With apologies to Max Ehrmann, who wrote the original text in Desiderata in 1927, “whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the communist plan for New Zealand is unfolding as it should”. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the failure of law and order and the political perversion of the police, […]
If Jimmy Shaw suddenly became leader of National there would be an outcry from the party’s supporters. The man in the street supporter that is. The hard core of the party, the same people who have let it drift steadily left for forty years, would probably be flat out on Kiwiblog and other social media […]
If you’re a believer in reason, you would no doubt be left speechless by the torrent of nonsense that is the accepted public discourse today. The term “speechless” is chosen specifically here. What does one say that can have any impact upon the overwhelming onslaught of Alice in Wonderland style absurdity that is currently being […]
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If the answer to a problem is to TAX it then you know it is a con.
Look at Alcohol and Tobacco.
Billions of dollars in TAX and no change in smoking or drinking habits.
Has anybody noticed that despite the millions spent on stop smoking programs they never publish targets, or rates of smoking etc Zero accountability. The best product to help wean people off smoking, e cigarettes or vaping, is seen as a threat to not only big Tobacco but also Government revenue.
That is because it is a failed policy, much like road policing is to stop road accidents.
A huge success if it is about the money. And it is a huge success.
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The Tax on Alcohol and Tobacco is pretty much an economists dream. its not about stopping people from drinking or smoking, its about making the users pay for the police and health services etc
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Where does this graph come from? Like the sea level one this needs to be published everywhere but needs authentication.
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I don’t know exactly. I got it off Twitter. I tried to find it outside of Twitter but failed. There are URLs relating to the data at the top of the graph.
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Now here’s a chart the commies really don’t want you to see:
what’s this to do with Global Warmist Communists? Should be obvious!
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The weather man struggles sometimes to predict tomorrows weather.
And these dam brains-trust-pseudo-scientists say they know the weather forecast years from now?
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Climate isn’t the weather. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_weather.html
Also CO2 levels in the bloody Cambrian period (half a billion years ago) have to be looked at in the context of the earth being a completely different place. http://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=77
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All them geniuses and none of them can invent, produce and market superior alternatives to fossil fuel.
What gives???
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Where is the original reference for these data?
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These may serve the purpose adequately:
Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels for the last 500 million years Daniel H. Rothman PNAS 2002 April, 99 (7) 4167-4171. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.022055499
This should also be quite useful:
Lloyd PJ. AN ESTIMATE OF THE CENTENNIAL VARIABILITY OF GLOBAL TEMPERATURES. Energy & Environment · Vol. 26, No. 3, 2015
ABSTRACT
There has been widespread investigation of the drivers of changes in global temperatures. However, there has been remarkably little consideration of the magnitude of the changes to be expected over a period of a few decades or even a century. To address this question, the Holocene records up to 8000 years before present, from several ice cores were examined. The differences in temperatures between all records which are approximately a century apart were determined, after any trends in the data had been removed. The differences were close to normally distributed. The average standard deviation of temperature was 0.98 ± 0.27C. This suggests that while some portion of the temperature change observed in the 20th century was probably caused by greenhouse gases [standard ideological requirement for articles of this nature], there is a strong likelihood that the major portion was due to natural variations.
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