Regardless of what you think about Donald Trump he does exactly what it says on his tin.
That’s not to say what is in the tin is especially nourishing. Personally I would not like to be sitting down for a steaming bowl of Trump every day for the next four years. The Americans voted him in and it’s their lot now.
But what is surprising is how surprised the US media is whenever Trump makes a policy announcement.
First we had the immigration bans. The US media went into a profound almost anaphylactic shock over that one. Trump had promised it and he made good on his pledge.
Since Trump concluded his European tour WaPo, The NY Times, Politico, the New Yorker and The Atlantic among many others have reported almost breathlessly in musings of the “will he, won’t he?” type regarding the Paris Accord.
Full column here.
terrific…come one, come all
https://www.ft.com/content/5012668c-4b9e-11e7-a3f4-c742b9791d43
The Canadians have been living off of their proximity to the US for ever – especially in defense spending which has been running at about 1%.
They have just announced that they will have to increase it to around 2%.
Classic case of “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you”
Spot on JackSprat agree 100%. However in young Justin Trudeau they do have a savvy PM as here in clip he explains Quantum Theory! Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eak_ogYMprk
Razor says:
JUNE 7, 2017 AT 2:51 PM…….U can never satisfy the hard right. If Trump himself had signed it with his blood it would not be enough.
Deniers need to get on board….its renewables or bust Bald.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/australians-want-focus-on-renewables-not-coal-lowy-poll-finds-20170607-gwmake.html
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/in-two-short-sentences-trumps-white-house-just-partially-excused-terrorism-20170608-gwmxxq.html
Sydney v Footscray at the SCG tonight. Track heavy? Tip(s) please.
Yes, put ’em in, folks.
Golly, I mixed up Footscray with fitzroy for a second there an had a double take on my tips. You’re going well Gryzly, but have you the legs?
Up to my armpits Milt. Busy putting together our 2017 GF event so should not forget to lodge my tips.
In. I like the ‘dogs on a wet track. I veered off the Suns last week but I’ve got them this week. I’d like to pick the Blues over GWS but it might be a step too far.
Deadliest catch season 13 started last night. All the skippers talking about the record high sea temperatures pushing the king crab into deeper colder water.
Great source! What did Peppa the Pig say is happenning?
What! You too Razor. You old duffers are high maintenance.
Here ya go, knock yourself out, keep your hands where we can see them .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3gXYR9iREU
Thanks JB – my grandson owes you a hug.
So you now know more than the skippers of fishing boats many of whom have generations of family experience and knowledge behind them about water ( ocean) conditions to fish and provide a livelihood for their families?? Let me get this straight, a farmer knows the environment better than scientist’s because he has generations of family knowledge and experience to draw upon but a fishing boat skipper with the same knowledge and experience on the ocean does not know?? razor you again prove you run purely on false fixed ideology. I pity any young people growing into the world close to your wilful ignorance.
straya eh….awsum
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/unveiled-australias-richest-union/
Good old Westy. this country is lucky to have such a journalist.
it is noted he was sacked, and has not gone quietly
ERMAGERD…….what a debacle
http://reneweconomy.com.au/first-australian-export-lng-plant-close-within-3-years-89234/
Conjecture – but this is why the superiority of the free market is a dubious concept.
EMH·.??….propaganda ·.or bull shit
The “free” part is meant to be ironic TV.
geez TV, the alternative is centrally planned and that is far worse.
Something like a government funding coal mines, coal fired power stations and directing gas producers to limit supply to certain markets??? You do realise that is coalition policy?
Maybe, but I don’t subscribe to the idea of the market uber alles. There’s been some really dopey decisions made in the Australian gas market in the last fifteen years or so.
All markets really are are information processing entities. They take everything we know about a product and set a price. All of us are definitely smarter than some of us. The two Nobelists who set up Long Term Capital Management forgot that.
for the life of me I can’t see how a market can be free.
a market has to framed / regulated in some legal sense.
They might have to sell to the local markets at export prices.
SA could win out here if AGL builds a terminal there.
A great comment piece and one some on here could take time to read…..
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wall-street-journal/why-elites-hate-contempt-for-trump-voters-borne-in-identity-politics/news-story/7822e049ef1165cf8c3b85f2c03e39f4
It’s all a bit academic Razor. Trump was allowed to win so the elites could install the flamboyant Pence as POTUS.
Trump has done the dirty work on the US and the world and he’s redundant. Kaput!
I made the prediction on this blog a few weeks before the election that Clinton would win unless someone dropped a big steaming pile on her head in the last week. And Donald was a big dumb Trojan Horse.
So no surprises here.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/us-politics/donald-trump-told-fbi-chief-james-comey-lift-the-cloud-or-russia-probe/news-story/ae646bc38ce25ad7b991f4dc34150dbb
Casey Jones is driving the Trump train now.
The sad part is the “forgotten Americans” the “contemptibles” will continue to believe the President runs the show. They’ll be antsy but, dammit the Russkies had the guy in their in their pocket! Hurt and betrayed but none the wiser.
