There is nothing sustainable about the current management of the Lower Murray and its crippled estuary. Lakes Albert and Alexandrina are vast shallow near-coastal lagoons that started to dry-up during the recent Millennium drought (2003-2009). … [Read more...] about After the Inlet to Rostocker Harbour Closed Over
Opinion
Three Facts Most Sceptics Don’t Seem to Understand
A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC9) in Las Vegas. If you ever doubted scepticism towards man-made global warming as a growing social movement, well, you couldn’t after … [Read more...] about Three Facts Most Sceptics Don’t Seem to Understand
Science Fiction & Climate Change: A Speech by George Christensen MP in Vegas
"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
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
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.