I’m married and my wife works, too. We don’t have kids. We’ll miss out on most of Julia Gillard’s tax sweeteners for breeders and singles. According to the government’s new Household Assistance Estimator, the Carbon Tax will cost us roughly $905 per year; our offset will be just $306. Bloody hell. Try it yourself and see how you fare. Either way, we’ll all pay at least $3.30 per week more for electricity from July 1, 2012.
According to scientists, climate change is real. Humans have, are and will continue to affect this planet’s weather with their CO2 shenanigans. This includes WW2, where there was a demonstrable human-created invention that had a measurable impact on the weather.
The guys at The Hungry Beast made a very good point this week – we tend to hear a lot from people who both believe in climate change and those who deny it, but very little from the scientists who would actually know about it. So they spoke to some climate scientists, who could all very well give up the science gig and turn to rap music, if this video is any sort of indication. Watch it now.
While the iPad has ramped up my of internet reading considerably, I still prefer to tackle books in their physical form, largely because there’s no real advantage to reading them on the tablet. Our Choice, the latest volley in Al Gore’s noble crusade for climate change, is evidence that when crafted with care, the electronic book can surpass its paper predecessor in style and substance.
According to worried researchers at a recent US science conference, the planet cannot continue to sustain its present population targets without becoming ‘unrecognisable’ to how we view it today.
Preaching the climate change gospel can be tough work, especially on Twitter. Software developer Nigel Leck got tired rehashing the same 140-character arguments against climate change deniers, so he programmed a bot that does the work for him. With citations!
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This may be the future of London and your city. It’s a terrifying prospect, but one of the potential outcomes of climate change. Floods, ice, extreme immigration… I love the idea of Buckingham Palace in a slum. Watch and imagine.
In order to understand how the Industrial Revolution affected the air we breathe, environmental engineers need to find pristine air particles. To do that, they have to go 40m above the remotest corners of the Amazon rainforest.
