England has produced a number of outstanding detective story writers. Agatha Christie comes to mind with her character Hercule Poirot. Another is Dorothy L. Sayers, with her diffident, yet steely-minded toff, Lord Peter Wimsey. There were also other … [Read more...] about Has Lord Peter Lost His Tools: A Note from Davey
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Say No to Emissions Trading: Art Raiche
It is foolish beyond measure to enter into an Emissions Trading System (ETS) based on the hysterical predictions of CSIRO’s computer modelling. To quote Prof Freeman Dyson of the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, one of the world’s most … [Read more...] about Say No to Emissions Trading: Art Raiche
Rainforest Cancer Cure One Step Closer
Dr Paul Reddell, co-founder Dr Victoria Gordon and the EcoBiotics team, have discovered a rainforest plant that produces a possible cancer-fighting molecule. Clinical trials of a previously untreatable type of cancer in horses have produced dramatic … [Read more...] about Rainforest Cancer Cure One Step Closer
Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered
Physics and Society, in its July 2008 quarterly edition, has published a paper by Christopher Monckton entitled Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered, which exposes the IPCC's strange method of calculating the effect of CO2 on temperature and suggests … [Read more...] about Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered
The Greenhouse Effect is a Myth: A Note from Jim Peden
As a dissenting physicist, I simply can no longer buy the notion that CO2 produces any significant warming of the atmosphere at any rate. I've studied the atomic absorption physics to death, from John Nicol's extensive development to the much longer … [Read more...] about The Greenhouse Effect is a Myth: A Note from Jim Peden
Bushfires, Prescribed Burning and Global Warming
Two myths about climate change and bushfire management are often repeated in the media: 1. Because of global warming, Australia will be increasingly subject to uncontrollable holocaust-like “megafires”; and 2. Fuel reduction by prescribed burning … [Read more...] about Bushfires, Prescribed Burning and Global Warming