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a sunday muse

david — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:14:42 +0000

In case there is any doubt left in the world, the last two days of rain have finally washed away the last vestiges of support for the rather silly idea that mankind’s addiction to carbon based energy is somehow heating up the planet.

What’s that you say? Two days of rain doesn’t make for a cooling [...]

Turnbull’s Wikipedia hack

david — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:42:32 +0000

Around 12.48pm Oz eastern time someone really thought Malcolm’s days as opposition leader were over. SBSnews tweeted the joy around that time but soon after Malcolm narrowly defeated the shadows in his own party his Wikipedia page reverted to its former glory. A contrite and conciliatory Mr Turnbull will now have the clearly divided support [...]

So what can we do?

david — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:34:25 +0000

The options don’t look that promising do they. Carbon emissions and notional budgets mean diddly squat when it comes to the really serious business of making money despite the fact that the planet clearly headed for disaster. The first order of business (sorry bad pun) is what replaces the 40 or so GW’s of coal [...]

350.org

david — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:43:20 +0000

Canberra isn’t usually the place for big public protests and yesterday’s 350.org rally was fairly typical of the Canberra protest scene. A good number of the usual suspects rocked up in their Subarus although the biking student collective were also out in force. It was a fine day, the grass is always green on Capital [...]

Blame it on the weather – Wong

david — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:23:35 +0000

So its official (again), it’s the DROUGHT! In fact the worst drought in recorded history according to Penny. If it would just rain everything would be hunky dory again for the rice growers and the cotton farmers and the guys who just like to slosh the murrumbidge, the darling or the murray around in an [...]

The New York Post

david — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:33:35 +0000

Love this…someone do it to The Oz, please.

“SPECIAL EDITION” NEW YORK POST from The Yes Men on Vimeo.

Bill Gates has the answer on hurricanes

david — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:11:18 +0000

A worldwide effort to stamp out polio and malaria is very commendable, if somewhat unlikely but this has to make you wonder what really goes on inside the head of the man who won the IT lottery.

Bill Gates in bid to tame hurricanes – Times Online.

Now by itself this seems like a bit of a [...]

Gales set wind power record for Spain | Environment | guardian.co.uk

david — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:05:46 +0000

Old news perhaps but it goes to show what can be done.

Gales set wind power record for Spain | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Not Evil, Just Wrong – News & Views

david — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:29:15 +0000

Hmm, do I detect a right wing revival? What is it about this little quote (amongst others) that has tweaked my neocon alert?

President Obama’s plan to give a live video speech to the nation’s schoolchildren Sept. 8 may be a technological first, but the White House is borrowing an old-school tactic from radical environmentalists who [...]