<blockquote>He made a few hundred grand over several years in stock options (it wasn't like they gave him the stock)...How do you expect him to eat?" </blockquote>
Well, that's the thing about options: even more than with the stock, you don't eat so well if the stock just lies there, but if it moves you eat much, much better.
A couple of points about Plimer's piece in The Australian --
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/hot-air-doomsayers/story-e6frg6zo-1225708547192
<blockquote>CO2 is plant food, it is not a pollutant and it is misleading non-scientific spin to talk of carbon pollution."</blockquote>
That's a political judgment, not a scientific one, yet because a geologist said it we're supposed to accept it as scientific even though it springs from the same political mentality that gave Americans ketchup as a "vegetable." One critter's food is another's pollutant. If people by the hundreds of millions should be uprooted by CO2-induced climate change, I think I'd make the political judgment to call CO2 a pollutant for humans if not for plants.
<blockquote>If we had carbon pollution, the skies would be black with fine particles of carbon. We couldn't see or breathe."</blockquote>
Even if Plimer hasn't intentionally conflated "carbon pollution" (soot) with CO2 pollution, he's not making things clearer for his "average punter" whose common sense he professes to admire and whom he's presumably trying to persuade in this article.
<blockquote>It is human arrogance to think that we can control climate, a process that transfers huge amounts of energy."</blockquote>
We're really not talking about controlling climate; that's a straw man. We're trying not to screw it up. On the macro scale humans are much better at screwing things up than at controlling them, and that's what we're trying not to do here.
Just posted this on Jockey's blog & Facebook page:
Hi!
Just thought I'd let you know that due to your CEO's involvement with the Koch Brothers I've thrown away my and my children's Jockey wear (which we've been wearing all our lives, as did my dad) and we will never purchase Jockey products again. As long as Debra Waller remains anti-worker you won't see another cent from us and I will advising my friends and family to do the same.
I hope playing with the big boys is worth the loss.
It's been several months now since the oil spill. We don't hear about it anymore. I traveled to Gulf Shores a few months ago to check out the progress, since i am planning to move there.....all the workers are gone, and everyone assumes the oil is too.....I'm not so sure it isn't sinking to the bottom of the ocean. . . which could be haunting later.
He made a few hundred grand over several years in stock options (options, by the way - it wasn't like they gave him the stock)... this is relatively small fry for the mining industry. Jesus you could make more than that simply driving a hauler over the same period - and this is a world leading PhD Geologist we're talking about - how do you expect him to eat?
In the interest of balance, and reporting HONESTLY on spin and misinformation (that'd be the day?) I'd LOVE to know how much funding has Tim Millennium-Bug Flannery milked out of the government to advocate their carbond dioxiode scam?
Having substantial interest in, in the form of stock options, according to the article. And you wouldn't really need to have an opinion on global warming one way or the other to argue against it if you felt that "...the introduction of a cap-and-trade system in Australia could have a major impact on the mining industry, and even 'probably' destroy it totally" by whatever means, as the article claims.
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