"I KNOW good science fiction when I see it. And that is what I have seen in the climate change debate – a lot of fiction dressed up as science. Most great works of fiction end up on the silver screen so it was inevitable that climate change would … [Read more...] about Science Fiction & Climate Change: A Speech by George Christensen MP in Vegas
Opinion
Open Thread
"While some have likened global warming skeptics' scientific research to Big Tobacco-funded research that supposedly showed smoking was not dangerous, I would say that the media's refusal to report on skeptics's peer-reviewed research is like the … [Read more...] about Open Thread
Solar Cycle Could Point to Mega-Drought
THROUGH the Millennium drought of 2001 to 2009, I was optimistic that it would rain again, that the drought would end and probably with flooding rains. The drought did break, and the aggregated average annual rainfall for the Murray Darling … [Read more...] about Solar Cycle Could Point to Mega-Drought
CSIRO Has Lost Its Way, and Soon Its Funding
INNOVATION is critical to staying competitive. Government-funded science and technology have played an important role in the past, but key institutions like the CSIRO have increasingly lost their way. Indeed the CSIRO, probably more than … [Read more...] about CSIRO Has Lost Its Way, and Soon Its Funding
Bigots, Climate Change Deniers and George Orwell
GEORGE Brandis says it is “deplorable” deniers are being excluded from the climate change debate and people who say the science is settled are ignorant and medieval. The attorney general called the leader of the opposition in the Senate, Penny … [Read more...] about Bigots, Climate Change Deniers and George Orwell
March Against Democracy
JULIA Gillard promised, if she was elected, that there would be no carbon tax. Tony Abbot promised, if he was elected, that he would scrap the carbon tax. But the learned ignorant promote mass action to get their way, all the while claiming … [Read more...] about March Against Democracy
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.