Clive James has gone on the radio as a climate change sceptic, yet he is not a scientist. He is too clever by half, to my mind. And as we progress painfully to Copenhagen, the silly billies in the Liberal Party are also hell bent on not taking action. […] Continue Reading…
November 29, 2009 | Ronda Jambe
I’ll eat my money – or my hat
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November 22, 2009 | Ronda Jambe
Sign up for the Green Dragoons
Sydney is planning an urban farm. They haven’t decided where yet, but it will happen. And it will have more than just plants, as not all of us are vegetarian. Like Al Gore, I’ve cut way back on my meat, but for different reasons. Vegetarian spouse and laziness basically.
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November 15, 2009 | Ronda Jambe
Sisyphus@home
Gardening is not a hobby for those seeking ROIs, or rent, or even a full larder. ‘Wouldn’t want to live off what I grow’ is my grateful mantra. Grateful because real farmers grow my food, and a real supermarket puts the cornucopia at my fingertips. Almonds? Any day of […] Continue Reading…
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November 15, 2009 | Graham
NASA proves dad right – the moon’s not made of green cheese
Back in the early 60s my dad was chief engineer on ships in the Arctic Ocean servicing the Direct Early Warning (DEW) line which was a series of radars meant to give the US warning of ICBMs coming from Russia. This was very much Cold War time, although the […] Continue Reading…
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November 14, 2009 | Graham
“Climate Change Risks to Australia’s Coast” appears to breach PM’s guidelines on global warming.
Recently Kevin Rudd made a speech to the Lowy Institute where he labelled anyone who disputed the “scientific consensus” on global warming as driven by vested interests or anti-scientific. Where is the “consensus” to be found? Well if it is something that you can appeal to as a coherent […] Continue Reading…
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November 11, 2009 | Graham
My minute’s silence
This is a Rememberance Day post with a German theme.
Reader Fay Helwig of Das Helwig Haus B&B has planted a beautiful field of poppies which comes into bloom just in time for Remberance Day – the Rememberance Field.
The field will feature on Channel 9 between 6:30 and 7:00 tonight. […] Continue Reading…
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November 07, 2009 | Graham
Point of view
The Australian is generally skeptical of climate change and the ABC relatively accepting. So what would each choose to report from one set of tidal measurements?
According to The Australian’s headline “Science is in on climate change sea-level rise: 1.7mm “. But the ABC’s headline reads “WA sea level rises […] Continue Reading…
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October 31, 2009 | Ronda Jambe
Film is our subjective voice
Lately we’ve seen a couple of films that give different takes on WW2. Specifically digging deeper into less thought about groups that were caught up in the German burst of expansionism and genocide. A child unknowingly tumbling towards tragedy, his mother, father and sister each making different family-wrenching decisions […] Continue Reading…
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October 23, 2009 | Graham
Global warming quantitative analysis
(Cross posted from What the people want) Only 38% of Australians favour passing the government’s proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) before the Copenhagen climate summit, with 46% opposed. 42% of Australians are absolutely opposed to the CPRS, while only 40% support it.
This is the quantitative result of our […] Continue Reading…
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October 20, 2009 | Graham
MSN Messenger on auto-pilot with phishing site
In my position you’ve got to know more than the average bear about the Internet, so I try to keep all my social networking applications on as open a setting as possible – it adds to my store of experience. That means the scam merchants are often hitting on […] Continue Reading…
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