Here we go again. Climate change is apparently confronting the world with imminent catastrophe. Our churches have fallen in love with climate changePeter Kurti | The Spectator | 15 May 2015Greenhouses gases such as CO2 are allegedly warming the planet to such an extent that life as we know it will be destroyed, bringing with it apocalyptic famine, devastation and … Continue reading Here We Go again-Churches and Climate Change
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ABC and Nigel Lawson
I don't often find an ABC (Radio or TV) programme that I can thoroughly recommend. But, here's one.http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programitem/pgQk7ArepG?play=true
Cotton Picking Fingers
How is this for efficient harvesting in a much maligned Australian rural industry. The cotton industry is huge in global terms and by whatever measure you like-research, water use efficiency,yields per hectare etc.; Australia is the world leader.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMGx06T6zIk
Bourke Show Trip May 2015
I have had a habit of attending the Bourke Show. It is a great little one day event, including most years a ram sale. It is one of the few places where the merino stud breeders of the Macquarie, the Riverina and South Australia, all of whom have clients in the area, show their wares. … Continue reading Bourke Show Trip May 2015
Water Entitlements and Allocations
Cop this for a misleading, almost non-sensical statement-The NSW Office of Water will leave water entitlement for general security users along the Lachlan River at 100 per cent for the 2015-16 year. It says entitlement, not to be confused with water allocations, will remain unchanged after wide consultation with users along the river.The Office of Water's … Continue reading Water Entitlements and Allocations
Bourke-A Town With Real Spirit-A Personal Perspective
Background In August 1960, as a raw youth,just after my nineteenth birthday, pastoral house Dalgety sent me to Bourke Branch. I had joined Dalgety in Sydney six weeks or so earlier after spending three years "jackarooing" in south/west and central Queensland. Dalgety said that they would use my vast rural experience and send me to … Continue reading Bourke-A Town With Real Spirit-A Personal Perspective
More Wisdom From One of My Favourites
Freeman Dyson: Earth Is Actually Growing GreenerThe Vancouver Sun, 6 April 2015This week’s Conversation that Matters features Princeton University’s preeminent physicist Freeman Dyson who says computer models do a good job of helping us understand climate but they do a very poor job of predicting it. Freeman Dyson is a member of the GWPF’s Academic Advisory CouncilDyson says, “as … Continue reading More Wisdom From One of My Favourites
Progress With Millennium Goals
The Truth About Warming
A chart put together by John Christy, director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, that reflects how the temperature satellite data (the green line) contrasts with temperature models.
Two extracts from the Global Warming Policy Foundation
I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity. The whole mentality around Earth Hour demonizes electricity. I cannot do that, instead I celebrate it and all that it has provided … Continue reading Two extracts from the Global Warming Policy Foundation
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