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Do emus bury their heads in the sand? : Comments
By Campbell Macpherson, published 18/2/2021Too many Australian politicians appear to be stuck in the 'Denial' phase of the Kubler-Ross change curve – unable or unwilling to accept the reality of climate change.
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His name was Eratosthenes of Cyrene (which is in Lybia but was a Greek colony). He calculated the circumference to within 1% or so. He also calculated the earth's tilt to within 0.5%. He lived around 250BC.
What we know of him is based on other works because all his works are los,t probably in the fire in Alexandria's library in 48 BC but its also possible they were just purged later as heresy.
Mr O,
Its not a question of not wanting to discuss what you call a fact that its too big to fix. Its a case of fundamentally disagreeing with that notion (note: not a fact, just a fact-free opinion).
Far from it being a problem to big to fix, its not even clear its a problem requiring fixing.