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Phil Jones Guilty, But
The university at the centre of the climate change row over stolen e-mails broke the law by refusing to hand over its raw data for public scrutiny.  B ut…  Read more here. (0)

Banks Leave Carbon Market
Banks and investors are pulling out of the carbon market after the failure to make progress at Copenhagen on reaching new emissions targets after 2012.  Read more here. (0)

UK Met Office Can't Forecast Weather
The UK Met Office is debating what to do with its long-term and seasonal forecasting after criticism for failing to predict extreme weather.   It was predicted that this winter would be warmer than average – yet it has been unusually cold.  Read more here. (2)

Peter Spencer: The Starved Farmer
PETER Spencer has talked a lot in recent weeks about climate change and carbon sinks, but the root of his problem with government lies in the native vegetation laws that have prevented him from clearing – and farming – much of his land…    Read more here. (2)

Confirmation Bias Rams Japanese
“I’ve been listening to reports all afternoon that the Japanese whaling ship Shonan Maru rammed the Sea Shepherds’ Ady Gil while it was stationary. This report ought to have been regarded with suspicion…  Ships are rarely stationary at sea.  Read more here. (13)

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New Marine Data Website

THERE is now a website where, at least theoretically, anyone can download near-real time data on ocean temperatures, salinity and currents for the Australian marine environment.   

The Australian government contributed $52 million to the development of the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) developed by the University of Tasmania with support from CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research.  According to government information, “support will also be provided for the eMarine Information Infrastructure to store, analyse, retrieve and share data once it has been collected”.

http://www.imos.org.au/

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3 Responses to “New Marine Data Website”

  1. Comment from: Andrew Simpson


    It’s amazing our government can get this off the ground, yet they drop “Grocery-Watch” because it’s too hard.

    I guess there’s no money in watching groceries. They should have called it Anthropogenic Grocery-Watch. (Makes a nice acronym & money will be thrown at it).

  2. Comment from: hunter


    Here is a link to things that have been happening a bit to the south of Australia:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHvrjX7AP-8&feature=player_embedded

  3. Comment from: hunter


    A survey of the site shows that the buzz word to get any science program off the ground today really is ‘climate’.
    It does look like a NOAA-style effort to monitor the oceans. It will be interesting to see how it develops.

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