He pointed to the only event in the past five years to send the environment soaring up the issue tracker polls: the widespread floods of early 2014, which followed the wettest winter for 250 years.
Federal ministers raised strong objections to Australia's commitment to the Green Climate Fund during the cabinet discussion before Warsaw, a meeting to which Australia controversially declined to send the environment minister, Greg Hunt, or any ministerial representative.
Finalising arrangements for the fund – which is supposed to channel $100bn a year in public and private financing to developing countries by 2020 – is one of the tests of the annual UN meeting, to which Australia has controversially declined to send the environment minister, Greg Hunt, or any ministerial representative.
To try to quell such worries, the government sent the environment and nuclear minister to the plant on Saturday, where he climbed a makeshift staircase in protective garb to look at the structure supporting the pool, which he said appeared sound.
Every day, Graham sends the Environment Agency an email, but to no avail.
It's a mediocre shooter with a few smart ideas related to time manipulation; the main hook was a weapon to send the environment sailing forward and backward in time.
The statement, signed by more than 30 environment groups, was sent to the environment minister, Greg Hunt, Labor's environment spokesperson, Mark Butler, and the Greens' environment spokesperson, Janet Rice.
In this environment, sending your children out to play, alone, without safety in numbers, would be "a lunatic decision", admits Bond.
Despite the fact there are genuine concerns over nanotechnology's impact on the environment, sending parcel bombs to scientists and academics seems a little extreme.
If anything, it might improve the working environment, sending pleasant wafts of blueberry across the room, encouraging co-workers to interact with one another in asking for a honk on each other's rigs, et cetera, et cetera.
