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An interesting little video from the creators of the Story of Stuff, this has an explanation of how “cap and trade” (emissions trading) works, and the major pitfalls with the system. Unfortunately, the video is one of those preachy, moralising videos that is full of criticisms but no solutions. The closest it comes is proposing [...]
A new report shows that the Federal Police will be short $20-31.3 million, and the shortfall may come at the expense of “other priority areas”: Mr Beale said his audit found that existing funding for the 500 new officers – announced in the Rudd government’s first budget in May last year – currently fell short [...]
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez took the stage at COP15 and launched his own protest. He declared, “If the climate was a capitalist bank, the rich governments would have saved it.” (Via: Huffpost.)
The No Clean Feed campaign has exploded on Twitter, received extensive coverage on the tech blogs, several independent campaign sites, and has spawned its own “Glenn Beck” style domain registry controversy. Unfortunately, much of the commentary, especially from “Pirate Party” officials, is shrill and near-hysterical in its pitch. Simply put, the majority of Australians, even [...]
I read about this on the blogs, but the footage of the coconut shell carrying octopus is truly terrifying.
The last few days have seen a real explosion of commentary and discussion, from mainstream news outlets, to the Opposition Organ and countless blogs, about the Federal Government’s proposal to have mandatory internet filtering. The debate so far is fairly stark, and can be characterised as: Pro filter: “The filter will stop deviants from accessing [...]
Essential Research has come out with the latest polling on Australians’ attitudes to Copenhagen. Unsurprisingly, it reveals that Australians, by and large, recognise the importance of the negotiations in Copenhagen. Even Coalition voters consider it important (59%), according to the cross tabs. With the “hackergate”/”climategate” frenzy still trying to stymie a meaningful agreement in Australia, [...]
As Tony Abbott spreads the “global cooling” conspiracy, more evidence demonstrates that temperatures are going up and up. A report by the World Meteorological Organization says that recent years are on track to be the hottest on record: The decade of the 2000s is very likely the warmest decade in the modern record, dating back [...]
I recently had a debate with a friend about new media versus old media. One of the points I made was that journalists at major newspapers and TV stations are just as likely as PR spin doctors and politicians to be pushing a line. Furthermore, I argued that journalists “beat up” stories to get copy [...]
Workforce Daily has a few interesting takes on Eric Abetz’s elevation to the IR portfolio as part of the new Opposition Shadow Ministry. (No link unfortunately, as it’s an email newsletter). Abbott: Abbott praised Abetz for his “long-interest in employment issues and his record of standing up for the rights of employees and small business [...]
Sean Kidney, convenor of the Carbon Bonds Initiative, is up in Copenhagen at the moment and is writing up some very interesting tidbits from the side-show. I was particularly interested in this comment regarding renewables: 2. More practically, Q-Cells, one of the world’s largest photovoltaic solar companies, claims that solar cells have reached grid price [...]
Another report from the New York Times tells how in the US, most government subsidies for energy research goes to polluting fossil fuels and unsafe nuclear energy: Despite a lot of promises, no one so far has wanted to pay the extra costs to make wind and solar more than a trivial energy source. Research [...]
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