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Surface-based Temperature Records
THE warmaholics are fond of using the phrase “official records going back to 1850″, but the simple facts are that prior to the 1970s, surface-based temperatures from a few indiscriminate, mostly backyard locations in Europe and the US are fatally corrupted and not in any sense a real record.  Read more here. (0)

Crazy Claims from Climate Scientist
This is absured, but true: Australia’s use of coal and carbon emissions policies are guaranteeing the “destruction of much of the life on the planet”, a leading NASA scientist has written in a letter to Barack Obama.  Read more here. (4)

Learning by Candlelight
As I waited night after night for the electricity to return, candlelight kept teaching me about moving air’s talent for removing heat, hampering any effort to keep warmth “down here” by constantly sending it up and away.   Read more here. (0)

People Powered Gym
A US gym has installed specially-adapted exercise bikes that recycle energy generated by people as they work out.   Read more here. (0)

Flying on Vegetable Oil
A passenger plane has successfully completed a two-hour test flight partly powered by vegetable oil.  Read more here. (2)

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Hello from Bowen, North Queensland

I am in North Queensland at the moment, looking at mangroves.  Today I drove from Townville to Mackay; here I am at Horseshoe Beach, Bowen.  

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I’m in Tokyo

I arrived in Tokyo yesterday for a meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society. 
My mobile phone is not working, so any messages will go unanswered for at least a week.  If you need to contact me, try email.  
The four pale-coloured elongated images in the pond are fish. The photograph was taken this morning at the New Otani [...]

Tourism Marketing in a Warming World

People all over the world have become conscious of the need to preserve the resources of the planet and become more efficient in their use of energy to reduce the impacts of global warming.
So says the Planet Safe Partnership website, developed for the regional tourism office Tourism Tropical North Queensland.
Such is the economic importance of [...]

Proposed Limmen NP

Between Roper Bar and Borroloola lies a landscape with unresolved tenure and some exceptional values: