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Wed 8 Dec 2010 12 notes | Posted by rocketpilot

See that tiny white sign hanging off the middle of the Toowong pedestrian bridge? It says “Next time, take the train”. Any driver who could read it l would probably end up ploughing into oncoming traffic. It’s lousy, hectoring messaging, too. I sort of think political action needs to convince people, not make the activist feel smug. Addendum: I should have pointed out that I saw the kids wearing blue “Climate Change” tee-shirts hanging the sign as I walked past them. I don’t know who they were associated with.

See that tiny white sign hanging off the middle of the Toowong pedestrian bridge? It says “Next time, take the train”. Any driver who could read it l would probably end up ploughing into oncoming traffic. It’s lousy, hectoring messaging, too. I sort of think political action needs to convince people, not make the activist feel smug.

Addendum: I should have pointed out that I saw the kids wearing blue “Climate Change” tee-shirts hanging the sign as I walked past them. I don’t know who they were associated with.

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Mon 22 Nov 2010 5 notes | Posted by rocketpilot

Unrestricted emissions of greenhouse gases threaten multiple catastrophes, any one of which justifies action. Together, they represent the gravest threat to humanity imaginable. The fact that the overwhelming majority of the mainstream media ignored the overwhelming majority of these studies and devoted a large fraction of its climate ‘ink’ in the last 12 months to what was essentially a non-story is arguably the single greatest failing of the science media this year.
A stunning year in climate science reveals that human civilization is on the precipice « Climate Progress We are so astoundingly screwed. Thanks, the global political class.
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Fri 11 Dec 2009 | Posted by rocketpilot

Scientific journal editors generally avoid publishing outright nonsense, they leave that to The Australian.
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