Robyn Williams carried on his campaign to politicise ABC science last Sunday by broadcasting a response to Don Aitken’s Ockham’s Razor piece from Professor Stephen Schneider. He has never felt the need before to broadcast rebuttals of global warming enthusiasts. One thing in Schneider’s talk caught my eye: “We’ve seen intensification of hurricanes and the […]

Australia has been a cornucopia, a near paradise of abundant food for most as long as most of us can recall. Droughts notwithstanding, our access to beautiful produce, fine meat and wonderful fish (not to mention great wine) has been something we can happily take for granted. The rest of the world struggles to feed […]

Every country has ’em, but only in Australia would we make them Australian of the Year. We know how to celebrate our ratbags: Professor Flannery, who has written extensively on environmental issues, spoke at a business and sustainability conference in Parliament House today and suggested a plan to pump sulphur into the atmosphere in order […]

In my previous post I referred to an introduction that the ABC’s Robyn Williams gave to an Ockham’s Razor presentation by Don Aitkin. He used a quote from a piece in The Spectator to suggest that Aitkin’s view should be taken with caution, if not disregarded. Here is the part of the article that Williams […]

This morning’s Ockham’s Razor broadcast was by Don Aitkin on global warming. Presenter Robyn Williams introduced him in these terms: It is one of the disappointments of my life as a broadcaster that I’ve never managed to interview Nigella Lawson. How would she fit into a science program you may wonder, but that’s mere detail. […]

On a sunny autumn day in Canberra, it is gratifying to see that our solar panels have already produced 5.56 KW. Working out exactly what that means in terms of light bulbs, computing power and our 20 year old electric cook top is a bit beyond me. All I know is it sounds good. Queensland […]

Walking to the shops in my Canberra suburb this afternoon, I wished I could communicate the sadness that greets every dry crunch under my feet. Supposedly it was a moist spring and summer, but here we are in autumn, experiencing that dessicating dryness that brings drooping spirits along with leaves. It is still very warm, […]

One of the problems with the Kyoto approach to carbon emissions is that they are to be addressed on a country by country basis, and most of the world isn’t actively participating in the scheme. This is such an obviously clunky approach that even the global warming cheer squad has now picked up on it […]

I had to laugh at this one. I have problems with the whole concept of underage sex when the consenting parties are physically equipped to do what they do. Romeo and Juliet, if they had survived, would have potentially faced jail for their romance under modern laws. And we all know that underage kids do […]