Went to another meeting last night. The information that has been gathered seems compelling, it is just a matter of hoping that enough politicians have sufficient intelligence to understand it when it is presented to them. The evidence relating to health risks has apparently been rejected because it relates to similar setups in America where [...]

With hundreds dead, thousands injured (including several who had limbs amputated to free them from the rubble), who knows how many without power or water, and the city centre so badly damaged that there was even consideration of moving it to a new location, this has to be one of the worst natural disasters this [...]

From what I have seen there are a very large number of people who get these two words mixed up. The two words mean totally different things but there are many examples where the first is used but where the writer seems to be implying the meaning of the second. Devastated means destroyed or ruined. [...]

Each year the Sydney Peace foundation recognises those people who promote peace and justice in Australia with their annual peace prize. Since they were formed in 1998 they have also issued gold medals to those individuals whose efforts are considered to be exceptional. The presenting of one of these gold medals is fairly rare with [...]

Just because two of the hotest years on record (not that we have any significant records for this) were in the past ten years doesn’t mean that the average temperature over those ten years can’t have fallen. I have been reading about climate change since the early 1970s. Back then they claimed that if nothing [...]

In the 18th century canals were one of the essential means of communications. In the 19th Century trains displaced the canals and in the 20th Century the car displaced trains. In the 21st century the internet is in the process of displacing the car. For this process to work requires high speed internet connections to [...]

Why are so many people still referring to “global warming”. That term officially replaced some time ago with the term “climate change” when it was realised that the average world temperature has actually fallen by 0.7 degrees over the last ten years. Perhaps they should refer to it as “global cooling” if they specifically want [...]

To start with daylight saving doesn’t actually add any daylight hours to the day and so all those stories about fading curtains and so on are nothing more than stories. What daylight saving does is to move the daylight hours so that they represent a slightly different part of the day. Consider the situation in [...]

I must have junked several dozen emails that mention “Black Friday” in the last couple of weeks. There always seem to be lots of such emails around this time of year regardless of when the last black Friday was or when the next will be and so there is presumably some local event somewhere called [...]

The time of the sinking of the Titanic was a time of change with the way ships operated. The distress call used up until then CDQ was in the process of being replaced with a new distress call SOS (the Titanic sent both being the first to actually use SOS). It was also a time [...]