Dear Jennifer, Fantastic news! After spending 15 of the past 21 years unjustly under house arrest, Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is finally free. But the Nobel laureate was just one of 2,200 political prisoners in Burma punished … [Read more...] about Free Burma’s political prisoners
Archives for November 2010
No Sydney Audience for Williams: Marohasy Debate
THE planned debate on Monday at the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) in Sydney between John Williams from the Wentworth Group and Jennifer Marohasy from the Australian Environment Foundation on ‘Saving the Murray’ as advertised here has been … [Read more...] about No Sydney Audience for Williams: Marohasy Debate
Confirmation Bias at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (Part 2)
THE Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) admits it was wrong about urban heating effects as a professional statistical analysis by Andrew Barnham exposes a BOM claim that “since 1960 the mean temperature in Australia has increased by about 0.7 °C”; … [Read more...] about Confirmation Bias at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (Part 2)
Second Open Thread
It’s unknown how far the average, white, male, polar bear can swim because they’re always hitching rides on passing ice floes, according to Schiller Thurkettle. … [Read more...] about Second Open Thread
National Broadcaster Refuses to Apologize to Bob Carter
SEVERAL weeks ago on the Science Show, broadcast nationally by our ABC, the host Robyn Williams interviewed a journalist, Bob Ward, masquerading as an expert on climate science. Mr Ward proceeded to make various inaccurate statements and false … [Read more...] about National Broadcaster Refuses to Apologize to Bob Carter
Is The Western Climate Establishment Corrupt? Asks SPPI
THE Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) continues raising serious concerns for policy makers and the public as to whether the “adjustments” that government-funded employees continue making to raw surface and ocean temperature data sets can be … [Read more...] about Is The Western Climate Establishment Corrupt? Asks SPPI