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The Republican presidential contender is an acquired taste. Given the alternative, it's a taste persnickety conservatives should make the effort to acquire
Sep 09 2024
4 mins
The proportions of Aboriginal children and young people placed in a relative or kin placement or with an Aboriginal foster carer have decreased, and the proportion of Aboriginal children who were reunified with their families has declined.
Sep 09 2024
17 mins
A simple calculation
A doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is always claimed to be where we are heading. Catastrophic climate change is said to follow.
But are we capable of generating so much CO2 that we will take the present atmospheric concentration from 380 ppm to 760 ppm?
Approaching this challenge in the spirit of the Club of Rome, the best sources of wisdom are the BP Statistical Review and the Energy Information Administration of the United States Department of Energy that give proven oil, gas and coal reserves. These are in their own words “generally taken to be those quantities that geological and engineering information indicates with reasonable certainty can be recovered in the future from known deposits under existing economic and operating conditions”.
So the answer is:
If we assert following the IPCC that about half of the CO2 that results from burning the fossil fuels is captured by the oceans and the continents then we are left with 324 gigatonnes of carbon contained in the…
Academics and others who dare to question the majority view are brutally told the science has been settled. Many such dissenters from catastrophist orthodoxy have lost their jobs, been denied promotion, or subjected to constant harassment and ridicule. This not the way science should be done
Aug 25 2024
3 mins
There's a veritable industry of academics raising alarm about how global warming and a polluted, dying planet will leave humanity and the animal kingdom in such a state that cannibalism will be a matter of survival. I'll spurn schoolyard puns and cheap gags except for one, and that by way of good advice: don't give them a big hand
Aug 09 2024
13 mins
I thought initially that this topic was a bit of fun. But it turns out that entomophagy, as the eating of insects is called, is an essential component of the Western lemmings' race to net-zero. Need it be said that one of the biggest and most enthusiastic lemmings is our very own climate crazies at the CSIRO?
Jul 31 2024
15 mins
