Archive for February, 2007

Climate Change Question

I spoke at the Dairy Week Conference in Shepparton today on the effects of oil and biofuel developments on grain pricing and the dairy industry. An interesting day and a good catch up with some dairy farmers that were clients of mine back in the day when I was a dairy cattle veterinarian in Victoria.
After [...]

The Politics of Fear

… terrorism as inspiration in the age of disillusion.
A must-see program exploring the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion was screened on SBS on Wednesday evening 14 February. Unfortunately the program, the final in a three-part BBC documentary series called The Power of Nightmares, was competing not [...]

Mandating Ethanol

NSW Premier Morris Iemma has announced that he is mandating 2% ethanol in petrol from September is he wins the NSW state election, a move along the way to 10% ethanol by 2011. This is a populist move, partly to NSW grain farmers that has no practical basis. Let’s look at the facts:

A load of hot air

This morning the front page of The Australian newspaper has an article on how you can buy a carbon credit to offset your cat’s flatulence creating greenhouse gases.
(http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au).
The world has gone completely mad.
Let me say from the outset that I absolutely believe that we have to respond to climate change by reducing our [...]