Archive for October 22nd, 2007
Lyssa macleayi
Posted by neil, October 22nd, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Plants and Animals
Comments: 3
If this spectacular moth had a common name it would almost certainly be the Night Citrus Swallowtail. Previously known as Nyctalemon patroclus, it has since been re-affirmed as the formerly identified Lyssa macleayi.
The compound eyes of many insect species have an effective tapetum (reflective carpet) producing strong eye shine under illumination. Light that [...]
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A Man’s Got To Do What Mann Won’t Do
Posted by Paul, October 22nd, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 38
Thanks to Willis Eschenbach for the amusing spoof ‘reconstructed’ photo of Michael Mann.
No doubt many blog readers will be familiar with the infamous ‘Hockey Stick’ graph, which used ‘proxy’ reconstructed temperature data up to 1980, grafted onto Hadley CRU instrumental data. The IPCC liked it so much that it appeared several times in the Third [...]

