"Aspirational" - an intention that sounds good but it's too hard/costly/unpopular to fulfill.
The Climate Emergency: Unprecedented CO2 concentration Unprecedented methane concentration Severe weather event insurance claims escalating More frequent severe weather events Stronger severe weather events Impacts of sea-level rise Population migrations ...
Coincidental floods and fires - that's the future.
Further evidence that referendums are a crap way of making these types of decisions - complex, nuanced matters being dumbed down to soundbites and simple emotive messages. They are open to capture by well-resourced interest groups and individuals (remember...
Exactly what happens in other jurisdictions - disproportionate amount of approvals and application of fatal dose by a group of practitioners. "Doctor shopping" to find doctors who will approve is how it works.
Indeed, where are the Greens?
Precisely! A dictatorship elected by popularity poll. The new face of democracy is a reflection back to the origins of democracy - citizen assemblies selected at random. The word for revitalisation of democracy in 2019 is sortition. https://www....
How hard can it be? Keep posting and pick any one of: I want to make myself clear.... I want to be clear... We've always been really clear... No, I don't want to go into details on that... No, it isn't appropriate at this time to go into details... Let me ...
You're citing Spencer!! This is the guy who is proposing that the warming so far is from changes in clouds. Seriously. He's also the guy who said the deniers only have to find one substantiated reason to negate man-made GHGs as the reason for warming. In ...
Love that Nahle link - that's fabulous, a new one on me - CO2 in combo with O2 is actually cooling. I'm pissing myself. Fact.
Seriously? If I put the word "Fact" after every statement that makes it so? Are you saying that observed warming since 1800 is the result of increased heat from the sun?
Smith is low-rent. It's "experts" like this who are problematic. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/trump-adds-physicist-will-happer-climate-science-opponent-white-house-staff
Climate scientists: It's man-made greenhouse gases. Deniers: It's the sun, PDO, CO2 follows temperature rise, effect reduces with concentration yadda yadda - in short, no coherent position other than "Anything but carbon".
Policy? Maybe. Coordinated action, immediately. Revise the zero carbon by 2050 to 2030. Junk the ETS and apply stiff carbon tax - NOW. Stop pussyfooting around and create a media/publicity campaign that is reasonable and doesn't minimise the problem. It ...
Another case for rejigging the seating in the House to either be arranged alphabetically or drawn by ballot. That simple rearrangement would reduce the amount of interjections, name calling etc etc
Precisely - gutless.
Do you misspell Folau's name intentionally? Of course I don't agree with him or his views but I think he has every right to hold those views, practise and express his beliefs the same as any other person. I don't believe that he hates gay people. I believe...
Right - so it's OK for some people to use their fame but not others. It probably depends on whether you agree with them or not. Is that true?
Seems he was isolating himself from them. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/rugby-union/wallaby-israel-folau-tells-of-battle-with-alcohol-and-depression/news-story/f4885fb82d56a755cbc273b90c163b5c
How do you know the motives of the person who played the song? How do you know they "played to send a positive message to the LGBT spectators"? This article says, "The person in control of Christchurch Stadium’s PA system has performed the most outstanding...
So how do you feel about Lucy Lawless's Greenpeace activities? Ok to use her fame for that or not?
Don't start throwing about a bunch of red herrings and strawman arguments. Are you seriously saying that once a player becomes successful they can no longer have beliefs or express them? Or does it depend on the beliefs?
Yep - checked em - nothing explicit there and no references except to a Dave Wilkerson video from which you infer that Folau hates gays. Show me an explicit reference where Folau says that he hates gays.
ASICS is using his fame.
Well said, Molly.
If you're alleging that Folau has completed a number of (anti gay?) actions then the burden of proof is with you.
You can have beliefs until you become a role model - LOL.
Please cite precisely where Folau hates gays.
This sounded like a tired and resigned Armstrong feeling that he has to have a bleat but his heart's not in it.
Get rid of MMP - it's confusing and frequently counter-intuitive and being gamed. Switch to STV, no lists and has a great record for accurately matching voting percentages to representation percentages unlike MMP with thresholds and the iniquitous wasted ...
Bullshit - it's a rort anyway you look at it. Effectively, Ohariu and Epsom Nat voters get two party votes because their electorate vote turns into a seat in the house. That's not democratic - everyone else only gets one party vote. On the principle of one...
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