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Category Archives: Ecology

Australia hardest hit by climate change?

The reports of impacts of climate change have really been coming in recently. We saw in India, as featured in a recent post here, of the alarming sinking of an … Continue reading

5 January, 2007 · 5 Comments

Inhabited island disappears off the face of the map: climate change casualty

The Independent’s environment editor Geoffrey Lean reports that climate change has claimed its first wholesale victim, the previously inhabited (population: 10, 000) island of Lohachara near India. Disappearing world: Global … Continue reading

27 December, 2006 · 10 Comments

Sydney: Let there be … less light; and, goin’ nuclear

If you wanted a taste of bizarre weather that might well be linked to climate change (that isn’t a hurricane, which have increased in severity and frequency), look no further … Continue reading

21 December, 2006 · 2 Comments

How the dinosaurs became extinct

Thumb-nail – click on picture for full-size This cartoon is by the superlative David Pope (pen name Hinze).

30 November, 2006 · 1 Comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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