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Bolt's PAYWALL approach to his blog simply shows he's still not really back at work since Friday.
Australia's fate relies on hiding the fact that the recent history of Australian disasters both cultural, economic and political began with none other than Tony Abbott who in a trade-off with his backers adopted the IPA's 75 point plan for the Nation. We've been on a downhill slide since then and currently, the blame is being directed solely at Malcolm Turnbull. Abbott's boosters News Corp and the IPA remain the most focused on that task. Currently, their goal seems the Liberal Party's failure because the long-term outcome remains the same, the return of Abbott or at least a clone. Promote or hide him the intention is to keep Jack in the box until the next catastrophe an ALP government and then raise him from the grave on the basis of "remember when in 2013".
It's bound to fail just as it did when Murdoch took his boy to the Alfalfa Club in Atlanta to boost him as a global statesman and failed miserably. Bolt tries to make Abbott shine this time around by focussing on Turnbull but can't seem to raise Abbott's stocks no matter what he does. Abbott still today would fail miserably on the preferred PM stakes. But Bolt's not there to win in the short term he's there to distract deflect and distort on a daily basis right or wrong to just keep going until the electorate forgets yet again.
FINKEL WAS RIGHT FIRST TIME: 'VIRTUALLY NOTHING'
Column I wrote that Alan Finkel, our Chief Scientist, had said that Australia could stop all its carbon dioxide emissions and the difference to the climate would be “virtually nothing”. He bow says this was a "complete misrepresentation of my position”. But the video, the facts and the logic are all against him.
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Whoa just because Finkel can be quoted as having said the words the context isn't that clear the way Bolt has presented it. Is the conversation referred to about the total combined global action or just Australia's? It seems the world is calling for a greater combined reduction of emissions than 1.3% The context of the question is so truncated that the reply really is open to distortion.
Further, does it mean Andrew Bolt hasn't said the same over and over again for the past decade? He's been a public denier about global action being a waste of time. Australian action so small as not to matter. Yes, many scientists have said the same despite their calling for further immediate and even greater effort on emissions reduction. Everyone has admitted and agreed damage is done and has already passed the tipping point but not everyone agrees it can't be slowed in the long term like Andrew Bolt commentator and lobbyist for Fossil Fuel interests who have said there no point in doing anything because man-made climate change is really a trivial part of Climate Change as a whole.
There is a major difference between the context of Finkel and Bolt's comments and the fact remains Bolt does say emissions reduction targets are a global waste of time and money. He was once an advocate of spending the money on the concept of clean-coal an oxymoron if ever there was one.
JUDGE ROBS MEDIA OF CATHOLIC PREY
Column Yes there is a media witch hunt to convict Catholic priests, and Judge Roy Ellis called it out. He had just quashed a dubious conviction against former archbishop Philip Wilson, and noted: "The mere presence of large amounts of media from all around Australia and the world carries with it a certain amount of pressure on the court.”
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A "witch hunt to convict Catholic priests" British Law it seems is a form of Sharia Law and priests should be somehow excluded from it. Well, they have been by and large for hundreds of years. Now their actions are being tested. The media attention and influence isn't what's being tested its the Archbishop's complicity in not disclosing criminal molestation and his degree of knowledge outside of the confessional. But it seems law is not what's important to Bolt guilt and innocence to be better judged by opinion. He's certainly lead the vigilante cry against Sudanese in this country and ha called for collective punishment of various groups he's chosen to fixate on.
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What luxury Bolt and Goebell's had with access to their own arena for debate. Bolt doesn't debate he generally changes the meaning such that debate becomes meaningless and he can then say "I win". Bolt says he's indigenous more so than Adam Goodes. When blogging writing and editorialising he's not debating but he's talking nonsense. However, when he actually takes his rant and tries it on as he did with the ex-PM of NZ James Bolger he becomes the fool he is and is reduced to childlike silence. When similar circumstances occur in his own arena the Bolt Report as happened with James Matheson Bolt says times up we need to move on but will have you back very soon to continue. It doesn't happen.
