Archive for July 15th, 2008
Global Warming: Recent Evidence for Reduced Climate Sensitivity
Posted by Paul, July 15th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 6
Dr. Roy Spencer from The University of Alabama at Huntsville will be presenting a special seminar at CU Boulder in the CIRES Auditorium on Thursday, July 17th, based on the Journal of Climate paper (in press):
Spencer, R.W., and W.D. Braswell, 2008: Feedback vs. Chaotic Radiative Forcing: “Smoking Gun” Evidence for an Insensitive Climate System?
Abstract
“A simple [...]
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Some More Things ‘Caused’ by ‘Global Warming’
Posted by Paul, July 15th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 9
A top Democrat told high school students gathered at the U.S. Capitol Thursday that climate change caused Hurricane Katrina and the conflict in Darfur, which led to the “black hawk down” battle between U.S. troops and Somali rebels.
Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House (Select) Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee, also equated the [...]
Close Encounter of the Cassowary Kind
Posted by neil, July 15th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Plants and Animals
Comments: 8
Breakfast at Cooper Creek Wilderness took a dramatic turn this morning with the unexpected arrival of a distressed cassowary chick. Not more than a month old, its separation from its family unit was cause for great concern. It ran about whistling for its father, but without response.
The image (above) shows the striped pattern [...]
Has Lord Peter Lost His Tools: A Note from Davey
Posted by jennifer, July 15th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Philosophy
Comments: 27
England has produced a number of outstanding detective story writers. Agatha Christie comes to mind with her character Hercule Poirot. Another is Dorothy L. Sayers, with her diffident, yet steely-minded toff, Lord Peter Wimsey.
There were also other sides to Dorothy. She was a moderate feminist, and one of the first women to graduate from Oxford [...]
Say No to Emissions Trading: Art Raiche
Posted by jennifer, July 15th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Energy & Nuclear
Comments: 25
It is foolish beyond measure to enter into an Emissions Trading System (ETS) based on the hysterical predictions of CSIRO’s computer modelling. To quote Prof Freeman Dyson of the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, one of the world’s most eminent physicists: “The models solve the equations of fluid dynamics, and they do [...]
Rainforest Cancer Cure One Step Closer
Posted by neil, July 15th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Plants and Animals
Comments: 2
Dr Paul Reddell, co-founder Dr Victoria Gordon and the EcoBiotics team, have discovered a rainforest plant that produces a possible cancer-fighting molecule.
Clinical trials of a previously untreatable type of cancer in horses have produced dramatic results: “The cancers were the size of a tennis ball to begin and following the injection of this drug [...]

