IT is generally agreed that the worst dust storms since European settlement were during the 1944-1945 period. In his book Out of the West: A Historical Perspective of the Western Division of NSW, former Western Lands Commissioner, Dick Condon, … [Read more...] about Learning Dust Lesson to Fight Wildfires
Opinion
Early Warning of Massive Earthquates Possible: John McRobert
EARLY Wednesday morning a 8.3 magnitude earthquake caused a tsunami in the Pacific, killing at least 140 people in Samoa and Tonga. Later in the day a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit western Sumatra in Indonesia, drowning hundreds of people and burying … [Read more...] about Early Warning of Massive Earthquates Possible: John McRobert
Working to Develop More Reliable Methodology: Keith Briffa
THE United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and most others who believe in anthropogenic global warming (AGW), have been influenced by the work of climatologists relying on tree-ring data to reconstruct past climate because … [Read more...] about Working to Develop More Reliable Methodology: Keith Briffa
Leading UK Climate Scientists Must Explain or Resign
MOST scientific sceptics have been dismissive of the various reconstructions of temperature which suggest 1998 is the warmest year of the past millennium. Our case has been significantly bolstered over the last week with statistician Steve … [Read more...] about Leading UK Climate Scientists Must Explain or Resign
Australian Liberals Oppose Carbon Trading
Australian Opposition Leader (Malcolm Turnbull) will be forced to stare down more than two-thirds of the Liberal back bench if he proceeds with his plan to negotiate with the government over amendments to the emissions trading scheme before … [Read more...] about Australian Liberals Oppose Carbon Trading
Melting Glaciers and Cognitive Dissonance
MOUNTAIN glaciers in Asia are melting at a rate that could eventually threaten water supplies, irrigation or hydropower for 20 percent to 25 percent of the world's population: that is according to the latest United Nations Environment Program … [Read more...] about Melting Glaciers and Cognitive Dissonance
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
