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Sportscaster Brent Musburger, right, and Dan Wilder Sr., left, watch a drive on the first hole of the fourth annual Sonny Sixkiller Husky Celebrity Golf Classic presented by Wilder Auto at the Cedars at Dungeness in Sequim
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SEQUIM — Judging by the many fans who stopped to chat and take photos with Brent Musburger before the start of the fourth annual Sonny Sixkiller Husky Celebrity Golf Classic presented by Wilder Auto, it's readily apparent the 75-year old sportscaster has reached iconic status among college football fans.
His mix of serious in-game commentary coupled with a wry wit and humorously hip tone has successfully resonated with viewers for much of the past half-century.
Musburger and University of Washington athletic legends and supporters gathered to raise funds for the Olympic Medical Center Foundation at two recent events.
Successful events
Record fundraising numbers were set as more than 380 people attended a dinner auction Thursday and the golf tournament at a purple and gold-clad Cedars at Dungeness on Friday.
Musburger is no stranger to hospital foundation fundraisers, having recently emceed a similar benefit featuring a performance by Huey Lewis for a new intensive care unit in his offseason home of Hamilton, Mont.
His Sequim appearance came about through a friendship and working relationship with foundation director of operations and Port Angeles resident George Hill.
"My compadre George Hill has been my spotter in college football for 24 years," Musburger said.
Hill also works college basketball games with Musburger.
Spotters relay crucial pieces of in-game information to the announcers on players, trends and statistics.
"He comes to me for the college game on Thursday or Saturday and then goes with Al Michaels for the Sunday Night Football game on NBC," Musburger said. "George is one of the busiest men in football."
Musburger and his wife of 50 years, Arlene, drove west from Montana for the appearance.
In doing so, he gained even more respect for Hill.
"This is our first time up to the Olympic Peninsula and I really appreciate George's work on the weekend because I now realize how far it is from the airport," Musburger joked.
"The thing that appeals to me so far is the natural beauty."
Musburger had plans to play tourist with his wife Saturday before heading across to Victoria for a short vacation.
Musburger is no stranger to Seattle, going so far as to say to his wife, "I think its our favorite city."
He was in the booth for ABC's coverage of the 1995 "Refuse to Lose" Seattle Mariners' comeback from a 2-0 deficit against the New York Yankees.
Musburger had the call on what is arguably the most memorable moment in team history, Ken Griffey Jr. scoring from first base on an Edgar Martinez double for a 6-5 win in 11 innings in the deciding fifth game.
He hasn't had a game in the refurbished Husky Stadium, but has fond memories from previous trips.
"The stadium shaking, Steve Emtman, USC and UCLA games in there, real fond memories of those games," Musburger said.
Musburger didn't know at time that the 1993 Rose Bowl, a rematch between Michigan and Washington that resulted in a 38-31 Wolverines victory, would become the most memorable Husky game he would ever call.
"It was Don James' last game," Musburger said.
"None of us knew it was James' last game, come to think of it I don't even think he knew it was his last game," Musburger said.
The iconic Washington coach quit in protest of sanctions leveled at the program by the NCAA and the Pac-10 Conference just before the start of the 1993 season.
Musburger was paired in the Rose Bowl booth with Dick Vermeil, a longtime coach who won the 1975 Rose Bowl as head man at UCLA.
"Vermeil became the first person to have coached and broadcast a Rose Bowl," Musburger said.
"And it was such a close game, either team could have won it with all the lead changes [6]."
Musburger is enthusiastic about Washington's selection of former Boise State coach Chris Petersen to lead the program.
"Outstanding hire," Musburger said.
"They could not have hired a better guy than Chris. It will take him a couple of years to get everything in place, but I believe he will become a power in the Pac-12."
Musburger is in preparation for a new role in television this season as lead broadcaster for the soon-to-be launched SEC Network, an ESPN-operated channel devoted solely to Southeastern Athletic Conference sports.
"It's exciting," Musburger said.
"Am I going to miss going to Husky Stadium, Texas or Madison, Wisconsin? Absolutely, but every place we go in the SEC is a college football cathedral.
"And the competition for talent, I live in Florida during the season so I know the area, it's off the chart."
Musburger will open with Texas A&M at South Carolina on Aug. 28 and then call the Arkansas at Auburn game on Aug. 31.
Sixkiller likes Petersen
Sixkiller has been affiliated with the Jamestown S'Klallam tribe since the opening of 7 Cedars in Blyn in 1995 and with the Olympic Medical Center Foundation for the past four years.
"The reason we are doing the golf tournament is not about myself, it's about bringing people together in this community that I've always felt have been strong supporters of Husky athletics and raising funds for the foundation," Sixkiller said.
"There are a lot of good 'Dawgs' in this community.
On the football side, Sixkiller is a big fan of the Chris Petersen hire.
"I think it's awesome, his record speaks for itself," Sixkiller said.
"The challenge is going to be able to compete in the Pac-12 on a weekly basis with the different schemes and amount of talent on each team's roster.
"I think Sark [former coach Steve Sarkisian] upgraded the program and Chris can take them to the next level."
Events a hit
The foundation said that the auction, held at the Vern Burton Community Center in Port Angeles, raised its highest net total ever — more than $44,000.
"We sold a record amount of corporate sponsorship, had a record attendance, and most importantly, raised more money than ever for Olympic Medical Center's cardiac facilities in Sequim and Port Angeles," said foundation executive director Bruce Skinner.
"We want to thank both communities for the support of this incredible event."
"Because of our sponsors, 100 percent of all money raised at the event will go to the hospital," said foundation president Karen Rogers.
"In the past we have been able to provide funds for equipment that has saved people's lives, and we want to continue to do that."
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Enola Chauvin Mire, 100, a native of Mathews and resident of Thibodaux, died at 7:54 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009.
Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to funeral time Saturday at Christ the Redeemer Catholic Church in Thibodaux. Memorial Mass will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the church.
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She was preceded in death by her husband, Alcide Mire; three sisters, Rena Matherne, Elsie Bourg and Velma McNutt; and one great-grandson, Lee McNeal.
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O. Raymond "Tubby" Latt Sr., 78, of Hendersonville died Thursday, Feb. 16, 2006, at the Beverly Health Care.
He was a native and lifelong resident of Henderson County, the son of the late Emil and Gayle Latt. He was also preceded in death by his first wife, Violet T. Latt, who died in 1988.
He was a Navy veteran of World War II. He was a building contractor, working in both residential and commercial construction.
He is survived by his wife, Georgia R. Latt; a son, Oscar R. "Skip" Latt Jr. and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Latt, of Nashville, Tenn.; a daughter, Susan L. Lamb and her husband, John D. Lamb, of Huntersville; four grandchildren, William Emil Latt and Evan Thompson Latt of Nashville, Tenn., Kelly E. Bouer of Covington, Ga., and Christopher D. Lamb of Huntersville; two great-grandchildren, William Douglas Bouer and Sidney Joanne Violet Bouer of Covington, Ga.; a brother, John G. Latt of Hendersonville; a sister, Catherine Stone of Delaware, Ohio; and several nieces and nephews.
A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Oakdale Cemetery. The Rev. Carolyn Lawton will officiate. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Four Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care, P.O. Box 2395, Hendersonville, N.C. 28739 or the WNC Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association, 31 College Place, Suite D 320, Asheville, N.C. 28801.
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- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
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- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
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- Place on baking sheet lined with foil or parchment and roast until tender, 25-35 minutes.
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The taste of lime and garlic in the vinaigrette is just wonderful with the squash. I didn't have an acorn squash but used a butternut which tasted divine. I can imagine the acorn and would be just as wonderful. I will be trying it that way next time. Loved this!
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Terri Henry, center, and her children, Jordan, 16, and Briana, 21, lost their husband and father, Jeff Henry, in 2011 to mesothelioma of the lungs.
Jeff Henry, 58, of Seymour, owned and operated the Seymour Dairy Queen. He died in December 2011 of mesothelioma of the lungs. His family will honor his memory this Friday with a Pint for a Pint blood drive. Anyone who donates a pint of blood will receive free pint of ice cream.
Jeff Henry loved his employees and customers at the Seymour Dairy Queen like they were his own family.
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Looks like the countdown to the 24 feature film has come to a pause for now. In an interview with TV Squad about his first novel and various new television projects, producer Howard Gordon gave some insight on the status of the big-screen follow-up to the Fox television series starring Kiefer Sutherland.
"The 24 movie is on hold for now, although conversations are ongoing," Gordon said. "Beyond that, there is no news — at least as far as I know.
"The challenge is just not making it a movie for the sake of making a movie version of 24, but really having a compelling story … simply making it good, frankly," he added. "I know that sounds non-specific. But nobody's interested just to do it as an exercise. If it's going to be out there, it has to be out there for a good reason."
The news comes as the latest in the long line of rumors and teases since the show's conclusion last year. Gordon said he agrees that while the television life of Jack Bauer has run its course, the character has some big-screen life left in him. While certainly discouraging, this tidbit doesn't necessarily kill the chances of the film. It certainly seems Gordon wants to give it a go, and we know that Sutherland definitely seems optimistic about the possibility. Hopefully, it may just be a small delay before that 24 clock starts ticking again.
Given the less than stellar ratings for the series finale I'd say the chances for a 24 movie are slim to none. If the series finale had done gang busters then the movie be in production right now.
I'm not optimistic about this film being made. A real shame if it's not. They could even do periodic television movies a la "Redemption". "24" fans would be happy with that.
'24' lost momentum in its second season (every episode after Jack said, "No, you don't" to Nina in season three was great, but it was a misleading return to form) and never regained it. I mean, c'mon… the show just got more preposterous and right-wing as it got older, to the extent that if it returns, Jack will probably be carrying a badly spelled placard and be trying to kill Obama to ensure tax cuts for the wealthy.
Even worse is that, if Kim was 16/17 in series one, that puts Jack at about 36/37, or possibly older, possibly a little bit younger. Over the course of all eight series, 15 years passed. It should be expected that another one-to-two years will pass before the events of the film. That puts Jack Bauer at 50-to-57 years old (factoring in that he may have been a little older or younger when Kim was born).
Never mind his heroin addiction and the ravages to his body caused indirectly by such abuse, or the variety of exposure to chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, EMPs, and who knows what else, that probably would have long-term health problems, the fact is that this is a guy whose best years are definitely behind him.
Which is ironic, because clearly that is the case with the '24' franchise as a whole.
