A PERSISTENT complaint from victims of the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria was that they had “received no warning”. Over and again we heard statements like this: “There was no fire anywhere, but the next thing, we had fire all around us. There … [Read more...] about Warnings about Bushfire Warnings: A Note from Roger Underwood
Opinion
Where Do Dead Ants Go?
GREEN tree ants, Oecophylla smaragdina, don’t leave their dead lying around. … [Read more...] about Where Do Dead Ants Go?
SPENCER WRONG NOAA Blunder Explains Claims of Warming Oceans?
SCIENTISTS at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center (CPC) appear to have made a blunder with a data adjustment and splice resulting in sea surface temperatures being warmer than they would otherwise be … [Read more...] about SPENCER WRONG NOAA Blunder Explains Claims of Warming Oceans?
Let’s Stop Averaging Global Temperatures (Part 1)
FEAR of global warming is a preoccupation of western societies at the beginning of this 21st century. This fear is usually explained in terms of changes in the surface temperature of the earth as averaged from varying numbers of thermometers from … [Read more...] about Let’s Stop Averaging Global Temperatures (Part 1)
High Fashion and the Climate Crisis
VOGUE is an exclusive magazine about what is really fashionable. This month Vogue Australia has a feature on the ‘Climate Crisis’. Australian Green’s Senator Christine Milne explains in the article that unless we change our ways there may be no … [Read more...] about High Fashion and the Climate Crisis
Understanding Ice Sheets and Collapse
“FOR a glacier to maintain its present size it must have precipitation as snowfall at its source. This leads to a slightly complex relationship with temperature. If the regional climate becomes too dry, there will be no precipitation, so the glacier … [Read more...] about Understanding Ice Sheets and Collapse
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
