Dear Jennifer, Mark Diesendorf’s new book on renewable energy – ‘Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy’ is likely to receive plenty of comment if the last few days are anything to go by. I think it’s important that his work is put under the … [Read more...] about Moving Beyond Rhetoric to a Nuclear Future: A Note from Haydon Manning
Archives for June 13, 2007
Kilimanjaro Not Losing Ice to Climate Change
"Mote and Georg Kaser, a glaciologist at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, write in American Scientist that the decline in Kilimanjaro's ice has been going on for more than a century and that most of it occurred before 1953, while evidence of … [Read more...] about Kilimanjaro Not Losing Ice to Climate Change
Mudtrails from Fishing Trawlers in Gulf of Mexico
"The pervasiveness of the influence of bottom trawlers on the Gulf of Mexico is evident in these images from NASA’s Landsat satellite. Showing two different areas of a single scene captured on October 24, 1999, the images reveal dozens of mudtrails … [Read more...] about Mudtrails from Fishing Trawlers in Gulf of Mexico
Faith, Scepticism and Climate Change
"Faith is a belief held without evidence. The scientific method, a loose collection of procedures of great variety, is based on precisely the opposite concept, as famously declared by Thomas Henry Huxley: The improver of natural knowledge absolutely … [Read more...] about Faith, Scepticism and Climate Change
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