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The week of April Fool's Day was a bit existentially dispiriting around here. The warning went out for April 1: Remember, a lot of what the internet will be getting excited about today is fake bullshit being spread in bad faith purely for the sake of getting people excited.
Then on April 2, the New York Post hit newsstands with "Should kids do juice cleanses?"
Luckily, the Kid Mero and Desus were also around on April 2, so that Mero could tweet this:
The idea of Desus, a beloved pseudonymous funny black person on Twitter, actually being a white impostor was more than the audience could bear, or exactly as much as the audience could bear.
Everything is a scam. Trust nothing. Bots are humans. Humans are bots. White people ruin everything. Identity is plastic. Satoshi Nakamoto is not Satoshi Nakamoto.
And then this morning Mero and Desus brought out the first edition of their podcast to feature them on camera. Punchline: No, Desus is not white. The imposture was an imposture.
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Both endings are official[edit]
After one person told me that "both endings are official, since it is shown where you live", I decided to share this with you:
|Episode eliminated in
|Team status
|♂ Duncan
|1st quit in
"Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 1"
Returns in "I See London..."
|He refused to sing a reprise of "Come Fly With Us" after having to listen to Gwen and Courtney's bickering.
|♂ Ezekiel
|Team Victory
|2nd voted out in
"Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 2"
|He lost his team's advantage to the alligators so probably everyone on Team Victory vote him off.
|♂ Harold
|Team Victory
|3rd quit in
"Super Happy Crazy Fun Time in Japan"
|He quit in place of DJ just to save his team's honor.
|♀ Bridgette
|Team Victory
|4th voted out in
"Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better"
|She got stuck to a pole, causing her team to lose.
|♀ Leshawna
|Team Victory
|5th voted out in
"Slap Slap Revolution"
|When she did slapped Heather and pushed her off the platform, she slapped her and jumped off the platform, and cost her team the win.
|♀ Lindsay
|Team Victory
|6th eliminated in
"Can't Help Falling in Louvre"
|In the tiebreaker challenge, her design was considered funny but not fashionable. As a result, DJ (who was trying to throw the challenge to get himself eliminated) was spared from elimination, much to his dismay.
|♀ Izzy
|Team Chris is Really4 Hot
|7th left in
"Jamaica Me Sweat"
|Although Izzy is not officially voted off, the government viewed her as an asset, removing Izzy from the game.
|Team Victory
|8th eliminated in
"Jamaica Me Sweat"
|He was the last standing member of Team Victory, and Alejandro cheated by setting up a piece of wood which made him be automatically eliminated. This was the first time an entire team was eliminated before the merger.
|♂ Noah
|Team Chris is Really4 Hot
|9th cheated out in
"I See London..."
|Alejandro discovered Noah's mistrust of him, so he convinced Tyler and Duncan to vote him off.
|♂ Tyler
|Team Chris is Really4 Hot
|10th voted out in
"The Ex-Files"
|He lost the challenge for Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot, when he was a victim of the landmines. Duncan also convinced Alejandro do not vote off for him so they can vote Tyler off.
|♀ Gwen
|Team Amazon
|11th cheated out in
"Picnic at Hanging Rock"
|She lost the tiebreaker challenge to Courtney, which was obviously rigged due to her eucalyptus allergy. Another reason for Gwen's elimination was because her kiss with Duncan was revealed two episodes back, courtesy of Alejandro and Tyler.
|♂ Owen
|Team Chris is Really4 Hot
|12th voted out in
"Niagara Brawls"
|Alejandro convinced Duncan, Heather, and Sierra to vote off Owen because he was a threat, knowing he won a previous season.
|7 / 6
|♀ Blaineley
|13th/14th voted out in
"Chinese Fake-out"
|Heather spotted Blaineley, Alejandro and Courtney cheating in the final part of the challenge, as Blaineley had better food, and Alejandro crouched down to give his food to Courtney. Thanks to Heather, Blaineley and Courtney tied on votes. Instead of having a tiebreaker challenge, they were both sent packing, due to the show's budgetary constraints.
|♀ Courtney
|Team Amazon
|♂ Duncan
|Team Chris is Really4 Hot
|15th voted out in
"African Lying Society"
|Heather and Alejandro voted him off in a 2-1-1-1 vote.
|♀ Sierra
|Team Amazon
|16th disqualified in
"Awwwwww, Drumheller"
|Even though Alejandro was originally supposed to be eliminated in that episode, Sierra interrupted the ceremony to get Cody's birthday cake. The firecrackers, which Sierra used in place of the actual candles, accidentally blew up the place and Chris' plane. In a fit of rage, Chris disqualified Sierra despite winning immunity that day.
|♂ Cody
|Team Amazon
|17th eliminated in
"Hawaiian Punch"
|Heather, hoping to beat Alejandro in a vote, managed to trick Cody by claiming that "Sierra was trapped in quicksand". This allowed Alejandro to knock out Cody.
|2 / 1
|♂ Alejandro
|Team Chris is Really4 Hot
|Winner in
"Hawaiian Punch"
|Alejandro won when Heather accidentally tossed his dummy in the volcano.
Runner-up in Heather's ending.
|2 / 1
|♀ Heather
|Team Amazon
|Winner in
"Hawaiian Punch"
|She manipulated Alejandro, which led to her victory.
