It’s disappointing to see so many myopic, self-centred, luddite flat-earthers on this forum. (Could be forgiven for thinking it is a discussion amongst a group of Tea Party members.)
Although it’s not surprising given the dose of right-wing News Ltd diatribe that the general public are exposed to everyday.
Deep Sea Racing Prawn- -Did you write that yourself or was it a cut and paste from the Get-Up Manual of Gratuitous Insults?
My fellow Luddites and Flat Earthers respond well to logical argument, the occasional odd bit of humour, but you opening contribution Post #145 is insulting.
The following is from Post #42 from Andy RR, which makes a lot of sense to me. You seem to be informed on the subject - what part of it do you disagree with (and why)?
Here's a practical way to understand Julia Gillard’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
Imagine 1 kilometre of atmosphere and we want to get rid of the carbon pollution in it created by human activity. Let's go for a walk along it.
The first 770 metres are Nitrogen.
The next 210 metres are Oxygen - that's 980 metres of the 1 kilometre. 20 metres to go.
The next 10 metres are water vapour. 10 metres left.
The next 9 metres are argon. Just 1 more metre.
A few gases make up the first bit of that last metre. The last 38 centimetres of the kilometre - that's carbon dioxide. A bit over one foot. 96% of that is produced by Mother Nature. It’s natural.
Out of our journey of one kilometre, there are just 14 millimetres left. Just over a centimetre - about half an inch. That’s the amount of carbon dioxide that global human activity puts into the atmosphere.
And of those 14 millimetres Australia puts in 0.21 of a millimetre. About the thickness of a hair. Out of a kilometre!
As a hair is to a kilometre - so is Australia 's contribution to what Julia Gillard calls Carbon Pollution.
Imagine Brisbane's new Gateway Bridge, ready to be opened by Julia Gillard. It's been polished, painted and scrubbed by an army of workers till its 1 kilometre length is surgically clean. Except that Julia Gillard says we have a huge problem, the bridge is polluted - there's a human hair on the roadway.
We'd laugh ourselves silly.