something is better than nothing... isnt it?

Well the all singing and dancing solution to the worlds Greenhouse problems is of course the Asia Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate Change. At least thats what we were told in Australia. No need for Kyoto if we can get Japan, China, India, Sth Korea, Australia and the USA all working together towards reducing emissions (but purely on a voluntary basis of course... ), or at least stuffing the CO2 back in the ground.

Well it seems, despite the Bush administrations best effort, that the US congress has has decided to give the partnership the nod to the tune of $0 dollars for 2007 after spending the sum total of $0 over the life of the partnership so far. Seems, rather than the great leapfrog forward over Kyoto, that they're are saying the APPCDCC is not worth the paper it was signed on...

Oh well, at least I can scrape together another $80 a year for Greenfleet....

BG looses it

Oh no... Bill Gray looses it (he's the guy who decrees the total number, and reasons for, the Hurricanes in the Atlantic and their "multi-decadal" cycle).

Pick your best line - is it:
"Climate change is normal and natural. There was a Medieval Warm Period, for example, long before Exxon Mobil existed."
"The models can't even predict the weather in two weeks, much less 100 years"
"Few people know what I know. I've been in the tropics, I've flown in airplanes into storms. I've done studies of convection, cloud clusters and how the moist process works. I don't think anybody in the world understands how the atmosphere functions better than me."

Or the good ole ball instead of the man...

"Gore believed in global warming almost as much as Hitler believed there was something wrong with the Jews."

Crikey.
See the Washington Post

(According to Godwins first law of the internet, that's game, set, match. Thank you linesman, thank you ballboys...)

travellin' man...

For your Monday entertainment, theres a new advert on the CEI website, the one which brought you the most rediculous argument againt climate change ever put to screen when they aired their original ads in the USA (believe me, theres worse on the net!) - the Al Gore "travellin' man" ad. Hell, if you cant play the ball, play the man...

Prepare the laughter muscles...
http://streams.cei.org

Pity their calculations assume he makes 400,000 trips a year!
(http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/05/cei_exaggerates_by_a_factor_of.php)

wheres the wind?

Autumn. And a young mans fancy turns to freekin out cos the wind stops. And then comes the rain.

But the one good thing about it all is that it also means its time to turn the attention to the trails. MTB trails that is.

And today was a corker.

I've been a bit lazy of late and hadnt hit the dirt al that much. Watching "Chosen Line" on Ch.31 was about as close as it was getting - though those guys are pure nutbags; i mean, hucking it over a railway crossing (with train travelling underneath) and landing with zero braking distance.. whats going on there?? (A broken collarbone it looked like.) Wednesdays 10:30pm (and Fridays 2:30am)...

Anyway, with such inspiration it was time to hit the trails at Lysterfield, and the Commonwelf games course. Got to the rock garden and i was on fire... didnt miss a beat and the rocks just seemed to flow the right way for me. The big boulder, which i'd baulked at before - no wukkas - I was pumped. Slowing down the rebound on the rear suspension really seemed to work a treat. It was a bit like skiing - into corners it sat well and felt it squatted a little, and hen as you powered out it sprung up and felt like it heled you power out. Coool.

Plenty of roos about, some new people to ride with, a blue sky day and a nice set up.
Its hardly a windsurf, but hey, i was smilin'. Great day...