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
Finding that Same Coral!
I was back at John Brewer Reef yesterday looking for the same coral that was reported as badly bleached in March 2022. Do you think I could find it? Some journalists have a tendency to extrapolate from the specific to the general. For example, … [Read more...] about Finding that Same Coral!
Explaining the Physics of Carbon Dioxide – Will Happer’s Tour Down Under
When the Sun comes up on a cloudless day, everything is so clearly illuminated. I know this to be a consequence of incoming solar radiation. And when I sit in this sunlight, I know that it will warm me. Physicists who study heat transfer can … [Read more...] about Explaining the Physics of Carbon Dioxide – Will Happer’s Tour Down Under
Hot as Ice in the Antarctic, Global Temperatures this June – July
A fellow phoned me yesterday, he had just returned home from a holiday in Greece. He has holidayed there off and on for the last 20 years. It had never been so cold, he told me. There were one or two days when it was hot, he said. But … [Read more...] about Hot as Ice in the Antarctic, Global Temperatures this June – July
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
