I was nervous about taking Sky News Australia presenter and the Editor of The Spectator Australia, Rowan Dean, to John Brewer Reef. Would we really be able to find the famous coral – the badly bleached coral that had featured in The Guardian as … [Read more...] about Café Latte Coral & The Bump Heads
Removing Colour, for a Sick Story
My Aunty Bunty used to work in a factory in Dundee, in Scotland, with thousands of other women all adding colour to black and white photographs. She was allowed to be creative; the idea was to make people happy. So, for example, she could add … [Read more...] about Removing Colour, for a Sick Story
Political and Natural Hazards, ARC Part 3
Before the advent of computer simulation modelling and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the past record of climate change was assembled from a variety of different types of evidence including chronicles, grain price records, … [Read more...] about Political and Natural Hazards, ARC Part 3
In Denial about the Science – Part 2, ARC in London
The Sun did come out for the first morning – Monday morning. The inaugural conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship was in Greenwich just a few miles downriver from Westminster in London. I hadn’t managed to get any sleep Sunday … [Read more...] about In Denial about the Science – Part 2, ARC in London
Reconciling with Nature – God and Qantas (Part 1, Arriving London)
There is a tendency, that must be resisted, for 21st century Western scientists to claim every discovery of mass death as a catastrophe and unprecedented – to imagine that the entire Earth is convulsing, when it is not. I am thinking of coral reef … [Read more...] about Reconciling with Nature – God and Qantas (Part 1, Arriving London)
How Brown the Corals – That were Pink Last Year
I was back at John Brewer Reef last week and many of the corals are now dark brown. John Brewer reef has lost its pink, for the moment. There is a Coral Watch program that was developed at Heron Island by the University of Queensland. … [Read more...] about How Brown the Corals – That were Pink Last Year
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
