Jennifer Marohasy

Up to 100 jobs will be axed at the nation’s science research agency as a result of Federal Budget cuts.
Dozens of jobs will be lost and CSIRO laboratories will close in Mildura in Victoria and Rockhampton in Queensland.
Mike Whelan from the CSIRO says Government funding has been cut by more than $60 million over four [...]

When I first spotted this messy web, I could barely make out the spider. In its own right, it was tiny; a mere 3-4 mm long, but in the circumstances of its concealment, it was marvellously blended into the broader clutter of debris, at the centre of the stabilimentum (conspicuous feature of silk).
Under higher [...]

Jasper Kirkby of CERN has published a new paper examining the potential link between cosmic rays and climate.
The paper concludes:
Numerous palaeoclimatic observations, covering a wide range of time scales, suggest that galactic cosmic ray variability is associated with climate change. The quality and diversity of the observations make it difficult to dismiss them merely as [...]

Blog readers may remember Prince Charles’ previous climate rantings during his ‘eco-friendly’ trip to the West Indies involving a £280,000 per week Yacht, when he spoke about the “sheer madness” of climate scepticism.
Now Climate Charlie is back with a new pronouncement:
The Prince of Wales has warned that the world faces a series of natural disasters [...]