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You have probably missed it because the mainstream media hasn’t been reporting it much, but climate science just got a little less settled.
A key component in the climate, and in climate models, is cloud formation, but according to results just published in Nature, much of what we thought we […] Continue Reading…
Crikey Weekender asks what is the future for local product.
You’re a TV executive under pressure from shareholders. You could produce a local drama, commissioning Australian stories and putting local industry to work, at well more than $1 million a week. Or you could air an episode […] Continue Reading…
These past few months of travel have sometimes felt like a tour of wars, both long ago and more recent. It is possible for individuals to learn about history, but do societies ever change?
It is tempting to say ‘yes’, after being part of the cheerful crowd welcoming the Tour […] Continue Reading…
The government might call Tony Abbott “Dr No”, but the evidence suggests he is sometimes too ready to say “Yes” and that this is a fault he shares with some of his state colleagues.
Take his recent misstep over coal seam gas.
Talking to Alan Jones Abbott said that he would […] Continue Reading…
Last week Martha Nussbaum – an Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago – delivered the 2011 Hal Wootten Lecture at the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law.
Nussbaum spoke about “a world-wide crisis in education” across all levels of the […] Continue Reading…
Did you know that in the first 6 months of this year, 536 people in the US had died in tornadoes? Or that this was more than the entire previous decade? Don’t bother checking News Corp for that factoid.
Rupert Murdoch has been found wanting, his imperial power over pollies […] Continue Reading…
According to new research, increase in CO2 emissions are more dependant on global temperature and soil moisture than what we burn in our industrial world. Not what you are likely to hear from the government.
CO2 is not in the driving seat, it is in the back seat.
Speaking at a […] Continue Reading…
I haven’t seen it reported in the mainstream of the Australian media yet, but two very recent high level scientific experiments, and their results, show just how unsettled climate science really is.
An experiment at CERN into a theory of Henry Svensmark and a paper published by Roy Spencer in […] Continue Reading…
Will closing Tassie wood pulp mill endanger Sumatran tiger? Well it’s at least as plausible as the claim made by Greenpeace that IGA is endangering the tiger because it buys toilet paper from Asia Pulp and Paper which logs in Sumatra.
If pulp milling stops in Tasmania, demand for pulp […] Continue Reading…
Writing for that right-wing blog The Australian Caroline Overington refers to On Line Opinion as a “lefty blog”:
THE campaign by those affiliated with the ABC to prevent SkyNews from winning the $220 million licence to run Australia Network continues. This week’s contribution comes from one Tania Penovic, who has written […] Continue Reading…