a Chernobyl type event. Just pour concrete down the hole and start again in a new hole. Similarly under the sea, flood it and ban diving in the area.

Forum: Australia

Jul 14th 2011, 9:07 pm

Replies: 364

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Posted By Charismatic

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Also you live in a country with large uninhabited areas and an abundance of uranium. Isn't the source of base load electricity obvious? Just build them underground or under the sea please.

Forum: Australia

Jul 14th 2011, 8:55 pm

Replies: 364

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Posted By Charismatic

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If it’s a method of wealth distribution it’ll probably be shit. I bet per dollar earned poor people spend more money on energy than the rich, after all regardless of if you drive a Mercedes or Holden...

Forum: Australia

Jul 14th 2011, 2:33 am

Replies: 364

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Posted By Charismatic

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Part of me thinks maybe a lot of people are behaving like fruit cakes over a poorly planned policy, another part thinks of the frogs in boiling water anecdote.

Start the public off gently to get...

Forum: Australia

Jul 12th 2011, 9:43 pm

Replies: 364

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Posted By Charismatic

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They should just dissolve it in a local river :p.

"See environmental officer no pollution, just the pH of the river is about 3 thanks to the carbonic and sulphuric acid and the fishes died weeks...

Forum: Australia

Jul 12th 2011, 2:24 pm

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Posted By Charismatic

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http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/images/smilies/smiles2/scratchchin.gif

Here is my plan: I stand next to an open coal seam with a lighter paused over it and phone the government demand one...

Forum: Australia

Jul 10th 2011, 10:57 pm

Replies: 364

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Posted By Charismatic

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The two are inextricably linked, wealth is based on industry which is based on cheap energy.

Forum: Australia

Jul 10th 2011, 9:42 pm

Replies: 364

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Posted By Charismatic

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I’m not arguing against the data but individual circumstances must have played some part. Energy intensive manufacturing in the western world (U.S., UK and Germany especially) has been in decline.
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Forum: Australia

Jul 10th 2011, 9:27 pm

Replies: 364

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Posted By Charismatic

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I'm confused, I looked up some (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article1984755.ece?OTC-HPtoppuff&ATTR=climate) and they seem accurate but only two (the first...

Forum: Australia

Jul 10th 2011, 8:37 pm

Replies: 364

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Posted By Charismatic

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Link: http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/2007/07_02_15.html

I think the chief points of skepticism on carbon dioxide as a driver include, but are not limited to:

Carbon Dioxide lags...

Forum: Australia

Jul 10th 2011, 5:33 pm

Replies: 364

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Posted By Charismatic

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By golly Bix, you’ve got it! We’ll simply recycle our carbon dioxide from cars into crude oil. Why did no scientist think of this before? ;)

There was a geoengineering team from the United States...

Forum: Australia

Jul 10th 2011, 4:27 pm

Replies: 364

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Posted By Charismatic

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Waves lines into the future :p:

Forum: Australia

Jul 10th 2011, 4:25 pm

Replies: 364

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Posted By Charismatic

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Under what conditions can that happen, is there provision? That said I don’t think it will, Julias luck is to have Abbott in opposition.

Forum: Australia

Jul 10th 2011, 4:12 pm

Replies: 364

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Posted By Charismatic

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The thing that bothers me about almost all carbon tax plans, this applies to all of them, is that they tend to just shift problems.

When you are exporting coal and iron ore while importing steel...

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