6. The Bolt Report - The Steaming Toad with HG Nelson

[69jaymez]

Amanda and HG you are normally so clever. This was worse that the worst undergrad skit I've seen. I know Amanda was being a parody of Bolt, but Bolt is just not rude like that. As for HG, I know Roy is close buddies with Tim Flannery so no doubt you know him too. How about you use your undoubted cleverness to ask Flannery next time you have dinner at his waterfront house, how come every prediction he makes turns out so ridiculously wrong?

[russ9356]

that's why labor have lost most of the western suburb seats in the state election

[hueyloois]

someone should tell big nose and the stupid cunt that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

[funnyasfuc]

I used to like these two, now I have no respect for them as they are stooges helping to perpetuate the lies about the global climate.

[XenogeneGray]

I'm so looking forward to 2025 when solar with storage is cheaper than fossil fuels; then all these fossil fuel vested interest groups will go out of business, and therefore loose the ability to fund such blatant anti-scientific bollocks as Bolt. Alas, creationists will probably still be around trying to destroy the basis of economic prosperity, aka the fruits of science.

Science will ensure wealthy people can survive climate change, but the suffering of the poor will worsen :(

[Force1CumUpYourBum]

Weak. If this is the best Bolt's opponents can come up with, Bolt is very, very safe.

[russ9356]

all these uni types hate working people and sneer at people that have to work hard for a living

[Spunkalish]

@russ9356 I'm a worker and I value the opinion of a scientist or a uni student studying to be a scientist over some blue collar bogan who gets his information from the biased right-wing bigots in the Herald Sun.

[russ9356]

@Spunkalish yes that's why the greens/labor are going to lose so badly because they look down on the workers with their smarter than thou attitude

[Spunkalish]

@russ9356 Uhhh moron, you do realise that Labor are FOR workers, right? Liberals are the ones in cahoots with the mining industry which is why they're against the carbon tax. Liberals brought in workchoices, they opposed superannuation, they're a bunch of bigots who suck on Rupert Murdoch's wrinkled nipple and pays for morons like Andrew Bolt to have a television show conveniently right after Gina Rinehart bought 10% of Channel Ten. Wake the fuck up Australia and realise you're being stooged.

[russ9356]

@Spunkalish yes us liberal[workers] supporters are morons not like the elitist university student inner city yuppie types, and with that attitude they will be wiped off the map.Craig Thompson with his ripping of his members of the heath workers union is epidemic of the labor party.i think the labor party has a real problem on their hands if they look down on Australians and think they know what's best for us and their leader Juliar Gillard epiphany of this attitude.

[Spunkalish]

@russ9356 You're making a very broad generalisation there. Get it through your thick skull, Liberal do NOT support workers. They opposed the mining tax, they opposed the carbon tax, they oppose anything that takes money out of the rich's pockets. What's this whole "looking down" on Australians paranoia you have? Labor wants to give us workers A FUCKING TAX BREAK you fool. That means MORE MONEY FOR US! Then again you're just a conservative baby boomer with his head in the sand.

[russ9356]

@Spunkalish labor the has been rejected by the western suburbs which was labors strong hold.the workers feel betrayed by them just like Craig Thompson did to his union members .Labor is so rotten and corrupt i can't see how they can win.the working class which was labors backbone has left in their droves so what hope have they.i cant see labor coming back in a decade or ever after this coming election,their time is over

[scorer3418]

no wonder tripple m rated so poorly.......

[radoa1]

how much is Rhinehartless paying him?

[coolcub1]

piss poor comedy, i suppose a couple of has been comedians have checked out climate debate or are they just towing the labor band wagon

[freelanceoz]

weak

[mattmunn71]

Glad MY taxes arent being spent to produce this rubbish

[shiftyd100]

You don't even have the courage to debate the real person. That is truly weak.

Great science communication but you should be even more condescending. Middle Australia always responds really well to being treated like morons by academics.

