AT an artificial intelligence (AI) conference in New York recently, Sean Gourley explained Wiener’s Law: automation will routinely tidy up ordinary messes but will occasionally create an extraordinary mess – that so mimics what could have been, that … [Read more...] about Robots Recreating Past Temperatures – Are Best to Avoid Australian Data
Bramston Reef Corals – The Other Side of the Mud Flat
THE First Finding handed down by Judge Salvador Vasta in the Peter Ridd court case concerned Bramston reef off Bowen and a photograph taken in 1994 that Terry Hughes from James Cook University has been claiming proves Acropora corals that were alive … [Read more...] about Bramston Reef Corals – The Other Side of the Mud Flat
Bring Back the Tide: Wash-Away Adelaide Politics
RECENT billion-dollar plans for the Murray Darling Basin have never been about the environment. Rather they have been about special interest groups doing deals through constant negotiation, with commercial interests in South Australia generally … [Read more...] about Bring Back the Tide: Wash-Away Adelaide Politics
Smashed by Debbie – Middle Island Corals
WE have been led to believe that smashed coral is our fault – that when it is lying on the sea floor as untidy piles of grey it is because of catastrophic human-caused global warming. But just maybe coral bleaching and cyclones are natural, and not … [Read more...] about Smashed by Debbie – Middle Island Corals
The Eerie Ancient Coral Reef at Bowen, with a Crocodile
MOST people rarely venture into nature – they certainly don’t spend much time on coral reefs. When they do, they may expect the fish and corals to be as bright, colourful and perfect as the last nature documentary that they saw in full … [Read more...] about The Eerie Ancient Coral Reef at Bowen, with a Crocodile
Denying the Littoral Zone at the Great Barrier Reef
The coral reef off Bowen, in North Queensland, is only dead to the 2,500 marine scientists who attended the conference in Cairns on 9th July 2012. That day, they were shown photographs of a mudflat ... and told that mud now covers what was once … [Read more...] about Denying the Littoral Zone at the Great Barrier Reef
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.