It’s a rare day: the Sydney Morning Herald and the Daily Terror had exactly the same front page headline this morning: Shock and Gore – referring of course to:
Here is the straight ABC version and here Annabel Crabb’s retelling, which I found quite amusing: “Gore blimey! How’s that for climate policy?”
The news that Clive Palmer would be joined by former American vice-president Al Gore for his carbon tax reveal was deeply surprising.
Not from Mr Palmer’s point of view: he is on the record as liking dinosaurs. And razzle-dazzle. And while the Palmer United Party has proven very good in the past at doing things that annoy Tony Abbott, it is pretty much a technical impossibility to devise anything that would annoy the PM quite so much as bringing the High Priest of the Warmist Alliance along to a policy announcement. Having the whole thing emceed by The Brick With Eyes was just salt in the wound.
The motivation of Mr Gore (or vice-president Gore, as Mr Palmer loyally described him throughout the event, either due to a seriously antiquated grasp of American current affairs or an excessive love of flourish, a fault for which “Professor” Palmer is already widely known) is less clear.
Clive Palmer certainly has added some spice to our political scene!
And now the weather here in West Wollongong – still windy though at this moment calmer. About an hour ago I took the following set as I walked back to Mount Keira Road and The Bates Motel from the Yum Yum Cafe where I had coffee while mulling over the implications of the Clive Palmer Show of the day before. Oh, and the pics really are about weather rather than climate…
Now that lovely eucalypt outside The Bates Motel looks decidedly dodgy. What are the chances of a power outage later on?
So far only minor branches hanging by the proverbial, but there are at least five of them – and the wind direction does rather drive them towards the power lines.
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