Notice Bolt doesn't offer to debate others outside his own arena he's not offering a public forum. His idea on debating could be between a Russian and himself without an interpreter and in so many cases he tries to alter the syntax and meaning of words so much that it might as well be between peoples of a foreign language. In this case, Bolt's not arguing with Andrew Priest he's actually arguing about Priests right to Twitter. A priest doesn't have to argue back in his efforts to Boycott Sky News or argue in Bolt's arena. Sleeping Giants are entitled to run Boycott's on Bolt. They are free not to argue a case on Bolt's Show because the audience isn't great and possibly isn't the people they want to reach. Andrew Priest isn't addressing Andrew Bolt, by the way, he's addressing the system that allows Bolt and his ilk so much privilege not to debate but simply promote messages of less than dubious quality for the unsuccessful purpose currently of persuasion. His advertisers need to look at the value for money Sky News actually generates.
NASA: ANTARTIC IS ADDING ICE, NOT LOSING
ANOTHER DUD SCARE Didn't they say the science was settled?: "A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow... is currently adding enough ice... to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers. The research challenges... the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice."
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So scepticism is abuse according to Bolt who pulls out a report based on Altimetry. and concludes
it to be better than the IPCC report of 2013. Why didn't he point out the problems with this report when peer-reviewed by other scientists. Where they being sceptics or abusers? Bolt tries to hold himself up as an intelligent sceptic yet fundamentally ignores the methodology applied in the report to those he flags as the answer to the claim the seas are rising. Most of that research, by the way, was in Arctica and not Antarctica. Bolt's not a sceptic he is an abuser and a denier. But even more, his efforts are to confuse and try to show Science isn't doing its job.
“The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimetres per year away,” Zwally said. “But this is also bad news. If the 0.27 millimetres per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is not really coming from Antarctica, there must be some other contribution to sea level rise that is not accounted for.”
“The new study highlights the difficulties of measuring the small changes in ice height happening in East Antarctica,” said Ben Smith, a glaciologist with the University of Washington in Seattle who was not involved in Zwally’s study.
"Doing altimetry accurately for very large areas is extraordinarily difficult, and there are measurements of snow accumulation that need to be done independently to understand what’s happening in these places,” Smith said.
To help accurately measure changes in Antarctica, NASA is developing the successor to the ICESat mission, ICESat-2, which is scheduled to launch in 2018. “ICESat-2 will measure changes in the ice sheet within the thickness of a No. 2 pencil,” said Tom Neumann, a glaciologist at Goddard and deputy project scientist for ICESat-2. “It will contribute to solving the problem of Antarctica’s mass balance by providing a long-term record of elevation changes.”
MACRON ASKED FOR CLIMATE 'FIGHT'. HE GOT ONE
Last year President Emmanuel Macron urged warmists to come fight in France after the US junked the Paris deal on global warming: "To all scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, responsible citizens... Come and work here with us... on concrete solutions for our climate... France will not give up the fight." Yes, but they're now fighting against him.
Remember Joe Hockey and the fuel tax. He said it wouldn't hurt the poor because they don't drive far or have cars. He said he was taxing the rich and nobody bought it. Abbott showed him the door and it had nothing to do with Climate Change.
Isn't this typical Bolt. No doubt Paris is a 'war zone' but to conflate cost of living riots, opportunistic thugs out for a days violence with Climate Change and criticisms of Trump is to make out the world is such a simple place and sovereign states are so easily understood when Bolt has been unable or has denied the drubbing the Liberals got in Victoria had anything to do with conservative political policies obstructing the LNP from functioning and the public was sick of it. That's too simplistic to explain Victoria but France and Macron are easy.
Macron blasted Trump for cutting research and reporting in the US and offered scientists a home to continue their work in France. Bolt's joy in conflation is "the rioters" who are rioting about the cost of living, youth unemployment, and other grievances. Conservative reports have been as imaginative as Andrew Bolt some falsely claiming the rioters were actually calling for Trump
More Than a Thousand Arrested as Yellow Vests Protests Over Economic Frustration Rage on Across France
The Palestinians have demonstrated every weekend fo a change in Climate and have never got more than over 200 dead and thousands wounded and that is a more accurate conflation than Bolt ever offers
Israeli Army Snipers Wound another 33 Palestinians on Friday March of Return
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