Runner-up in Alejandro's ending.
Even though TDI is a Canadian show, I decided that both endings should be shown since they are technical (based on where any fan lives). Plus, If I were to do the same changes to the elimination tables, then I would replace the "WINNER" and "RUNNER UP" words with "FINALS", since both endings are canon.
Note 1: Although Alejandro won the World Tour in Canada, I put the list in alphabetical order, since his name comes much earlier in the alphabet than Heather's.
Note 2: The winner info on the Character pages will remain the same, because of the Canadian flag. RegularShow (talk) 00:08, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
- Oppose. The established practice is to use the country of origin for things like airdates, episode titles, and variations in plotlines. That seems to make the most sense here: use the Canadian ending as the main entry for the table and explain other endings in notes. —C.Fred (talk) 19:43, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
- Agree with C.Fred, even though there are two valid winners for each season, this is a Canadian show, so we all go by the Canadian version of the season finale, and that goes for all the Total Drama related articles. Giggett (talk) 19:50, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
- So what you're trying to prove is that despite the fact that neither of us (you and me) live in Canada, we have to follow C.Fred, both a wikipedia admin and a fan of Total Drama, and Teletoon's footsteps on the winners? 188.8.131.52 (talk) 23:33, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
- Support: We should list two winners per season to appease the Non-Canadian fans. In that way, no one would alter the winners. 188.8.131.52 (talk) 23:16, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
Original air dates on episode lists[edit]
The "original" air dates listed for each episode on the episode lists are the Canadian air dates, even if the episodes aired in another country first. I think either the air dates should be changed to when they first aired ever or change the title to "Canadian air date." Also, I don't know how to reply to talk page posts, but I agree both endings should be considered official.Tdlover18 (talk) 23:32, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
- Canada is the country of origin where the series is first created, therefore it is best to add the air dates of the original network channel of that country of origin. Adding USA airdates for Total Drama and calling it "original" is like adding Australian airdates for the series, 24 and calling it "original". It doesn't matter who airs it first, Canada will always be the country of origin for this series, unless Cartoon Network takes on full production in the future. Giggett (talk) 23:37, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
Updated production codes[edit]
I updated the production codes using this http://www.thefutoncritic.com/showatch/total-drama/listings/ because it is what is used on the season 5 page and on the Ridonculous Race page for production codes. I hope that's okay. 126.96.36.199 (talk) 23:13, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
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In just three hours, Saudi Arabia's second largest city was inundated with 111 millimeters of rain, increasing from the 90 mm recorded in four hours during the Nov. 25, 2009 flash floods.
Mansour Al-Mazrouie, head of the meteorology department at the King Abdulaziz University (KAU), blamed climate change for the heavy rains in Jeddah. The average amount of rain during the winter months (November to January) is about 51 millimeters.
I see this as an example of the Faustian choice many nations will be faced with as inactivism continues; many of the steps necessary to cut emissions have a substantial up-front cost, even though they save money in the long run. Regions facing damages from severe weather events will often need to cut expenses in many areas in order to rebuild. Since emissions reductions programs will often appear to not show benefits until long after current politicians are no longer in office, delaying them, or reducing funds for them, will appear an easy way out.
Lost coal production in Queensland will cost up to $8 billion by July according to miners, drowning a full year of state economic growth in the flood disaster.
The Queensland Resources Council yesterday predicted that coal production for the March quarter would crash by between 25 and 50 per cent. Queensland's gross state product for 2010-11 would take a hit of at least $4.5bn, rising to $8bn on the QRC's worst-case scenario.
The fallout for the $50bn coal industry, the nation's biggest single export earner, is an ominous pointer to how high the final bill will climb.
This is a positive feedback. Warming causes extreme weather or drought leading to economic losses causing cutbacks in clean energy.
Expert: Tulare County citrus growers could lose 25 percent of crops from rain
Funguses and trees dropping fruit before it can be harvested have become more common than usual here in recent weeks. Citrus experts say it could get worse as the harvest season continues over the next few months, thanks to the heavy storms in late December.
The floods are all a conspracy to scare people and raise taxes.
If wet feet or permanent heat waves aren't going to convince the dogmatic rejectors of science, perhaps we should haunt them with a new message: climate change will raise taxes.
There's a good historical example here. In the `19th century, Paraguay started a war with Brazil and Argentina, over a minor border dispute. It dragged on for years, until most of Paraguay's young male population had died in battle, and it didn't end until Gomez, with a small entourage of kids and old men, was finally hunted down and shot. The country still has not recovered.
People are not very rational.
Nursing Singer….
Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under attack
The US doesn't have these good excuses and we aren't doing much either. I haven't noticed the fossil fuel marketers (drug pushers of the 21st century) getting nervous here.
Let the Central Valley of CA get flooded or a Category 4 hurricane run up Chesapeake Bay or into southern Long Island and we'll be looking for cash to fix things also.
If not now, when? If not here, where?
looks like the "it's not happening -> it's not bad -> it's too late" sequence of events plays out faster than you thought.
And the "Adaption instead of Mitigation" crew must be happy as well. Because what is this, if not adaption in it's purest form?
I'm concerned about my impact on the environment. I heat my home with heating oil but am worried about what this is doing to the environment. I live in a rural area of lincolnshire so there's not much alternative to heating my home with oil except wood and LPG… but I don't know if this is even more harmful.
