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> ...without winding in a decarbonisation scheme that doesn't actually do anything I take issue with this. Australia's contribution to GHG emissions does contribute to warming. Eve…

Good analysis. I've recently been reading The Australian online, and any time there's a climate related article, there are literally 100s of comments almost all of which are rabid …

As an Australian resident and now citizen for 20 years, I've been pretty angry since that last federal election. So many people here are still denying man-made global warming, and …

Hundreds, possibly thousands of deaths, are predicted from smoke inhalation: https://insidestory.org.au/slow-burn/

ZX81 was my first machine. Got me hooked on coding at 11, and I'm still coding full time for a living 36 years later. I learnt the most important aspects of programming on the ZX81…

Get involved in grassroots politics, e.g. https://350.org/ Personal action (such as reducing your own CO2 emissions) is good but not enough. Collective action to put pressure on go…

The reason I mentioned the super rich of the past, is that they had enough money to buy whatever was available. Most other people couldn't afford to buy much at all, I imagine. So …

I wonder to what extent a lifetime of exposure to advertising contributes to our craving for stuff. The article claims an evolutionary psychological explanation: anyone know of any…

I agree (about climate) and I don't think we can wait for peak oil to hit before we start making much deeper cuts in emissions. Bill McKibben in Rolling Stone shows that proven fos…

This article is critiqued at RealClimate: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/04/climat...