Absolute Bollocks and horse feathers, Mr Baptiste, surely by now you would realise POTUS Trump is here to stay and no “namby- pamby” left attack on him will even remotely succeed. Comey’s gone and good riddance I say as Trump can put this rubbish behind him and continue on with exactly what he promised and that is to “Make America Great Again”. Your man VPOTUS Pence doing a fine job too, glad you are right behind him. Cheers
Reasonable comment JB.
I went from being a bitter clinger to being a deplorable and they’re wondering if it affected my voting behavior. “I hate you and everything you stand for” is not a very effective platform, but the Queen of Pantsuits couldn’t see it.
Would have won but for help from the real owners.
Just an hour ago I was in a second hand shop and much to my surprise I saw a book by Bill Cosby. It was titled “Love and Marriage”! I didn’t purchase it.
meh…who buys that?
Quanto e’ costato?
$1. A bloody ripoff.
i can’t recall a single environmental catastrophe predicted in the sixties or seventies which came true, and there was no shortage of them.
of course that may be faulty memory.
We are in an environmental catastrophe. You just refuse to see it.
I’ve only started to realise that it is you who is taking the piss, Jean. You had me going for a long time there but i’m not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Second and last sentence, I cant argue with that! But take some heart in the certainty that you are the biggest.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/greenland-firn-1.3389997
I reckon 20, but McPherson knows a lot more than I do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqIt93dDG1M
No, you’re just a bad person, jack.
Maybe you’ve just got a selective memory.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/03/15/the-first-climate-model-turns-50-and-predicted-global-warming-almost-perfectly/#58cc1bc56614
Forbes no less! Big green has for some time now exceeded big oil. Why do you think the bankers and the George Soros’ of the works are pushing things. You are always good for a conspiracy JB so let me pose this; Who is profiting? Go on. Follow the money and the big government handouts! The trading in nothing (Carbon Credits)
Of the world not works….
Did you actually read the story or simply dismiss it because of Forbes? Anyhow you’ve gone off on one of your barmy tangents so have a chew on this.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/28/15076700/trump-clean-power-plan-executive-order-climate-change-health
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-koch-brothers-dirty-war-on-solar-power-20160211
Hey I can keep this up indefinitely. You wanna play?
How is carbon trading any different to what goes on in stock exchanges daily?? You got nothing as usual. Offsetting emissions? Just like bartering a pig for a bale of hay, this may help you understand. Note that emissions have jumped since the noalition were elected. I will still be here and advise your grandchildren that you chose to keep your head in the sand rather than admit you were wrong. Do you follow the advice of Medical professionals? or do you know better than them as well?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/08/australias-carbon-emissions-rise-in-off-season-for-first-time-in-a-decade
“Offsetting emissions? Just like bartering a pig for a bale of hay.”
That’s absurd, everyone knows that buying “carbon credits” is more akin to buying a pig in a poke. Just ask the Europeans.
Companies on the stock exchange have tangible assets.
I’d also take it as a personal favour if your foulness came nowhere near my grandchildren……..
You may be onto something JB.
Re the matter of having a selective memory, who could ever forget that the “radiative convective equilibrium of the atmosphere with a given distribution of relative humidity is computed as the asymptotic state of an initial value problem.”
Blofeld.
I’ve always suspected that you obviously don’t read your own links JB!
You asked who could forget that? I said Blofeld. Who forgets everything.
Think man, think!
I thinked, jumped too quickly JB, my error, will try harder me old mate.
Cheers
Depends on the definition of catastrophe I’d say Jack. We stopped using DDT and 245T. When did the ozone layer/CFC drama come to light? It was real and the results have been a win (and no-one ‘on the ground’ ever recognised the problem or the solution – who knew?). Acid rain. It’s out there.
The Montreal Protocol. It’s 30 years old now. Essentially driven by conservative politicians, Reagan, Bush senior etc. Ratified by virtually ever country on Earth now. Probably saved 10 million lives, environmental disasters, bio-diversity collapses in numerous environments. A reminder what the world is capable of.
We’re talking CATASTROPHE.
We’re stuffed,
https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/
because,
https://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthhowmuch.html
If the monkey wont let go of the nut in the monkey trap then the monkey will die.
Whatever happened to the Macaque monkey JTI wrote about years ago?
I’m onto you JB.
You only put that link to Shiklomanov’s global water distribution table up just because Trump said he’d drain the swamp.
I think your monkey has got hold of something more than just his nuts me old mate.
The monkey has hold of humanities nuts Carl, and it will squeeze till we stupidly die. The writing was on the wall when the monkeys got electricity.
You’re developing all the symptoms of being doom-ridden JB. Chin up me old mate, its never going to happen.
I can remember when scientists were saying that carp would destroy the ecology of the whole of the inland river systems.
Totally ignored, they did and had there been action then, the current expensive eradication scheme would not be necessary.
By the late 70’s, the glaciers in the South Island of NZ had retreated substantially – long before the CO2 increase. I think there is something else going and is being exacerbated by the green house gas effects which include methane, carbon dioxide and water vapour.
Whatever it is, it is not going to to be pretty when it starts to bite – whether that be in 10 years or 100 and whether it be exponential or linear.
The puny efforts we are making in Australia will make no difference. Wrecking the economy with high electricity prices will make it more difficult to respond down the track.
Perhaps the glaciers in New Zealand were the canary down the mine shaft? The major C02 increase from AGW began with The Industrial Revolution.