I have just found a heating oil website who offer Group Buying Days, this seems like a great way to help the environment because you can order with others which helps to keep tankers off the roads more, reducing CO2 emissions.
I would like to see more information on the internet about the effects of heating oil on the environment. On most climate change sites I go on there are articles on gas and electric heating but little on the effects of heating oil.
Does anyone have any figures about heating oil and ways to minimize my impact on the environment?
Wow, just dumb.
As others have pointed out, this kind of problem from climate change will increasingly affect all nations and instead of having money to invest in reducing CO2 emissions – they'll just be siphoning the cash for local triage of climate change caused disasters that occurs more and more frequently.
llewelly (and others): Bingo!
I keep harping on the point that the timing of our climate and energy challenges is a critical detail that shouldn't be minimized. This piling up effect — we delay, and thereby force ourselves to deal with both mitigation and ongoing adaptation costs simultaneously — is going to bite us, hard, and we're only aggravating the situation with further delay.
This is why I get so frustrated with the people who think we can sit back, do basically nothing now, and the "deal with problems as they arise". They don't understand (or pretend not to understand) that the adaptation costs are much higher than they admit for each incident and that they're ongoing. Sadly, we're so far down this path that there's no way we can avoid really high adaptation costs.
it looks like brittle planning, but it's actually a silent cry for switching from 'competition' to a global energy project, pooling humanity's time brains & money to beat the clock together
+1 Anne van der Bom @10
Also applicable:
How free market advocates have delivered us big government
By Paul Gilding
'Hidden Plumbing' Helps Slow Greenland Ice Flow: Hotter Summers May Actually Slow Down Flow of Glaciers
[JR: Outdated research.]
So PM Gillard prefers to kick the can down the road when it comes to mitigation. and focus on rebuilding.
She may be laboring under the false idea that because these types extreme climate events have been described as once every 100 years or once every 500 year events that the next one will be in the 22nd Century at the earliest. Unfortunately that is not what those statistics mean. The next such event could happen with the next La Niña event a few years down the road.
Let's hope that Australia is at least including adaptation to a changing climate as part of its rebuilding plans otherwise this decision moves from beyond stupid to simply crazy.
If this reaction becomes a pattern it doesn't bode well.
Many people have predicted that solving the problem would actually become more difficult as climate change starts to hit the fan. One of those reasons is that increasing tensions over resources will make international cooperation impossible. That's why Copenhagen was the moment and Durban is really our very last chance.
Re: #8
"This is a positive feedback. Warming causes extreme weather or drought leading to economic losses causing cutbacks in clean energy."
Yes…but at the same time, coal production has been devastated in Queensland. Negative feedback?
Koch Industries Unamused by Climate Spoof
Australia will also delay A$160 million of spending aimed at encouraging carbon-capture ventures, the documents show.
In my view, They should eliminate completely such carbon-capture ventures and use the money instead for renewable energy sources. It is a waste of money otherwise. Clean coal is simply expensive green wash. Coal mining should simply be phased out, as argued by James Hansen.
I'm an Aussie, and not shy to criticise other countries climate and pollution behaviour.
Now I blush that my own country is dropping the ball at such a crucial time.
We can do better you know, it's just a question of balls.
Some of the things that Gillard plans to cut should be like the Cash for Clunkers program but I'm disappointed on the cuts to solar and CCS programs. The cuts seem to be disproportionately on energy-related climate change programs.
MarkB: It's only a negative feedback if the coal that would have been burned in the absence of the floods is not replaced by coal from other sources, i.e. it results in a permanent reduction in the total amount burned from this point forward.
That's highly unlikely, as other sources can likely step up shipment, and customers for that coal can eat into stocks in the short run and then buy slightly more than they would normally later on to replenish those stocks.
I agree with much of what has been said. Scary. If and when we do get past the continuing onslaught of dirty-energy-funded denialism, the cost of climate change may provide an equally serious obstacle to the rapid deployment of clean renewable energy technologies.–Tom Gray, consultant to American Wind Energy Association
You must take into account that Dullard, by far the stupidest PM in living memory, is also a complete opportunist. She has no ideology but gaining and holding power. During the floods her public appearances to 'console' the flood victims and her impromptu 'soundbites' were so repellently robotic and inauthentic as to be eerie. Under John Howard, a fervent denialist (like the current Opposition Leader Abbott, a Howard protege)who saw climate change as a Communist conspiracy to destroy capitalism, the entire public service was purged and ruthlessly politicised. When Rudd succeeded Howard in 2007, he did a Blair and an Obama, and simply kept the policies of his predecessor intact. No attempt was made to winkle the Howardite placemen, ideologues of market fundamentalism, out, and they still make policy for a talentless, incompetent Labor Government of opportunists like Dullard. They'll be laughing today, getting a politician who they no doubt loathe, to nail her ragged colours so firmly to denialism's mast. Believe me, if you think that your country is in a mess, spare a sympathetic thought for Australia, because it rhymes with failure.
From the link @7 –
" A survey by The Australian has established that 45 of Queensland's 57 coalmines have been affected to some degree by flooding, including 15 open-cut pits that have been turned into vast waterholes.
