Archive for July 26th, 2007
Stealing Water from the Macquarie Marshes: A Note and More Pictures from Chris Hogendyk
Posted by jennifer, July 26th, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Water
Comments: 9
During the past month there has been a tributary flood event in the Macquarie Valley resulting in a moderate but valuable volume of water (approximately 26,000 megalitres) making its way down to the drought ravaged Macquarie Marshes.
Over 30% of this water was delivered away from the publicly owned Nature Reserves into the Gum Cowal/Terrigal system [...]
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CO2 Record in Ice Cores Unreliable: A Note from Paul Williams
Posted by jennifer, July 26th, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 47
The Intergovernmental Panel on Cllimate Change (IPCC) estimates pre-industrial levels of CO2 based largely on information derived from ice cores. These are kilometres long cylinders of ice drilled (in short sections) from the Greenland and Antarctic icecaps.
The theory is that air bubbles trapped in the ice are samples of the ancient atmosphere, and thus [...]
Humane Society and Japanese Whalers Argue Over Pregnant Minke Whales
Posted by jennifer, July 26th, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Plants and Animals
Comments: 55
“Humane Society International (HSI) has reviewed the Japanese reports from their most recent 2006/07 whale hunt in Antarctic waters and found that over half those killed were pregnant.
Of the 505 Antarctic minke whales killed in Antarctic waters last summer, 262 of them were pregnant females, while one of the three fin whales killed was also [...]

