Posts by Gareth
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Climate change hasn't really been about science for at least 20 years. We've known enough to know that we need to act to reduce emissions since the mid-90s - after all the Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1997.
People campaigning against emissions reductions have done their damnedest to make it seem like a scientific debate, but it has never been more than a smog-blowing exercise on their part.
The reality is that dealing with climate change is about managing risk - and that's why the insurance business is on the case. But how do you build a political case for risk management when it is expedient for politicians to do little or nothing? That's really hard... (cf Roughan in the Herald talking about govt "climate catastrophe")
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Great post, Russell. Thanks for taking the time to give Hide's nonsense a seeing to - and for putting the real risks into perspective.
I disagree, however, with your view that the Herald should continue to run this sort of crap (they have a long history of giving Chris de Freitas space to lie about climate too). You can sum up my position as "everyone's entitled to their opinion (and the newspapers should be free to print them), but no-one is entitled to their own facts." Hide includes (at least) two quite deliberate factual errors in his piece (no warming for x years etc), and a self-respecting newspaper of record should ensure that doesn't happen.
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After looking into Chapman's Homer, Venice 2011
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Bully for Michael, Venice 2011
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Before looking into Chapman's Homer, Venice 2011
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On the shores of Lake Chenghai in Yunnan, Aug 30, 2007, after eating spirulina and carp for lunch.
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Capture: Travels Without a Map, in reply to JacksonP,
Literally mind-blowing. And all the more so when you think that Gaudi was working, what, 100 years ago? There must be something in that wonderful Barcelona food...
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One more.
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Reminded me of a set for Star Trek...
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Sagrada Familia? Been there...
