Monday, October 23, 2017

In which Moorice does the numbers for some Plimersplaining ...


Right from the get go, the reptiles managed to play tricks on the pond this Monday ...

We're still with "Labor's NBN", yet keen Greg Hunters will recall that Malware became Minister for Communications on 18th September 2013, and on the 9th April 2013 Malware and the onion muncher announced their party's alternative NBN plan, and now Malware is the head honcho in charge of everything ... and yet it's still Labor's gold-plated NBN?

How long before Malware owns what he and his mates made?

The pond was reminded of the almost infinite capacity for the reptiles to lie and dissemble by a recent report in the NY Times here ... 

By any account, a cool 32 mill, even amongst chums, is a meaningful figure, and must have been the result of meaningful actions ... and yet ...

In January, the reporting shows, Rupert Murdoch and his sons, Lachlan and James, the top executives at 21st Century Fox, made a business calculation to stand by Mr. O’Reilly despite his most recent, and potentially most explosive, harassment dispute. Their decision came as the company was trying to convince its employees, its board and the public that it had cleaned up the network’s workplace culture. At the same time, they were determined to hold on to Mr. O’Reilly, whose value to the network increased after the departure of another prominent host, Megyn Kelly. Photo Lis Wiehl, a former Fox News legal analyst, in 2013. She appeared regularly on Mr. O’Reilly’s show for 15 years. Credit Taylor Hill/Getty Images But by April, the Murdochs decided to jettison Mr. O’Reilly as some of the settlements became public and posed a significant threat to their business empire.

The integrity of gnats ... while in recent times Fox has been gung ho in the matter of Harvey ...

Which brings the pond to another matter, the way that the reptiles are still climate science denialism HQ down under ...

Now the numbers have always been under assault in various quarters ...

There was the odious cur for example, a one time reptile ...


And the reptiles maintained the numbers tradition of reptile maths ...



So the pond was hardly surprised by the pond's favourite, Moorice, turning up today with the numbers ... and still unable to make them add up ...



Now the pond never argues with Moorice.

There's nothing to be gained by having a go at the barking mad ... the pond is simply content when Moorice stalks the pages and the pond is reminded of the real point of the Murdochians ... which is to stand alongside the barking mad so long as the numbers can be made to work ...


Of course, of course, it's not just a global conspiracy, it's a domestic conspiracy too ...


Now here's the thing. It wasn't just Moorice out and about this day.

When the reptiles do climate denialism, they really do bung on a do, and so Plimer returned from the void to strut his thing ...



The pond always recognises the presence of hysterical agitation ... and talk of "we'll all be rooned" is just too comical for Hanrahan's words ...

"We’ll all be rooned," said Plimer
In accents most forlorn 
Inside the Catholic Boys' Daily ere Mass began 
One bright-eyed bushy tailed Surry Hills 'leet morn. 
The congregation of readers stood about, 
Coat-collars to the ears, 
And talked of numbers and deceptive bureaus and drought
As they had done for years. 
"It’s lookin’ crook," said Moorice, croaking; 
"Bedad, it’s cruke, me Plimer mate
For never since the banks went broke 
Has climate science been so bad." (and so on, with apologies to John O'Brien here)

The pond can think of many things that will ruin the nation, including an overheated housing market and financial shenanigans and the Donald, and if inclined to the same sort of hysteria as Plimer, would put him, Moorice and the Murdochians high on the list ...




Now again it's not the pond's business to debate Plimer, but rather to present the paranoia ungarnished in a lump.

Anybody wanting to pretend that the reptiles weren't climate science denialism HQ down under might have been able to dismiss Moorice as just an indulgence of the mad, batty uncle in the attic ... but throwing in Plimer is just too rich and a tad careless and obvious ... a bit like a double serve of the Black Star cake that drives the tourists mad ...

The pond will however also pause to marvel at the line about to follow, "solar power cannot be made more efficient."

Of course over the years, solar power has been made more efficient, and cost effective. People waste an inordinate amount of energy on the matter of efficiency ...


Oh the pond just wanted, in ABC finance news style, to fling in a graph, in lieu of a machine that went ping ... and now it's back for some more Plimersplaining ...



Of course there's not much chance this sort of story will ever get a run in the NY Times ...

