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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
The Truth About Giant Trees and Megafires
A great mythology seems to prevail in the scientific literature around mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans), the world’s tallest flowering plant. Victorian foresters have apparently based their silvicultural practices on the idea that mountain ash forests regenerated naturally as even-aged stands after explosive crown-fires. There seems to be a general view that they can only be successfully harvested and regenerated by clearfelling and burning. Ironically, academics opposed to logging have implicitly embraced this view, stating that ash forests remained unburnt for centuries until they were regenerated by stand-destroying holocausts. But climate change and megafires exacerbated by logging are now supposedly driving the forests and their dependent fauna, such as Leadbeater’s possum, to extinction.
Extensive harvesting has allegedly diminished old growth forests and promoted high-intensity fires. In fact, megafires consequent to disruption of Aboriginal burning have converted…
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
