The best informed guesses I can find about what we Australians might need to deal with in direct climate effects are hotter weather, stronger cyclones, a monsoonal rain pattern that moves south, (making it relevant not just to Darwin and far northern Australia but to Queensland and northern NSW too), a lower frequency of strong El Niño and more La Niña – which is good news for the eastern states…
Isn’t it stunning? This is the current position of all the cargo vessels in the world. Just cargo vessels – I’ve set the filter to remove the passenger ships, the tankers, the fishing vessels, all the other types of sea traffic. How do we prepare for when those ships stop, or, if we are smarter than I think we collectively are, when they start using fuel that is clean and…
There was an article in “The Conversation” this morning about the Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, planning to release a statement called “The Measuring What Matters” statement. It’s a plan to track wellbeing using about 50 indicators of how Australians are doing. Chalmers said the traditional economic metrics – GDP, income, employment – didn’t tell the whole story. Other things also mattered. No shit, Sherlock.
I burned a pot. I tried all the boiling with carb soda methods. I scrubbed but it was unretrievable. Sugar. So “new pot” went on the op shop list.
Tomorrow morning, at 8.47 am, we here in eastern Australia reach the crest of the year. The earth tilts its face fully towards the sun, the shadows that day will be at their shortest, the day the longest.
I saw a post on Twitter a little while ago, and it’s been bothering me ever since. I scrolled past, so I can’t exactly remember it. But the gist was that the writer was upset about mainstream media advice, that people struggling to make ends meet should start a garden.
Here we are in the odd position of celebrating Halloween, a festival that, in European tradition, marks the start of winter, when thoughts turn to mortality and all around are reminders that every living thing dies. But tonight I will light the fairy lights in the carport and dress up, I think perhaps as a dragonfly, or maybe a mud wasp? Some predatory insect anyway, and make a batch of…