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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Carbon Emissions
If you are driving on a gun barrel straight highway at night at speed and your headlights fail you are in the dark, maybe there is a little moonlight at best.

You can assume you are driving in a straight line, that nothing has moved in your way and that all will be OK to keep going full speed, but who would do that? Nobody other than a fool is probably the truthful answer!

All this for or against anthropic climate change debate is bogus because nobody can tell the future, the only people arguing against action are those with a financial stake in the debate. Paid naysayers, oil, gas and coal providers, not even the car industry that the oil companies built listen to that right wing lot now. The car industry is full steam ahead carbon neutral!

Maybe the science sheds a little moonlight on the issue, but not enough to be a 100% certain, science will never claim a 100% certainty and anybody who thinks it should doesn't understand the scientific method. In science anyone who claims a 100% certainty is a fool!

You wouldn't drive in the dark at full speed, and not doing anything to reduce potential anthropic climate change is driving in the dark at full speed and refusing to stop or slow. Nobody knows what is ahead, and the only intelligent action is to stop or slow!

Safe driving BigJack, or is it Major T.J. "King" Kong!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Kreuzer VS Warnock VS Wood - How Will This One Play Out ??
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I remember several games during which Kreuzer started in the centre square, but not as the ruckman.

Which games were these as I do not remember and I would like to review. My opinion is this would be a bad move.

Back in Ratten days he tried this sporadically a few times in conjunction with Hampson rucking. Kreuzer did OK, but we were a bit too slow and not agile enough in the midfield when we had the two ruckmen in there.

But a fit Kreuzer doesn't need that setup, like Cox he can ruck and still rove his own ball.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Goldfish
Assuming the pond has some sort of pump, have you sterilised the parts and changed the filter media?

I've heard there is a special salt you can add that kills the the fungal version, not sure about the bacterial version as I think it resides in the actual fish!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Carbon Emissions
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I remember reading somewhere that per person we were a big culprit and although we don't pollute at the same level as other nations we rank poorly on average.

Could be bs, and I'm confident that the more population the easier to dilute the numbers but there you go.

That is true I believe.

But I have also read that some reports allegedly make a deliberate effort to make us look worse by allocating the emissions and energy consumption from processing our exports, e.g. coal, iron ore, bauxite and uranium back to Australia! A weird sort of closed cycle analysis that doubles the penalty by counting the user and the source. But I also understand that if the same analysis is applied equally to all countries China is five time more polluting than any other country.

But the green lobby don't want to talk about this, they hold up China's renewable energy boom as a gold standard. Yet despite being able to claim they are the world's leader in total renewable energy resources, which I believe is true, as a percentage of China's total energy budget lowly renewable sources(excluding hydro) don't even rate on China's energy graph.(Effectively zero by percentage.) It's all smoke and mirrors and the world is too gutless to state it, plus many have the not in my backyard mentality but pollution does not respect a fence!

China gets it's rating because of the three dams project, which provides many gigawatts and in total they get a large percentage from hydro, yet internally it is being shouted down as a failure due to the massive irreversible environmental damage it is doing.(Not green at all, renewable does not necessarily mean green) They also say that within 20 years those dams will have lost up to 60% of the generating capacity due to silt accumulation, the projects glowing reports are a bogus accounting exercise because the economic and environmental costs will never be re-couped before the dams are clogged and worthless. Someone's children or grandchildren will pay for this!

There are lies, damn lies and then there are stats!

We are not leaving a planet for the children, we are borrowing/stealing the future from our grandchildren!
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Carbon Emissions
While I agree with the sentiment, you cannot be hypocritical and our government needs to highlight this sort of contradiction "while" setting an example, not while acting in defiance of the general consensus due to a preferred political position.

Newborns in 2014 know nothing about adult politics but will live with the consequences of adult decisions.

Also, there is a problem with that model, between 2005 and 2007 there was a period when forest fires and associated pollution from Indonesian logging operations became severe yet there is hardly a blip over Indonesia. Mt Merapi also had a major eruption over that period yet no obvious hotspot shows.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Kreuzer VS Warnock VS Wood - How Will This One Play Out ??


In fairness, perspective can be a funny thing, but I reckon SpecialK and Warnock are about the same distance away from the camera while Wood is clearly further away. Warnock may be slightly closer.

But if I recall correctly, according to our current coach the bloke on the left is too small to be a front line AFL ruckmen!

As much as I like some of the stuff MM has brought to the club, that bloke dribbles more sh1te than Werribee Sh1te Farm!