Rupert Murdoch and his sons, Lachlan and James, the top executives at 21st Century Fox, and at Fox and at climate science denying News Corp publications of the lizard O kind, made a business calculation to stand by climate denialists of the Plimer and Moorice kind. Their decision came as the company was trying to convince its employees, its board and the public that it had cleaned up the network’s workplace culture in relation to climate science.

It's more likely that there'll just be more stories of the Gretchen Carlson Slams Fox News' 'Total Hypocrisy' on Harvey Weinstein kind ...

But why do they do it? Why do they lie, distort and dissemble, year after dissembling year, sticking with the barking mad and featuring them so that their denialism roams the world?

Well the reptiles of Oz have a rusted-on base, an aging but ferocious die-hard readership that having been fed the line for many years, can now parrot it back like well-trained Tamworth cockies ...

Here's just a sampling of the parrots at work at the bottom of the Plimer story ...



Ye ancient cats and dogs, they can even dig up a brown coal devotee ... someone who clearly never lived close to the Latrobe Valley or Gippsland...

And so we end up where we began, with Labor's NBN, which makes it kind of funny that Pat thinks it has something to do with Malware, with more Pat here on a Monday... it's particularly poignant for the pond, having spent Sunday on phone calls in relation to drop outs on the rolled gold copper plated network of multi-nodal marvels ...



6 comments:

  1. Ah yes, "Emeritus" Mining Industry gopher, Ian Plimer. Way further out than Moorice because he's a master of pseudo-science.

    Just for one example, have a read about the genuinely scientific understanding of CO2 emissions, anthropogenic and natural:
    https://www.skepticalscience.com/human-co2-smaller-than-natural-emissions.htm

    Yes, all of Plimer's "science" is as bad as that - he's heard the words, he just doesn't understand the reality. Hmmm. I guess he's not alone amongst reptiles for that.

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    1. Oh - I suspect he understands, but just doesn't care. People have a conscious & unconscious tendency to accept things that suit their self-interest & reject things that counter those interests (try having a rational discussion about negative gearing with a property speculator sometime). The more rational individuals tend to overcome those instincts & follow the data - Plimer is not one of those individuals.
      If you had somehow slept through the story unfolding since the ice core data in the 80s, had missed the constant reinforcement, year in, year out, of the underlying facts, you might ask why these people are opposing such an overwhelming consensus. You would probably ask "Cui bono" – it’s easy enough to see Plimer’s mining connection. Moorice, Abbott & Howard – a business shonk & two failed politicians all seeking some relevance. Who would ever seek their opinions about anything?

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  2. Ever notice how almost all of the one-dimensional zombies that are featured in the Australian, Quadrant, the IPA and the Spectator, and who have recently written "authoritative" books have one thing in common: namely that their books have been published by Connor Court which as far as I know has very direct links with opus dei. One of the directors of Connor Court is/was John Roskam - the plot thickens, or is that sickens.

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  3. Hi Dorothy,

    As you advise it is probably wise not to debate a denialist like Plimer or Moorice but just let their ravings wash over you like a refreshing shower of bile.

    However I was intrigued, whilst it is well known that wind turbines and solar facilities, just by their presence, kill and maim animals and humans for reasons…well reasons, I had never come across the allegation that they spread toxins.

    How?

    After a bit of a GHunt I came across this;

    http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s4638993.htm

    DiddyWrote

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    1. It seems, DW, that the simple idea that everything we do disrupts the environment to some extent is completely incomprehensible to reptiles. The basic considerations are 1) how much disruption 2) for how long.

      So the race to totally deforest Queensland will cause massive and very long-lasting disruption, but a toxic lake in China isn't a permanent feature of the planet and isn't actually 'toxifying' whole continents. The CO2 generated in making and, until 'renewables' become dominant, in recharging an electric car fade away over time. But burning petrol goes on forever ... well until we eventually run out, anyway.

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  4. Perhaps someone can Plimersplain this: Thermal coal plants typically have an availability factor in the range of 70% - 90%. Turbines need to be taken off line for maintenance, furnaces need to be cleaned out, water filters need to be demineralised etc etc. Almost no coal plant is available for 90% or more of the time.

    So, despite his posturing, Plimer's idea would have the effect of shutting down most or all of Australia's coal generation at a stroke. Genius bit of Trojan-horsing there, Ian!

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