A convenient article to come out during the Bonn UN climate conference where Australia thinks its going to be awarded COP31 hosting rights. #auspol #climate
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I'm planning a diet. It involves subtracting the weight of the salad I eat from the weight of the chocolate I eat. Because the salad displaces chocolate I otherwise would've eaten. If, some days, I eat more salad than chocolate, then I will claim I have actually eaten net negative chocolate.
jun 19, 2025, 9:31 am • 70 11 • view
This is sound maths and good nutritional practice. Im getting hammered on Jack Daniels right now but I'm going to drink some milk to cancel it right out and soon I will be net sober.
jun 19, 2025, 9:36 am • 53 3 • view
This may be the groundwork for the second edition of the CSIRO approved diet for Australians
jun 20, 2025, 5:25 am • 7 1 • view
It’s overall unsatisfactory, but it’s reasonable as an intellectual exercise to consider how you might cancel out emissions. This could support a cap and trade scheme with real emissions reduction benefits until as the authors point out, fossil auto exits. This might hasten fossil demise.
aug 29, 2025, 1:43 am • 0 0 • view
The issue here is that the publication and misleading headline have given this “ credible weight” with media. And fossil fuel lobby is more than happy with this. They probably had a few rounds at the pub when this came out.
aug 29, 2025, 8:26 am • 0 0 • view
If people read the headline only and not the content then - well that just seems like mostly what people do. If you cut out the bit about fossil fuel production and we just do green steel, what exactly would you expect should be the outcome? No attribution for the reduction in CO2?
aug 29, 2025, 8:39 am • 0 0 • view
The paper and data are public domain if you want to crunch imaginary “if” numbers for green steel etc. Australia a long way behind, and no serious intent from leadership.
aug 29, 2025, 12:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Great call. I’m using that analogy with my Economics classes. Cheers!
jun 19, 2025, 9:21 pm • 4 1 • view
Empirical data required so I tried it last night @pollyjhemming.bsky.social and I can safely say a. It doesn’t work b. Tastes real bad in the morning
jun 21, 2025, 1:12 am • 2 1 • view
jun 19, 2025, 10:20 am • 6 1 • view
I have based my lifestyle on this method 😀
jun 19, 2025, 9:56 am • 4 1 • view
What do call "salad"? Lettuce and alfalfa or carrots, beetroot, cabbage with tofu, chicken, etc? And is yr chocolate light milky stuff like an aero or heavy and dark? Hmmmm 🤔
jun 19, 2025, 9:41 am • 0 0 • view
Milky chocolate is salad!
jun 20, 2025, 5:06 am • 2 1 • view
"No, officer, I might appear to have blown over the limit but the beers I drank today are negated by all the soda water I drank yesterday so I am, in fact, in negative beers, currently"
jun 20, 2025, 1:14 am • 8 1 • view
I'm a chocolate manufacturer, and this time, I'm serious. I'm going on a REAL DIET. Sometime in 2030. Maybe.
jun 23, 2025, 7:27 am • 0 0 • view