Marco's Blog

It is so easy to read books in which the world view matches one's own. Nearly finished it in one day.

Due to the suddenness of the onset of drought, retail prices of water are expected to be up to 10 times greater than normal. Therefore the p...

Shortages of bananas would lead to harsher and harsher restrictions. Level 1 restrictions would mean we are only allowed to eat bananas on o...

But in the meantime look for my comments at RealClimate:)

This is one of the themes from Bjorn Lomborg's infamous book. It is not lying - It isn't even necessarily an exaggeration, but it en...

Dr. Clam said... Rereading your post reminds me- have you read Jared Diamond's "Collapse: How Societies Chose to Succeed or Fail...

As a business manager, I got used to the times when I would put an ad in the paper and you would interview a few people for a job. You would...

17th anniversary of Germany's "day of fate". So - How's the new world order going? Some of the wounds of WWII were healed,...

I've been so meaning to write things so often in the last few weeks, but I am having trouble keeping sane enough (if that makes any sens...

If you have doubts about the merits of carbon trading I suggest you read the following link selling hot air . Not only does it seem that gre...

Bringing this subject up again has been prompted by this Survey of the environment which seems to contradict its own previous conclusions o...

There has been several experiences within the sales team at Cueldee where local schools or businesses have pretty much disrespected our loca...

I am confidently predicting that on this day in 2008, the price of petrol will be under $1.00 Au per litre in Townsville. Much against the a...

Damn right I remember what I was doing when it happened. I was just snoozing off as was my habit at that time, while Kylie would watch her v...

click to enlarge While tidying up looking for old stuff came across this itinerary. I still haven't worked out where all the old photos ...

My eldest daughter recently competed in her first Westpac Mathematics competition late last month. Of course this is very exciting for me, a...

I promised I would actually put something down along these lines, but it is quite difficult to get all of my thoughts straight. So I'll ...

The one minor consolation that I got from the sad news that no hydro station was being built up in the rainforest mountains up north, was th...

The Iranian government, after supplying, bankrolling and otherwise funding Hezbollah, isn't exactly bravely entering the conflict in its...