Robert Manne: the future of Social Democracy is Green
I’m a bit puzzled as to why Robert Manne’s piece on Social Democracy and the Green future was published by the ABC’s Religion website, particularly since one consequence is that it probably won’t be widely read. It does deserve some [...]
Multiple agendas at Cancún, not all benign
Saudi Arabia has complained that Cancún was lousy with NGO representatives and hence they had to waste time talking to them. The Saudis, of course, aim to see that Cancún does not result in any diminution of the use of [...]
Spotlight The Spin
Our weekly look at media spin tactics: let’s dissect the PR and propaganda that aims to blow one’s own horn, bury one’s errors, resurrect the shambling zombie corpses of well-flogged deceased equines, and ooh look! A Big Distracting Thing!
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!
Cancún half way
That image is courtesy Climate Progress where Joe Romm points out that the beaches are washing away. One can also easily imagine why there may have been traffic problems. (See also here.) While there is plenty of material around on [...]
Climate kills
According to Oxfam 21,000 people died due to weather-related disasters in the first nine months of 2010 – more than twice the number (10,000) for the whole of 2009. Their information comes from reinsurance company Munich Re. The number of [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
National Urban Policy
It’s got a picture of somebody riding a bicycle in it; it must be a policy document on urban planning. In this case, it’s a discussion paper from the Department of Infrastructure on a “National Urban Policy“. It’s called a [...]
The winner…is…Qatar!
$45 million, Hoges, and a bouncing kangaroo weren’t enough to convince FIFA’s executive committee to host the 2022 World Cup in Australia. Australia received a grand total of one vote from the 22-person executive committee, and thus was the first [...]
SF gets a new world-building scenario
A microbe has been discovered in a remote Californian lake that can survive without phosphorus, capable of substituting arsenic into that slot in its biochemistry instead.
Climate clippings 5
These posts include a brief mention of a number of news items relating to climate change. They don’t preclude treating any of these topics at more length in a separate post. They can also serve as an open thread so [...]
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