Power not Poverty By Viv Forbes The past was green and fuzzy – the future is black and ominous. Richard Sebrof The green fairy-tale is over. Even the green cheer squad in the bureaucracy and the media can sense the change. The sudden end was signalled by rolling columns of Russian tanks, quickly followed by surging […]
Month: March 2022
VIRUS THAT SPARED YOUNG & OLD
The 1918 influenza pandemic, the Spanish Flu, disproportionately took the lives of men and women in their 20s and 30s, while often sparing the very old and the very young—two population groups that are especially vulnerable to the flu in most years. A virus that usually does little more than make people feel awful for […]
CYCLISTS WANT TO USE FOOTPATHS
Parking in residential streets is blocking bike lanes and forcing cyclists to swerve out into traffic or take the safer option by riding on footpaths. One of several reasons why the cyclist’s lobby want laws changed to allow anyone to ride on footpaths in Victoria and NSW. The two states are the only ones that […]
O.53 C OF WARMING IN 60 YEARS
The following statement was made by the IPCC in 2013: “It is extremely likely [95 percent confidence] more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic increase in greenhouse gas concentrations”. Let’s say that sixty per cent of the 0.53 degrees Celsius of […]