Abbott: Go West!
Tony Abbott has a plan which would end skills shortages in the resources sector: TONY Abbott has proposed banning the dole for people under 30 in a bid to entice the unemployed to head west and fill massive skill shortages [...]
Eyjafjallajökull, empty skies, complexity and futures
It was interesting on the news tonight to hear veiled suggestions from airlines that planes should be flying anyway in Europe, despite more volcanic ash being emitted by the Eyjafjallajökull volcano. Also significant was the description of the volcano as [...]
Lib Dems the game changer?
Liberal Democrats leader Nick Clegg’s performance in the first of three televised debates in the UK election has become something of a game changer, leading to a surge for his party, now ahead of the pack in one poll, and [...]
The Nuclear Security Summit – a small step forward
While I still maintain the threat of terrorism gained attention out of all proportion to the actual threat it posed, the possibility of terrorists with nuclear weapons is the one terrorist threat that scares the crap out of me. So [...]
The politics of health: COAG and beyond
With the Council of Australian Governments meeting for a second successive day to deliberate on the federal government’s National Health and Hospitals Network plan, the usual suspects are proclaiming that there will be no deal, which will be a disaster [...]
Gambling with their passengers lives
Crossposted from No Right Turn Iceland’s revenge has been smothering Europe for almost a week now, and the airline industry is reportedly losing $280 million a day. Naturally, they’re keen to stop losing money, so today saw some carefully staged [...]
Spotlight the Spin
A weekly look at stories various PR people tried to bury in the tail end of the news cycle before this last weekend. What are they hoping that we won’t talk about this week because “it’s old news” now? Let’s [...]
Hot and cold – perturbations from on high and perhaps missing heat below
Figure 1: January-March mean surface temperature anomaly While we know that a short-term variation doesn’t make a long-term trend it is interesting, in view of the bitterly cold winter in some parts, that the global mean the surface temperatures have [...]
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!
How are the Eyjafjallajökull eruption emissions counted?
Short answer: they’re not – at least not directly. Kyoto Protocol and EU ETS accounting frameworks exclude natural events like hurricanes and volcanoes. A longer answer about the secondary effects of the eruption on the EU economy and flow on [...]
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