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Neil’s Second Decade
- Music and my life– 2— 1945 January 17, 2012
- Chinese interlude January 16, 2012
- Cabramatta again, and William Yang January 15, 2012
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The Great Global Warming Swindle Swindle. Go here for the real story. POST UPDATED AND EXPANDED 16 July 2007.
See also How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic from 3 Quarks Daily.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Nine Lies About Climate Change (2008).
Real Climate: Climate Science from Climate Scientists -- blog.
The Discovery of Global Warming -- on the Web site of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics.
Tag Archives: Sydney
I live in one of the most beautiful places on Earth…
Or so we tell people. That’s Fort Denison, in the early days of the colony a punishment island nicknamed “Pinchgut” and then in the 1850s the fort was built to defend Sydney Harbour against a Russian invasion. Something to do … Continue reading
Posted in Aussie interest, blogging, climate change
Tagged global warming, Kiribati, Sydney
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Friday Australian poem #8: Kenneth Slessor (1901-1971)
Reading aloud this moving elegy on a dead friend and colleague of Slessor — Joe Lynch, who fell or jumped into Sydney Harbour from a ferry while drunk — became one of my better party tricks in senior poetry classes. … Continue reading
Posted in Aussie interest, Cultural and other, OzLit, poets and poetry
Tagged 20th century poetry, Australian poetry, Friday poem, Kenneth Slessor, Sydney