A PERSISTENT complaint from victims of the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria was that they had “received no warning”. Over and again we heard statements like this: “There was no fire anywhere, but the next thing, we had fire all around us. There … [Read more...] about Warnings about Bushfire Warnings: A Note from Roger Underwood
Where Do Dead Ants Go?
GREEN tree ants, Oecophylla smaragdina, don’t leave their dead lying around. … [Read more...] about Where Do Dead Ants Go?
SPENCER WRONG NOAA Blunder Explains Claims of Warming Oceans?
SCIENTISTS at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center (CPC) appear to have made a blunder with a data adjustment and splice resulting in sea surface temperatures being warmer than they would otherwise be … [Read more...] about SPENCER WRONG NOAA Blunder Explains Claims of Warming Oceans?
Big Drop in Price of Solar Panels
"For solar shoppers these days, the price is right. Panel prices have fallen about 40 percent since the middle of last year." Read more from The New York Times here. … [Read more...] about Big Drop in Price of Solar Panels
Let’s Stop Averaging Global Temperatures (Part 1)
FEAR of global warming is a preoccupation of western societies at the beginning of this 21st century. This fear is usually explained in terms of changes in the surface temperature of the earth as averaged from varying numbers of thermometers from … [Read more...] about Let’s Stop Averaging Global Temperatures (Part 1)
Hippos Roaming Free in Colombia
BOGOTA - African zoologists are in Colombia to advise local authorities on what to do with dozens of hippos roaming around the abandoned zoo of late drug lord Pablo Escobar in the north of the country. Read more here. … [Read more...] about Hippos Roaming Free in Colombia
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
