Great friendship despite great difference... … [Read more...] about Open Thread
Archives for June 2013
Taxing Air: Facts & Fallacies about Climate Change
IT'S focused on Australia, popular misconceptions about the environment, history, climate and there is more, it’s chock full of cartoons! I'm referring to a new book by scientist Bob Carter [1] and cartoonist John Spooner entitled Taxing Air: Facts & … [Read more...] about Taxing Air: Facts & Fallacies about Climate Change
Guessing versus Calculating a Global Mean Temperature
"THE greatest difficulty facing the promoters of the theory that human emissions of carbon dioxide cause dangerous global warming is the inconvenient truth that it is impossible to measure the average temperature of the earth’s surface by any known … [Read more...] about Guessing versus Calculating a Global Mean Temperature
Fishing Lobby Trumps Murray Cod Recovery (The Native Fish Strategy for the Murray Darling Ten Years On: Part 3)
THE key recommendation in the Native Fish Strategy for the Murray Darling Basin 2003-2013 – a document developed by the Murray Darling Basin Commission, (MDBC) and adopted by the Murray Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) – was the need to address the … [Read more...] about Fishing Lobby Trumps Murray Cod Recovery (The Native Fish Strategy for the Murray Darling Ten Years On: Part 3)
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Photograph of the Black-headed gull taken in Lymington, England about a month ago. … [Read more...] about Open Thread
Undemocratic Politics Again Determines Land Use in Tasmania: An Update
A DECISION made in Cambodia this month by the United Nation’s World Heritage committee could add 172,000 hectares of forest to the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. Federal Minister for the Environment Tony Burke was seeking to have the deal … [Read more...] about Undemocratic Politics Again Determines Land Use in Tasmania: An Update
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.