Dear Bob... Check this out...

Climate change is not a furphy...

It's a most serious subject for this planet, beyond your petty comment...

Unfortunately the day you'll eat your words will be far too late... wake up now, please....

May be you should actually TALK to Ross Garnaut and Nick Stern rather than glibly brand them without consultation..

An aside issue only…..Bob Katter has long been a unique politician whose loyalty to his electorate is admirable no matter what way you look at it.  I say that because his constituents must agree with the attitudes by which he stands because of his consistent election victories.

However, with all due respect, it would be terrible if it happened that the fate of the nation depended on that one vote.  I would respect Bob even more if he took the attitude of "the national interests first" and then, if he really thought he had betrayed his electorate, he could still stand as an independent.

I have been at least pleased somewhat lately at the understanding of several famous people, like Malcolm Fraser, that the Murdoch media has over the last some 12 months, turned the political landscape upside down - in and out - and totally confused.  I do not believe for one moment that either the Kevin Rudd assassination by Murdoch and – responded by the Labor party to appease him - had anything to do with that excellent Prime Minister at all.

I believe that Murdoch assumed that, due to Kevin Rudd’s record popularity, just crucifying him would be enough. Nevertheless, the reaction of the Labor Party took what they considered the least dangerous course by endorsing Murdoch’s “presumed” favourite.

That, if I am correct, is a perfect example of the evil influence of unregulated media which can only exist in a “democracy”.

Accumulate the wealth to begin with then progressively buy out all methods of media information so that, in a democracy only, you control the information and you control the people.

During this media led political agenda, Abbott has merely made “scripted” statements with questions being answered by his so-called “shadow” cabinet like - “I will now hand over to my shadow Minister for …whatever”.

I think that, not only am I absolutely horrified at the proposition that the rabble currently known as the Coalition, and their Leader Abbott, could take over my country even for three months, is only superseded by the knowledge that a wealthy and unconstrained media mogul like Murdoch can control the future of my children, and their children, and their children and so on.

The Murdoch media is merely a format for “how to vote Liberal”.

NE OUBLIE.

from http://www.manhattanrarebooks-science.com/fourier.htm

FOURIER, JOSEPH.  Remarques générales sur les Temperatures du globe terrestre et des espaces planétaires

FIRST EDITION of Fourier's observation that the ground temperature of the Earth is increased because of the existence of the atmosphere; a phenomenon that would become known as "the greenhouse effect".  Often considered the foundation of climate change science. A scarce copy in original wrappers.

“It was in the 1820s that Joseph Fourier first explained that the Earth's atmosphere retains heat radiation. He had asked himself a deceptively simple question, of a sort that physics theory was just then beginning to learn how to attack: what determines the average temperature of a planet like the Earth? When light from the Sun strikes the Earth's surface and warms it up, why doesn't the planet keep heating up until it is as hot as the Sun itself? Fourier's answer was that the heated surface emits invisible infrared radiation, which carries the heat energy away into space. But when he calculated the effect with his new theoretical tools, he got a temperature well below freezing, much colder than the actual Earth.

"The difference, Fourier recognized, was due to the Earth's atmosphere. Somehow it kept part of the heat radiation in. He tried to explain this by comparing the Earth with its covering of air to a box with a glass cover. That was a well-known experiment — the box's interior warms up when sunlight enters while the heat cannot escape. This was an over simple explanation, for it is quite different physics that keeps heat inside an actual glass box, or similarly in a greenhouse. (The main effect of the glass is to keep the air, heated by contact with sun-warmed surfaces, from wafting away, although the glass does also keep heat radiation from escaping.) Nevertheless, trapping of heat by the atmosphere eventually came to be called 'the greenhouse effect'" (American Institute of Physics).

In: Annales de Chimie et de Physique, pp. 136-167, Tome XXVII, Octobre 1824. Paris: Crochard, 1824. Octavo, original printed wrappers, uncut. custom cloth box. Minor edgewear and foxing to wrappers, early stamp of the Académie d’Aix on first page of text (not affecting Fourier article); text exceptionally clean. Extremely rare in original wrappers. $3300.