The piercing, descending shriek of the Lesser Sooty Owl Tyto multipunctata sounds much like a falling bomb, without the explosion at the end. It has enormous eyes and exceptional hearing, allowing it to hunt in almost total darkness. It is a … [Read more...] about Lesser Sooty Owl
Archives for November 2007
Some Time by the Murray River
I have enjoyed spending the last couple of weeks living on a bank of the Murray River just upstream of Barham. The bird life is especially amazing with wood ducks in the river, white ibis, sulphur-crested cockatoos and galahs on the lawn, superb … [Read more...] about Some Time by the Murray River
2000 Years of Global Temperatures
Roy Spencer has taken Craig Loehle's 2000 year temperature reconstruction to 1995 and added the HadCRUT3 to 2007. Obviously, the proxy temperature reconstructions during the Medieval Warm Period would have larger error bars than the current … [Read more...] about 2000 Years of Global Temperatures
Does the King Have No Clothes or ‘The Wrong Trousers?’
Just in case no-one noticed, the IPCC finally dropped the façade of being a scientific rather than a political body following the publication of the Synthesis Report. The IPCC now stands naked behind the Kyoto Protocol as the policy needed to avoid a … [Read more...] about Does the King Have No Clothes or ‘The Wrong Trousers?’
Australian News Round Up from Luke Walker
Few MPs would have worked harder to defend their seats at this election than Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull, whose blue ribbon Sydney seat of Wentworth is under siege not just from Labor but a range of environmental activists, mostly … [Read more...] about Australian News Round Up from Luke Walker
Fantastic phasmids
Macleay’s Spectre Extatosoma tiaratum would have to be one of the most spectacular insects in the Daintree rainforest. Males readily fly in search of mates, but much larger females are incapable of flight. First instar nymphs resemble … [Read more...] about Fantastic phasmids
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
