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 →

Data is Everything!

https://youtu.be/8455KEDitpU Looks pretty convincing to me! Son Michael tells me that "data is everything"! Why is this such an emotional topic? It's more like a religion where faith is required, rather than one which we should be able to deal with, by the use of rational hard facts. The hypothesis of human caused, huge increases … Continue reading Data is Everything! →

Canadian investors’ big thirst for Aussie ag assets

Gregor Heard @grheard 9 Oct 2019, 8 a.m.Agribusiness BIG PLAYERS: Canadian investors have flocked to Australian agribusiness in their droves in recent years. Canadian pension fund PSP Investments' offer for Australian agribusiness Webster Limited is just the latest in a production line of investors from the North American nation looking to get involved in Australian … Continue reading Canadian investors’ big thirst for Aussie ag assets →

Flexibility and Conservation-The Darling River.

We can't write appropriate black letter law to deal with a highly variable environment. The reality of Dorothea Mackellar’s "droughts and flooding rains" and you could add ‘not much in the middle’, cries out for adaptive management. The water sharing plans for each of the main water courses in the Basin, need to be expressed … Continue reading Flexibility and Conservation-The Darling River. →