Many of BHP's coalmining operations in the Bowen Basin — including Goonyella Riverside, Peak Downs, Norwich Park, Gregory Crinum, South Walker and Blackwater — have declared force majeure to excuse them from liability for failing to meet contractual obligations.
Record rainfall at Macarthur Coal's Bowen Basin coalmines, Moorvale and Coppabella, prompted the company to also seek force majeure protection on December 3. Force majeure has been declared on sales contracts for each of Rio's four Queensland coalmines — Hail Creek, Clermont, Blair Athol and Kestrel — for nearly one month.
Anglo American's metallurgical coal business is working to clear its flooded pits, but its operations could be stalled for weeks."
The are junking the future, to pump out the past.
I wonder what these drag lines look like after sitting under water for weeks on end, 25% of the Queensland pits are that way.
So the catastrophic flooding in Queensland that was preceded by the devastating drought in the Murray-Darling basin did not produce Australia's 'Darwin moment' (Australia's equivalent to Pearl Harbor). I am shocked!
Oh, first you must clean up the mess and that is expensive AND fighting climate change is expensive. So, I'm just guessing here, wouldn't that be the expected response from any country so severely devastated? Even the US?
If we are looking for a WW II type of solution we had better begin the way we did 70 years ago; [climate] War Bonds.
I'm pretty sure Al Gore would be willing to do a bond tour and I bet Raffi would too. Maybe Lady Gaga?
Joe, A pretty silly and shrill misinterpretation of the facts. The programs are being cut as they are superceded by the decision to put a price on carbon. The programs that are being cut are a half arsed attempt to avoid the need for a carbon price by a former Prime Minister. We no longer need such things as cash for clunkers as we will soon have a price on carbon, do you get it? I think you have done exactly what you so often have acused the mainstream media of doing.
Brazil's rainy season has been particularly severe this year, with flooding also swamping southern Santa Catarina state and Sao Paulo, the economic hub that record its rainiest January in 60 years.
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Over+feared+dead+flooding/4178131/story.html#ixzz1CHNG5zsI
North Island in for a deluge
The heaviest rainfalls are expected in Northland where 150 to 200mm may fall in a 24-hour period.
Rain is expected to develop this afternoon in Auckland and become heavy this evening. The MetService expects the heaviest falls on Saturday morning, when rainfall rates may reach 25mm per hour.
God Bless the Supreme Court of the State of New Mexico.
New Mexico's push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, challenged by its new GOP governor, has won backing from the state's Supreme Court.
In a unanimous ruling, the court said Gov. Susana Martinez violated the state Constitution when she prevented a rule to establish a statewide cap on heat-trapping gases from being published in the state's register and thus taking effect.
"No one is above the law," the state's chief justice, Charles W. Daniels, said
Prime Minister Gillard's predecessor Kevin Rudd was axed from the top position last year due to disastrous polling results following his decision to shelve his proposed emissions trading scheme for 3 years. That decision played a major role in his downfall. We now see Gillard deciding to shelve any real action for 4 years. The forthcoming polls will be interesting to watch, as will ex-tropical cyclone Anthony which is expected to intensify back into a cyclone and cross Queendland's coast late this weekend.
We live in interesting times.
Joe P, did you miss this bit in Joe R's piece?:
One can't argue that a carbon price isn't crucial, but a carbon price by itself won't solve the problem, as I've said many times — and that assumes Gillard delivers on her pledge. Nor is the initial carbon price likely to be anywhere near high enough to jumpstart many clean energy technologies. The fact is that new, innovative technologies face many market barriers and deserve government incentives.
Half arsed or not, the present initiative is better than nothing, at least until something more serious is established.
If we're in the position where we can't afford to invest in cleaner and greener technologies then we've passed the dreaded "climate tipping point."
Vic @ 38 –
Interesting indeed , the event that just hit Jeddah, the second largest city in Arabia is interesting . It is the second major flood to hit nearly 1 million people in this desert, in the last 13 months. To say they are "geared-up" for this is a serious understatement. Only 10% of the city has any storm drainage at all.
They seriously think that the reason this is happening is because , they have a crappy infrastructure. What they fail to grasp is that no one has an infrastructure that can handle what they just got……….
" The Meteorology Department of King Abdulaziz University registered 114mm of rainfall in four hours on Wednesday morning. In the Nov. 25, 2009 floods, approximately 90mm of rain fell in about three hours. Earlier this month, 45mm rain fell in a few hours. The average rainfall in Jeddah for the winter months (November to February) is about 51mm."
Nobody is designed for this …. Nobody.
This rain would have killed people even in the rainiest parts of the world.
This is a mind boggling event in British Columbia.
OregonStream, No I didn't miss it I just don't agree with it. They really were lame options that were designed to divert attention from the fact our previous PM had abandoned a cap and trade approach. As has been pointed out that was one of the main reasons he was dumped. Our current PM has pledged to introduce a carbon price and the process has already begun. This was an opportunity to dump these lame programs, most of which were not going to happen anyway (e.g. cash for clunkers already deferred by 1 year). There was very little in these programs of a progressive nature it was just the usual smoke and mirrors pretending to do something while doing nothing stuff e.g "clean" coal initiatives…etc.
