Comments on: Climate change fakes and fakers: the mindless mob.

By: Biker

Biker — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:04:31 +0000

Enjoyed your post, Angel.

A roo wiped me out eleven years ago. Three months in hospital.
No permanent damage, but I still have fifteen stainless pins and screws and one plate in my right leg.

Greg will probably insist stainless isn’t a PM… and I’m off-topic… so I’ll quit while I’m ahead… .

By: Angel

Angel — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:56:15 +0000

@biker I like your reply and the fact you tore them out LOL.I to ride a bike and I’m doing up an old 1976 yamaha 400f daytona special.I use to use a mobile on long rides back 10 yrs ago.As I said before i don’t have a business so i don’t need to use my real name on the internet or email I use paypal not a credit card and I bought some good software for all those pesky cookies and trails you leave while surfing,I also prefer to use a search engine that does’nt spy on me like startpage.com.au search and ixquick as they don’t retain your ip address.Thanks for responding happy riding but be careful,I raced motox for 8yrs with not to much damage road on the road for many years with just a few scratches then one day going around a slow bend on a country road my front wheel washed out on gravel I saved it and ran off the road into a clear paddock no fences but some bright spark dug a small ditch which stopped the bike and sent me flying over the bars,broke my back in 3 places smashed my pelvic plate in 5 places including my right hip joint clean through my left leg both my ankles and snapped of both my heels.Needless to say I don’t ride much these days but I sometimes get up to coles and back just for the feeling of FREEEEEDOOOMMMM!!!! LOL

By: Biker

Biker — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:37:42 +0000

Angel: “I want to be able to decide which tech i want for my family..”

I think we _all_ want that, A. We only use mobile phones on long (two-to-six-month) motorcycle rides. Skype is our main form of telecommunication. Probablty saves us thousands.

Angel: “(I’d) fully protect your right to own a smart meter…”

No thanks! Where Synergy put ‘em in, we had them take ‘em out, replacing them with the older A1 technology… .

We think consumers still have choice. As Greg says, if you’re using a computer, much of your use is being monitored anyway. Companies have lodged a host of cookies in your system. If you use any form of credit card, your purchases become part of a data bank on customer preferences.

Like you, we’re wary of some technologies. We’ve opposed the construction of mobile towers near properties we’ve owned… and, failing in appeals, then sold any rentals which were near them. We wouldn’t feel right renting them to others… .

By: Angel

Angel — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:14:27 +0000

@biker I’m glad you see some benefits in this system and it’s great that you are happy and your customers but I don’t want to be forced to change my whole lifestyle.I am a private citizen and do not run a business so there is no advantage to me.I already have a solar hot water system and was happy to get one which did save us some dollars.My concern was not the technology but it’s being implemented without our say.I want to be able to decide which tech i want for my family and which one I don’t want such as a mobile phone,none of us have one and we are very happy that way.We use a landline and pay phones when needed and if their is ever an emergency on the road such as a breakdown and no pay phone we do what people have done for many years before mobile phones and simply ask someone to make a call from their landline and we pay them or we thumb it or walk.No big deal but we have that choice to take the convenience of a mobile or not whereas smart meters are thrust upon us with no say,although I do believe there is a legal opt out that no one is discussing.Many people are ultra sensitive to RF radiation and have to live some distance from phone towers or they just feel sick constantly which is something that needs to be addressed instead of this Chinese style one size fits all policy.Thanks for your reply I respect your opinion and would fully protect your right to own a smart meter but please respect my right to not have one on my home.

By: Angel

Angel — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:55:36 +0000

@Greg sorry that was a measly 30 million

By: Angel

Angel — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:53:58 +0000

@Greg Atkinson,good point about the NBN.I know smart networks already exist and no where did I mention fear of technology as you know we can’t avoid it although my family and I do not own mobile phones.It’s not tech that worries me it’s how intrusive it becomes and something you never mentioned in your reply was the obvious rf frequency dangers to living beings.You only have to go and watch the videos of people monitoring the blasts of rf coming of these meters to see how dangerous and high these levels are.So there is a reason to be concerned about this particular so called advancement in technology which mostly benefits the power companies and some big businesses.On another issue the NBN ,pink bats and all the other wasteful spending is one thing but for a government to now want to hassle people on disabillity to claim back a measly 300 mill after getting us over 200 billion in debt is simply outrageous!

