The "Wong" Equation

Australia has come out as a champion of holistic thinking in Copenhagen. Wanting to remove land use emissions from the accounts, whilst adding land use credits, it is clear that the sum of the parts is greater (or less) than the whole (or is that a hole in the sum?).... I have named this great new construct the "Wong" equation. If you can find anything wong with it, please contact the Australian Department of Climate Change (where the Change is readily explained by the maths!)

The alternative carbon reduction plan

The Mad Monk on Manly is hitting his strides, and brimming with confidence. So much so that he has spoken his thoughts on the Libs alternate carbon reduction plan- energy efficiency (please turn off your computer now) and better land management (less trees chopped, more planted). So if we all change our behaviour (cos we have such a good track record of that...) and plant more trees (but wait,,, don't they also cause bush fires??), we can reduce our greenhouse gas emissions at no cost.... Oh,, and throw in some nuclear power as well. Why has this not been thought of before! He is a great man, our Tony.... So here is Tony leading by example, planting out Manly beach, thereby preventing sea level rise and beach erosion!

For the Greater Glory of Abbott(or as I prefer in latin, ad maiorem abbott gloriam)

The McWong ETS fails the taste-test

Well, what a week it has been. Abbott is now leader of the opposition, and Bishop is standing by her third leader (still smiling and staying silent by their side..... starting think that she could be a bit of a political black widow). So now the Coalition has blocked the ETS legislation..... so what went wrong for the government? As my little sketch shows, I think the genetically modified McWong ETS tried to accommodate too many tastes and ended up being unpalatable....too much meat (carbon) for the greens and not enough meat for the right. And for Abbott's early musings on an alternate carbon reduction plan, based on more trees and energy efficiency,,,, got a drawing to do!!