Jennifer Marohasy

Links to three interesting ’weather reports’ from last century from Art Raiche
 
http://tinyurl.com/66tegq    1922 Washington Post story
 
http://tinyurl.com/6ghpb8   1937 Time story re Northwest passage
 
http://tinyurl.com/3xfoak     1974 Time story on ice age

PREDICTIONS for the planet are dire indeed, if we do not drastically cut our carbon dioxide emissions in the very near future. 
In Australia, we will lose the Barrier Reef and the Kakadu wetlands, the Murray River will dry up completely and snow vanish from our Alpine regions.  Sea level could rise precipitously as the great ice [...]

The 2009 Darcy Medal will be awarded to Demetris Koutsoyiannis (http://
www.itia.ntua.gr/dk) has been awarded the The Darcy Medal (http://www.egu.eu/ index.phpid=48&file=henry_darcy_overview&cHash=8b0bfba456ff76b4e3164b1dbcfb8463).
 
He will give the Darcy Medal lecture on Thursday, April 23 2009, at 6.30 pm at the EGU 2009 in Vienna.
 
The EGU statetement about the Darcy Medal reads:
Henry Darcy Medal
 
This medal has been established by the [...]

Before this year’s Beijing Olympic Games, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd chastised the Chinese authorities for blocking full access to the internet for the assembled world media: “My attitude to our friends in China is very simple”, he said. “They should have nothing to fear by open digital links with the rest of the world during [...]

IT is my prediction that in not so many years time weather station data will be collected more for fun, a sense of history and for site-specific information, than for serious regional and global climate statistics.   In the future it will be data from satellites that is recognised as much more reliable for understanding regional and global temperature [...]

Starting with an average grain yield of 3.75 tonnes hectare and a realistic average price of $220 per tonne, a Haystack farm will produce $497,775 from each hectare in a hundred years, which is the life expectancy of a child born today.

This allows for a modest 3% increase p.a. for combined yield advantage and price [...]

Plans for a scientific panel on biodiversity, similar to a Nobel-winning group on climate change, have been knocked back by representatives of 80 countries at UN-sponsored talks.  Read more here.

There is increasing anger in Australia over plans for an emissions trading scheme with State governments urging changes to the proposed formulas for compensating export industries to ensure they are not pushed offshore.  Read more here.