THE short-listing of Melbourne’s Yarra River for the International Riverprize, billed as the “world’s most prestigious environmental prize”, just goes to highlight how farcical the debate over river health has become. The National Irrigators’ … [Read more...] about Yarra’s prize makes mockery of Murray-Darling ‘crisis’: Danny O’Brien
Opinion
Outgoing Longwave Radiation and the Greenhouse Effect: Ken Gregory
HAS the greenhouse effect increased with man-made greenhouse gas emissions? Canadian Ken Gregory asks and answers this question concluding… The greenhouse effect as characterized by the normalized greenhouse factor has increased by only 0.19% … [Read more...] about Outgoing Longwave Radiation and the Greenhouse Effect: Ken Gregory
US Supreme Court Impressed by Climate Sceptic
There was an important ruling last week in the USA. Would-be regulators of carbon dioxide lost an appeal in the Supreme Court. They lost on technical grounds and in the process the Court cautioned, by way of a footnote in the judgement, that … [Read more...] about US Supreme Court Impressed by Climate Sceptic
Irresponsible: SA Politicians Unite Against Upstream Communities and Environments
ADELAIDE in South Australia is a one paper town. Everyone reads the Adelaide Advertiser. Today, as usual, it’s full of parochial chatter including a one page advertisement devoted to a statement from all 23 South Australian Federal MPs (Green, … [Read more...] about Irresponsible: SA Politicians Unite Against Upstream Communities and Environments
Carbon Tax as a Failed European Policy
IF a new federal tax of $11.6 billion represents economic reform, then the Australian political culture has changed fundamentally, and economic reform means roughly the opposite of what it meant under Bob Hawke, Paul Keating and John Howard. … [Read more...] about Carbon Tax as a Failed European Policy
Major Drop in Solar Activity Predicted
Three separate studies of the sun all predict that we may be about to enter a period of low temperatures because of unusually low solar activity. Comparisons are being made with the last grand minimum, the coldest period of the Little Ice Age, … [Read more...] about Major Drop in Solar Activity Predicted
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
