Australia is experiencing two energy crises: International high prices due to supply issues, and local deterioration of infrastructure that isn’t being replaced because of… climate change. Its a false dichotomy, and we can’t afford for it to continue.
Unfortunately, a common trait among journalists, politicians and actually, lets face it, most of the population, is that they’re not very good at math. An unfortunate side-effect of this is that we make very poor arguments from data.
Fossil fuels are still essential for the world. And oil is still a core ingredient in international politics. And hence the recent history of Oil is still important to understand…
Hydrogen has become very topical recently. There are valid concerns about whether it will really take an important role in the energy sector. Those concerns may not be what you think…
A journal paper on the use of probability in the debate on Atheism, providing a defense against Richard Dawkins’ book, The God Delusion.
Why I am not convinced by the climate change alarmists. My reasons, are not all to do with science…
A N Wilsons biography of Charles Darwin was a surprise. Even to A N Wilson. He never expected to discover that, well, “Darwin was wrong”.
It didn’t fall down, which is good. But it did provide a pretext for Engineers Australia to advocate for registration again. Ugh.
John Lennox provided a quick read. A summary of the best arguments against the “new atheism” and the view that it takes of science.
Japanese car-makers and, more recently, Elon Musk, both found that automation is not as good as everyone assumes. “Humans are under-rated”. There’s an important lesson in that for policy-makers.