Dear Jennifer, I have been spending a pleasant Saturday morning doing gardening at the GMO Pundit safety paper list. It's now a bit neater at the start. I've added a few more papers to bring it over 200. Most importantly, I've added a button at … [Read more...] about Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Food Safety
Archives for August 2008
Saving the Coorong By Restoring its Native State
The Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is in Adelaide today for a community cabinet meeting. Various media reports suggest there will be pressure on the government to "save" the lower lakes with a special water allocation from upstream. As part of the … [Read more...] about Saving the Coorong By Restoring its Native State
Global Warming and Some Maths: A Note from William Kininmonth
Dear Jennifer, A couple of weeks ago I became quite agitated after reading an article in The Australian’s Higher Education section by Roger Jones of CSIRO. Jones questioned the sceptics drawing attention to flaws in the computer models and then went … [Read more...] about Global Warming and Some Maths: A Note from William Kininmonth
Humpback Whales Off Endangered List
"FORTY years ago conservationists feared that humpback whales were being hunted to extinction. Now numbers have returned to such a level that they have been taken off the danger list." At least that is one of the good news stories in yesterday's … [Read more...] about Humpback Whales Off Endangered List
The Story of the Caspar Amman Affair and the IPCC AR4 Paleoclimate Chapter
Bishop Hill blog has put together the story of the Amman and Wahl paper that purported to support the 'hockey stick' reconstruction of paleoclimate, cited in IPCC AR4: There has been the most extraordinary series of postings at Climate Audit over … [Read more...] about The Story of the Caspar Amman Affair and the IPCC AR4 Paleoclimate Chapter
Two New Papers Examining the Hurricane-Climate Link
Two new papers examining the link between Hurricanes and climate have been published in the Journal of Climate. In the July edition, Gabriel A. Vecchi and Thomas R. Knutson have a paper entitled: 'On Estimates of Historical North Atlantic Tropical … [Read more...] about Two New Papers Examining the Hurricane-Climate Link
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
