I have been critical of many environmental activists over the years on the grounds that they know what they are against, but they don’t know what they are for. For example, bushfire management systems developed by forestry agencies over many decades … [Read more...] about The Wilderness Society and Bushfire Management
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Links to Stories on Weather Last Century
Links to three interesting 'weather reports' from last century from Art Raiche http://tinyurl.com/66tegq 1922 Washington Post story http://tinyurl.com/6ghpb8 1937 Time story re Northwest passage http://tinyurl.com/3xfoak 1974 … [Read more...] about Links to Stories on Weather Last Century
Temperature Data from Satellites: Inconvenient but Accurate
IT is my prediction that in not so many years time weather station data will be collected more for fun, a sense of history and for site-specific information, than for serious regional and global climate statistics. In the future it will be data … [Read more...] about Temperature Data from Satellites: Inconvenient but Accurate
No ‘IPCC’ For Biodiversity
Plans for a scientific panel on biodiversity, similar to a Nobel-winning group on climate change, have been knocked back by representatives of 80 countries at UN-sponsored talks. Read more here. … [Read more...] about No ‘IPCC’ For Biodiversity
Industries Prepare to Abandon Australia
There is increasing anger in Australia over plans for an emissions trading scheme with State governments urging changes to the proposed formulas for compensating export industries to ensure they are not pushed offshore. Read more here. … [Read more...] about Industries Prepare to Abandon Australia
Did Napoleon Use Hansen’s Temperature Data?
Following a blunder at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Steve McIntyre, at the Climate Audit blog, has reminded James Hansen, from NASA, that its colder in Russia in October than in September, as Napoleon found out to his cost in 1812. … [Read more...] about Did Napoleon Use Hansen’s Temperature Data?
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
