Liam White

The Non-Believer:

At Parliament’s midwinter ball, the press gallery choir (The House Howlers) traditionally comes up with some great songs - this year was no different!

Tony Abbott wasn’t spared - he was serenaded to the tune of The Great Pretender, rebadged as ”I’m the Non-Believer”.

”Oh yes, I’m the great deceiver,” the naughty songsters sang. ”They tell me the world’s getting warm/I’m a cynic on tap/Cause the science is crap/I’m wearing my heart on my sleeve/Pretending that we all believe.”

The Conversation:

This is a fantastic site, a place where academics from around the country publish articles and research to make it much more accessible to the public. Definitely worth a look!

The Conversation is an independent source of information, analysis and commentary from the university and research sector – written by acknowledged experts and delivered directly to the public. As professional journalists, we aim to make this wealth of knowledge and expertise accessible to all.

We aim to be a site you can trust. All published work will carry attribution of the authors’ expertise and, where appropriate, will disclose any potential conflicts of interest, and sources of funding. Where errors or misrepresentations occur, we will correct these promptly.

Grass River Landscape by ?CubaGallery on Flickr.

Great Barrier Reef

I plan on visiting this before I die. I must. Its absolutely gorgeous. 

Did you guys know they sell this godly chocolate biscuit in Target&Walmart?! LOL SINCE WHEN??? GOING TO PULL A JIMMY AND STOCK UP MY WHOLE CABINET FULL!

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Why Australia is vulnerable to both climate change and climate sceptics:

Great article that summarises how many obstacles Australia is facing (at least on the political front) with respect to climate action:

Given that Australia is uniquely threatened by climate change, why is it so uniquely reluctant to join the rest of the world in mitigating the threat? Why are the country’s politicians unable to agree even on modest mitigation measures?

Given that Australian climate science is world-renowned, with many IPCC authors drawn from the nation’s top universities, and given that survey after survey shows that a majority — — accepts that human emissions are changing the climate, why has denial become so entrenched among some influential groups?

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This race to the bottom accelerated recently when the whip of the state government compared climate scientists to Nazis in the New South Wales State Parliament, likening the scientific consensus on climate to totalitarianism.

cairns at the moment.

Liam White