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By Mark Bahnisch on February 24, 2010
The other day, I mentioned Clive Hamilton’s series of posts on climate change denialism at The Drum. In today’s edition, Hamilton comments: Indeed, those who study the climate itself rather than the bogus debate in the newspapers and the blogosphere [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Disasters, Ethics, Language, Media, Politics, Science, Sociology | Tagged Bayesian probability, cartesian rationality, Climate change, climate change denialists, Clive Hamilton, Descartes, discourse, Enlightenment, EU, European Union, IPCC, IPCC 4th Report, Max Weber, Media, methodology, regimes of truth, Science, science as a vocation, science communication, science studies, scientific method, skepticism, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science, truth, truth statements |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 22, 2010
Over at The Drum, Clive Hamilton begins a five part series on climate change denialism, beginning with a look at cyber-bullying. Previously on LP: Communicating climate science.
Posted in Authoritarianism, Climate change, The Web | Tagged climate change denialism, Clive Hamilton, cyber-bullying, the drum |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 4, 2009
Tomorrow sees voters in Peter Costello’s old seat of Higgins (and Brendan Nelson’s seat of Bradfield) go to the polls. Labor is not running in either by-election. That seemed like an arguably justifiable decision at the time nominations closed, but [...]
Posted in By-elections, Politics | Tagged ALP, Anthony Albanese, Antony Green, Australian Greens, Bradfield by-election, brendan nelson, Climate change, Clive Hamilton, cprs, ets, Higgins by-election, Hugo Young, kelly o'dwyer, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, Malcom Turnbull, New Matilda, Peter Costello, Rebekka Power, Rudd government, The Greens, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 29, 2009
My previous post on Clive Hamilton’s selection as The Greens’ candidate in the Higgins by-election has sparked a thread largely devoted to Hamilton’s views and suitability as a candidate, rather than the party’s electoral chances, or indeed, the strategy of [...]
Posted in By-elections | Tagged Antony Green, Australian Greens, By-elections, Clive Hamilton, Higgins, Higgins by-election, Liberal Party |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 26, 2009
The Greens are running Clive Hamilton in Higgins. As Andrew Norton observes, Hamilton criticising seems to be a politically ecumenical practice in the blogosphere. Guy Rundle puts a contrary view. I’m by no means enamoured of some of the ideas [...]
Posted in By-elections | Tagged Andrew Norton, Australian Greens, by-election, candidates, Climate change, climate change policy, Clive Hamilton, Guy Beres, Guy Rundle, Higgins, Higgins by-election, Liberal Party, Peter Costello, The Greens |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 29, 2009
Don Arthur wrote an excellent post at Troppo last week, which is an object lesson in how ideological positions collapse when confronted with careful empirical work: Australia is in the midst of a flat-screen TV crisis, says Clive Hamilton. Driven [...]
Posted in Consumerism, Culture, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Blogging, Clive Hamilton, consumption, Don Arthur, housing, Politics, social policy, Sociology |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 12, 2008
Over at Catallaxy, Jason Soon links to Kerry Miller’s article in Spiked about Clive Hamilton’s influence in the propagation of the idea of the “Clean Feed” web censorship plan. There are some strange alliances around this issue, and Miller, who [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Howardia, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, The Web | Tagged ALP, Australia Institute, Authoritarianism, Catholic right, censorship, Clive Hamilton, Guy Rundle, Indigenous policy, Jason Soon, Jenny Macklin, Julia Gillard, Kerry Miller, Labor, last superpower, liberalism, libertarianism, Lindsay Tanner, no clean feed, Noel Pearson, political philosophy, political science, political sociology, political theory, post-materialism, Religion, Rudd government, social democracy, social policy, Sociology, stephen conroy, Third Way, Tony Abbott, Warren Mundine |
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