Dear all. Please find below a link which will take you directly to a monthly newsletter (ca. 1.4 MB) with various meteorological information updated to October 2011: http://www.climate4you.com/Text/Climate4you_October_2011.pdf All temperatures … [Read more...] about Global Temperature Update to October 2011
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How Aborigines Made Australia: Bill Gammage
A new book, The Biggest Estate on Earth, by historian Bill Gammage explodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people. According to the … [Read more...] about How Aborigines Made Australia: Bill Gammage
University Entitlement Must Change
THE revelations that Paul Greenfield, vice chancellor at the University of Queensland, has been forced to retire early because of "irregularities" in admission of a close relative to medical school do not come as a shock to many of us who have worked … [Read more...] about University Entitlement Must Change
Dredging a Harbor Won’t Destroy the Great Barrier Reef
Activist group GetUp! has just launched a campaign to save the Great Barrier Reef from the dredging of Gladstone Harbor. http://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/coal-seam-gas/great-barrier-reef/dredging-the-reef/take_action “Millions of cubic … [Read more...] about Dredging a Harbor Won’t Destroy the Great Barrier Reef
Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions Up, Australian Carbon Dioxide Emissions Down
PRELIMINARY estimates of global and national emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel combustion and cement manufacture indicate 2010 was a record year. Australian emissions, however, are down to 99 Teragrams from 108 Teragrams in 2008. As a … [Read more...] about Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions Up, Australian Carbon Dioxide Emissions Down
Pseudoscience as a Consequence of Confirmation Bias: Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley began a recent lecture to the national academy of sciences in Scotland by suggesting it was easy to distinguish science from pseudoscience. He explained that: Astronomy is science; astrology is pseudoscience. Molecular biology is … [Read more...] about Pseudoscience as a Consequence of Confirmation Bias: Matt Ridley
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
