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Climate clippings 78
These posts are intended to share information and ideas about climate change and hence act as an open thread. This post has emphasised adaptation and mitigation, essentially what we need to do to achieve a safe climate. Comments, about science, [...]
Gonski under Abbott
It may have escaped attention last week that the Coalition waved the Gonski bill through the House of Representatives on the voices and without amendment. The common view in the press has been that Gonski is dead in the water [...]
Visceral tribalism: Abbott’s Liberal Party
A few days ago when Abbott once again invaded our TV screens protesting how many women surround him, my wife happened to be reading Laura Tingle’s Quarterly Essay on page 52 on how Howard and Abbott had changed the Liberal [...]
Checking the facts
Political fact-checking after a history of about 10 years in the USA has now come to Australia. Matthew Knott has the story at Crikey. Politifact Australia, under licence from the Tampa Bay Times site, is now up and running, founded [...]
Climate clippings 77
1. Antarctic ice melt studies A recent study by Abram et al showed that the ice on the Antarctic peninsula was melting about 10 times faster than it was 600 years ago, concluding that further melting was particularly sensitive to [...]
Legionnaires disease strikes at Brisbane’s Wesley Hospital
Last week legionnaires disease struck in one of our major private hospitals, The Wesley. On Wednesday we were told that a cancer sufferer had died from the disease last Sunday. The hospital was making soothing noises. The hospital has contacted [...]
Election politics open thread
In order to keep Saturday Salon as an election free zone, here’s a thread where you can talk about anything related to current politics and the election. As Lefty E said, Barrie Cassidy today on Insiders declared the Gillard experiment [...]
Will the maroons be blue?
Probably, but then I always think NSW are going to win. After the 2011 State of Origin series I’d promised myself never to blog on SOO again. The effort/reward ratio just didn’t add up. However, the 2012 series was exceptional [...]
You’ve been warned!
Australia has been ranked as the happiest of the OECD countries, and that for the third year running! We might come back to that. Now Ross Garnaut tells us that if we continue on our present path we are “sleepwalking [...]
Climate clippings 76
This week I’ve concentrated on the practical side of Climate change – mitigation and adaptation and the relevant policies. 1. China to cap emissions According to Giles Parkinson news reports from China indicate that the powerful National Development and Reform [...]
Love thy neighbour
On the weekends NewsRadio at times plays programs from Deutsche Welle. This story about a survey of attitudes of Europeans giving their opinions on each other, on Europe and on themselves intrigued me. Turns out there is a funny side [...]
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