Archive for August 2nd, 2007
Toxic Dolphins: A Note from Ann Novek
Posted by jennifer, August 2nd, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Plants and Animals
Comments: 129
Japanese officials have publicly condemned the eating of dolphin meat especially in school lunches due to mercury contamination:
“We tested some samples purchased at the Gyokyo supermarket in Taiji and Super Center Okuwa in the nearby city of Shingu …
One dolphin sample had a mercury content 10 times above the health ministry’s advisory level of 0.4 [...]
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Register Now for the AEF Conference: Melbourne, Saturday September 8, 2007
Posted by jennifer, August 2nd, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Comments: none
Don Burke and many others will be at the Australian Environment Foundation Conference on Saturday 8th September.
Professor Bob Carter, a foundation member of the AEF, will talk on the myths of climate change. Dr Ziggy Switkowski, the chair of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, will provide insights into nuclear energy use and [...]
Chris Hogendyk and the Marsh Block
Posted by jennifer, August 2nd, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: People
Comments: 29
In May 2005 Chris Hogendyk became aware of a small 260ha property located in the heart of the Macquarie Marshes that was for sale. The property had been used for cattle grazing for over 150 years, and was in a rather sad state after 5 years of drought and overgrazing.
Chris motivated a group of 30 [...]
Lockwood and Frohlich, Part 1
Posted by Paul, August 2nd, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 34
It has become common practice in climate science for a press release reporting the findings of a new paper to precede the publication in the journal concerned. Thus, the Lockwood and Frohlich paper ‘Recent oppositely directed trends in solar climate forcings and the global mean surface air temperature’ (M. Lockwood and C. Fröhlich Proc. R. [...]

