March 2009

We can strike this one off the list

“Geoengineering” is a catch-all term for approaching climate change from the other side of the too-much-gas-too-much-heat side of the equation. One of the early promising schemes was iron fertilisation, where mixing iron with waters in oceanic ‘deserts’ would cause algal blooms. The theory was that such blooms would come and go so fast that when they died, they’d sink to the bottom of the ocean and take their carbon with them.

It doesn’t seem to work that way. But at least iron fertilisation could show a way to improve fisheries without destroying fish stocks.

Climate Change
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Wikileaks threaten Conroy with extradition proceedings

Wikileaks have acquired a copy of the ACMA blacklist (which I am unable to link to without being fined) which forms part of Conroy’s filtering masterplan.

Conroy issued a press release saying that he was going to hunt down the person who leaked the list to Wikileaks.

Now Wikileaks have advised that if he does so, they will act under the Swedish law which protects their operations to have him charged with the criminal offence of trying to identify an anonymous press source, then start extradition proceedings in Australian courts. Yes, really.

Donate to wikileaks, folks. They are rolled-gold heroes.

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IT and Internet
Politics - national

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