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Sounds a little like the predictable flooding in 2010 of many buildings permitted on flood prone land in the Brisbane River flood plain. A generation without a significant flood was all it took for opportunistic, short sighted municipal and government politicians and bureaucrats to forget the lessons of history.
> we need robotic geologists to bring common sense here on earth”
I suppose … we real life geos have failed miserably in that area.
I see comments from the likes of Schott, Chairwoman of NEG, stating that wind is cheaper than HELE coal plants – and most of the public wilfully remain so ignorant of basic geology that they nod in agreement. Hopeless …
As you know ianl8888, Turnbull the great decision maker knows it all, how could he possibly have been wrong in his choice of chairperson for his Energy Security Board?
Turnbull’s chosen energy supremo says wind is cheaper than coal
catallaxyfiles.com/2018/05/05/turnbulls-chosen-energy-supremo-says-wind-is-cheaper-than-coal/
Cost? Forget about it! – Quadrant 6 May 2018.
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And you shouldn’t blame geos for bad decision making that’s down to the failings of opportunistic politicians and bureaucrats. The fact that geology is complex just makes it easier for these opportunists to pull the wool over the eyes of the ordinary punter. Similarly electrical engineers shoulldn’t be blamed for politicians, bureaucrats and renewables rent seekers doing likewise when it comes to the electricity industry.
Dr Kerry Schott has some interesting history standing up to Eddie Obeid when she was boss of Sydney Water. Eddie and mates had Australian Water Holdings reaping a stream of dollars. Pages 366 to 370 & 372 in “He who must be Obeid” I think google can help with text.
Couldn’t agree more Warwick.
FROM THE ARTICLE WITH SOME COMMENTS:
“We knew we were building on an active volcano,” she said, but added that she thought the danger from lava was a remote possibility.
“You can’t really predict what Pele is going to do,” Ms Woolsey said, referring to the Hawaiian volcano goddess.
I PREDICT PELE WILL BLOW UP SOONER OR LATER
Kilauea has been continuously erupting since 1983 and is one of five volcanoes that make up the Big Island. Activity picked up earlier this week, indicating a possible new lava outbreak.
Residents have faced lava threats before.
In 2014, lava burned a house and destroyed a cemetery near the town of Pahoa. Residents were worried it would cover the town’s main road and cut off the community from the rest of the island, but the molten rock stalled.
GOT AWAY WITH IT THAT TIME, BUT CAN’T GET AWAY WITH IT FOR EVER
From 1990 through 1991, lava slowly overtook the town of Kalapana, burning homes and covering roads and gardens.
Kilauea has not been the kind of volcano that shoots lava from its summit into the sky, causing widespread destruction. It tends to ooze lava from fissures in its sides, which often gives residents at least a few hours’ warning before it reaches their property.
OH GREAT, IT’S OK TO BUILD THERE BECAUSE YOU CAN USUALLY GET AWAY BEFORE YOUR HOUSE BURNS DOWN
@Bob in Castlemaine
Your quote:
” … And you shouldn’t blame geos for bad decision making”
I wasn’t – and I dislike your silly straw man here.
1) I am a geo, long-standing, so I do know exactly what I’m talking about
2) the issue isn’t the slimy duplicity of bureaucrats, politicians, media and other noisy groups – it’s the deep ignorance of the public about geoscience. In that regard, we geos have failed miserably in imparting any useful information. I do despair – when I attempt to describe a simple fact to someone, I find that the basic underlying conceptual requirement is missing from that person’s knowledge base. Example ? Methane (“natural gas”) deposits in the Great Artesian Basin actually underlie the artesian aquifers by several hundred metres – but most people are missing the so-basic concept of sedimentary superposition. That abysmal ignorance is down to us geos failing to impart the concepts in a dynamic fashion. Of course, most people just don’t want to know anyway.
Calm down Ianl, I normally like your post. I am not a geologists but have done a some basic geol subjects at Uni. and i a few geol books which i have read.
I think the problem is more the lies of the Greens which many politicians have accepted because they they it will get them reelected. The public do not know better but many believe the politician when they science is behind them and quote some PhD or Professor (who have no qualifications in Geology or in any related scientific field eg Flannery or Stefen etc). Only yesterday in a discussion at a Men’s Shed I had to explain the misconceptions of fracking, coal seam gas extraction, and underground coal gasification. The Greens have put out propaganda which mixes them all up highlighting potential concerns about the water table. The Greens have raised unwarranted fears about Nuclear energy . At a U3A presentation most of the audience was most surprised when I said that no one died directly due to the Fukushima nuclear incident. All casualties were due to the Tsunami a natural occurance.
Re public ignorance, I mainly blame the press.
As a rule, they know little or nothing about the subject they are reporting on. But they do – supposedly – have journalistic ethics requiring them to get both sides of a story. This they never do on any issue where there is some politically correct line available to them.
The result is that, wherever a politically correct line is firmly entrenched, the public is totally misled on even the most basic facts. Nuclear energy is an extreme case and Fukushima a prime example. Nuclear death toll zero, but you would never know it. The Sturm und Drang the press kicked up was so bad that Germany shut down its nuclear plants, even though it has no earthquakes and no tsunamis. But but but Chernobyl, they say – worst nuclear accident in world history! True, but less than 100 deaths even there, which is fewer people than are killed in road accidents per hour.
Unfortunately there is a PC line about everything these days. It means that not only do journalists misreport the facts, they also ignore important stories. This site is full of relevant facts on public policy issues which have been swept under the carpet or totally ignored by the media because they don’t fit the narrative. Think fracking, bushfire contol, water catchment management, desal plants, wind, wave and solar power and so on.
And this is only part of a much broader problem. Check out this Media Narrative Chart for Reporting Violent Crime: It’s satire, but captures the essence of the situation. Whatever the crime, the papers just look at the perp and the victim and they instantly have their storyline. And for certain perps and victims, there is no story. Result is that the public gets a distorted view of crime, just as it is utterly misled on energy and environmental issues.
I blame the press but in the end, this is a problem of crowd psychology. Until a lot more of us doubt, question, and refuse to go along with media stereotypes, we will keep on being fed BS.
The Ricochet chart is very clever, we need an Australian version. If readers offer ideas for the three columns wazz might compile them.