Several people have sent me this quote from Michael O’Leary, head of Ryanair.
You have to wonder how they could let a fellow like this run an airline who doesn’t understand the difference between noise and trends! Question: Would you let someone guide your investment portfolio who draws more inspiration from the day-to-day jitter [...]
Hans Hoegh-Guldberg is a prominent specialist on the economic impacts of climate change on natural ecosystems and dependent industries. He recently posted the following discussion on the list server, coral-list. I believe he makes some important points regarding types of climate change denial out there today and the way forward given their existence [...]
From Climate Progress, Nov 11 2010
Last month, NASA reported it was the hottest January-September on record. That followed a terrific analysis, “July 2010 — What Global Warming Looks Like,” which noted that 2010 is “likely” to be warmest year on record.
This month continues the trend of 2010 outpacing previous years, according to [...]
Paul Gilding more than often has some interesting and provocative insights. In Cockatoo Chronicle number 24 Paul discusses whether or not coal is the terrific investment opportunity after all. This and the recent study published in the internationally respected magazine Nature, which highlighted the instability of future coal prices due to over-estimates of [...]
We hosted Naomi Oreskes recently and admire the work of John Cook of Sceptical Science. This link takes you to a cracking episode of The Climate Show at Hot Topic this week, featuring a must-listen interview with Naomi Oreskes discussing the background to her book Merchants of Doubt. The people who attacked her
Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, Nov 22 2010
Darrell Issa, a Republican representative from California, is one of the richest men in Congress. He made his money selling car alarms, which is interesting, because he has twice been accused of auto theft. (Issa has said that he had a “colorful youth.”) As the ranking minority [...]
An article released in Nature today has challenged the commonly held view that the world has cheap and plentiful coal supplies that will fuel the world for decades to come.
Richard Heinberg and David Fridley argue that coal prices are likely to rapidly increase in the near future, due to a combination of rapid [...]
By Jon Brodie.
The pesticide industry group Croplife have recently published their latest assessment of the threat to the Great Barrier Reef from pesticide use. The report can be found at:
http://www.croplifeaustralia.org.au/files/Great Barrier Reef. pdf
The report is notable for its extreme ‘cherry picking’ of data with which to make the assessment. [...]
Here is an interesting article on the role of big energy interests in exploiting the illegal hacking of e-mails from vindicated scientists such as Phil Jones. Notice the reference to the giant coal company Peabody. If what is reported below is true, then one has to question the company’s ethics in terms of its involvement [...]
Dennis Atkins; From:The Courier-Mail; November 06, 2010 11:23AM
THE market research department of Party Games did some unscientific opinion sampling this week, asking people whether they knew Prime Minister Julia Gillard was in South-East Asia and what she was up to.
The bad news for the Government is most people didn’t know she was away, and [...]
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