Daily Links Sep 30
It’s a big job to fight the forces of darkness when they hold a big deck of cards and the ante on the table is measured in billions. So – …
Daily Links Sep 29
If ever we needed an example of how poorly served we are by politicians who don’t know science, or politicians who play politics with science, it is here. Now add …
Daily Links Sep 26
Before we get too smug about the rise of anti science in the US, the ‘Endarkenment’ breaks out sporadically here too with a council in our Deep North response to …
Daily Links Sep 25
Sadly, the Christmas Island Flying Fox isn’t the only endangered species without a Recovery Plan. Minister Watt is already in breach of the existing EPBC Act. What is the likelihood …
Daily Links Sep 24
The ‘drop in the bucket’ argument has a major hole. If we aggregate with our 1.1% of global emissions those of all other countries with a lower contribution than ours, …
Daily Links Sep 23
‘Ambitious but achievable’ might have been the mantra JFK observed early in the 60s in shooting for the moon by the end of the decade, but that is the usefulness …
Daily Links Sep 22
It might look like the factions in the Coalition are fighting over net zero. I reckon it’s more fundamental than that. Net zero is a proxy for control of the …
Daily Links Sep 19
And I suppose the MAGA cult members reckon gravity is a Marxist communist socialist antifa plot and Bernoulli’s Principle was created by leftard anti-guns losers. It’s good to just pick …
Daily Links Sep 18
On so many levels, public forestry is folly. We subsidise, in the billions, an industry employing tiny numbers of workers to cut down native forests and threaten the species that …
Daily Links Sep 17
In which universe does the LNP have a path to political relevance with their utter foolishness over climate policy? If they keep preselecting dunderheads, anti science fools and religious nutjobs, …