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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (936145)	5/21/2016 10:15:43 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1577031

Deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce faces the reality of climate change Date May 21, 2016 - 10:00AM Leader of the Nationals and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is facing the reality of climate change Photo: Nic Walker It was the moment Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, a renowned climate change sceptic, confronted the reality of global warming. Over two days in early April, Good Weekend writer Frank Robson and photographer Nic Walker accompanied Mr Joyce on a swing through the drought-ravaged backblocks between Armidale and Tamworth. Mr Joyce took the pair to his parent's property in Rutherglen late on Saturday afternoon. Robson writes in the Good Weekend this Saturday that not for the first time, Mr Joyce anguished over how much work the place needs. At one stage, he writes, I notice him standing beside the ever-diminishing creek, near his one-time childhood Hobbit hole, looking as though he might cry. Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce: "I start to wonder whether climate change might really be happening." Photo: Nic Walker "It's the driest I've ever seen it," Mr Joyce said. "And then, as if suddenly possessed by the valley's ghosts (or something equally whoopee), Barnaby Joyce takes a tentative step into the realm of scientific consensus. "When I look at this," he says, shaking his head, "I start to wonder whether climate change might really be happening." Any shift on climate change from Mr Joyce would be a notable one. Back in 2012, he called the issue "an indulgent and irrelevant debate because, even if climate change turns out to exist one day, we will have absolutely no impact on it whatsoever". Last May, he told commentator Andrew Bolt that he was "always sceptical" of the idea that "anybody's going to change the environment". The CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology have warned of the challenges ahead for farmers, such as Mr Joyce, with predictions that average temperatures are expected to increase, with more heat extremes and fewer cold extremes. In southern Australia, severe droughts are expected to be more frequent and cool season rainfall is expected to decline." Mr Joyce's own electorate – as well as his former base at St George in southern Queensland – is caught in one of the region's worst droughts. Over the past three years, the region has had very much below average range with pockets – close to the location of Mr Joyce's property north-east of Tamworth – recording their lowest rainfall on record. Read more: smh.com.au

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (936145)	5/21/2016 11:02:01 AM
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“This is an historic victory for young generations advocating for changes to be made by government,” 17-year-old plaintiff Shamus Miller said in a statement. “The global climate change crisis is a threat to the well-being of humanity, and to my generation, that has been ignored for too long.” Shamus: "Daddy, will you drive me and my friends to soccer practice?" Dad: "Sorry son, there's no gasoline for the SUV, so you and your friends will have to walk". The poor little dweeb and his "talkin' 'bout my generation" have been so thoroughly brainwashed, that they're completely unable to connect the dots between affordable and efficient energy sources and the wealthy and pampered standard of living that they enjoy. Bottom line for you and your CAUSE, Ratty, is that it won't make fuck all difference what you and your greenie comrades are after, because economic reality will always trump your pie in the sky, windmills and unicorns. You're indeed lucky that you don't have to live with the consequences of the nutty policies that you espouse, which would mean starving and shivering in a cave somewhere.. Too bad that you can't accept the FACT that the world's appetite for affordable and efficient, carbon based energy is only going to increase in the future and there ain't nothing that you or poor little indoctrinated Shamus can do to stop it. And a little more CO2 (plant food) in the atmosphere will only enhance the real greening of the planet.