By: Greg Atkinson

Greg Atkinson — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:02:22 +0000

Angel you raise some interesting issues about Smart Meters but the reality is that “smart’ networks already exists, the mobile phone network being a good example.

I don’t think we should be fearful of the technology behind Smart Power Grids but I do think we should me wary of the privacy concerns you have raised.

Having said that Google and others already collect quite a bit of data about us, as do credit card companies, online shopping sites, mobile phone companies & everybody’s pal -- the tax office for example.

Personally if I were running the show in Australian I would have directed investment towards improving the power grid & infrastructure instead of rolling out the NBN.

By: Biker

Biker — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:06:06 +0000

Interesting comments, Angel.

Friends who realised Synergy had fitted a Smart Power meter to their Solar Electricity System discovered their electricity bill was actually much higher than before they fitted panels!

Our advice was to have A1 meters fitted to our seven SES systems. All our tenants are pretty happy, carrying forward credits. My missus actually got a $202 cheque last week…
Mine dew, many of our rentals have SHWS, as well as SES…
and reflective tinted windows facing morning and afternoon sun.

Lack of residential construction recently has meant that we’ve been able to pick up solar HWS and solar heat pumps very cheaply, due to suppliers having too much stock. We’ve saved around a thousand bucks per unit, as well as the $990 rebate.

Is it all a con?

Advantages to us are as follows:

a.) VERY happy tenants;

b.) Longer tenancies;

c.) Tax claim benefits;

d.) Value added to our rentals.

There’s no question that smart meters are sus. Most people haven’t realised they need to totally change their lifestyles to benefit. The installer who put in a solar heat pump on our guest chalet this week gave us an auto-timer which turns the unit on only between 11:00 am and 4:00 pm… and is simply unplugged when we have no family or friends visiting… .

By: Angel

Angel — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:19:04 +0000

@Biker I don’t know much about them as I don’t own plasma or LCD tv’s but all I know is that the power company usage “expert” wanted to know if I was using these tv’s,if I had said yes she would have pinned my higher bill on the tv,you see where I’m coming from? She was fishing for something to blame the extra consumption on.Now these new tv’s may or may not be more efficient than what you’re currently using.I may have a reasonably new normal 32inch tv with a five star rating whereas I may purchase a Plasma 50 inch with 2 star rating that is going to use more power.Also in the near future all these so called SMART products are going to be communicating wirelessly with your new so called SMART meter and recording your every move e.g. how you woke up at 3 am and switched on your toilet light how you then proceeded to the fridge and activated the fridge light,then you went on a holiday for a week when nothing was used apart from normal running all this personal spying done in your home will then be wirelessly transmitted to passing electricity company vehicles where they will intercept the transmission and asses your next bill however they have much more info than you think because soon every product you put in your fridge will be scanned by your fridge and recorded then that info will be sold to the highest advertising bidder so that they can pop up an add on your pc about coke for eg just as your running low on cans of coke how convenient.Meanwhile people you don’t know have info on when you regularly leave for work or vacation,crooks and hackers will develop systems to read your wireless signal and personally I do not want a control grid of so called SMART products spying on me in the name of “saving” the environment.This is all part of the socialist agenda coming down around our heads.These Smart meters send out ridiculous amounts of RF radiation equivalent to holding 100 mobile phones to your head every couple of minutes,as if we have’nt got enough to worry about with all the other cancer causing things in our modern society.IT”S ALL A CON WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!

By: Biker

Biker — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:09:39 +0000

Watch out, Ned… the Greens will make this compulsory!~

By: Ned S

Ned S — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:17:47 +0000

A mate of my dad’s had a welder that when he used it, made his electricity meter go backwards. So whenever his meter reading was getting up a bit, he just used to do some welding. I can see market potential for such ‘faulty’ devices!

