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The Inmates do Run the Asylum (Updated).

http://aussiemagpie.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-inmates-do-run-asylum.html

Created

Thu, 04/08/2022 - 06:32

Maybe my GP is right. I might be worrying too much. I shouldn’t follow the news so closely.

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A July of Extremes

http://aussiemagpie.blogspot.com/2022/08/a-july-of-extremes.html

Created

Fri, 12/08/2022 - 05:02

That’s how hot North America, Europe, Africa and parts of Asia were in early July.

From the Earth Observatory release:

A Tale of Two Lakes.

http://aussiemagpie.blogspot.com/2022/09/a-tale-of-two-lakes.html

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Tue, 13/09/2022 - 04:01

What you see in green in the left-most image below was Pakistan’s Lake Manchar (June 25th): the largest freshwater reservoir in that country. After catastrophic monsoon rains and with increased meltwater inflow from the Himalayas, the swollen lake has suffered breaches (accidental and deliberate), resulting in the two images to the right (August 28th and September 5th).

We’re on a Roll: three Niñas, One After the Other!

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Tue, 13/09/2022 - 20:27

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What’s Degrowth?

http://aussiemagpie.blogspot.com/2022/09/whats-degrowth.html

Created

Mon, 19/09/2022 - 03:06

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Let me begin by saying something degrowth is not. Degrowth is not the most frequent subject in the media.

Quotable Quotes: BOOM!

http://aussiemagpie.blogspot.com/2022/09/quotable-quotes.html

Created

Fri, 23/09/2022 - 04:18

This is the context of that particular fragment of Vladimir Putin’s announcement:

They [Washington, London and Brussels] have even resorted to the [sic] nuclear blackmail. I am referring not only to the Western-encouraged shelling of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, which poses a threat of a nuclear disaster, but also to the statements made by some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO countries on the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction – nuclear weapons – against Russia.

Workers’ Mail: Proud to Protest.

http://aussiemagpie.blogspot.com/2022/09/workers-mail-proud-to-protest.html

Created

Wed, 28/09/2022 - 06:36

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Bits and Pieces.

http://aussiemagpie.blogspot.com/2022/10/bits-and-pieces.html

Created

Mon, 17/10/2022 - 04:06

I think we can give up hope this third consecutive La Niña will be any better than her two previous sisters.

On Thursday 6th Sydney broke the record for the rainiest year since data collection began in 1858: that day rainfall over Observatory Hill meteorological station totalled 2,206.8 mm. The previous record (2,194.0 mm in 1950) had stood for 72 years.

On the Future of Regulation Scholarship

https://economicsociology.org/2022/08/25/on-the-future-of-regulation-scholarshi…

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Thu, 25/08/2022 - 09:17

by Julien Etienne* It is startling to see that regulation scholarship continues projecting a business-as-usual picture, when current trends and scientific insights into the foreseeable future all point to radical change. Indeed, scientists have been documenting the extremely rapid decline in biodiversity and acceleration of climate change. They project that these trends will continue to […]

University Deal with Oil Giant Leads to Student Anger

https://bylinetimes.com/2022/12/23/university-deal-with-oil-giant-leads-to-stud…

Created

Fri, 23/12/2022 - 21:24

Exeter University announces new, five-year funding arrangement with Shell, as students urge campuses to divest from fossil fuel interests, reports Max Colbert

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