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&gt;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

Daily Links Sep 15

There’s a long and strong tradition of doing dumb stuff, and this would have to be among the most dumb. Doing an uncontrolled irreversible experiment on the one planet that we have just so a bunch or rapacious fossil fools can keep wrecking the joint is stupid in the extreme. But hey, these spoilsports are only scientists and expert in their fields. What would they know?https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/14/experts-call-for-global-moratorium-on-efforts-to-geoengineer-climate

Daily Links Sep 14

If Jared Diamond was to do a second edition of his fascinating book ‘Collapse’, it would not just describe the often-wilful damage to the environment that doomed specific civilisations, it …

Daily Links Sep 13

The sleight of hand continues, with a new acronym, DAC – direct air capture. This is yet another attempt to allow CO2 emissions to continue unabated. If this world’s biggest …

Daily Links Sep 12

Is there no end to the perfidy of these coal companies? Not only they selling a planet-damaging product, they are telling porkies to sell it. https://michaelwest.com.au/korean-buyers-poised-to-sue-over-fake-coal-quality-scam-glencore-peabody-anglo-terracom-macquarie-in-cross-hairs/ From: Maelor Himbury <M.Himbury@acfonline.org.au&gt;Date: …

Daily Links Sep 11

Off-list, and here in this 10 minute clip, George Monbiot nails it on why our politics is in such a parlours state. It’s obvious when you think of it and …