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accident proneTopic: big media
Bolt gets his conspiracy knickers in a knot today over the terms "climate change" and "global warming" and use of each by the federal government.
Turns out both terms have provenance in this area of discussion back to the 1980ies and 1970ies in the scientific community:
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate_by_any_other_name.html
Another interesting spin off of the Dolt Report this morning is that grumpy old man Barry Cohen suffering in his irrelevance, actually made a significant point about man made bushfires from arson, while ignoring the history of Labor and Liberal Party support for woodchipping destruction of wet forest types converted to dry schlerophyll which promotes megafires - like for the last 40 years.
Gerard Henderson is similary hopelessly out of his depth on the landcape and water issued relating to forests in Australia which are down 50% since 1788, and massively disturbed. Indeed in our lifetime the woodchippers may yet set the whole of Tasmania alight unless they are closed down in favour of agricultural wood and fibre production.
Meanwhile in modern Rome (USA) there appear to be many tools around for talking to skeptics, or in Bolt's case, an idiot:
http://www.grist.org/article/series/skeptics
Lastly who else thinks Bolt looks like a Norwegian mass murderer? Oh sorry, is that politically incorrect?
