"Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve." Karl Popper, 1902-1994. … [Read more...] about Open Thread
Archives for September 2014
Bureau Caught in Own Tangled Web of Homogenisation
THE Australian Bureau of Meteorology now acknowledge that they change the temperatures at most, if not all, the weather stations that make-up the official station network from which national temperature trends are calculated. Indeed, earlier in the … [Read more...] about Bureau Caught in Own Tangled Web of Homogenisation
Newspapers as the guardians of hot history
OLD newspapers hold a lot of information, some of it very valuable. I’m not only referring to last week’s The Land, but clippings that date back to editions published one hundred or more years ago. For example, in the Sydney Morning Herald on … [Read more...] about Newspapers as the guardians of hot history
Open Thread
Some things worth remembering … We are persuaded not by truth, but by fidelity to evidence and context. It is important to understand the difference between propaganda and information. Objectivity is a research method, not a philosophy. … [Read more...] about Open Thread
Go Boldly and Smash all Preconceptions: Steve Goddard
WE all have heroes. British biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) is one of mine. The contemporary of Charles Darwin wrote: “Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and … [Read more...] about Go Boldly and Smash all Preconceptions: Steve Goddard
Rutherglen: Still Looking for Answers
A CENTRAL thesis of global warming is that temperatures will keep going up, and up. They did from about 1960 to 2002 at many places around Australia, but not at all of them. At Ruthergen, a wine-growing region of north-eastern Victoria, temperatures … [Read more...] about Rutherglen: Still Looking for Answers
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
