Daily Links Jan 11

How effective is a $81,000 fine against clearing large swathes of savannah woodland when there’s $200 million dollars to be made? Here’s another test for you, Tanya Plibersek.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-11/land-cleared-for-cotton-farming-northern-territory/101651092

Daily Links Jan 10

There is so much in this cowboy attempt at geoengineering that should alarm us, from the idea that someone will release sulphur particles into the atmosphere because they can, that …

Daily Links Jan 9

Coal miners release sludge into our waterways, the sludge correlates with frog deaths and we subsidise the companies that do it. But coal mining is not a danger to human …

Daily Links Jan 8

Times are tough when there’s conjecture about the survival of the human species.  Will prospects for long-term human survival improve in 2023? – Pearls and Irritations johnmenadue.com From: Maelor Himbury …

Life as a Twitcher

Once I came out of the closet and self-described as a twitcher, I felt strangely liberated. I was out and proud. The usually unkind descriptor ‘nerd’ is still applied to …

Daily Links Jan 7

Send On 7 Jan 2023, at 10:35 am, greghunt.net Daily Mailer <mailer@greghunt.net> wrote: The ‘grief to income ratio’ applying to financing coal plants does not work in fossil fuel’s favour. …

Daily Links Jan 7

The ‘grief to income ratio’ applying to financing coal plants does not work in fossil fuel’s favour. Slowly but surely the industry is on the decline. The tragedy is the …

Daily Links Jan 6

Update on Andrew Tate and the Greta Thunberg contretemps, Romanian police have impounded his fleet of heavy-emitting luxury vehicles. The Thunberg mightn’t have assisted in the arrest, but she sure …

Daily Links Jan 5

With the faffing around about the nonsensical Carbon Capture and Storage and the diversions into the silliness of small modular nuclear generators, R and D dollars are siphoned off from …

Daily Links Jan 4

Front-runner Republican Presidential candidate Ron De Santis derides environmental, social and governance measures by corporations as directed to ‘whimsical notions of a utopian tomorrow’. The planet can’t afford Republican electoral success.https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03012023/republicans-disclosure-rules-esg/