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Surface-based Temperature Records
THE warmaholics are fond of using the phrase “official records going back to 1850″, but the simple facts are that prior to the 1970s, surface-based temperatures from a few indiscriminate, mostly backyard locations in Europe and the US are fatally corrupted and not in any sense a real record.  Read more here. (0)

Crazy Claims from Climate Scientist
This is absured, but true: Australia’s use of coal and carbon emissions policies are guaranteeing the “destruction of much of the life on the planet”, a leading NASA scientist has written in a letter to Barack Obama.  Read more here. (4)

Learning by Candlelight
As I waited night after night for the electricity to return, candlelight kept teaching me about moving air’s talent for removing heat, hampering any effort to keep warmth “down here” by constantly sending it up and away.   Read more here. (0)

People Powered Gym
A US gym has installed specially-adapted exercise bikes that recycle energy generated by people as they work out.   Read more here. (0)

Flying on Vegetable Oil
A passenger plane has successfully completed a two-hour test flight partly powered by vegetable oil.  Read more here. (2)

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You Be The Judge (the AEF Poll)

I have a little bookmark with the words:
“Whatever you can do,
Or dream you can,
Begin it,
Boldness has genius,
Power & Magic in it. Begin it Now.”
And so the Australian Environmental Foundation (AEF) was launched on Sunday, on World Environment Day, in Tenterfield.
It was some years ago that I realized there was a need for a different kind [...]

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On Plant Rights

The following poem was sent in from Ian Beale PhD, Mungallala, SW Queensland, with the comment that it is a response to my post on ‘Eating Whales’(7th June) and Senator Andrew Bartlett’s comment that followed the post.
The Vegetarian’s Nightmare
(a dissertation on plants’ rights)
Ladies and diners 1 make you
A shameful, degrading confession.
A deed of disgrace in [...]

Here’s to a logger …

I’m in Launceston, Tasmania attending the National Conference of Timber Communities Australia (TCA). It will be opened this morning by the PM, John Howard.
I got my conference bag last night. It’s contents included a stubbie holder with the verse:
Here’s to a logger
Who fills a need
From houses to paper
From one little seed
For those of [...]