Why Heatwaves Are So Deadly, And Climate Change Is Making Them Deadlier At 44℃ you die. Not 44° air temperature, but 44° core temperature—the temperature of your major organs. At a core temperature of 37℃ you’re fine, and at 44℃ you’re dead. That’s the narrow range between good health and death, and it’s why an […]
The ABC continues its proud tradition of climate-change-denial, and I propose a time-saving template for future denialist articles.
An opponent is someone with whom you have a shared understanding and agreement about the rules, and system. Regardless of who wins, the system survives. An enemy, by contrast, wants to destroy your system, and they’ll do it by pretending to honor the rules, and breaking them whenever convenient. Lying, cheating, rigging, propaganda, bribery, imprisonment of competitors, whatever it takes.
A brief musing on environmental myths. I’m writing this in response to a number of prevalent and recurring myths or assumptions that permeate discussions about the environment. Broadly, I’d describe them as: In slightly more detail: the myth of perfection presumes that the way the world is now—or was—say fifty, or a hundred, or five […]
Once upon a time the tabloids would fat-shame women in the public eye, but apparently the latest fad is muscle-shaming. The victim is still women, though, not the industries that they work in.
Climate change has turned the recovery of a thousand kilometres of sensitive shoreline into a probable permanent loss.
Not front-page news, according to the ABC.
The unfortunate juxtaposition of these two articles, not just on the same day, but literally next to each other on the front page, provides a perfect illustration of two things. Firstly, the ABC’s continuing gaslighting of the Australian public about our gas supplies and prices; and secondly that it’s not an accident. For the gaslighting […]
A display of blatantly partisan bias, in my opinion, served up as news and journalism.
How the Right’s relentless, selfish focus on “rights” is destroying our democracy from the inside.
The possible destruction of a millennia-old sacred site for foreign fossil-fuel profits is framed, instead, as necessary to address a “gas crisis”. Shameful.
A musing on the root-causes of Roe-v-Wade’s overturn—Senate malapportionment and bad faith—and proposed remedies. Not a discussion of Roe v. Wade.
Can you tell lies in a “balanced” article? Of course. Here’s an example.
On Thursday, the ABC published a story about the “east coast power crisis”, claiming to explain what was happening. In my opinion, what ABC readers received instead was some vintage ABC “balanced” gaslighting. This kind of article is characterised by: Selective use of the “reporter’s voice”—the voice of true, verified facts—as distinct from attributed quotes. […]
How “right” and “wrong” are equivalent for the ABC’s fact-checkers, who cherry-pick their results.
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