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Read more about the article Business as usual in a time of disaster

Business as usual in a time of disaster

As a kid I liked to play with microscopes. My favourite thing to study was drops of water from dirty ponds and puddles. I was amazed at the many tiny creatures that could be found in a single drop. There were little oval-shaped protozoa that zoomed across my field of view, various wormlike organisms with different methods of movement, things that looked like flowers that sucked water in and squirted it out again and numerous other creatures. Mostly they were translucent. You could see inside their bodies, watching the mysterious structures in there moving and pulsating.…

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Read more about the article Coal pile to the moon, six times

Coal pile to the moon, six times

In the 2010s I calculated how far the coal exported from the Port of Newcastle in the preceding decade would have reached if you stacked it into a pillar with a base one metre square. It was a long way. But the figure in the 15 years since then is a LOT bigger. Back in the 2010s I figured it would reach the moon, with plenty left over. That’s how far the roughly 795 million tonnes of coal mined from the Hunter Valley in NSW (my estimate based on publicly available figures) during the decade up…

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Australia’s bushfire revelation

The spring 2019 bushfire emergency in Australia has been a revelation to many people.Questions that had seemed in doubt have been clarified, and things that had been ill-defined have now been shown in their true light. The first and most obvious is climate change. Vast efforts have been made in Australia (as they have all over the world) to cast doubt over the science of climate change. Those with huge commercial interests in fossil fuels have invested fortunes in protecting their status quo, working simultaneously from many directions. They have sponsored the promotion of alternative views,…

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