I've been invited to speak at the 9th International Conference on Climate Change, sponsored by the Heartland Institute. Its in Las Vegas in July. The speakers list is now available and also a draft schedule. It looks like I will be speaking in a … [Read more...] about Sea-level Rise and Fall Over Recent Decades: Dr Nils-Axel Morner
CSIRO Has Lost Its Way, and Soon Its Funding
INNOVATION is critical to staying competitive. Government-funded science and technology have played an important role in the past, but key institutions like the CSIRO have increasingly lost their way. Indeed the CSIRO, probably more than … [Read more...] about CSIRO Has Lost Its Way, and Soon Its Funding
Bigots, Climate Change Deniers and George Orwell
GEORGE Brandis says it is “deplorable” deniers are being excluded from the climate change debate and people who say the science is settled are ignorant and medieval. The attorney general called the leader of the opposition in the Senate, Penny … [Read more...] about Bigots, Climate Change Deniers and George Orwell
More Relevance in Indigenous Culture, Than ABC Culture
EASTER is about religion, which is about culture, which is about myth. I was raised on the myths of the Australian Outback, on the poems of Banjo Paterson where the heroes could be “hard and tough and wiry – just the sought that won’t say die”. The … [Read more...] about More Relevance in Indigenous Culture, Than ABC Culture
Cooper Creek Wilderness in Direct Path of Ita – UPDATED
SEVERE Tropical Cyclone Ita, Category 5, is expected to move in a general southwest direction towards the far north Queensland coast tonight and into Friday, while possibly intensifying further. That’s the advice at the Bureau of Meteorology … [Read more...] about Cooper Creek Wilderness in Direct Path of Ita – UPDATED
Rewriting the History of Bourke: Part 3, Shortening an Already Shortened Record
AT Bourke temperatures were carefully recorded at the post office for 125 years, from 1871 to 1996. But this record is ignored by those announcing new temperature records on local Bourke radio. They rely on a record that only goes back to 1998! … [Read more...] about Rewriting the History of Bourke: Part 3, Shortening an Already Shortened Record
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
