Day by day by day.
Hey I am exactly just 100 days short of 29,220 days on this planet. And what days they have been!
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science
The pits
So, Keith Pitt, you are concerned about “the impact in the cost of committing to net zero emissions targets and the subsequent green policies that have to be paid for”. But not concerned about the effect on your farmer friends of rising temperatures and natural disasters? Oh, but wait, you of course know more than
Waste not want not
So Simon Birmingham is \”Not denying the fact that there is waste that comes from a nuclear power plant, [but it] is waste that is eminently manageable and sensible for a country like Australia …\” Pity he won\’t be around in 30 years\’ time to see if he is right…
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Fitness
Reading about D-Day the 6th of June 1944 again to mark the 80th (!) anniversary. The initial stages featured paratroopers and gliders. These planes were full of professional soldiers who had spent the previous two years getting supremely fit and training with equipment. Many of the gliders and transports were hit by flak and simply
Jordan air
When I hear just the first sentences uttered by religious apologists or the merely religious my immediate reaction is always \”what are you talking about?\” And the second sentence. None of it makes any sense. You listening Jordan?
Governing passions
The role of good government is to ensure that people have: housing health care jobs a conserved environment culture education care at both ends of life fair elections public transport varied and unbiased media food support of science businesses regulated \’You are mistaken,\’ said he gently, \’that is not good government, that is the best.”
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Nothing but blue sky
Hey, I\’ve joined Blue Sky (the new twitter). Come and join me @davidrh.bsky.social Worth a try…
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The more things change…
Whenever Homo sapiens seems to be making progress in some aspect of life like saving the environment, or improving health care for the poor, or making education better, or sharing wealth more equally, some arsehole will turn up and not only prevent it happening but put it in reverse. NB This post stimulated by the
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Need a control
Look, I think it is terrific that business leaders and right -wing politicians have got interested in science and have decided to conduct an experiment to see what happens when you pour more and more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere of Planet Earth. I mean it is a very interesting question, and the results so