It was hilarious seeing Kevin Rudd give a press conference on renewable energy at a Townsville school on Tuesday, when the wind and solar batteries failed and plunged the room into darkness. The media questioning continued, but under the thin light of the battery-operated TV cameras.
Rudd had the wit to laugh about the mishap but it is an omen of things to come if climate-change hysteria continues and the desire to drastically slash carbon emissions overrides reality.
The Sydney Morning Herald: ‘Dead treaty, but Labor’s flogging it’
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.
SJT says
November 2, 2007 at 8:50 amMiranda devine, just another right wing hack.
Typically, she, along with Lomborg, thinks that money can fix anything. Kyoto was only ever going to cost a few percentage points of GDP, and was going to repay most of that anyway in increased efficiencies.
Luke says
November 2, 2007 at 9:15 amPlug was pulled just like with the worm. Foul !
Anthony says
November 3, 2007 at 8:55 amYep, better rely on coal and nuclear or something – they never fail!