Roger Dargaville
Roger is a climate change research scientist at the University of Melbourne and an Energy Analyst for the Melbourne Energy Institute. His main focus of research is the impact of the ozone hole on southern Australia’s climate, but he is spends a lot of time researching different energy technologies with the goal of finding the optimal mix of solutions to met our energy needs without killing the plant. He was a co-author on the International Energy Institute’s Energy Technology Perspectives 2008 publication and has worked at UNESCO in Paris and the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the USA on climate change issues. He’s been to Antarctica twice and would go again if his wife would let him. He’s into cycling as both a way to get around and to stay healthy, and wishes he had time to play his double bass.
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Nuclear power isn’t dangerous, just expensive
A Nielson poll has reported that about half of Australians are open to nuclear energy being considered as part of…... Read more
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Would you kill for a job?
Who would work in an abattoir? Most of us have done jobs we didn’t want to do because we needed…
Friday Dilemma: child cruelty or harmless fun?
Parenting. It’s the new oneupmanship. Ah, how quaint the days now seem when parents could raise…
Hipsters with hip replacements
Someone once told me that when people reach a certain age they begin dressing in the manner they did…
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From: Punch on: Open thread 09/02/2012
marley says:
I'm one of the older ones, so I've certainly seen a few changes in my time. When I started school I learned to write with a nib pen, dipped in an inkwell (no, I'm not kidding). My mother became a dab hand at getting inkstains out of my clothes. Flicking ink at one another in the classroom was an essential… [read more]From: I’d rather have a piece of toast than listen to crap lyrics
Erick says:
Led Zeppelin are responsible for my all-time favourite mixed metaphor: "There you sit, sit and stare, like a book on a shelf rusting." (Misty Mountain Hop) I laugh every time I hear it. Hmmm, I believe I've decided what to play on the way to work today. [read more]Gentle jabs to the ribs
No wuckin forries. These nuckin futs are tuckin fops
Well, puck me with a fitchfork. The F-word is apparently an acceptable part of Australian speech. That’s… Read more
