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The US military’s carbon bootprint is enormous. Like corporate supply chains, it relies upon an extensive global network of container ships, trucks and cargo planes to supply its operations with everything from bombs to humanitarian aid and hydrocarbon fuels. Our new study calculated the contribution of this vast infrastructure to climate change.

Scientists, who generally wear white laboratory jackets so they are not confused with economists, have a canon of sacred texts. Pride of place is occupied by the journal Nature, which is now a collection of specialised magazines that cover scientific advances in most measurable phenomena. Of course, trades and professions also have their stable of news and reference works while the public have Fox, the Murdoch press and social media.

According to CoreLogic’s most recent monthly house price report, Melbourne was the cheapest major capital city property market, with a median price of $772,561 as of February 28, 2025. Melbourne’s relative affordability comes after a value gain of only 8.2% over the last five years, compared to a 38.9% increase nationally. The following chart, derived

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A couple of years ago, I got into a discussion about Artificial Intelligence (AI) with a couple of people who write computer code (in Python) as part of their jobs.  They suggested that I could use it to kick-start rants on this blog. At the time, ChatGPT was the AI version in the headlines, and they suggested that I should use it. Initially, I wanted to find out how I could get it to work for me, so I queried it about its capabilities. The ‘query’ I sent to it was: “I am just trying to obtain an understanding of the capabilities of ChatGPT and to work out if it will be of use to me”.

Weeks after an Amsterdam airport had to close down due to glare from nearby solar panels, China giant launches a new anti-glare range of modules – at an airport!

Community group behind legal bid to block massive Tasmania wind farm decides to focus on opposing its federal environmental approval.

Exxon Mobil has killed its Gippsland carbon capture and storage project running since 2022, but won't explain why.

With the election expected to be called this weekend for a poll date of either May 3 or May 10, opinion polls remain too close to call. The latest Redbridge polling, released on Thursday, showed that Labor was ahead 51% to 49% on a two-party preferred basis, hitting the lead for the first time in

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Every time I read one of these articles, the Grattan Institute appears as the independent voice of reason. SMH. As the risk of shortfalls edges closer, state and federal energy ministers are becoming increasingly worried that talks between LNG terminal developers and prospective customers appear deadlocked, with neither party able to agree on price and

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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please.

I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email newsletter. For the moment, I’ll post both at this blog and on Substack. You can also follow me on Mastodon here.

The great coal crash continues. Thermal coal has broken $100 and continues to fall. Coking coal is the mirror image. I see no end in sight to either. The less gloomy news is the price falls are more or less on track for the budget. Key commodity prices are assumed to decline from elevated levels

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