Political history
Member of the Aust Labor Party 2001-2010
Member of the Aust Green Party 2010-2013
Member of the Aust Wikileaks Party 2013- current
National Council Aust Wikileaks Party 2013-current
Things I'm passionate about:
Environmental sustainability, transparent governance and science education
Some political thoughts below:
The biggest threat to democracy
Income
I think it's not quite just that the present-day distribution of incomes and wealth in Australia (below left) doesn't look more like the distribution of chest circumferences in Scottish soldiers in 1817 (below right).
| Australian
income and wealth distribution |
Chest
circumferences of 5,732 Scottish soldiers in 1817,
measured by Belgian mathematician Mr A Quetelet.
This shape can be seen everywhere in the natural
world - from Scottish chest sizes to the temperature at
which popcorn pops. It's known as a normal or 'Gaussian'
distribution. |
 |
 source: Encyclopedia Britannica |
Energy
I think these three graphs are interesting:
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Long term
temperature records
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Bloomberg energy forecast | Photovoltaic
price learning curve |
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| source: IPCC | source Bloomberg New Energy Finance | source: Breyer and Gerlach Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 2013; 21:121–136 |
more to come.
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