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Search clear Search Hot Topics 16 February 2012, 4.11pm AEST Think tank’s talking points deepen the divide over climate change The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they’ve been in. —– Dennis Potter Readers following the Australian news media’s coverage of climate change will probably have detected the conspiracy theories Continue Reading →
clear Hot Topics 3 January 2012, 8.14am AEST Paving our market gardens: choosing suburbs over food In 1947 the Sydney Basin produced “three quarters of the State’s lettuces, half of the spinach, a third of the cabbages and a quarter of the beans; seventy percent of the State’s poultry farms were in the [Basin] and Continue Reading →
“It be exceeding rare for geologists to embrace climate change.”
by Geoff Ebbs and Giovanni Ebono
As world opinion divides, irrationally, into climate change believers and deniers a number of anomalies occur which ought to tell us something about both camps.
These key differences include facts such as “Climate change scientists are being protected by security forces as death threats against them become increasingly common. No death threats have been reported against climate change deniers.”
I own the Maruti, known in Australia as a Suzuki Alto, and I’m proud of it.
The cheapest new car in the Australian market, and the least expensive to run, it is also a zippy runabout which I have used to commute from Brisbane to Northern NSW for two years. It comfortably sits on 130km an hour on the freeway and will wind up to 150 with two passengers on board except up hills.
Outside my campaign office in a red ute, Bob and Kerry wait for their Chinese dinner. Bore diggers. Bob’s business. Kerry, the young buck doing the tough stuff Bob can’t. Any more.
My secret mentor, Bob is.
We discuss refugees.
“Whatcher gunna do about the borders, son?”
I have received comments from some people that my speech and article about the waste dump at Muckaty Station is alarmist, inaccurate and exaggerated.
I come from a scientific background and work professionally with scientists who take great pride in the accuracy of their research as well as believing that as society’s leaders politicians have a duty to make well informed decisions and not to make fast and loose with the truth.
This article analyses the statements I made in that Muckaty Station article and points to the resources I have used to justify the facts.