There is busy and rewarding and then there is too busy and uncertain rewards. We have been caught up these past few months working out how far to go with developing our little land on a ridge. The kangaroos are part of the considerations, but are not amenable to negotiations about our relative rights. Are […]

Generally it is more interesting and important to point out problems with the orthodoxy on climate change than its opponents, because it is orthodoxy that gets put into policy, not heterodoxy. But as the climate debate fractures in the face of evidence, a wider range of views becomes significant. Climate skeptics have recently been excited […]

Germany’s wind and solar power generation came to a standstill in late 2013. More than 23,000 wind turbines ran out of wind and most of the one million photovoltaic systems ran out of sunlight. For a whole week, coal nuclear and gas-powered plants generated an estimated 95 percent of Germany’s electricity. Britain has 3,500 wind […]

Some simple minded folk are saying that the current cold weather in North America ‘proves’ that climate change doesn’t exist. And our enlightened government has put out an energy white paper which manages not to mention either climate change or peak oil. Does that also confirm their non-existence? Or try these below, as the leaders […]

4,000 people protesting WA government plans to cull large sharks around surfing beaches is a sign that something has gone seriously wrong with Australian culture. These 4,000 apparently think that shark lives are more important than human lives. There are always a few people who think that the world would be better off without mankind, […]