Archive for January 14th, 2009
Maintaining a Monopoly on Climate Science
Posted by jennifer, January 14th, 2009 - under News, Opinion.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 56
LEVELS of atmospheric carbon dioxide have been steadily rising, but since about 1998 global warming has stalled. Some climate scientists claim the reason has everything to do with the sun.
A little over a month ago a planning meeting was called to discuss whether more research should be undertaken by the US National Academy of Sciences/US [...]
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The Drought Breaks in Australia
Posted by jennifer, January 14th, 2009 - under News.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change, Drought
Comments: 23
Australia is a land of “drought and flooding rains”.
Last week parts of north-eastern Australia received a “year’s rain within a week” and many inland areas are now sea. There is a photo gallery at the CourierMail website entitled “Queensland Under Water” and the following photograph of the Urandangi Hotel copied from the gallery.
The IPCC Can’t Count – Author and Reviewer Numbers are Wrong
Posted by John McLean, January 14th, 2009 - under News, Opinion.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 15
HOW many times have you heard or read words to the effect that 4000 scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) supported the claims about a significant human influence on climate? I think I’ve seen it on television, radio and the Internet and I know that politicians at national levels have quoted such [...]
On Communities
Posted by jennifer, January 14th, 2009 - under Good Causes.
Tags: People, Plants and Animals
Comments: 3
Don’t forget that this blog has a Community Home.
The following photograph is of a somewhat isolated plant community taken in February 2008 in the Blue Mountains, West of Sydney.
Two Critiques on Climate Data
Posted by jennifer, January 14th, 2009 - under Community, Opinion, Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: none
Dear Jennifer,
Critique of David Jones article Hot n dry Future Melbourne piece in The Age 6 Oct.
http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=195
Also I note you posting using the RSS satellite data, I know the warmers pref this to UAH and always scream about the UAH data yet according to Fred Singer and others it is the RSS LT data that [...]
On Blog Awards
Posted by jennifer, January 14th, 2009 - under Community, Opinion.
Tags: People
Comments: none
Hey Jennifer,
I read your post today mentioning the polls for the 2008 Weblog Awards. I recently wrote a feature length PBS article about the blog awards and got a chance to interview the administrator of the award and several of the nominees:
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/01/can-blog-awards-identify-quality-online-content012.html
Anyway, I thought this was something you and your readers would find interesting.
take care,
Simon
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http://twitter.com/simonowens
Hot Days
Posted by Charlotte Ramotswe, January 14th, 2009 - under Humour, Opinion.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change, Philosophy
Comments: 4
In the same way as the full moon is supposed to cause a rise in lunatic acts, I hate hot days because it brings out the AGW fringe. Art Raiche, Sydney
Hillary Clinton to Fight Climate Change
Posted by Charlotte Ramotswe, January 14th, 2009 - under News.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change
Comments: 1
In opening remarks at her confirmation hearing on Jan. 13, President-elect Barack Obama’s Secretary of State designate Hillary Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations committee she would use the office to shape foreign policy that would fight climate change. Read more here.

