Copenhagen calling: it's later than you think!
Over recent weeks there has been a veritable flood of news items and news articles wherein scientists are saying that things are moving faster than we thought on global warming and climate change. One didn’t need to be a sleuth [...]
Four More Years!
Today is LP’s fourth birthday! So if you’re feeling in a nostalgic mood, or if you weren’t around way back when, you can check out the first two posts or have a look at a snapshot of where we were [...]
Lazy Sunday!
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
Stormy waters on Campaign launch Sunday
As the Queensland election is buffeted off course by Cyclone Hamish and the oil spill, Lawrence Springborg has enjoyed more success in shaping the political message – Anna Bligh’s sos is being lost in the storm. There’s a conundrum here, [...]
Campaign commentary live! II
I’ll be on 4zzz’s Brisbane Line program (starting at midday Brisbane time) talking about the Queensland campaign with a focus on The Greens’ preferences decision.
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Who killed clean coal?
Joe Romm at Climate Progress has a fascinating story about a US Congressional inquiry into the cancellation of the FutureGen project, a massive demonstration of an integrated, commercial-scale clean coal plant (discussed earlier on LP). Staffers of the majority (Democratic) [...]
Captain Bligh steers into stormy waters
From today’s Crikey email: Something funny happened on the way to Queensland’s polling day. The idea that there might actually be a contest in a very uninspiring campaign started to take hold of observers’ minds somewhere around the middle of [...]
Dreck in paradise: Hamish leaves his mark
Meanwhile there has been an oil spill mainly affecting Sunshine Coast beaches. Some genius had a cargo of ammonium nitrate drums not properly secured on the deck when the ship was plowing through 9m waves. 31 drums fell into the [...]
Taxes vs. public goods Round 6737
John Quiggin wrote an interesting op/ed in the Fin Review today, which I imagine will eventually surface on his blog. Quiggin picked up on recent remarks by Lindsay Tanner about discipline in the budget process. “Efficiency dividends” are much in [...]
WTF is a CPRS?
Jane* doesn’t understand emissions trading. I’m bored by it. Snooze. That was a journalist friend of mine updating her status on Facebook yesterday. Seems like she’s not alone. Polling by Mobium released today revealed that: · One-third (35%) of those [...]
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