Clean energy programs will be cut back to help get Australia's export coal industry back to it's pre-flood expansionist phase. This is not a surprise to this Australian; too much revenue derives from it. As the economic impacts of climate change bite, mainstream politics in Australia will probably become stronger supporters of the fossil fuel industry; the simplistic argument that the economic costs of reducing emissions are too high will, unfortunately, become more effective the tighter the economic situation gets. As I'm sure is the case in the USA.
Ah, yes, my dumb homeland! Great scientists, great institutions (BoM, CSIRO), great affluence, great infrastructure, great standard of education, great access to resources (information included)… (I'll sneak in great public health system!)… head-in-sand electorate, and craven or ideologically lobotomised political elite… [sigh]
Maybe I'm in denial myself, but I actually feel like there may be light at the end of this tunnel, after all.
I think the deniers are at their high point, right now, and that their support will steadily erode from this point forward. This is mainly because the effects of AGW are becoming so obvious, with all the flooding and so on recently.
The MSM has actually run a couple of unbiased stories about AGW, recently, and that is a very good sign that our financial elites are finally getting the message about the huge costs and consequences of AGW. Lawyers are talking about hundreds of billions of dollars in climate damages- and that is a very, very positive sign as well.
Obama's "clean energy" program actually looks like a deal of some sort to me- nuclear and clean coal in return for the green light on solar and wind. Cutting the fossil fuel subsidies may be a sign that the rest of our financial elites are finally willing to throw the fossil fuel corporations overboard.
Will nuclear and "clean coal" suck all of the air out of the energy funding room? Not if we throw enough money at the problem.
We'll see what happens with the new Congress. Signs so far look horrid, but we'll see how much is posturing and how much is substance, soon enough.
But, a pulse of heat is working its way deeper and deeper into the oceans. The Arctic is in a death spiral, and increased solar heating of the Arctic due to the ice/albedo feedback looks inevitable. Lets hope that the bacterial and physical barriers that minimize the release of methane from methane hydrates into the atmosphere are very effective, indeed. Because when that pulse of heat makes it into the hydrate deposits themselves, we could be in a totally irretrievable situation.
Death by greed and idiocy?
Maybe not.
Maybe the lawyers will save us. :)
There has not been sufficient acknowledgement of that warming is an underlying cause of the flooding here is Australia.
There is just not enough recognition of the threat.
Rome went blindly on over farming the south of Italy until it could no longer supply the grain required.
It increasingly appears we are headed for a collapse of the current culture followed by a new dark ages. We need to wake people up! Julia, if you read this – make sure we GET a price on carbon otherwise you will go down in history as yet another PM who knew there was a problem and failed to deal with it.
Sorry a bit of frustration showing here (typo's, etc).
But really, we have to increase the pressure on our leaders to do something constructive. We have to leave most of the remaining fossil fuels in the ground un-burned.
Ken @ 15
Hey Ken,
I live down the road in Norfolk do you have any ground to put things on if so…
You can also build solar pannels at a fraction of the cost of commercial ones if you have a bit of electrical DIY knowledge.
I have heating oil too as most of us do out in the middle of nowhere but it costs less money to fill a 747 with liquid gold than it does to fill up my oil tank (people around us were paying £500 + for 900 liters a few weeks ago and it's only going to get worse over time.
Leave a note up here if you want to talk solar projects etc
You modify the climate…
Stage one…
The weather smashes everything down, so you rebuild it.
Stage two…
Insurance is now expensive. The weather smashes everything down again, so you mostly rebuild it.
Stage three…
You can no longer afford insurance if you can get any and the weather smashes everything down again so you partially rebuild but it's a loosing game now.
End game…
No insurance available, no money to rebuild and the weather knocks everything down again, you are demoralized, you have no money and what the heck is the point of rebuilding as the weather will just smash it all down again!
Result permanent decline of all services and infrastructure and living standards, broken communications and transport infrastructure and food production… etc…
Welcome to the new dark ages.
Illustrating Bill's reflection of Australian politicians (#43) is our prime minister's tetchy response on national radio this morning to the question 'do you think that climate change has anything to do with the flood disaster'. Julia Gillard's reply 'I don't think you can look at one weather event, one disaster. I mean this has been a huge, unprecedented disaster but I don't think you can look at one, a bit of the weather and say that equals climate change. I don't think it's as simple as that. But having said that of course I do believe that climate change is real and is going to impact on our country.'
Why the ambiguity? This is not as she states 'one disaster'. It is numerous disasters resulting from multiple high rainfall events falling on supersaturated catchments across a large area of the continent? Even for Australia, these are extreme events juxtaposed on a record warm and predominantly dry decade, suggesting that climate change is impacting on our country now.
Joe P,
No I didn't miss it I just don't agree with it.
Ah, no evil 'misinterpretation of facts' but an innocent difference in opinion.
Colorado Bob- 36 The heaviest rainfalls are expected in Northland where 150 to 200mm may fall
We've had 200mm so far today (14hrs) in the north of NZ, and it's really bucketing down right now. The remain s of tropical cyclone Wilma are expected to stick around for another 12 hrs.
Colarado Bob,
"To say they are "geared-up" for this is a serious understatement. Only 10% of the city has any storm drainage at all."
Reminds me of the bushfires in Israel last year. Their fire fighting infrastructure was almost non-existant because they'd never needed it before. Even Australia's fire fighting infrastucture, amongst the best equipped and most practiced in the world, buckled under the pressure of the recent "Black Saturday" firestorms which took 173 human lives. The subsequent governmental inquiry pointed to "serious deficiencies" on multiple levels.
