Daily Links Sep 29
When you’re an ideologue, you never let evidence get in the way of your fixed position, no matter how much it whacks you over the head or, in this case, …
Daily Links Sep 28
Off list with some serious advice for Albo and team. There’re lessons in the referendum and from our climate change response – we cannot go to the next election without a process for a more democratic and informed vote. We must have truth in political advertising, you cannot tell lies to dupe the electorate. We must have real-time disclosure of political donations, we must know who is pulling the strings to advance their own sectional interests. And we must have optional preferential voting, we cannot allow preference whispering to elect representatives on a minuscule vote.
Daily Links Sep 27
Previous mass extinctions were coincident with rapid, ie years measured in thousands or tens of thousands, temperature change. We’re now seeing rapid temperature change in just a few hundred years. …
Daily Links Sep 26
Off list and well past time for some light relief. Is this the year of the Magpie, speaking solely ornithologically of course. Perhaps the Tawny frogmouth, the world’s most instagrammed …
Daily Links Sep 25
In the 20 years that I’ve been sending on Maelor Himbury’s compilation of environment articles from the country’s newspapers, there has been no more reliable source of support for the …
Daily Links Sep 22
We voted to kick out the troglodyte Morrison government last year in large part because of their climate policy constipation. Here we are now, more than a year later and …
Daily Links Sep 21
Mt Onthemoon is on the job again. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/20/remember-when-chatting-about-the-weather-wasnt-sinister-and-weird From: Maelor Himbury <M.Himbury@acfonline.org.au>Date: 21 September 2023 at 9:08:21 am AESTTo: Undisclosed recipients:;Subject: Daily Links Sep 21 Post of the Day Premiers …
Daily LInks Sep 20
Adaptation without mitigation is just plain stupid. If you kept kept the tap running while you mopped the floor, you’d be advertising your stupidity. Chris Bowen and Tanya Plibersek, turn …
Daily Links Sep 19
You have to wonder about the audacity of the RWNJs. They’ll be drawing into pro-life (who is anti-life, by the way?) and the ‘climate scare’ chemtrails, 5G and COVID into …
Daily Links Sep 18
Servos overnight jacking up the price of fuel already in their tanks by 40 cents a litre is another example of an ‘economic rent’, if I understand Garnaut correctly. I’ve always been disgruntled at what seems an opportunist anti-competitive practice, done because they can. We all should pay attention to Ross Garnaut, he makes so much sense.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-17/ross-garnaut-70-billion-from-carbon-price-economic-rent/102850464