ANOTHER year, and another announcement from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology that it is getting hotter. Indeed on January 3, 2014, David Jones, Manager of Climate Monitoring and Predictions at the Bureau, explained in a radio interview that: “We … [Read more...] about Last Year, 2013: A Hot Year for Australia
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King Tides at Cleveland Point, and Sea Level Change Over the Holocene
ANOTHER year, and I’ve received another photograph from the Spangled Drongo, a regular commentator at this weblog who visits a waterfront property at Cleveland Point, Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia, around this time of year. Spangled is … [Read more...] about King Tides at Cleveland Point, and Sea Level Change Over the Holocene
When Is the Right Time to Abandon Ship?
IN September, Patrick J. Michaels likened the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to a treed cat. He wrote, “Instead of closing its eyes and scurrying to the ground, it climbs onto even higher and thinner branches, while yowling ever … [Read more...] about When Is the Right Time to Abandon Ship?
Carbon Off-setting an Expedition to the Antarctic
CHRIS Turney is professor of climate change at the University of New South Wales. He recently set off on a 233-foot-long Russian-flagged ship with 70 or so colleagues to check-out the climate by following in the footsteps of famous explorer Douglas … [Read more...] about Carbon Off-setting an Expedition to the Antarctic
Seasons Greetings from the Capricorn Coast
I have a home not far from an ICOLL (Intermittently Closed and Open Lake and/or Lagoon) at the bottom of Lammermoor Creek on the Capricorn Coast. There is a sandbar across the top of the lagoon that stops it emptying at low tide, but allows the … [Read more...] about Seasons Greetings from the Capricorn Coast
How Long Before AGW is recognised as a Spectacularly Wrong Scientific Theories by the Academies?
“ONE of the best things about science is that the discipline is self-correcting.” So wrote Eric Berger in a blog post in which he lists, what he considers, the top 10 most spectacularly wrong once widely held scientific theories. His list … [Read more...] about How Long Before AGW is recognised as a Spectacularly Wrong Scientific Theories by the Academies?