Bid to ban cigarettes for anyone born after 2000. Interesting initiative in Tasmania, may go to all of Australia given that this comes less than a week after the High Court rules in favour of the “plain packaging” legislation. There is now good momentum for the “end game of tobacco”.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=africa-grows-too-hot-to-grow-chocolate
Climate change may be disrupting the cocoa farms of West Africa
Climate Change Denier’s Own Study Changes His Mind
Professor Richard Muller, one of the US’ foremost climate change deniers, has finally changed his views on global warming thanks to a new study… his own. After conducting research on the subject, Muller says he has had a “total turnaround” and is no longer sceptical about the threats of greenhouse gases, according to The Guardian.
The results of Muller’s study, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature or BEST project, showed that the land temperature has risen 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit in the past 250 years, with the majority of that occurring in the last 50 years alone. Even more damningly, the data suggests that the increase is due almost exclusively to human production of greenhouse gases.
Muller, a physicist, admits he was surprised by the findings, but will not deny climate change any more. “As scientists, it is our duty to let the evidence change our minds,” he said.
Arrow Energy, now also under your house in the Brisbane Western suburbs…
http://www.goldergis.com.au/csggroundwaterportal/ (tick the CSG lease box to see areas)
A large coal seam gas exploration permit has been granted over a large part of Brisbane’s Western suburbs.
The permit, known as EPP641 is owned by BNG Pty Ltd which is a subsidiary of the large CSG company, Arrow which is, in turn, owned 50-50 by the multi-national corporations, PetroChina and Shell.
Suburbs of Brisbane covered by the EPP include Moggill, Bellbowrie, Anstead, Pullenvale, Pinjarra Hills, Mount Crosby, Karana Downs and Brookfield and the tenement comes within a kilometre or so of Kenmore Village Shopping Centre.
I present to you two bits of info:
My conclusion: mental Marmalade, Woollies. Bad show.