It has been raining a lot where I live, about halfway down the east coast of Australia. The year I started boarding school it also rained a lot, that was 1974 – another year of extreme rainfall. I remember the flooding back then. But this year … [Read more...] about Counting Wettest Days, Half Way Down the East Coast of Australia
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Leonard Lim’s Exquisite Photography of John Brewer Reef
The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) have been tasked with reporting on the state of the corals and coral cover. They surveyed John Brewer Reef in March, made no mention of any coral bleaching in their report, and stated coral cover to … [Read more...] about Leonard Lim’s Exquisite Photography of John Brewer Reef
Epicentre of Mass Coral Bleaching – Still So Beautiful (Part 1)
It is all over the news, right across the world: the Great Barrier Reef is bleaching – again. Children can’t sleep at night: it is not only the war in the Ukraine keeping them awake at night, but also our apparent disregard for … [Read more...] about Epicentre of Mass Coral Bleaching – Still So Beautiful (Part 1)
All 224 Homogenised Temperature Series – Including the Bombing of Darwin
I can hardly be accused of cherry picking if I present all the temperature series – all four iterations of the homogenised ACORN-SAT temperature series charted with the raw historical series from the Australia Data Archive for Meteorology (ADAM). … [Read more...] about All 224 Homogenised Temperature Series – Including the Bombing of Darwin
More 24-Hour Rainfall Totals, Volcanoes, YouTube & Me
Missing from the news stories about recent ‘unprecedented’ rainfall along the East Coast of Australia is any assessment of the actual rainfall data. The impression is that the volume of rain falling over any one 24-hour period has been increasing, … [Read more...] about More 24-Hour Rainfall Totals, Volcanoes, YouTube & Me
Not Expecting Coral Bleaching During a La Niña
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has uploaded some footage of John Brewer Reef that is part of the Underwater Museum of Art, the footage was apparently taken by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in February. It does not show a lot … [Read more...] about Not Expecting Coral Bleaching During a La Niña
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
