My husband, John Abbot, has kept going with research into AI and climate forecasting. One of his most important recent papers can be downloaded from Earth Sciences. Some of the latest Nobel prizes in science, including in chemistry, have been for … [Read more...] about The Future of Climate Forecasting (Part 1)
Average Temperatures and Heat Movement (Part 2)
I should think that when enough time has passed, the current leaders of the free world – but especially the scientists who advise them – will be remembered in the history books as rather deceitful. That after a few hundred years of a period of … [Read more...] about Average Temperatures and Heat Movement (Part 2)
Average Temperatures and Heat Movement (Part 1)
They say the victor writes the history of a period, and that may be so. But when enough time has passed it must be the case that the present will be seen as truly bizarre when it comes to the demise of the natural sciences and our understanding of … [Read more...] about Average Temperatures and Heat Movement (Part 1)
Two Ridiculous Fish, at Wreck Beach Reef
She has indulged me, yet again, by sending me that which I adore – to add to my collection: photographs of fish. I so love this photograph by Jenn Mayes. It is of a rock cod, initially I thought my favourite of all the reef fish, a potato cod, … [Read more...] about Two Ridiculous Fish, at Wreck Beach Reef
All the Dead Coral from the Bleaching. Part 4.
Self-censoring is a real thing – that I refuse to engage in. Over the last year there has been a dramatic reduction in live hard coral cover at many reefs at the Great Barrier Reef, but this has not been documented in official statistics or in the … [Read more...] about All the Dead Coral from the Bleaching. Part 4.
Bait and Switch – Frightened of Dioxins Killing Dugongs Drown in Nets
Can’t see the fishing nets that killed the dugongs, for the naturally occurring dioxins that made media headlines, is what I might have said on radio back more than two decades. At the time, it caused me much grief because the General Manager of … [Read more...] about Bait and Switch – Frightened of Dioxins Killing Dugongs Drown in Nets
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
