Sun Tzu wrote on Dec 20^th, 2015 at 10:26am:



A new record? At an airport? Jet engines, tarmac - colour me surprised.

My Country

The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!

A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.

Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold -
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.


Dorothea Mackellar

(Written in 1904)

No one disputes that its getting warmer.

But since 1998 more than a third of all manmade CO2 has gone up into the atmosphere but temperatures have remained more or less stable.

So where is the correlation that more CO2 increases temperature......????

CO2 is drastically rising yet temperatures are stable.

That leaves you with your cock in your hands when arguing about the correlation of CO2 and temperature.

The reality is temperature controls the amount of CO2 that is released into the atmosphere.

Going back millions of years in our history CO2 has never controlled temperature, even when we had 20 times more CO2 in our atmosphere.

CO2 may contribute to warming but it does not control the temperature at a mere 0.0004 parts of the atmosphere.

where are you getting these graphs from....?

Ajax wrote on Dec 20^th, 2015 at 12:04pm:


Only if you blatantly cherry pick your data to start at 1998 and then ignore 2014 and 2015.

The_Barnacle wrote on Dec 20^th, 2015 at 12:24pm:


I cant find latest figures but I will be searching for those, rest assured when I find them I will stick them in your nose....