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Sheep
Jun 1^st, 2012 at 5:20pm

Well!

http://www.news.com.au/national/sheep-fall-on-cars-after-truck-rolls/story-e6frf...

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It was raining sheep on Melbourne motorists after a truck carrying 400 livestock rolled off a bend and hung precariously over a highway.

The dramatic crash in Laverton North, in Melbourne's west, occurred about 9pm (AEST) as the sheep truck was travelling to Geelong on the Western Ring Rd off-ramp, police said.

Dead and injured sheep fell on the Princes Highway overpass below, hitting two vehicles.

One of the cars rolled numerous times but the occupants were not injured, police said.

The truck driver is also uninjured.

The inbound Princes Highway has been blocked, with one outbound lane of the Westgate Freeway also closed.

Police said the sheep carcasses will likely be cleaned up by council rangers this morning.

No other vehicle was involved in the crash.

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progressiveslol Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 17029	Re: Sheep Reply #1 - Jun 1^st, 2012 at 5:22pm It is always sad to see so many AGW laying on the ground like that. Although I dont subscribe to their hysteria(scar emongering) and gaia like extremism, I do support them as humans. A sad day for the AGW church. So that is what sheep look like
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angeleyes Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 615	Re: Sheep Reply #2 - Jun 1^st, 2012 at 5:38pm That's what the ALP will look like after the next Federal Election.
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Re: Sheep
Reply #4 - Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 8:13am

progressiveslol wrote on Jun 1^st, 2012 at 5:22pm:

It is always sad to see so many AGW laying on the ground like that. Although I dont subscribe to their hysteria(scar emongering) and gaia like extremism, I do support them as humans.

A sad day for the AGW church.

So that is what sheep look like Grin

Pretty rich coming from somebody who outsources his thinking on climate change to Anthony Watts.

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Reply #5 - Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 8:14am

MOTR wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 8:13am:

progressiveslol wrote on Jun 1^st, 2012 at 5:22pm:

It is always sad to see so many AGW laying on the ground like that. Although I dont subscribe to their hysteria(scar emongering) and gaia like extremism, I do support them as humans.

A sad day for the AGW church.

So that is what sheep look like Grin

Pretty rich coming from somebody who outsources his thinking on climate change to Anthony Watts.

Even richer coming from someone who outsources his thinking on climate change to 'skepticalscience'.

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Reply #6 - Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 8:23am

progressiveslol wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 8:14am:

MOTR wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 8:13am:

progressiveslol wrote on Jun 1^st, 2012 at 5:22pm:

It is always sad to see so many AGW laying on the ground like that. Although I dont subscribe to their hysteria(scar emongering) and gaia like extremism, I do support them as humans.

A sad day for the AGW church.

So that is what sheep look like Grin

Pretty rich coming from somebody who outsources his thinking on climate change to Anthony Watts.

Even richer coming from someone who outsources his thinking on climate change to 'skepticalscience'.

Progs, the difference between me and you is that I put effort into trying to understand what I'm reading. If you weren't such a coward you might be able to judge this firsthand.

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1338340234/75#75

I'm really quite interested in why you think this

explains this.

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Reply #7 - Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 8:40am

I love the last little graphic. I have seen the skeptic version a thousand times here on this forum. Of course, they would never use a graph. It is usually something like "on may 10 1964 it was 28 degrees, and on August 16 1996 it was 24 degrees, therefor the earth is cooling". No matter how many times you point out the idiocy, they keep falling for it. Every week there is a different version of the same mistake.

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Reply #8 - Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 9:04am

Like Abbott claiming we were going through a cooling period - notwithstanding rising CO2, just after we had lived through the hottest decade on record. At the time it seemed to be right-wing article of faith. Unless you believed in the global cooling canard you couldn't really claim to be a right-winger.

Here is a mainstream article outlining why this particular canard is not long for this world.

http://abcnews.go.com/technology/t/blogEntry?id=16239152

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Sir Spot of Borg Gold Member Offline WE ARE BORG Posts: 26589 Australia	Re: Sheep Reply #9 - Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 10:11am SOB
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Swagman Gold Member Offline Beware of cheap imitations...... Posts: 15095 Illawarra NSW Gender:	Re: Sheep Reply #10 - Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 10:13am What happened between 1880 & 1920 and 1940 & 1970? Did CO2 emissions drop significantly in these time frames or did some other mysterious variable effect (change) the climate?
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Reply #11 - Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 10:29am

Swagman wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 10:13am:

What happened between 1880 & 1920 and 1940 & 1970? Undecided

Did CO2 emissions drop significantly in these time frames or did some other mysterious variable effect (change) the climate? Undecided

There is nothing particularly mysterious about the cooling effect of high concentrations of sulphate aerosols, something we experienced during the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

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Reply #12 - Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 10:37am

MOTR wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 10:29am:

Swagman wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 10:13am:

What happened between 1880 & 1920 and 1940 & 1970? Undecided

Did CO2 emissions drop significantly in these time frames or did some other mysterious variable effect (change) the climate? Undecided

There is nothing particularly mysterious about the cooling effect of high concentrations of sulphate aerosols, something we experienced during the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

.....and the 1880s to 1920s? Embarrassed

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MOTR Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6646	Re: Sheep Reply #13 - Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 10:48am Back then there was far less CO2 in the atmosphere and natural variations were more dominant. From 1880 to 1920 solar activity was low and volcanic activity was high.
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Reply #14 - Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 10:57am

freediver wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2012 at 8:40am:

I love the last little graphic. I have seen the skeptic version a thousand times here on this forum. Of course, they would never use a graph. It is usually something like "on may 10 1964 it was 28 degrees, and on August 16 1996 it was 24 degrees, therefor the earth is cooling". No matter how many times you point out the idiocy, they keep falling for it. Every week there is a different version of the same mistake.

It would be a case of myopic vision.

The way to simulate this would be to add a sinusoidal waveform to a linearly increasing function. The climate-change skeptics would only be looking at a small part of the waveform (which would be smaller than a period of oscillation). Realists look at the entire waveform.

Speaking of skeptics, I've been itching to say that Lord Monckton looks like Mr. Bean with lighter hair. Every time I look at those eyes, it's like they're bulging out at me.

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