But then, what else could you expect when 400 individual fires break out on a record breaking 48°C (118°F) day with wind speeds in excess of 100 kmh (62 mph) and preceeded by a decade of drought ?
I certainly agree with all the excellent comments about how you have to spend on mitigation before adaptation costs suck up all your money in a downward economic spiral.
However, I don't think this is the case here. Australia has lots of money still and a robust economy. The PM is just choosing to target mitigation funds at this point.
Australia isn't in an adaptation-costs downward spiral yet…they are just continuing their long running stupid-is-as-stupid-does downward spiral.
The fact that the PM doesn't even understand…
1) that coal pollution loads the dice for more extreme weather events
2) that every weather event has a coal pollution component to it these days
3) that coal pollution has increased the energy in the entire global climate system — oceans and air
…shows that "stupid" is alive and kicking at the top of the heap down there.
That's OK, she says because someday I'll do something totally insignificant about it.
guys the pm actually said she was dumping the subsidies and replacing them with "a price on carbon"
a price on carbon gives everyone the financial signal to move to lower carbon choices
my money is still on Julia; at least she is an atheist
Australia's current government doesn't actively embrace denial (although not pushing the issue as a high priority) but it does embrace a degree of doubt (maybe it won't be so bad) and has consistently engaged in delay. Doing the least it can get away with, not the most it's capable of and certainly not the minimum that's required is a continuing constant. We don't even get a genuine debate on relative effectiveness of mitigation versus adaptation. And the real elephants in the room – costly repair and remediation from too late and ineffective mitigation and adaptation – don't get mentioned at all. Yet that's what's going on right now; resources for mitigation and adaptation for the future are going on repair and remediation in the present.
@51 Anne van der Bom, Silly and shrill is a whole lot differenct than "evil". I just thought the attack overblown. The PM is from a left of centre party that has formed an alliance with the Greens in order to govern. I think the left is often its own worst enemy and I see the headline in that context, we need to support our own rather than constantly attack them for not going far enough, nothin evil about it!
Unfortunately down here in Australia we're drowning in conservative spin. Rupert Murdoch controls 70% of our print media and the commercial TV stations aren't much better.
As soon as the floods began to subside the usual suspects in our media began furiously spouting anti-climate-change propaganda and claiming that the floods were all part of a "normal-cycle" and steqdfastly ignored the massive elephant in the room.
Whilst I don't think too many of us will be too upset over the demise of CC&S or cash-for-clunkers the cuts to solar programs are far more worrying. At least the PM isn't resiling from a carbon price and given our political and media environment if she gets a worthwhile scheme up and running it will be a major achievement.
The flood levy – panic and politics do not make for good policy
The response of the Gillard government to flood reconstruction has been panic at the prospect of not being able to return a budget surplus in 2012/13. Incredible as it may seem to you and I they fear a sneering opposition.
The Victorian floods have not even run their course and Queensland may suffer further flooding, yet Gillard is announcing the urgent need for a twelve month tax payer levy. There has been no survey of damage and therefore there can be no estimate of reconstruction costs; so why the rush? There are no announced mechanisms for prioritising and auditing expenditure.
I wouldn't give money voluntarily within this framework yet I will have to. I am being compelled, against my better judgement, to contribute to a second rate and ill thought through scheme.
Through her precipitate and panicky response Gillard has, unwittingly, opened up the whole question of government expenditure.
Twice I have been posted in Pakistan, as an Australian diplomat, with reporting responsibilities for Afghanistan. On my first tour I observed the country, on my second I took photographs of Russian soldiers and installations. The war is unwinnable, Afghanistan is not the breeding place of terrorism, the Taliban regime is no worse than the Wahabi regime in Saudi Arabia. Regarded as a friend of the US, Saudia Arabia has given clandestine support to Hamas, the Taliban and Al Qaeda. The Saudi treatment of women and domestic servants, can at best be described as discriminatory.
Australia should withdraw from Afghanistan, saving $2 billion a year. http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=11548
The ALP (Australian Government) is still dominated by unions. Most of the elected ALP parliamentarians are unionists. The coal mining unions are still quite powerful in Australia. Connect the dots.
I didn't vote for the ALP (and couldn't possibly have voted for the other major party) because I don't trust them to deliver on climate change action. (I voted for the Sex Party, which seemed to have the best range of policies).
I don't hold much hope of getting any action in the short to medium term, although the Queensland and Victorian floods are helping convince people of the need for action, and Cyclone Yasi might convince a few more.


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Airborne correlation spectrometry (COSPEC) was used to measure the rate of SO2 emission at White Island on three dates, i.e., November 1983, 1230 ± 300 t/d; November 1984, 320 ± 120 t/d; and January 1985, 350 ± 150 t/d (t = metric tons). The lower emission rates are likely to reflect the long-term emission rates, whereas the November 1983 rate probably reflects conditions prior to the eruption of December 1983. The particle flux in the White Island plume, as determined with a quartz crystal microbalance/cascade in November 1983, was 1.3 t/d, unusually low for volcanic plumes. The observed plume particles, as shown from scanning electron microscopy, include halite, native sulfur, and silicates and are broadly similar to other volcanic plumes.
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