Archive for January 27th, 2006
Don’t Blame Arsonists: Roger Underwood
Posted by Roger Underwood, January 27th, 2006 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Bushfires
Comments: 66
I wonder how many Koalas have been burnt in the bushfires raging across Victoria?
I received a letter from Roger Underwood today, he writes, “Arsonists do light fires, but they are not responsible for fires becoming large and damaging, especially forest fires. Blaming them is a convenient way for politicians and land managers to avoid taking [...]
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Which Climate Change Consensus? (Part 4)
Posted by jennifer, January 27th, 2006 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 95
There has been some interesting discussion on policy solutions for ‘climate change’ at the thread following Part 2 of this series.
David Tribe mades the comment:
Focusing on policy realism is what is needed. We’ve heard too much about model uncertainties and physics.
Ian Castles responded with a suggestion from Indur Goklany’s submission to House of Lords [...]
Which Climate Change Consensus? (Part 3)
Posted by jennifer, January 27th, 2006 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Housing & Building
Comments: 38
There are some interesting questions being posed at the Which Climate Change Consensus? (Part 2) thread. Following are two questions from Graham Young that interests me. They seems to have been lost amongst the more general policy and economic discussion about Kyoto.
David,
Your quotation from the MIT piece illustrates the problem that you have [...]
10th Anniversay: GM Cotton in Australia
Posted by jennifer, January 27th, 2006 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Biotechnology
Comments: 7
This is the 10th year that GM cotton has been grown in Australia. Interestingly I have seen no mention of this milestone in the popular press or online.
GM canola was to be the next GM crop approved for commercial production in Australia but Greenpeace ran a campaign against it. We now have moratoriums banning [...]

