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Rossetti and the wombat
Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington kindly reminded me that Dante Gabriel Rossetti loved wombats. The wombat was to become a principal obsession of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his unofficial trademark. He wrote loving poems about the creature and captured it in paint and pen. He later bought two of them for…
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Wombat does energy policy
Real or surreal? A headline in a daily newspaper recently announced Australia’s “carbon cut challenge just got real.“ This is the move to require 215 “big polluters” to cut their emissions by some 5% each year to 2030 to help meet the 43% emission reduction program. The path to a 43 per cent emission reduction…
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Open Thread – Tues 17 Jan 2023
The Strawberry Thieves pattern, William Morris, 1883
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I fear that the Voice will be a shoo-in
Let’s be pessimistic or is it realistic. Suppose the Voice gets up in the referendum. We’ll have thirty-five local and regional bodies coalescing into either state and territory bodies from which twenty-four reps will emerge to form the Voice. Or at least that’s the proposed model in the Calma-Langton report. It’s an opaque process. Probably…
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Sliding towards polyamorous ‘marriage’
It was clear during and following the public discussion of gay ‘marriage’ that there was no in-principle argument among the majority of its proponents that could present a stumbling block for polyamorous ‘marriage’. If people could not recognize that marriage was a union of the opposite sexes, given its ends, how could they further recognize…
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Nicolai Petro’s The Tragedy of Ukraine
The above is an informative discussion of Nicolai Petro’s The Tragedy of Ukraine. It covers areas that haven’t been discussed in much detail in the West, generally, at least in the MSM, particularly the regional (Galician) character of Ukrainian nationalism, its origins in the 19th and early 20th Century, its attempt to establish a particular…
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Open Thread – Weekend 14 Jan 2023
Girl at a Sewing Machine, Edward Hopper, 1921
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #53
Man is the warmest place to hide 1982 was a seminal year for science fiction movies, of which there were three outstanding films of the genre released, all of which were quite different in style and audience engagement. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial was on its way to becoming the highest grossing film of all-time; Blade Runner…
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South Australia does it again
Not to mention Victoria. At sunrise this morning SA was importing 40% of their power and two thirds of local generation came from gas. They are “independent” when the Capacity Factor of the wind is 40 or 50% or more, well above the average of 29%. This morning it was 12%. Victoria and Tasmania (the…
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Support for the new energy narrative
According to the new narrative, flagged here on the New Catallaxy, wind and solar power are unsustainable, dirty, expensive and catastrophic for the environment. The root of the problem is the fake science news that is put about by the collection of vested interests that apparently hate the western world and everything that makes for…