ANTHROPOGENIC Global Warming (AGW) theory is currently the most fashionable climate theory and its proponents have risked much by predicting a continuation in what has been a 150-year general warming trend. There are already some indications this … [Read more...] about Believing the Oceans Will Keep Warming
Archives for April 2012
Wise Words from Wine Man Philip White: Concerning Murray Mouth Barrages
PASSIONATE about the wine industry, Philip White grew up in the Bremer Valley of the Lower Murray. He now lives on the opposite side of the South Mount Lofty Ranges at McLaren Vale. He tastes wine and writes about wine, and the wine growing regions … [Read more...] about Wise Words from Wine Man Philip White: Concerning Murray Mouth Barrages
Unable and Unwilling to Consider the Evidence: Our ABC
SCIENCE was once about matching theory with reality. According to American physicist and historian Thomas Kuhn this perhaps more than anything else contributed to the phenomenal progress made by scientists over the last 400 years. But many people … [Read more...] about Unable and Unwilling to Consider the Evidence: Our ABC
Supernovae Affecting Global Climate and Ocean Biodiversity and Productivity
REMEMBER Henrick Svensmark and Eigil Friis-Christensen and cosmic ray theory [1]: the idea from these Danish physicists and climate scientists that global climate may be mediated by changes in the flux of galactic cosmic rays because cosmic ray are … [Read more...] about Supernovae Affecting Global Climate and Ocean Biodiversity and Productivity
Beach Mounds Not Middens
WALKING on the beach this afternoon I took some photographs of beach mounds. I’m referring to piles of shells and pebbles regularly positioned between, and parallel to, the high and low tide marks. Are these beach mounds a consequence of the ebb … [Read more...] about Beach Mounds Not Middens
When The Facts Change: Mark Latham and Robert Manne are Stuck
FORMER Labor leader, Mark Latham, is clearly not an empiricist, though he claims to be and he claims that another leading Australian advocate for anthropogenic global warming, Robert Manne, is also an empiricist and always quick to change his mind … [Read more...] about When The Facts Change: Mark Latham and Robert Manne are Stuck