Popular car uses 31% more fuel than advertised while other makes fare poorly in Australian efficiency test (www.theguardian.com)
No surprises there I guess :(
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No surprises there I guess :(
Wot ?
Australia’s largest insurer, IAG, is calling for property buy-backs and an end to new housing in high-risk zones....
Bad in NZ or hyperbole ?
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In today’s edition of no shit sherlock. So, solutions ? Stop flying… No? okay then, societal collapse it is then.
Most of the functionality is present but many important bits are still being developed.
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’
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Dr Henri Waisman, at the IDDRI policy research institute in France, said: “Climate change is not a black or white question and every tenth of a degree matters a lot, especially when you look at the socioeconomic impacts. This means it is still useful to continue the fight.”...
Alon Levy, co-lead of the transportation and land use program at New York University’s Marron Institute, has spent years studying why some countries are able to build transport infrastructure cheaply and others aren’t....
Wtf ?
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I just used to accept the 7% increase per c figure but as indicated...
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He mentiond climate change and pollution , well worth a read IMO...
Another one on the way … to extinction! Not one mention of climate change in the article :)...
So certainly for Australia, it’s south-west WA where that declining rainfall trend is going to be most acute," Australian National University climate scientist Nerilie Abram said....
“You’ve got a chemical cocktail in these tires that no one really understands and is kept highly confidential by the tire manufacturers,” said Nick Molden, CEO of Emissions Analytics. “We struggle to think of another consumer product that is so prevalent in the world and used by virtually everyone, where there is so...
Glacing out my window here in rural NE Tas, we’re still warring with nature and nature is loosing....
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Homo sapiens has evolved to reproduce exponentially, expand geographically, and consume all available resources. For most of humanity’s evolutionary history, such expansionist tendencies have been countered by negative feedback. However, the scientific revolution and the use of fossil fuels reduced many forms of negative...
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