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Monday, April 4, 2011

This blog will not be updated from now on

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Since joining Posterous I have effectively had two blogs, with this one being automatically updated via posts to the other one. So this blog...
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President of the Australian Meteorological & Oceanographic Society on Australia's extreme rainfall

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Neville Nicholls is one of Australia's leading climate scientists. He is also a long-time participant in the IPCC and current president ...
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Saturday, April 2, 2011

How I lost faith in multiculturalism

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Important article by the foreign affairs correspondent at The Australian, Greg Sheridan. It's significance lies in the fact that Sherida...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

Zhuchengtyrannus, new Chinese tyrannosaurine

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From the Dinosaur Mailing List: David W.E. Hone, Kebai Wang, Corwin Sullivan, Xijin Zhao, Shuqing Chen, Dunjin Li, Shuan Ji, Qiang Ji and Xi...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Twin baby boys have a conversation - part 2

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Michael Yon: Calling BULLSHIT on Rolling Stone

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Seldom do I waste time with rebutting articles, and especially not from publications like Rolling Stone.  Today, numerous people sent links ...
Monday, March 28, 2011

I see that Mirrabooka Square shopping centre was a proud participant in Earth Hour

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It closes at 5pm on Saturdays.
Sunday, March 27, 2011

'I abhor Earth Hour...It celebrates ignorance, poverty and backwardness'

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It encourages the sanctimonious gesture of turning off trivial appliances for a trivial amount of time, in deference to some ill-defined abs...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

The Guardian: How we engineered the food crisis

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Despite paid agenda driven bloviations of " Climate-driven food insecurity ", even environmental media king  The Guardian  sees th...
Friday, March 25, 2011

That right kiddies, it was two declines that were hidden, not just one

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From you know who . Climate Audit’s  Steve McIntyre  now discovers two declines have been hidden in the tree-ring data set which was so infl...

Whiteman's dreaming - the terrible failure of the Left's aboriginal policies

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So, maybe we're are now entering the endgame of the decades long experiment in the middle-class white fantasy that separatism was a viab...
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Great cockpit footage Of Tornado GR4 sortie over Libya

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Tumescent. Via  https://twitter.com/iammilitary No bang-bang, so any sensitive souls out there can watch without having their feelings hurt....
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Tweet of the day

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@judyhoracek : For a PM accused of not standing for anything, constantly invoking former PM from other side isn't a good look   #qt...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

The absurdity of Garnaut's carbon tax position summed up in just a few words

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@Dan_J_Thorpe  Tax cuts to counter a tax that is supposed to make things more expensive. From the Twitters.

Excellent chart about understanding radiation doses

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http://xkcd.com/radiation/ Again, this isn't about saying radiation can't be harmful, it can be. But life has been dealing with cons...
Friday, March 18, 2011

The Roots of the Vaccine Panic

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Do vaccines cause autism or other neuro-developmental disorders? Scientists know that vaccines don't, but the idea lingers everywhere --...

Speaking of turkeys waiting for Christmas, Der Spiegel: Is Environmentalism Really Working?

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In economics, it's called the law of diminishing marginal utility. The first glass of water you drink will help a lot to quench your thi...
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"You're not allowed to do this in science." Must see video explaining the deception behind "hide the decline"

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Berkeley professor of physics Richard Muller expresses his disgust at what, (in my view), can only be described as the scientific fraud behi...
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Are we just turkeys, looking forward to Christmas?

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Hat tip to  Correllio In many ways a depressing read below. We have a bunch of incompetents running this country who apparently have drunk t...
Friday, March 11, 2011

Africa Fighting Malaria returns fire on Tim Lambert

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The blogger, Tim Lambert (aka Deltoid), regularly engages in the DDT debate by making ad hominem attacks on those who defend DDT in an effor...
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