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November 08, 2006
With the Stern Report the economic combines with the natural sciences and ethics to generate political change. Gee, even Rupert Murdoch is beginning to get worried.The Stern Report argues for a moving beyond 'business as usual' on environmental policy.
Sharpe
Business-as-usual increasingly looks like a defence of the coal industry by the Howard Government. That defence is become more naked as the pressure mounts. The sceptics have a new talking point: a global warming anxiety is taking hold amongst the population. Why the anxiety? It's human nature--hard wired into our genes apparently.
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How do I get one of those thermometers? You know, one of those they used to measure the temperature to within a fraction of a degree, oh, say... 10,000 years ago. No... make that 100,000 years ago.
I'd surely like to have one of those thermometers! Oh, yea... who read it?