[XenogeneGray]

You are a sceptic when there's a reasonable possibility that something is false, and you won't accept it as true. You are a denialist when the evidence demonstrably shows something is true, and you won't accept it as true. Ergo there are no more climate change sceptics in the world, there are only climate change denialists; despite what they want to call themselves.

[globinpig]

@XenogeneGray Nice try Goebbels

[XenogeneGray]

@globinpig Before you know it I'll be claiming humans who think they can fly unassisted are gravity denialists, when they're really just 'gravity sceptics'. Shame on me for denying people the 'right' to deny reality just because their denialism could kill most life on the earth's surface, including many poor humans; clearly I must be an evil, selfish, lying bastard intent on killing millions, because I'm trying to stop the needless death of most life on earth - that's reality denialism logic 4u.

[coolcub1]

@XenogeneGray didnt i just tell you to fuck off

[brizpeg47]

@XenogeneGray If you're interested in gravity denialists then you should be aware of CERN's LHC. Turning it on didn't destroy the universe as people like you suggested, and CERN is trying to control gravity!

[XenogeneGray]

@brizpeg47 No CERN is trying to find evidence of the Higgs Boson, and either confirm the Standard model of particle physics or find some evidence for an alternative hypothesis. They are not trying to control gravity. They may create short lived blackholes, but that's not going to let them 'control' gravity. As a trained particle physics I've always supported CERN's LHC. Please check your facts before stating rubbish.

[XenogeneGray]

@globinpig FYI, climate change IS demonstrablly true now. Check out greenman3610's channel where he systematically debunks the Goebbel style lies of the climate denialists (a.k.a. the fossil fuel industry); and yes, they are actually trying to kill people as they know the potential long term effects. By 2015 storageless solar will be more competitive than coal without any subsidies. By 2025, solar with storage will be cheaper than coal. Countries that do the R&D now will benefit most.

[coolcub1]

@XenogeneGray lol trying to kill people ,... fuck off back to the peanut farm for you

[XenogeneGray]

@coolcub1 Yes, stating scientifically established facts and truth clearly makes me a nut; I've new respect for the humble peanut as you clearly indicate they are smarter then you.

[coolcub1]

@XenogeneGray , proper grammar is THAN you noy THEN you, you may want to find someone to help edit your rantings Xen

[XenogeneGray]

@coolcub1 "noy" instead of "not". Was that deliberate irony to point out that like me, if you don't bother checking a reply, minor mistakes will get through? Why are you even bothering to reply to a 2 month old post? Either: 1) you only check the internet once every two months (which seems a good thing for the internet), or 2) it took you two months to come up with that as your 'rebuttal' (if this is the case, I must point out that, like an ad hominem attack, it doesn't rebut my statement).

[coolcub1]

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[brizpeg47]

@XenogeneGray And while you're at it check out How The World Works, who successfully debunks greenman3610's one sided argument!

[XenogeneGray]

@brizpeg47 I did. He raised an interesting argument. However, scientists have not hidden this fact as claimed [Jacoby, 1995], etc. Also, the lack of correlation only applies to high latitude trees; lower latitude trees show little to no divergence [Cook, 2004]. See skepticalscience [dot] com [slash] Tree-ring-proxies-divergence-p­roblem [dot] htm. We know from lab experiments and basic physics that a little extra CO2 can noticeably increase IR absorption => temperature forcing => global warming.

[brizpeg47]

@XenogeneGray Climate Change happens every day when the sun rises and sets. I am a denier of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming and I am educating many people to be at least 'skeptical', as scepticism is the starting point for all science. You are an alarmist, among other things!

[XenogeneGray]

@brizpeg47 I agree, scepticism is essential, particularly in science. However, if you know basic thermodynamics and the absorption spectrum for CO2, you can explain the lab demonstrable "greenhouse effect" of CO2; this shows how little extra CO2 is required to create a significant temperature forcing. With this basic science in mind, and by analysing all data to find all confounding variables, all the evidence indicates the globe is warming. The evidence is overwhelming :. it's denialism to deny

[co2isplantfood57]

Absolutelypathetic!