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[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 15/09/2014 7:23 PM, Stephen Loosley wrote:
> Andy notes ..
>> http://www.abbottsimulator.com/
>>
>> Thanks Andy. On world climate change, this Abbott government is embarrassing.

Here's a few embarrassing news reports:

Climate Summit: European Union surprised Tony Abbott will not attend 
high level climate talks
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-16/eu-climate-chief-surprised-by-australia27s-un-summit-snub/5745908

Tony Abbott under pressure to put climate change on G20 meeting agenda
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/10/tony-abbott-under-pressure-to-put-climate-change-on-g20-meeting-agenda

> "Rather than accepting the conclusions of the IPCC’s 1250 international experts  (as approved by every major government)  Abbott’s chief business adviser is insisting that the world is in fact cooling."

The greenhouse effect is about energy retention; temperature measurement 
is only a proxy for energy and not a good one at that.
What really matters is the energy build up and that can manifest itself 
in many ways such as chemical, biological, kinetic, potential etc. 
Temperature readings (which are actually quite hard to make reliably) 
could go down but energy retention go up.

The worst effect is likely to be changes in weather patterns and more 
intense weather systems.

You'd expect the Minister for Science to understand simple science like 
that. Oh, wait. Australia doesn't have a minister for science.
Putting science under the Minister for Industry is just dumb. And 
embarrassing.

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brd

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