THE Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the Australian National University will spend $30 million on two new supercomputers that will more accurately predict cyclones, tsunamis and the effects of climate change. Read more here. … [Read more...] about Weather Bureau Blows Budget on New SuperComputers
Archives for March 2009
De-Development and Australian Agriculture
NO Longer is it enough to talk about growing intelligently or using technology to meet long-term problems. Instead, scarcity politics seeks to slow and even reverse material progress through what President Obama's science adviser, John Holdren, calls … [Read more...] about De-Development and Australian Agriculture
Timber Losses from Victorian Bushfires
VicForests estimates that $600 million of timber and economic activity related to its harvesting was lost. Read more here. … [Read more...] about Timber Losses from Victorian Bushfires
Atmospheric Greenhouse Effect Falsified, Again
According to a new paper in the International Journal of Modern Physics by showing that (a) there are no common physical laws between the warming phenomenon in glass houses and the fictitious atmospheric greenhouse effects, (b) there are no … [Read more...] about Atmospheric Greenhouse Effect Falsified, Again
Sign the Petition Against the ETS
Sign our petition against the Emission's Trading Scheme, click here. … [Read more...] about Sign the Petition Against the ETS
Coal4Breakfast: Update from Geoff Hewitt
LAST year Queensland farmers were informed that the Government had granted Tarong Energy a mineral development licence over the Haystack Road coal deposit on prime agricultural farmland. The farmers are running a campaign against it. Here’s the … [Read more...] about Coal4Breakfast: Update from Geoff Hewitt