Why Should I Care?

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Jan 112020
 
Why Should I Care?

I remember when I was 16, having to get up in June at 5:00am for work start at 7:30, to have breakfast, shower, shave, etcetera, then catch a bus – I was 16 remember – It was ferking cold. I distinctly remember standing at the bus stop, shivering. I remember the winds in July-August howling through the concrete canyons of the city, bitterly cold. That was 1973, so 47 years ago. I wonder these days where those winters have gone.   I have vivid memories of living in Cairns, 1976 to 1979. Wonderful place, much smaller than it is today. […]

Wrong Way! Go Back!

 Earth Sciences, Political, Science, Societal  No Responses »
Nov 032014
 

Yet again we see the IPCC telling us what we already know to be fact. We – the human species – need to stop digging up, drilling for and otherwise liberating fossil fuels as the major driver of our energy production. As Ban Ki Moon said, the science is in, and it is irrefutable Meanwhile, the nihilists, corporate sycophants, pseudo-religious fruitcakes and plain ignorant refuse to accept that unlocking millions of years of stored carbon in less than a millennium is having an irreversible, detrimental impact on the planets’ delicate biosphere. Sure, the planet will recover eventually, once the species liberating […]

Politically Inconvenient Uncertainty For Some

 Earth Sciences, Political  No Responses »
Feb 252011
 

The shrillness of conservative zealots over Gillard’s announcement yesterday that Australia will head down the path to pricing carbon emissions, and then on to a market-based trading scheme for carbon emissions, confirms the vacuum in which conservatism finds itself on the question of Climate Change, and more pointedly, genuine public policy as a possible alternative government.

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