Who’s counting?
Mick Callinan writes: Re. “On Olympics” (yesterday). Isn’t the medals per capita measure convenient? And yet carbon emissions per capita is always trashed by denialists in favour of how little we emit as a country. So could climate change denialists (and I know and say nothing about the commenter who reminded me of this good ol’ piece of Aussie hypocrisy – he was by my reading being ironic/sarcastic) PLEASE never, never boast about our per capita medal tally?
An exclusive club
Peter Grudzinskas writes: Re. “Hinch’s senate diary: first day at school” (yesterday). Derryn Hinch, Thursday August 25, 2016: “550 Senators: A far more exclusive club than for those who have worn the Baggy Green or played for the VFL/AFL.”
I call B.S: only 444 cricketers have worn the baggy green, the last being Jon Holland in 2016. (Thousands have played VFL/AFL). No biggie!
Mick,
Not only do AGW deniers prefer to use the little Australia contributes to CO2 emissions as a reason for doing nothing, they also attempt to make it a negative number. I think it was in ‘Taxing Air’ – a multiauthor effort, although not one with the authorship of each chapter identified – that is was claimed that since approximately half the CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels and manufacturing cement goes into the oceans, and since Australia has a relatively large coastline, the CO2 emissions going into the ocean in Australia’s exclusive economic zone more than cancels out Australia’s own emissions.