STICKY POST: Thursday December 1: Meet Jen Marohasy and myself tonight at the screening of two short films, Bleached Colorful, and Finding Porites, showing the real state of the Great Barrier Reef. It’s on at 6.30pm at The Windsor Cinema, Nedlands. Tickets here.
Tickets for this double-bill screening plus Q&A are available for $15. Get your tickets here. Add your IPA members code for a discounted price of $10. It’s on at 6.30pm at The Windsor Cinema, Nedlands.
There’s more information on Jennifer Marohasy’s blog.
Just browsed a kindle sample of “Humanity’s Moment: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope”.. It seemed yet another melodrama full of IPCC “science”. But when I came to the claim that the Barrier Reef is dying I fell about laughing. I am definitely going to be buying a bigger diesel car tomake more lovely CO2 just so I can depress the global warming cultists even more. Does anyone know if a coal fired air conditioner is available. I would love one.
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Your aircon is about 80% coal powered as is – the gangrenes want you to mistakenly believe that the electrons come from solar mirrors and windmills.
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If you switch one on connected to the work’s largest interconnected electricity grid located here your chances of air conditioner electricity coming from coal fired generators is over seventy per cent.
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I hope the night goes well and the movies are played to a full house!
Is Jennifer Marohasy bring her films to Melbourne?
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Good question – would like to go to screening if it comes to Melbourne. @Jo?
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I’m sure she’d love too. I shall have to ask…
Thanks it did go well. A very high caliber crowd. A very active Q&A.
We need to core those Porites!
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Ah Jo, yourself and Jennifer Marohasy, are the “Great Debunkers”, I remember her performance in the Ex-Services Club in Griffith NSW, not long after a CSIRO report made the front page of the Australian newspaper boldly stating”Murray Cod Extinct?”.
Jennifer had the CSIRO head of their Land and Water Division, Dr John Williams, at the meeting, and completely shredded their paper/work. Williams even had the paper lead writer with him who mounted the podium and with the aid of a whiteboard demonstrated the Agencies “science” as it applied to fishing, which after several moths and the expenditure of $6M dollars had failed to secure one fish, leading to their summation that the Murray Cod was most likely extinct after the supposed prolonged mismanagement of the Murray Darling Basin and over extraction of water for Agriculture. Well, at the end of the presentation by this Scientist, Jennifer correctly asserted to much mirth that all they had proven was that the CSIRO cannot fish. She then went on to say that upon reading that CSIRO report she phoned the Deniliquin Angling Club and to her dismay found that they had just held their annual Fisharama fishing Competition and he supplied the catch results, species numbers caught, keeper numbers etc, from which she was able to ascertain that indeed their was a good population of Murray Cod in the system and by the high number of non-keeper, undersized fish, that they were a young population. Indicating that the Murray Cod was in fact in goood fettle in the system, and she further pointed out to much mirth that all that information only cost her 50c for a phone call and half an hour of her time.
Jennifer Marohasy is a Legend.
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$6M vs 50c, why doesn’t that surprise me.
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IIRC one of the local newspapers had an opening headline on that fishing expedition of
“Good Cod!”
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Not like the good old days when a fishing tale was about a fisherman who caught a huge Murray Cod and tied the fishing line to the towbar on his Ford V8 motor car.
The car and the Cod disappeared and all that observers could see was a wave heading up rive.
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Or the one that was hooked using a bullock as bait using cable as line. It took a week to subdue the fish and the Murray was pulled 5 miles off course. There are others!
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In keeping with an observation from one of the Braggs of X-ray diffusion –
“We had no money for equipment so we had to think” (That is IIRC)
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Unfortunately there is no detriment to careers for getting things wrong
From Wiki:
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But great detriment to careers for getting things right.
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This is funny…:-)
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So where is the $6 Million Dollar Man now? Resigned? Fired? Or slothing in an emeritus hammock?
Has he paid Dr Marohasy the 50 cents for the phone call to the DAC? And has he made some attempt to reimburse Canberra the $6,000,000 ?
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I strongly disagree with the assumption of ineptitude when referring to the angling ability of the CSIRO. Fishing in the funding pool and pulling out six million dollars is a spectacularly good day’s fishing.
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You almost have to feel sorry for anyone faced with arguing against our 2 favorite lady science warriors.
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Thanks Murray Shaw, for the memories.
Thanks Jo for the post.
And I’ve just had the second promo/trailer for the newest film made, you can watch all one and half minutes of it here: https://vimeo.com/774940069
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And yet it lives…
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Trust some kind sole will upload the torrent if/when it becomes available.
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From up here in the Heart of The Reef, Airlie Beach all the best to you two girls. Currently I look out over the ocean and there are vast amounts of coral spawn in the water propagating yet more growth. Amazing up here we take people out to the reef and its always “so beautiful” not ever “oh, its dying, how terrible”. The reef is fine, avoid the BS.
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Slightly relevant. The Advertiser has a few headlines referring to a “megaflood”
A one in a hundred year flood is called a base flood. This current Murray flood has happened (levels higher than predicted for this onr) 5 times in the past 105 years. Very little chance that it will even be the second worst since 1917.
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Funny that there is so much alluvial soil out that way, isn’t it ! 😉
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It’s pathetic of the Albanese Labor Government and Minister Plibversek now arguing the case for why the UN should not list the GBR as endangered, as the UN has done a number of times in the past, and obviously a blackmail tactic to try and force Australian Government to cooperate more as the UN Officials try to demand from Australia, because when in Opposition Labor sought to use the UN blackmail for political point scoring against the Coalition Governments in office.
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It’s “Jennifer Marohasy and me” because it’s not in the active verb sense.
Yes I know, in the overall scheme of things perhaps not way up there, but still.
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Thanks Adellad, I was going to raise this as well seeing as it’s in a heading.
For the benefit of those who become confused, the easy way to tell is to repeat the phrase or sentence without the other person and see if it still makes sense, eg join I to see …. is wrong.
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I happen to be up in ‘Reef country’ for the next week or so and checked into my digs yesterday. Lady on reception was pleasant but full-on, barely taking a breath as she instructed us in all things. Telling her we’d been up here many times didn’t seem to register, so we listened politely.
That was right up to the point where the current soggy weather came up, whereupon the gleam of righteousness sparked in her eye. rather too forecefully, she explained that all the rain is a very good thing, a blessing in fact. I almost managed to interrupt her speech with one of the usual platitudes we Brits use at these times and say “It keeps everywhere nice and green.” but she talked over me, beginning a lecture on how the rain might help “save the reef” because, well you know, climate change …
I ran out of polite at that stage and, clutching my typed instructions and keycard, did a quick 180 and stalked off to find the lift.
She’s probably still hyperventilating.
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