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Carbon tax is just tilting at windmills: Gary Johns
A carbon tax will not stop the need for climate adaption. Even under the Australian Greens’ scenario for a carbon-free economy, climate change will occur but the economy would be less able to afford to adjust.  Read more here. (0)

GM Crops Implicated in Global Warming
It is absurd to suggest that genetically modified plants could influence the global climate, but the ABC, the public broadcaster in Australia, has suggested as much: read more here. (4)

Obsessed with Saving the Environment?
Are you consumed with rage when someone has left an empty room and not switched off the light? Perhaps you suffer from carborexia: read more here. (0)

Government Spoils Resolution on Whaling
The Australian government is more virtuous and extreme on the issue of whaling than your average conservation group.  Read more here. (2)

Thirty Years of Warmer Temperatures Go Poof: Lorne Gunter
It may be that more global warming doubters are surfacing because there just isn’t any global warming?  Read more here. (4)

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GM Crops Implicated in Global Warming

It is absurd to suggest that genetically modified plants could influence the global climate, but the ABC, the public broadcaster in Australia, has suggested as much: read more here.

4 Responses to “GM Crops Implicated in Global Warming”

  1. Comment from: Louis Hissink


    Is this a turning up of the screw of climate hysteria for political purposes, in line with the 40 top scientists in Australia who advocate unceasing efforts to mitigate climate change and not to be distracted by the 2008 GFC (a Ruddism)?

    Is it all to do with setting a scenario for the impending U.S. presidential election so that Obama will be elected to save us from climate catastrophe? Is Al Gore’s political machinations related?

    It’s much too much of a coincidence for all this climate change baloney to be revved up at this particular time of the year.

  2. Comment from: Mainspring


    If I were AGW believer, then the logic would be -
    GM = stronger crops.
    Stronger crops = more carbon sinks.
    More Carbon Sinks = Less Atmospheric CO2
    Less Atmospheric CO2 = Less Global Warming

  3. Comment from: Steve Schapel


    Louis,

    You could be right. Or it might be people riding on an opportunity for a ratepayer-funded trip to Japan and trip to Denmark.

    Whatever it is, I am personally becoming increasingly despondent and pessimistic as these lies get further cemented into the international psyche.

    Where will it end?

  4. Comment from: Louis Hissink


    Steve,

    The AGW bandwaggon is really nothing more than a jolly good ride for the rent seekers in society - hoping for profitable advantange over others by having government on your side - crony capitalism it’s called.

    And you are right to be despondent because it is pretty obvious that no amount of contradictory fact will ever change the mind of a zealot.

    I’ve come to realise that humanity seems to be genetially divided into two populations - right and left brainers.

    Sceptics are essentially left-brainers where logic and facts rule. Right brainers rely on emotion, feely-touchy modes and a reliance on belief rather than compulsion from bloody obvious facts.

    Socialists are right-brainers, while laissez faire capitlalists left brainers.

    What intrigues me is whether any scientific study has been conducted in which some quantification of left vs. right braininess has been established.

    If right brainers are the majority, then your despondence is well founded, but being a left brainer, you would then know how to maximise this knowledge to your own personal benefit.

    I wonder if John Ray has any data on this - he should have.

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