Apologies – Maelor’s List might be a little disrupted these next four weeks. I’m currently in Mildura en route to Alice Springs and the Larapinta Trail. There’ll be cover many days (I’m doing the supply rather than the trail) so I’ll send as often as possible. Watch for further advice please.
Re renewable energy for Lord Howe Island, either 167,000 litres of diesel per year, ongoing or two wind turbines providing, after construction, free energy. But no, they’d ‘have clearly unacceptable impacts’ and ‘considerable, intrusive visual impact’. Who’d have thought that Josh was such an aesthete?
On ‘Hug a climate scientist day 2017’ (First Dog on the Moon in The Guardian), the question to ask is not ‘do you believe in the science of climate change’ but ‘do you understand the science of climate change’.
Gallery accuses Indigenous corporation of silencing artists in mine dispute – interesting issue with suggestions of conflicted interest. This is hot on the heels of Marcia Langton’s address in the mining industry’s annual lecture this week. Marcia Langton has conducted research funded by Rio Tinto, Woodside and Santos previously. Just observing.
Stockland installing Tesla charge points at shopping centres is the next stage in the private transport transition. Wait until autonomous vehicles become widespread – we can avoid many of the arterial and freeway upgrades when we make more efficient use of the infrastructure we have.
The Daily Climate picking up an LA Times article carries a story that two years ago we wouldn’t have imagined – China looking to California for support in their global leadership role in climate response.
Re public opinion shifting the ground under Trump, Abbott and the coal club, I like the framing of the troglodytes as being in ‘a toxic cloud of self-serving fervour’. Adani’s progress is knocking up against more than just public opinion and the troglodytes will need to serve more than self.
Naomi Oreskes is right, it is the Republican Party, frogmarched to stupidity by the Tea Party, that is at fault. They also gave us Trump so in that sense she’s spot on. And our Cory has been over to learn their processes. Oh for a Conservative party here that was a lot smarter.
Happy World Environment Day.
Trump has condemned the US to what Henry Luce, in his editorial regarding The American Century, ‘flounder for 10 or 20 years in a chartless and meaningless series of disasters’. The tragedy for us all is that every other country is involved.