pmccarthy

When we sold our last place I paid to have the outside cedar weatherboards repainted in red cedar colour. The buyer repainted I white immediately.

Thanks all for a surprisingly logical response! I agree with much of it except a couple of ad hominem bits. Can I ask for comment on the following? The climate models that have been developed to date are, to the extent they have been tested, wrong. Over the past thirty years every base case model and every public prediction has shown a greater temperature increase than was actually experienced. We cannot rule on the models from the past decade, because there hasn’t been time to find out how they perform. But we have no reason to expect they will be any better.

Yep definitely a shame. Shame on Andrew.

Well, the science is NOT settled. No one can make a case that it is! Science is about constantly challenging and defending theorems. There is no point in you spending one minute of your time to paste a scattergun of unsubstantiated statements and then expect me to address them point by point, an exercise that would take me hours to do properly. Which is exactly what the video is about. The difference between cult belief and science. Farmer's records? Here are mine, since 1961. On such a short base you could argue that the world is ending, we have gone from 800mm to 600mm per year. But a longer chart, over two centuries, would pick up the big droughts including the worst, the Federation drought, and show quite a different story. People have small memories and smaller imaginations.

The mass of trees, grass and other vegetation comes almost entirely from carbon dioxide. The carbon is turned into plant matter and the oxygen is expired for us to breathe. For example, a 50-tonne (dry weight) tree contains ~49+ tonnes of carbon from this source. Very little of a tree is minerals from the ground. These are scientific facts, indisputable. The claim that we are all doomed for using fossil fuel or nuclear energy is a claim that is poorly based and deserves ongoing debate, as this video argues.

This thread has been idle too long. 7 minutes video.

Watching a show about restoring a horse-drawn coach, I finally found why the yanks call sill panels rockers. On a through-brace coach, they sit on the leather braces and rock to provide suspension.

I think the first Anzani was a v twin.

Behind the eight ball.

My town has a primary school, post office, pub and fire station, that’s all. We are only twenty minutes from a proper town with shops and a railway station and an hour's drive from Melbourne airport. It seems to work well, except for the rabbits and kangaroos eating our garden.

My childhood involved Tilly lanterns for camping, which I think must have been like that Aladdin.

The electorate has not changed that much, it is the politicians and political parties that have changed. John Howard' policies were sufficiently popular to win re-election and if he was around today would still be, the people who would vote that way are hardly right wing extremists. We just don’t have a politician or party offering a conservative option that aligns with 'Australian values'.

There's an idea for a new Olympic sport! School shootings with an assault rifle. The Americans would romp it in.

It is a direct reflection of their intelligence.

How can you ignore the dishonest and evil labor party in Vic supporting crime and corruption to the tune of 15 to 30 Billion? Nothing the other parties have done comes anywhere close. Ever.