Archive for November 8th, 2008
A Recent Inconvenient Trading Truth
Posted by Charlotte Ramotswe, November 8th, 2008 - under News.
Tags: Economics
Comments: none
“While you were distracted by crashing banks and clashing US senators, you may have missed a small environmental earthquake. The price of carbon has collapsed.” Read more here.
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Michael Crichton on Consensus Science
Posted by Charlotte Ramotswe, November 8th, 2008 - under Opinion.
Tags: Philosophy
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“There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.” Michael Crichton (1942-2008)
Why You Should Support Independent Media (Part 1, For Koalas)
Posted by jennifer, November 8th, 2008 - under Opinion.
Comments: 16
SOME time ago I found myself seated next to a University academic – he had thin grey hair. We were squashed together at the end of a long table in a dim and noisy Vietnamese restaurant in Brisbane [Australia]. The gathering was organised in support of alternative online media, so, I felt comfortable suggesting to [...]
Climate Rationalist in Council Election
Posted by Charlotte Ramotswe, November 8th, 2008 - under Community.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change, People
Comments: none
Hi Jennifer,
I am a candidate for council election in the Sandridge (Port Melbourne) ward of Port Phillip, which is inner bayside Melbourne.Please view my campaign website www.scrinis.info for a comprehensive description of my beliefs and platform.I want this to be an electoral test of public opinion on climate policies and their implications locally and federally.At [...]
Physicist, Willie Soon, Not Paid by Greenpeace
Posted by Charlotte Ramotswe, November 8th, 2008 - under Opinion.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change, People, Polar Bears
Comments: 8
I do not write papers because ExxonMobil or Greenpeace pays me to, but because my academic researches demonstrate that the sun, not carbon dioxide, is the chief driver of Arctic temperatures. Read more here.
Bear Conservation in Nunavut
Posted by Charlotte Ramotswe, November 8th, 2008 - under Humour.
Tags: Polar Bears
Comments: none
from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/cartoon/
Polar Bear Hunt Quota for Baffin Bay Announced
Posted by Charlotte Ramotswe, November 8th, 2008 - under News.
Tags: Polar Bears
Comments: 1
Hunters in Nunavut’s Baffin Bay [a region near Greenland] will be able to kill up to 105 polar bears this season, after the territory’s environment minister agreed to leave the quota unchanged. Read more here.
UN Chief Misled Sydney Audience
Posted by Charlotte Ramotswe, November 8th, 2008 - under News, Opinion.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 81
LAST month, a regular reader of this blog, Michael Duffy, witnessed something shocking:
“Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was giving a talk at the University of NSW [in Sydney, Australia]. The talk was accompanied by a slide presentation, and the most important graph showed average global temperatures. For the past decade it [...]

