When I first saw this picture of Stephen Harper and Tony Abbott having breakfast together, I thought something had gone wrong with their "special relationship."I mean they both looked so tense, and the cat looked sooooo jealous.And that even after Abbott called Harper a "beacon" for Conservatives all over the world.But
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Montreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Groupie from Down Under
Well he may be making a fool of himself on the world stage. Posing as a champion of democracy and Vladimir Putin's worst nightmare. Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Russian President Vladimir Putin is an “extreme nationalist” and an “imperialist” who is threatening global peace and security. And he doesn’t mind
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: New Zealand – Australia’s Climate Change Lifeboat
Australia is somewhat ahead of the global average for climate change temperature rise. The country just passed the 1C mark. There’s obviously plenty more heat on the way in the future, just as there is everywhere else from existing atmospheric greenhouse gases, not even counting the additional GHGs we’ll be
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Denialists Are Not Skeptics, Even When You Turn the Planet Upside Down.
Maybe the time has come when the onus of proof should shift off the shoulders of climate science and onto the shoulders of the denialist community. You say it’s all a hoax then prove it. You say what’s happening now is just natural variability, then prove it. You say that
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: If This is Fact, We Need to Rethink Our Bitumen Policy, Pipelines Included.
Word is coming out of the discovery of a truly massive, shale oil field in Australia that’s expected to produce from 233 upwards to 400-billion barrels of crude oil. That’s crude oil, not bitumen. Even at the lowest range, 233-billion barrels considerably exceeds Canada’s 175-billion barrel petro-reserves, most of which
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Harper’s Enviro-Bum-Buddy Wastes No Time Following in the Great Man’s Path
Love is literally blossoming between 24 Sussex Drive and The Lodge in Canberra, the respective residences of Sideshow Steve Harper and his newly fledged Australian mirror image, Tony Abbott. Abbott wasted no time in repealing Australia’s carbon tax, a move that earned him kudos from the Harper regime that proceeded
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: John Howard Praises Tony Abbott’s Climate Change Denialism
Stephen Harper’s all-time favourite garden gnome, former Australian prime minister John Howard, has come out swinging in favour of Australia’s new hard rightwinger, Tony Abbott. John Howard has told an audience of climate sceptics in London that Tony Abbott’s defiance on global warming in the face of left-wing zealotry was
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Australians Beware: Soon The Climate Science Deniers Will Be In Charge
lnp.jpg ANYONE who places stock in safeguarding the current and future climate (and for that matter anyone who doesn't) should prepare themselves for the risk that very soon, climate science deniers, contrarians and sceptics will be running the show. All the polls suggest that a Liberal-led coalition will sweep to power at
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