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
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Rewriting the History of Bourke: Part 2, Adjusting Maximum Temperatures Both Down and uP, and Then Changing Them Altogether
Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. Albert Einstein. THE Australian Bureau of Meteorology extrapolates from the particular to the general in the development of their annual climate … [Read more...] about Rewriting the History of Bourke: Part 2, Adjusting Maximum Temperatures Both Down and uP, and Then Changing Them Altogether
Tolerate Assaults on the Truths You Hold Dear
Today, the online magazine spiked launched Free Speech Now!, a brand new campaign for 'unfettered' freedom of speech, with no ifs and no buts. The editor of spiked, Brendan O'Neill, says: '"Every man should think what he likes and say what he … [Read more...] about Tolerate Assaults on the Truths You Hold Dear
Stop the Whaling
THE United Nations' Hague-based International Court of Justice yesterday ruled that Japan's annual Antarctic whale hunt must stop because it is not scientific. I wonder how much trouble the Japanese did have getting their research on skinny … [Read more...] about Stop the Whaling
Finding Figures Quoted in Media in IPCC Report Released Today
WORKING Group II, of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published their contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report earlier today. The summary document begins by explaining that human interference with the climate system is … [Read more...] about Finding Figures Quoted in Media in IPCC Report Released Today
Fiddling Temperatures for Bourke: Part 1, Hot Days
IF you know Bourke, you know Australia, wrote the famous Australian poet Henry Lawson. There is something quintessentially Australian about the place, the harshness of the western landscape, a tenacious spirit, the notion of ‘a fair go’. So … [Read more...] about Fiddling Temperatures for Bourke: Part 1, Hot Days
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
