According to Caroline Overington from The Australian, political aspirant Geoffrey Cousins’ inspiration is attributed to The Monthly’s Out of Control - The tragedy of Tasmania’s forests, by Richard Flanagan. It is certainly a powerful lot of words … [Read more...] about Tasmanian Forests – The Wildcard in Australian Politics (Part 2)
Archives for August 2007
New research supports Milankovitch theory of ice age cycles
Any reader not familiar with Milankovitch can read the Wiki write up here. I'd already considered posting this interesting new Nature paper entitled 'Northern Hemisphere forcing of climatic cycles in Antarctica over the past 360,000 years,' so when … [Read more...] about New research supports Milankovitch theory of ice age cycles
Climate sensitive to solar cycles and CO2 – a note from Luke
For the first time a globally coherent solar cycle response to the surface temperature has been established. Charles Camp and Ka Kit Tung report in Geophysical Research Letters (DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030207) that global temperatures oscillated by 0.2C … [Read more...] about Climate sensitive to solar cycles and CO2 – a note from Luke
Richard Ness Sends A Letter To ‘Friends of the Earth’: A Blog Post from Eric
Earlier this week the Australian chapter of 'Friends of the Earth' posted a statement on their website in response to comments made by Australian Senator Ian Macdonald. The press release stated: National environmental organisation, Friends of the … [Read more...] about Richard Ness Sends A Letter To ‘Friends of the Earth’: A Blog Post from Eric
Commercial whaling ends in Iceland and starts in Africa? A Note from Ann Novek
Nearly one year after Iceland resumed commercial whaling, the country has decided to not issue new whale hunting quotas until market demand increases and gets an export license from Japan. “Iceland's fisheries minister, Einar K. Guofinnsson, told … [Read more...] about Commercial whaling ends in Iceland and starts in Africa? A Note from Ann Novek
The evolutionary power of persuasion
Why would a fungus want or need to create light? According to the Wet Tropics Management Authority, no one knows why many species use bioluminescence, but across its incredible evolutionary history, in circumstances of such windlessness, the fungi … [Read more...] about The evolutionary power of persuasion
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
