I am going to take some time out from this blog to try and complete a couple of projects that I’ve started, but am having trouble finishing. So there may be no new posts here for a while. In the meantime you can subscribe for my irregular email … [Read more...] about Gone Fishing
Cassowaries Mating in the Daintree
On very public display at Cooper Creek Wilderness in the Daintree ... Cassowaries mating on Neil Hewett's back lawn on Wednesday August 1, 2012. If you would like to visit the oldest surviving rainforest on earth and/or learn more … [Read more...] about Cassowaries Mating in the Daintree
Enchanted Pools, Sierra Nevada, California
Jennifer, I would like to share a photograph of a 'magical place' from a cross-country hike, from several years ago, of the Enchanted Pools loop, in the Northern Sierras. The amateur photographer is tiocampo. Here's a link to all of the … [Read more...] about Enchanted Pools, Sierra Nevada, California
Your Temperatures Diddled
ALMOST exactly three years ago Michael Hammer showed that the official temperature rise profile for the 20th century in the United States is largely, if not entirely, an artifact of adjustments applied after the raw data is collected from the weather … [Read more...] about Your Temperatures Diddled
Beach Stone Curlew at Sandy Straits
Jen, The Beach Stone Curlews (Esacus giganteus) are more common up north but are getting rare at the southern end of their range. It should be the other way round if AGW was real. We travel and camp in these sorts of small … [Read more...] about Beach Stone Curlew at Sandy Straits
How Scientific Ideas Become Fashionable (Part 2)
MICHAEL Crichton wrote the Oscar-winning science fiction adventure Jurassic Park. But screen writing was not his first career, he studied medicine at Harvard, and later in life became very concerned about environmentalism and science, and the … [Read more...] about How Scientific Ideas Become Fashionable (Part 2)
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
