Stop Press! Just in revenge of the kangaroo: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/23/2750892.htm The Straw Wolf. [Non-text portions of this message have...
G ' day Mark ... There is no doubt that climate change and carbon trading schemes are all the rage in the press these days. Even our Sydney Morning Herald has...
Hey Rebecca, Where in Maine are you? I'm in Midcoast. There is a recent strawbale house in Richmond, and a friend mentioned last night that a friend of hers...
I wish we did not need to have this particular debate from time to time. After over 20 years of detailed data, research and ever-more-precise computer models...
Useful links, John. Thanks for posting them. ... <http://blogs.abc.net.au/events/2009/11/conspiracies-and-the-ipcc.html> ... I would add that the existence of...
I agree with Heather. An endless vitriolic discussion on a non-group topic makes this group a source of almost spamlike downloading which for a person on...
G ' day Caralee and Heather As long as discussions do not become personal I feel that this discussion should keep going as we are all involved in this climate...
Ditto--perhaps those interested could take the discussion off list? Caralee ... From: Heather James To: SB-r-us@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 21,...
This discussion is getting more than somewhat rude from quarters, and actually has LITTLE to do with the nitty gritty of straw bale construction. I, for one,...
David, I apologize for the snarky tone. I actually hope you are correct, but I am standing with the cautionary principle. I think you argued once it was a...
Morning All Another very HOT day coming up here in New South Wales. News in on our ABC and I love the Australian Broadcasting Corporation or Aunty as we know...
Several recent postings sound like ad homonym attacks*. I don't think our learning is advanced by negative epithets, such as "climate alarmists" and...
Mazria is doing a whole load of good stuff, but if that's what he's saying he's overoptimistic. In just a few decades we have to get per capita total emissions...
…..It is a classic strategy of the climate alarmists to dismiss any objections as being from "deniers"--as if the argument has two discrete sides. Once again...
It is a classic strategy of the ideologically-driven opponents of the scientific consensus to dismiss those who accept that consensus as "alarmist". "Raising...
Unfortunately typical of the intellectually bereft...attack the messenger if you cannot attack the facts. My response was no longer than the two posts to which...
G ' day ... that the Pacific is mostly dark. So is most of Africa dark at night with a population of 600 million. So what happens when a continent like Africa...
Yes David, the argument has more than two sides. You are not one of them. You can always be counted on for a long winded, hot aired, argument on this...
It is a classic strategy of the climate alarmists to dismiss any objections as being from "deniers"--as if the argument has two discrete sides. That is...
... [ big snip ] ... Gosh, RT, I was going to suggest you could go over to Vancouver to catch one of their performances, but it turns out that was on Oct....
... and ... T'ain't just the Ozwords that "mystifies" me. Some years ago, on one of the rare occasions that I drove into Ottawa, the car radio was on the CBC...
Hello RT, When owners of old stone houses ask me for a mirracle solution to save heating costs I usally reply that they should forget about wanting to live in...
John sent the link: http://www.abc. net.au/news/ stories/2009/ 11/18/2745751. htm For those of us who are sometimes mystified by Ozwords, here's a couple of...
Apologies for the wrong link it is: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/18/2745751.htm The Straw Wolf melting in Ganmain. In my SB office Jack's Flat...
G ' day RT ... is, but I'm pretty sure if someone yelled it out to me as I was passing by, I'd be tempted to turn around, go back and rough 'em up some, or at...
... Well, to be totally honest, I don't know what a "fair" (or foul) dinkum" is, but I'm pretty sure if someone yelled it out to me as I was passing by, I'd be...
G ' day Derelict and Mark Excellent writing and most enjoyable as well as educational. I believe that greed and greed consumes our planet and with it the hopes...