Casing Kakadu
Back from a few days in Kakadu. I see that my sincere flattery of Geoff and Wendy failed to flush either of them out of...
Howard’s Green Way
I don't have a problem per se with John Howard's announcement yesterday of a $500 million program to subsidise the development of currently non-commercial "low...
Warming scepticism a death sentence?
The life of a global warming sceptic is a dangerous one, it seems. Well-known sceptic John Daly died suddenly of a heart attack earlier this...
Musing on urban development
A few days ago Paddy McGuinness published a rant in the SMH that stuck in my memory. It touched on urban development strategies, and in...
A warm debate (part 1)
* Warning another long global warming post - probably should be ignored by all but enthusiasts. John Quiggin and Ken Miles are both erudite and...
Warming heresy
UnAustralian Ken Miles has a reflexive whinge about an article in yesterday's Australian newspaper by noted geologist Professor Ian Plimer. Why? Well, I can't be...
More damn lies and statistics
One of the difficult things for us non-expert lay observers of the ongoing global warming debate is that the zealots on both sides seem to...