I may well be alone on this, but looking at the big picture for a moment, if the human race really requires a celebrity advertising campaign in order to be saved, it is possible that the human race doesn’t deserve saving.

However, if we must have some sort of advertising campaign, these are the people who should be excluded from participating: Cate Blanchett, other rich people who don’t altruistically oppose a carbon tax on behalf of poor people earning less than $150000 per year, climate scientists who are, frankly, ruining it for everyone and anybody else who in any way thinks cutting back on burning fossil fuels isn’t crazy talk.

Sure, climate change may be real, but actually doing anything about it would involve quite a lot of mucking about. Best let the grandkids sort it out.

 

No need to ring the bells for this one.

Science, being somewhat based on facts, has never really gotten on with politics or religion, which get on with each other famously due to their more human nature friendly facts-optional approaches.

 

The trouble is that the overwhelming majority of people who actually know what they’re talking about on this topic (ie climate scientists, do sit down Senator Minchin) are telling a story that people don’t want to hear, and the natural human response to this annoying category of facts is similar to that of a person who loudly insists that red wine contains healthy antioxidants whilst busily cracking open their third bottle for the morning.

The wishful thinkers have it right in one respect, the inconvenient truth about science is that by definition, “the science” is never really in. The guiding principle of scientists is a rather perverse striving to prove themselves wrong, and in this particular case I for one hope they do. But they haven’t yet, and it seems unlikely that they will.

Probably time to crack open another bottle.

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There’s a bit of a kerfuffle about who said what to Wayne and when about WA going the gouge on mining royalties.

Sorry, but if you need to be warned that placing yourself in a direct line between a state premier and a bucket of money is a bad idea, you probably shouldn’t even be in charge of the loose change in your pockets. Rookie mistake.