Monthly Archives: February 2024

Last week a Washington DC jury awarded over $1 million to a prominent climate scientist for damages inflicted on him by a couple of conservative writers who likened his work to child molestation. It was a reckoning 25 years in … Continue reading →

Whiplash is the most common road trauma injury, caused by the head moving suddenly one way and back the other. It’s also a fitting description for what climate change is doing to people’s minds.  “Climate whiplash” has been coined by … Continue reading →

Australia and Canada have a lot in common. As products of British colonisation the two countries have a vaguely similar recent history. In land area and population, Canada is bigger, but not much. And they are both well endowed with … Continue reading →