It is the ultimate in hypocrisy for the Commonwealth government to be insisting farmers give back water under a new planning scheme to save the environment, while continuing to pocket millions from water wasted by Snowy Hydro for derivative trading … [Read more...] about Questions over Snowy Hydro Water Management
Archives for February 2011
Formal Request to audit BOM and CSIRO Climate Data
A team of skeptical scientists, citizens, and an Australian Senator have lodged a formal request with the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) to have the BOM and CSIRO audited. The BOM claim their adjustments are “neutral” yet Ken Stewart … [Read more...] about Formal Request to audit BOM and CSIRO Climate Data
Bronwyn Herbert Investigates Snowy Hydro
Before the recent flooding, there was much lamenting about how there is never enough water in the Murray Darling Basin for both irrigated agriculture and also the environment. Yet in all this discussion no consideration has been given to the more … [Read more...] about Bronwyn Herbert Investigates Snowy Hydro
The Cost of Reducing Carbon Emissions
'MORE than $5.5 billion has been spent by federal governments during the past decade on climate change programs that are delivering only small reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. 'An analysis of government schemes designed to cut emissions by … [Read more...] about The Cost of Reducing Carbon Emissions
What to Listen to, and Read, This Week
1. How to die? “If we remove faith from the equation, voluntary euthanasia presents a difficulty for the conservative dislike of change. In the broad sweep of Western history it is new, or at least newly popular, which means a conservative should … [Read more...] about What to Listen to, and Read, This Week
Thomas Kuhn on Novelty and Expectation
The Harvard trained physicist and famous philosopher and historian of science, Thomas Kuhn, often refers to a psychological experiment in his book ‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions’ whereby individuals fail to notice individual anomalous cards … [Read more...] about Thomas Kuhn on Novelty and Expectation
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
