Author: David Boyd

Bushfires-Perspective

Senator Cormann (at Davos) also stressed the huge size of the Australian continent and its history of extreme weather events in any global discussion of the bushfires. “Yes, climate change is making things worse … But we have also got to keep it in perspective. In a sense, Australia has always been a country that … Continue reading Bushfires-Perspective →

Australian Bushfires -Post Mortems

It is to be hoped that the inevitable post mortems-Royal Commission/government enquiries or whatever, will bring some appropriate balance to the polarised current debate and the lessons to be learnt for the future. The usual desire for a "silver bullet" single cause needs to be tempered with the recognition of the multiple factors which led … Continue reading Australian Bushfires -Post Mortems →

Vale Roger Scruton

The sad overnight news of the death of Roger Scruton calls for a tribute. None better than digesting his own words- Roger Scruton Contributor World Affairs. Our world is hungry for meaning and I explore our ways of finding it.This article is more than 2 years old. In a report published last week in London, Andrew Miller, … Continue reading Vale Roger Scruton →

Christmas Cheer

Matt Ridley: We’ve Just Had The Best Decade In Human History. Seriously The Spectator, 21 December 2019 Little of this made the news, because good news is no news Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through the greatest improvement in human … Continue reading Christmas Cheer →

More BGO’s (Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious)

''The panel, headed by former Murray Darling Basin Authority board member George Warne, called for an end to predetermined flow rates." A quote from this week's Water Minister's Brisbane meeting. In a massively variable rainfall/run-off environment, this should surely be a self evident truth. The establishment of a fixed Sustainable Diversion Limit (SDL) for each … Continue reading More BGO’s (Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious) →

Vale Clive James

Imminent Catastrophe The imminent catastrophe goes on Not showing many signs of happening. The ice at the North Pole that should be gone By now, is awkwardly still lingering, And though sometimes the weather is extreme It seems no more so than when we were young Who soon will hear no more of this grim … Continue reading Vale Clive James →

Let’s Not Pollute Minds With Carbon Fears-Ian Plimer

NOVEMBER 22, 2019 As soon as the words carbon footprint, emissions, pollution, and decarbonisation, climate emergency, extreme weather, unprecedented and extinction are used, I know I am being conned by ignorant activ­ists, populist scaremonger­ing, vote-chasing politicians and rent seekers. Pollution by plastics, sulphur and nitrogen gases, particulates and chemicals occurs in developing countries. That’s real … Continue reading Let’s Not Pollute Minds With Carbon Fears-Ian Plimer →

Maintaining the Myth-Murray Mouth

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority has issued a primer on the importance of protecting the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth, largely based on the assertion that the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and the Ramsar Convention would be threatened if action was ignored. The article reconstructs the history of the introduction of the barrages from … Continue reading Maintaining the Myth-Murray Mouth →