Analysing the polls
Dr Kevin Bonham has a post Abbott Fastest Ever To Lose Poll Lead with this helpful advance summary: 1. Following the recent Newspoll, the new Abbott Government has lost the two-party preferred polling...
View ArticleReal clothes for the emperor
“When I look at this [CO2] data, the trend is perfectly in line with a temperature increase of 6 degrees Celsius, which would have devastating consequences for the planet.” Fatih Birol, IEA chief...
View ArticleIf a tree falls in the forest…
…does anybody hear? Unless you’ve been living under a rock in the past few days you will have heard/seen Joe Hockey say that the budget is in terrible shape and he’ll have to clean up Labor’s mess. You...
View ArticleExperts have a say on sea level rise
The recent IPCC report estimated sea level rise (SLR) thus: For the scenario RCP8.5 (the most likely) the rise by the year 2100 is 0.52 to 0.98m, with medium confidence. A new study (Horton, Engelhart...
View ArticleClimate clippings 90
These posts are intended to share information and ideas about climate change and hence act as a roundtable for readers to contribute items of interest. Again, I do not want to spend time in comments...
View ArticleYou’ve been warned!
I did have a restful Christmas, albeit wrapped in the warmth of Brisbane’s humidity, but in the still of the night reality has a way of breaking through. I’ll begin with the ending of this story, as it...
View ArticleCopping out at COP 19 in Warsaw
Back in 2002 an Earth Summit (World Summit on Sustainable Development) nick-named “Rio + 10″ was held in Johannesburg. As I recall there was a big push on to transfer the main carriage for...
View ArticleDeep origins: language
Warning: longer essay-style post. David B Anthony in his extraordinary book The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How the Bronze-age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World tells us that...
View ArticleClimate clippings 91
These posts are intended to share information and ideas about climate change and hence act as a roundtable for readers to contribute items of interest. Again, I do not want to spend time in comments...
View ArticleGoodbye, again
As of today Larvatus Prodeo will once again cease publishing. Long-time readers will know that the blog started out on March 17, 2005 and then ceased publishing from April 10, 2012 after a seven year...
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