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Random Note — Ca$hing in on climate

by | Dec 11, 2018 | Blog, Climate, Climate | 0 comments

In a case of “show me the money,” if you were ever in any doubt that climate is not about money and lots of it, this should totally disabuse you of that notion.   Note how the delegations of Guinea and Congo are in inverse proportion to their population.   Judith...

Random Note — co2 and perspective

by | Nov 30, 2018 | Blog, Climate, Climate, Random Notes

When the kids get back to school after their big day out, goofing off and on strike on Friday, as an exercise in perspective and so they can get their heads around what they were on strike over with regards to anthropogenic Co2 and Australia’s contribution, try...

The PNG Gravy Train — Spectator

by | Nov 19, 2018 | Blog, Papua New Guinea | 0 comments

As PNG is our nearest neighbour (in fact only five kilometres from the most northern part of Australia, Boigu Island) this does raise some very serious and interesting questions and it’s difficult not to conclude that PNG is simply Zimbabwe and South Africa with all...

Random Note — Weasel word of the year

by | Nov 13, 2018 | Blog, Weasel Word | 0 comments

In addition to the Oxford dictionary nominating their word of the year, like post-truth (2016) youth-quake (2017) and, only last week, single-use (2018), might I suggest they develop the idea of nominating a “weasel word” category of the year.   The nomination...