New Anthropocene
Andrew Bolt
Are the Climate Sceptics Melting Away?
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Stats and Musings: Behind the Scenes of New Anthro
As most bloggers would naturally do, I keep an eye on my stats over time. This allows me to better understand my readership and tailor my work so that it both achieves the purposes of my own goals while merging with what my readers prefer to read. This only goes so far, obviously. For, if … Continue reading
Media Can be Held Accountable on Misinformation
Here’s a couple interesting events of late… Australia’s channel 7 network has recently been found guilty of violating the broadcasting code for racist vilification. A little persistent and dedicated pressure lead to this corrective outcome. On the other hand, little to zilch is done to correct what the Union of Concerned Scientists demonstrates to be a deliberate act of distorting … Continue reading
A Vague Attempt to Review Jared Diamond’s “Collapse”
I’ve just finished reading Jared Diamond’s Collapse. Unlike many of my peers, I’ve long avoided many authors, such as Diamond, Dawkins etc. Instead I focused on the classics, like Wells, Orwell, Fitzgerald etc. In truth, I fell prey to the misinformation about such writers engineered by those whom dislike their fantasies being thoroughly discredited. Of … Continue reading
Wrapped in Flags and Bolt on ‘Free Speech’
Although this is simple another example of the same type of hypocrisy that seems forever in the news, I wish to comment on two events I’ve been made aware of recently (in both cases, I’ve not seen the direct source, but only read the subsequent media). Firstly, there has been a wave of complaints over … Continue reading
Drowning out the truth about the Great Barrier Reef
Mass bleaching at the Keppel Islands in 2006. Our greatest natural asset is under threat, but you wouldn’t know it from reading Andrew Bolt. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg MEDIA & DEMOCRACY – Ove Hoegh-Guldberg dives into the media’s coverage of an Australian icon’s future. One of the most straightforward climate change storylines is the link between global … Continue reading
Nothing to See Here: Idle Nonsense at the Expense of Genuine Concern
“[T]he most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted…” – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (more than two centuries ago, which was quoted in Lockwood 2010). A great example could be Chris Monckton’s reference to Pinker, among many other fine moments. It is probably one of the easier ways to undermine understanding; to tweak it barely enough to … Continue reading
Home is Where the Life is: The Human Island (Chapter 14)
wish to start this chapter with a short hand version of a story I learn in the first year of my degree which has remained a source of inspiration to me ever since. It’s of the Richmond Birdwing Butterfly, Ornithoptera richmondia. The Richmond Birdwing butterfly While never being quite as abundant as the previously … Continue reading
When it’s Gone: The Human Island (Chapter 8)
“Oh, and spare me your huffing about biodiversity, sustainability and my children’s children’s children. “You see, I’ve seen the dodo… “… looking at the goofy thing, I felt serenely confident that there was not the slightest gap left in my life by its passing, just as I have no reason at all to regret never … Continue reading
Hathos: Fuel for the Climate Debate and Bolt’s Pay Cheque?
I just noticed this morning that someone wrote the following on the whiteboard in the tearoom (I won’t use a photograph so as not to identify the writer): Hathos: As inextricable fascination with something you hate. eg. Andrew Bolt’s writing. It’s the kind of thing that I sometimes come by that makes me wish that … Continue reading
