Acknowledging Hanrahan’s contribution to climate change science
It’s a little known fact that the first climate change scientist was an Australian man by the name of Hanrahan. Hanrahan lived a century ago and hailed from regional New South Wales. As a farmer, Hanrahan was acutely aware of the impact the changing climate wrought on his livelihood and was well placed to raise his concerns. If makes little difference if the motivation for his research was to save the world (which it was not) or to...
Abbott: ticking the controversial boxes early
Today, Online Opinion has published a piece I have written regarding the Abbott government’s early approach to controversial issues. In a nutshell, the new Prime Minister is doing as much as he needs to do, not as much as he should do. In the absence of any credible political threat on the right, all the Liberal & National parties need to do to keep faith with conservative voters is be less ‘progressive’ than...
Blaming Kev for the weather
Brisbane has had its worst winter. Ever. And I’m blaming Kevin Rudd. I’m blaming him for taking away our endless, sunny, winter days and replacing them with dreary, Canberra-like gloom. I’m blaming him for the rain, the cold and the miserable climate we now have. I guess he’s not alone. The rest of the Labor Party and The Greens can take some credit too. There’s good reason to blame Kevin and his cohorts. The Labor government has...