By: Biker

Biker — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:33:23 +0000

Our electricity bills went down after purchasing a larger flatscreen, Angel. Seems to vary with plasma, LCD and LEDs:

http://www.comparison.com.au/home-entertainment/televisions/guides-and-information/53-energy-efficiency-ratings-for-plasma-and-lcd-tvs

There’s also a claim that when people bought new flatscreens, many also bought peripherals: video game consoles, digital video recorders, streaming/on-demand video devices and surround-sound entertainment systems. We have a one-button cut-out, which turns all these devices off simultaneously… .

By: Angel

Angel — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:34:08 +0000

I read the line where you said that flat screen tv’s use less than normal tv’s.The greenies really can’t use that excuse any longer because it’s simply not true.I rang my power company last bill and asked them why my bill was so high seeing I got rid of one of my fridges and didn’t use any central heating or air con,the first thing they said to me is that flat panel tv’s consume far MORE energy than normal tv’s,go figure,the lady was at a loss for words when I told her I have NO flat screen tv in the house,I had reduced my usage and got rid of a fridge!!! but I still paid $70 more this bill.She proceeded to tell me their had been 2 power rises from government one was about 10% the other 16% and that in the last 3 yrs power had risen about 30% all up and that’s before this toxic tax comes in.Next year I’ll freeze in winter because I won’t be able to even use a little heater and boil in summer with No air con but I’ll pay much more for power than I ever have before.This Government has to go and the Liberal government has to come clean on the REAL science behind the AGW globalist Agenda!!! WE are litterally allowing them to setup a scientific dictatorship that will Micromanage every part of our lives.If you have not looked into these new SMART METERS being placed on our homes without consent,I suggest you go to youtube or elsewhere and have a look at how dangerous they are to human health and how unsecure they are with your personal info.Wake Up Australia.

By: Ned S

Ned S — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 05:31:16 +0000

Labor govs are extremely destabilising.

Anyway, here’s the latest:

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/national/an-80000-carbon-tax-pain-barrier-from-professor-ross-garnaut/story-e6freooo-1226066967393

Bottom line is who’s gunna get what.

Cate? Yeah, maybe we should ask Arnie his opinion of climate change -- Various things have been hotting up and getting icy cold a lot in his bit of the world lately.

By: Senator13

Senator13 — Tue, 31 May 2011 03:04:06 +0000

Hahaha classic!

By: Greg Atkinson

Greg Atkinson — Tue, 31 May 2011 02:19:47 +0000

Goodness me, we now have Cate Blanchett lecturing people on climate change and economics.

Here is some wisdom from Cate “I loved the 2020 Summit” Blanchett as reported in the SMH yesterday:

Blanchett said Australia would be economically vulnerable if it remained a high carbon economy while its trading partners moved towards priced carbon. ”Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.”

So now we have actors who think they are not only well versed in climate science but actually are economists as well.

I hearby nominate Cate Blanchett for the inaugural Shareswatch Australia Climate Change Faker of the Year!

By: Lawrie

Lawrie — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:12:09 +0000

I am proud to be called whatever their new name is for those who oppose man made GW/CC. I could n’t care less because it shows they are becoming desparate. Their science doesn’t work so all they have left is name calling. It means we are beginning to win.

By: GoWest

GoWest — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 06:21:28 +0000

ONLY 150m from the beach! The minister for CCfraud (Combet) also bought a house near the beach in Newcastle in Nov 07 during the height of Gore-worship. Seems these fake Climate changers keep trying to push the coastal house prices down before everyone else realises its a scam. Hint — buy a property near the beach!
Having stopped the greenALP bringing in the ETS, I just hope that the carbon tax goes the same way, but we know how much the greens love their taxes so they can create more fire traps.
It is ironic that Carbontax is based on a gas -- the mainstay of life for everything green. Sort of makes you wonder how the greens get away with taxing trees! LOL:)

PS: the CCgang have another new name for us -- “Climate Cranks”

By: Greg Atkinson

Greg Atkinson — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:33:52 +0000

Kevin Rudd, the man who said climate change was the greatest moral challenge of our time is a certified climate change faker of the higher order, if there was any doubt his purchase of a holiday home confirms this: Rudd invests in a family escape Hypocrisy unlimited!

By: Senator13

Senator13 — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:18:09 +0000

Talk about the mindless mob -- Earth Hour tonight…