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Comment on Opposition fails Holden workers by Labor just never ‘get it’… | pindanpost

Labor just never ‘get it’… | pindanpost — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 08:17:02 +0000

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Comment on Weather and taxes by Tom Harley

Tom Harley — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:24:25 +0000

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Comment on Wayne’s World by Tom Harley

Tom Harley — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:17:40 +0000

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Comment on CO2 is not a Greenhouse Gas that Raises Global temperature. Period! by David Appell

David Appell — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:05:59 +0000

Of course, that is absurd. All you have to do is measure the solar spectrum at the Earth’s surface, or the outgoing radiation at the top of the atmosphere, to see the absorption lines of H2O, CO2, CH4, etc.

And the greenhouse effect is measured to be increasing, too:

“Increases in greenhouse forcing inferred from the outgoing longwave radiation spectra of the Earth in 1970 and 1997,” J.E. Harries et al, Nature 410, 355-357 (15 March 2001).
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v410/n6826/abs/410355a0.html

More papers on this subject are listed here:
http://agwobserver.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/papers-on-changes-in-olr-due-to-ghgs/

Comment on About by Kevin O'Neill

Kevin O'Neill — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:09:33 +0000

Thanks. This is a useful resource for finding information on the lunatic fringe; i.e.,Goddard, Watts, et al.

Comment on Ha ha Warmist losers. For you the war is over by warmists…defeated | pindanpost

warmists…defeated | pindanpost — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:11:06 +0000

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Comment on Howard deserves rare honour by Ninette

Ninette — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:57:23 +0000

Good on John Howard at least when he was Prime Minister we knew where we were headed, with this PM we have not got a clue. I wish he was still our PM.

Comment on Laframboise audit of the IPCC no. 3 by Tom Harley

Tom Harley — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:35:49 +0000

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Comment on Residents miss out on fibre option by NBN Myths

NBN Myths — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:41:44 +0000

We aren’t really “all paying for the NBN”. The Govt portion of the NBN cost is coming from the issue of infrastructure bonds to investors. The interest rate on the bonds is about 4-5%. But because the NBN will provide a return of about 7%, it is the users of the network that will pay for it, not all taxpayers. It is revenue from the users that repays the bonds.

While it would be great if everyone could connect to the fibre, the cost rapidly escalates the more remote the areas are. A study into the NBN by KPMG in 2010 found that the cost of the NBN would double for every 3% extra coverage for the fibre cable over the 93% target. That’s why small towns where houses are a long way apart are connected to the NBN via wireless or satellite rather than fibre. It would just cost too much and make the project unviable.

For many people there are not “other ways”. ADSL2+ has a distance issue, so many people in rural areas can’t get it (or get very low speeds). For people more remote, that currently get satellite broadband, the maximum speed until this year was 1Mbps. The NBN now offers an interim satellite option for those people with a maximum speed of 6Mbps, and when they launch two new satellites in 2015 their speed will increase to 12Mbps. For the extra speeds, users of the NBN satellite will pay about half what they used to pay for the much slower speeds.

That is the other big reason for the NBN – to lower the high broadband prices that people outside the cities have to pay. NBN pricing is the same across the country, and is cheaper and faster than existing ADSL and satellite options.

Comment on TV crews curbed on showing images of boat arrivals by Virtual Quilter

Virtual Quilter — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:02:01 +0000

Tom,
Thank you … Our government is still at it rather than at it again.