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This is a flow in the Baaka-Darling, if it comes off. This Baaka-Darling, at Wilcannia.https://twitter.com/Gergyl/status/1360765434174185473?s=19 The big public cotton-water dams around the catchment rim are all still near-empty, so there

It's an interesting dataset, the 'Keeling Curve', tweeted about here all the time. It's one of the most important to the future of the planet, yet how hard have we

Morrison gives opening address at right-wing 'Christian' organisation conference on the Gold Coast. Was this reported? Why not, MSM? Did we pay for his travel?https://www.instagram.com/p/CN4bncoLoyR/ Interestingly the conferen

...As you do. Recall that this is #greatgodLabor and Annastacia Palaszczuk, not your Liberal Gas Party or your National Mining Party.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/10/gas-consortium-seeks-approval-to-drill-7700-wells-next-

No individual in real life takes actions against 10⁻⁵ events.(At least no one who is free from mental illness -- OCD for eg.) That's more like a 10⁻⁶ death risk,

My honey is being criticised as too runny. It's the bees people, and the nectar, not me. Slave bees thicken nectar by fanning it, for weeks, drying it back, lest

Around half the cost of a modern motorway is in the pavement -- the bit you actually drive on -- and nearly all of that is to make it resist

Is rural-residential sprawl a recognised threatening process? Should be. Tightly aligned with rampant population growth, it's happening everywhere, including far from capital cities and far from the coast.Every little clearing

Not "cells from an aborted foetus", @abcnews. It's a *cell line* derived from a foetus, decades ago (1973!), and maintained in hundreds of laboratories around the world by, clonal reproduction.

Question, surely, is why was mining permitted here at all? Because global miner Rio Tinto is a god in the Pilbara and does whatever it likes. It has wreaked massive

I'm curious about funny money economics, which has a long history in our region -- Social Credit in NZ, and of course Bill Mitchell's MMT. Relevant atm with governments around

People think on all sorts of things today. As you may know, I like to remember the two bravest Australians ever to defend our shores, in the same week as