Posted in Economics, Education, global warming on 15 May, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Mr Penguin alerted me to this interested article in Wired. As you would expect, in the US, Republicans are more likely to be sceptical about global warming than Democrats. Environmentalism has always been found more on the left than the right, and Republicans have more to lose from action that makes energy more expensive.
But college-educated [...]
Posted in Australian Politics, Economics, global warming on 3 May, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sydney’s water crisis is over, for the moment. Our dams are now 65.5% full - up from 33.9% on the 8th February 2007. That will last us around two to three years without any more rain, at the current rate, which feels like a reasonable cushion. Not coincidentally, Sydney’s water consumption went from an average of 1,800 or so [...]
Posted in cycling, environment, global warming on 10 January, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In a front page story in the SMH today, the NRMA (NSW’s peak motorist lobby group) accused the government of wasting money on cycle lanes.
“The Iemma Government is building a cycleway alongside choked Epping Road, despite as few as 25 cyclists using that corridor each day. At $7.6 million for the Epping Road cycleway, the [...]
Posted in environment, global warming on 1 December, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Institute of Actuaries of Australia does a quick (36 seconds is the promise) survey of its members once a month, reported in its imaginatively titled magazine Actuary Australia. Of the 345 respondents (self selected, but a good proportion of all the actuaries in Australia) 35% don’t believe that global warming is happening at all.
I [...]
Posted in Economics, environment, global warming on 19 September, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Tonight, I got the chance to see Al Gore speak live. He was spruiking his investment company, Generation _, which is being launched (via a platform) to retail investors in Australia. I’m not usually seduced by celebrity, but this felt like an opportunity you don’t get every day.
I read on the smoking gun that this [...]
Posted in Australian Politics, environment, global warming on 18 August, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Michael Duffy had a column in the Sydney Morning Herald today with some (I hope) last gasp global warming denial. Before I got into blogging, I suspect I would have read it as making some valid points. Unfortunately, for Michael Duffy, I had already read the comprehensive demolition from the realclimate blog, and the analysis [...]
Posted in Economics, global warming on 8 August, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Via Elizabeth, at Half Changed World, I found this index of walkability of where you live. It works on google maps, which unfortunately isn’t populated for my local part of Sydney, so I don’t know where my house comes out on the scale. To see how the scale works, here’s where I once lived in London, [...]
Posted in Economics, Life, environment, global warming on 24 June, 2007 | No Comments »
Last week, after a week of sustained rain (and fortunately not too much more flooding), Sydney’s dam levels got to 50%. The last time they were that high was May 2004*. For the past three years, Sydney has had ever increasing levels of worry about our water crisis. People have bought water tanks, low flow [...]
Posted in Economics, environment, global warming on 12 June, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The recent horrendous floods in the Hunter Valley have reminded me (again) of another example of insurance market failure - flood insurance. It hasn’t hit the headlines yet, but it will.
In the Australian insurance market, it is pretty close to impossible to buy insurance against flood. Wordings vary, but basically a home and contents policy [...]
Posted in Blogging, environment, global warming on 2 April, 2007 | No Comments »
I know it is April 2 now, but as a holder of a New Zealand passport, I still had to link to this fantastic explanation of how the sheep population of NZ is causing global warming.
And a bonus link - climatologists secure funding to breed glaciers in captivity.
It’s good to know that the world is in [...]
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