November 3, 2018

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Poetry Letters & HumourNovember 3, 2018

CO2 life cycle Engineers and scientists are wasting their time pricing the frivolities of climate gurus. My advice is to explain that carbon dioxide cannot influence the climate but is a beneficial gas that helps produce all our food. At 400 parts per million (ppm) – that is, four parts per 10,000 – this minute concentration of carbon dioxide is deluged by “per cent relative humidity” (%RH): that is, unseen moisture, not rain or clouds. %RH is 500 per cent greater than carbon dioxide above deserts at midday, and more than 7000 per cent greater before a monsoon downpour. Several…

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NATIONAL AFFAIRS Regions are in no state to accommodate immigrants

National AffairsNovember 3, 2018

With 85.7 per cent of Australia’s 2.3 million immigrants between 2006–16 choosing to live in the capital cities, the Federal Coalition Government has flagged a population package to entice or force migrants to live in the regions to ease congestion and infrastructure deficiencies in the cities. Minister for Population Alan Tudge has indicated that the Government plans to draw new migrants to the regions via such means as awarding additional points through the points-based skilled migration system to temporary visa holders if they move to a regional area or a capital city other than Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane for a…

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CANBERRA OBSERVED Wentworth swing least of Morrison’s worries

PoliticsNovember 3, 2018

The blame game over who is responsible for the calamitous result in Wentworth will continue for some time, but the Coalition faces a more existential question over the seemingly impossible task of how to marry the diverse constituencies represented by the Liberal and National parties. Those constituencies, which include its progressive and conservative bedfellows, and its inner-city and regional bases, appear to be irreconcilable on a growing number of issues, ranging from religious freedom to asylum seekers to the environment. The first take on the Wentworth result is that it was a visceral display of voter anger for…

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CLIMATE CHANGE Good science contradicts IPCC’s two-degree panic

Energy & Environment, Science & TechnologyNovember 3, 2018

The latest report of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) demanding an end to the use of coal for electricity production to stop runaway global warming, is contradicted by reliable scientific studies on the world’s climate. The IPCC report argues that the world’s temperature has risen by one degree above pre-industrial levels, will rise to 1.5 degrees in 20 to 30 years, and by two degrees by the end of the century. The claim that the world’s temperature has risen by one degree since the period 1850–1900 presupposes that the world’s temperature at that…

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