The Australian government is currently in the process of finalising the purchase of just 35 gigalitres (billion litres) of water from the public tender process announced on 26 February 2008 whereby $50 million was allocated in the 2007-08 budget to … [Read more...] about Wong is Right: Not Enough Water in the Murray-Darling for the Lower Lakes
Archives for August 2008
Nigel Lawson on Global Warming as “A Grain of Truth and a Mountain of Nonsense”
"So the new religion of global warming, however convenient it may be to politicians, is not as harmless as it may appear at first sight. Indeed, the more one examines it, the more it resembles a Da Vinci Code of environmentalism. It is a great … [Read more...] about Nigel Lawson on Global Warming as “A Grain of Truth and a Mountain of Nonsense”
A Bridled Nailtail Wallaby?
Is this photograph of a Bridled Nailtail Wallaby and should it be in Scotia National Park near Broken Hill in south western New South Wales? Photograph by Phil Cole, Scotia National Park, June 2008 The Bridled Nailtail Wallaby (Onychogalea … [Read more...] about A Bridled Nailtail Wallaby?
Cooling: The Human Climate Signal? A Note from ‘Cohenite’
Malcolm Hill alerted me to Cohenite's comments that are worthy of a new thread: I'm just a middle man connecting the points first raised by John McLean and Thomas Quirk in their paper, ' Australian Temperature Variations - An Alternative … [Read more...] about Cooling: The Human Climate Signal? A Note from ‘Cohenite’
Climate Report Plays Hockey with Photoshop
The new US Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) report has been criticised by the likes of Roger Pielke Senior and Junior because science comes a poor third to sloppiness and political advocacy. The report represents the biased and narrow opinions … [Read more...] about Climate Report Plays Hockey with Photoshop
Climate Enterprise: Captains’ Logs
Britain's great seafaring tradition is to provide a unique insight into modern climate change, thanks to thousands of Royal Navy logbooks that have survived from the 17th century onwards. A preliminary study of 6,000 logbooks has produced results … [Read more...] about Climate Enterprise: Captains’ Logs
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
