Posts by Don Christie
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Morgan - maybe, but every "blogger" here is an excellent writer. I cannot think of one whose posts I don't look forward to reading.
Big thing here in Wellington is GOVIS and I know Che and others presented there.
Some videos posted at on the GOVIS site. See Tibby, Green and Lane in the flesh.
We had the pleasure of entertaining one of the key note speakers, Dr. Quentin Stafford-Fraser of ndiyo.org fame yesterday evening whilst Russell was reveling. Ndiyo is essentially developing low cost/low computing options for most of the world.
Quentin's interests and ideas are varied and novel. He has a blog too, which brings me nicely back OT.
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How's the head this morning, Russell?
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And PA, best blog, again. Way to go.
Back to Graeme, Andrew was equating Gore to Durkin and as I recall, you were taking up the mantle on his behalf.
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The usual disclaimer being that I am a ninny (blame the Ninny State).
this is the actual link I tried to post.
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Points taken Graeme.
and moving right along...does this:
I can go to the NetGuide Awards tonight
allow me to post this link here?*
*Usual disclaimers apply.
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T.K., I was once dwarfed by Lenny Henry, waiting for our luggage at Wellington airport. We had miraculously survived one of those Wellington landings that leave permanent indents in the armrests and Henry was looking, well...pale.
Apparently he spent some time in his show that night discussing the wisdom of allowing epileptics to fly our planes.
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Graeme - that line didn't even identify any PI nations. It said citizens had moved for this reason and came at the end of a long explanation on the impact of disappearing ice shelves.
In the US the word "all" is shoved into many contexts where it seems strange to other users of he English language. Vis "you all, they all, we all".
You seem to want evidence of the entire pacific population to have moved to NZ. The phrase you highlight is not inconceivable given the context I have pointed out, it is undoubtedly badly worded but hardly the howling lie you claim it to be.
An Inconvenient Truth certainly isn't above criticism,
Absolutely, but not much of climate (or any) science above criticism, I doubt. To be equating it with Durkin et al, is as pointed out, completely wrong.
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My point was to challenge the statements by Andrew and Graeme that Al Gore was a liar. There is plenty credible scientific evidence backing up the statements in his documentary (certainly plenty more than in the Channel 4 "rebuttal"). He didn't just "make shit up".
Graeme's comeback is that people from the Pacific don't come to NZ therefore Al Gore is a liar.
Huh?
It is a really well documented fact that Pacific islanders have been concerned about sea level rise for a long time. It is also documented that sea levels have been rising in the Pacific. There is some dispute as to how much this is due to global warming.
Are you suggesting that this would not be a consideration for those 100s of 1000s of Pacific islanders who migrate to NZ and Australia? Hardly the Gore howler of Graeme's claims.
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Mark, the Listener captures not only the idea of uncertainty but also the trend.
Australia’s anti-Kyoto stand has raised issues of NTC’s credibility, but University of the South Pacific oceanic geosciences professor Patrick Nunn says he is happy with that. “What troubles me is that the data is not being interpreted properly by many scientists and that certain political choices are consequently being supported on this basis. The long-term trend in most of the Pacific is sea-level rise.”
Greame seems to apply a legalistic interpretation to scientific investigation and analysis...if there is scientific uncertainty then any conclusion drawn must be lies?
I had not heard of Chris de Frietas before. Is he on the IPCC?
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Graeme...that's your definition of a a howler?
Gosh and golly my heart sinks.
One could be forgiven for thinking that "somewhere else to go" is and will continue to be NZ and Australia.