Are the Silly editors taking the piss? It seems the weather writer is now called the Carbon Economy Editor. Is this for real or is this some sort of joke?
What does carbon economy even mean? Is carbon really code for carbon dioxide? But then carbon dioxide economy makes even less sense, if that is possible.
It’s a dry ice argument.
blogstrop
12 Jan 13 at 2:11 pm
Judith,
They are dead serious – welcome to the carbon economy – I suggest you study the motives behind the failed technocracy movement last century in the US.
The goal as I interpret it, is to replace money with carbon credits as our primary medium of intermediary exchange. If you are a socialist, and Gillard is an extreme left doctrinaire one, you remain committed to your goal – world wide socialism. Everything she is doing is slowly but surely putting that system into place. It is inevitable.
I just hope financial collapse occurs sooner than later to shake the mob out of their existing state of slumber.
Louis Hissink
12 Jan 13 at 2:37 pm
The Carbon Economy Editor has just had to report this, with great sorrow. Sydney ‘heatwave’ over…
Lazlo
12 Jan 13 at 3:08 pm
Fairfax as always surfs the wave of the Future! (not)
Mene mene etc.
Bruce
12 Jan 13 at 3:29 pm
They’re building up for another big push on Global Warming er..Climate Change.
Paul
12 Jan 13 at 3:29 pm
Why just have a group known as spouting from the same Holy Tablets when you can try and make it seem like they actually have separate fields if expertise? They must do that so that as many of their alarmist writers (‘journalists’ is too narrow a term for them) as possible have a title, rather than being just “Team” members. Just like it sounds better (and furthers The Narrative better) to say “Weatherwatch reports xxx” when you don’t always know that ‘Weatherwatch’ is owned by Fairfax.
So you can have someone called the Environment ‘Editor’ (Cubby) – although you would wonder if anything is ever ‘edited’ from the alarmist press releases. Ditto for Carbon Economy ‘Editor’.
M Ryutin
12 Jan 13 at 4:13 pm
“Carbon Economy Editor” is sooo last week, it’s ” cli-fi author ” now.
jumpnmcar
12 Jan 13 at 4:19 pm
jumpnmcar, love it! Mark up your comment +5
John A
12 Jan 13 at 5:06 pm
Jump, that had better not be from the ‘bodice ripper’ genre of Chicklit…
Winston SMITH
12 Jan 13 at 5:20 pm
Aaaarrgghh! my Inner Misogynist just exploded out of my chest, scampered across the floor, and is now safely reproducing in the inaccessible part of the Clinic.
Youse are stuffed…
Winston SMITH
12 Jan 13 at 5:22 pm
The alternative is the silicon economy editor
Samuel J
12 Jan 13 at 5:56 pm
‘Carbon Economy Editor’ is a ridiculous oxymoron; what other economy is there?
Carbon is everywhere in everything that economics concerns itself with; but the muppets at Fairfax wouldn’t know that.
manalive
12 Jan 13 at 6:37 pm
I feel a bit ridiculous myself, I meant tautology.
manalive
12 Jan 13 at 6:43 pm
Lol… no wonder they’re going broke..
What an embarrassing title.
JC
12 Jan 13 at 6:44 pm
Since a good part of our economy is associated with extracting and exporting coal and with using electricity made from it I think we have a rather coalish economy already.
The Red Barren hasn’t the balls to tell us that it intends to close the coal industry down, yet it has stood idly by while a person, if that is an accurate description, has attempted to vandalise the share market. Its lack of vicious and instantaneous shrill harpy-ish attack against the individual exposes it as retaining still its inability to conduct itself in any manner even approximating the truth.
WhaleHunt Fun
12 Jan 13 at 7:26 pm
Perhaps this editor is going to report on miners involved with diamonds?
Norma
12 Jan 13 at 7:33 pm
It doesn’t matter, WhaleHuntFun. The Statute of Limitations won’t have run out when the AbbottAbbottAbbott regime gets in.
D day + 2 will see the phone line to ASIC being activated and the question being asked “Just what have you done about this joker, Mr ASIC?”
Winston Smith
12 Jan 13 at 11:34 pm
People in the position of Cabinet Minister need to be careful with this. A previous now deceased Labour Attorney General once asked “how about my little mate” and would have been the first such A-G going to prison but for the fact he died before trial.
Will
13 Jan 13 at 12:42 am
Winston, surely the ‘knicker ripper’ genre, if you get my drift.
JakartaJaap
13 Jan 13 at 12:57 am
Taking the piss may sway skeptics
Harold
13 Jan 13 at 10:16 am
Certainly not outside my experience of almost 70 yr living on the NSW Central Coast. I remember hotter times.
Why is it that so many psychologists become climate ‘know-it-alls’? From Reser’s bio:
Biota
13 Jan 13 at 10:28 am
Will, then the newly formed LNP government questions to ASIC would be:
Have you investigated this matter to its full extent?
If not, why not (it’s ASICs responsibility to uphold the law after all)?
If the resultant investigation has uncovered criminal activity in breach of the current law, then have you initiated criminal proceedings?
If not why not?
Depending on the answers given, then it would prudent that the ASIC bureaucrats response and diligence in this matter would thus come under inspection. If that inspection uncovers incompetence, negligence, or political bias that’s stonewalled the investigation/prosecution, then it’s time to move that individual on.
Rohan
13 Jan 13 at 10:30 am
hahaha Winston. You are most definitely on the mend now.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
13 Jan 13 at 11:28 am
If there is a market there, someone will supply it. Was it Frank Knight who said he could not work out if people opposed the market because it did not work properly or because it was working properly? is this a case of this?
Jim Rose
13 Jan 13 at 11:48 am
Thankyou Rohan.
Will, Rohan puts it all into English As a First Language for me. I can only plead I was full to the freakin’gunnals with narcotics at the time of writing.
Winston Smith
13 Jan 13 at 12:24 pm
Winston, you say that like it’s a bad thing.
kae
13 Jan 13 at 5:10 pm
Notice it is ‘carbon economy editor’ not ‘low carbon economy editor’.
Samuel J
14 Jan 13 at 6:19 pm
Give me a call if you need someone to explain it Judith. I’m not surprised you don’t understand.
Evcricket
15 Jan 13 at 8:02 am
Graham Lloyd has already done the work, its all about making sure the scare continues and to not report what is actually occuring in the real world.
Token
15 Jan 13 at 8:47 am