Daily Links Mar 28

Tobacco-linked mortality prompted comprehensive and effective responses, despite Big Tobacco’s resistance. Here is an argument for calculating the mortality cost of carbon of an item. It might well be time …

Daily Links Mar 27

Democracy (and humanity) is the loser in the fundamental conflict between tested truth and power, bolstered by convenient lies. We need more ‘courageous’ members of Parliament if we are to …

Daily Links Mar 26

We’re already in the realm of + 1.5 degrees and there’s little sign of things turning around any time soon. Some local communities aren’t waiting, but the wider Tasmanian community …

Daily Links Mar 25

The author, a Canadian mechanical engineer, expects that we should take seriously the arrival of global cooling in just a few decades time. Tell a big enough lie with at …

Daily Links Mar 22

Bush Heritage Australia is running their Climate Ready project at Nardoo Hills out of Wedderburn. They’ve planted seed sourced from regions with the current conditions that Wedderburn is expected to …

Daily Links Mar 21

Happy equinox, folks, from Bush Heritage’s Nardoo Hills Reserve, where cactus stabbing is all the go. From: Maelor Himbury <M.Himbury@acfonline.org.au&gt;Date: 21 March 2024 at 09:07:13 GMT+11To: Undisclosed recipients:;Subject: Daily Links …

Daily Links mar 20

We’ve been sold a few pups in political campaigns of late, apart from the literal PUP that saw Jaquie Lambie first get elected. Minority governments are inherently bad is one …

Daily Links Mar 18

Dreyfus KC was previously Parl Sec for Climate Change so he knows the dangers Australia faces with Business as Usual. He’s also sitting in Cabinet where the flirtation by China …

Daily Links mar 15

As constipation continues as the metaphor for effective climate action, we can expect to see more chat about geo-engineering. When neither science nor the precautionary principle suggests against an uncontrolled …

Daily Links Mar 14

The emergence of nuclear energy as a viable energy solution for Australia has to be exposed as the most reddish of herrings. After Tex O’Brien’s gish gallop on 7.30 this …