If there was a competition for the stupidest parliamentarian, now that Craig Kelly is no longer in parliament, the poor, benighted senator Gerard Rennick seems certainly hard to beat. In his latest utterance, he has let the climate science community know that they have missed a vital aspect on which the climate is solely dependent: gravity. In a tweet he said the following: “CO2 is a gas, it cannot trap convection.
After writing a piece about the idiocy of the US gun culture and the enormous number of mass murders by gun1, I wondered just how generally murderous the US was. As I suspected, it is a relatively nasty place.
While there is a great deal of smugness about the gun buyback scheme instituted by the Howard coalition government after the Port Arthur massacre, when compared to the murderous availability of guns in the US. In the 1996 firearm massacre in Tasmania, 35 people died, and afterwards Australian governments united to remove semi‐automatic and pump‐action shotguns and rifles from civilian possession, as a key component of gun law reforms1.
The first essay I wrote on this blog, back in January 2017, was about gun violence in the US. It was entitled appropriately ‘Gun nuts’1. At that time, the essay was based on data from between 2013 and 20161. Since then, that gun violence has only worsened.
Everybody who reads newspapers or their websites knowns that the relevance deficit disorder sufferer, and NSW One Notion upper house member, Mark Latham, tweeted something disgustingly homophobic (and deleted it subsequently) about openly gay NSW independent lower house member Alex Greenwich1.
Deep in the basement recesses of the library at Geoscience Australia is a journal entitled Original Reports of the Okamura Fossil Laboratory1. Decades ago, these were sent, unsolicited, to the library and were catalogued and put on the shelves with all the thousands of books and journals on geoscience and related topics. The Okamura Laboratory reports are large format, glossy productions and must have cost a considerable amount to produce.