IN South Australia the Coorong fishermen say that before irrigation, before the weirs, locks, levees and barrages (sea dykes), the Murray River would flog down from September until maybe Christmas, filling the lagoon, then out the mouth. By … [Read more...] about It’s a Barrier Estuary: Duh!
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More Flooding
Large areas of Queensland and New South Wales are flooding again. In New South Wales: Flood Warning - Clarence River, Flood Warning - Bellinger River, Flood Warning - Hastings River, Flood Warning - Manning River, Flood Warning … [Read more...] about More Flooding
Sold Down the River by Canberra
WHEN former Labor leader Mark Latham was campaigning to win the 2004 federal election, he promised to add 450 gigalitres of environmental flows to the Murray River in his first term of government and an extra 1,500 within ten years. Australian … [Read more...] about Sold Down the River by Canberra
The Average Global Surface Air Temperature for 2011: Ole Humlum
"ON the whole, the year 2011 was somewhat cooler than 2010... In the Northern Hemisphere close to normal or relatively low surface air temperatures characterized most regions. Relatively warm conditions characterised northern Siberia and Russia, … [Read more...] about The Average Global Surface Air Temperature for 2011: Ole Humlum
More Reasons for Arctic Sea Ice Decline
Decline in the extent of Arctic sea ice may have more to do with changes in circulation patterns of fresh water entering the Arctic Ocean from rivers in Russia than changes in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide according to a new article in … [Read more...] about More Reasons for Arctic Sea Ice Decline
Southern Ocean Tides Could Save Lower Lakes
THERE are a lot of comments in the thread following my blog post ‘Healthy Country Means Less Water for South Australia’. In that thread Peter R. Smith OAM has claimed that if it weren’t for the barrages Lake Alexandrina, a terminal coastal lake at … [Read more...] about Southern Ocean Tides Could Save Lower Lakes
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
