How many plant and animal species go extinct each year? Some years ago Greenpeace claimed 50,000 -100,000 species each year. In the comment thread of an earlier blog post Lamna nasus suggested a figure of 90 species of mammal over the past five … [Read more...] about Science and Public Policy by Aynsley Kellow: Part 2, Virtual Extinctions in Virtual Ecosystems
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Why I am a Dynamist
In 1960 famous Austrian economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek wrote an essay entitled ‘Why I Am Not a Conservative’ explaining that a fundamental trait of the conservative attitude is a fear of change while the liberal position is based … [Read more...] about Why I am a Dynamist
New Analysis of the 2002 Larsen B Ice Shelf Collapse
A new paper has been published which examines the factors involved in the 2002 collapse of the Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica. The lead author, Professor Neil Glasser of Aberystwyth University (Wales, UK) was interviewed about the findings in the … [Read more...] about New Analysis of the 2002 Larsen B Ice Shelf Collapse
Evidence for Abiogenic Oil from a New Paper Published in the Journal ‘Science’
Some readers of this blog may recall that Louis Hissink sometimes brings up the subject of at least some oil being 'abiogenic' or 'abiotic' rather than fossil in origin. Most of us remain sceptical of such claims, which seem to be backed by anecdotal … [Read more...] about Evidence for Abiogenic Oil from a New Paper Published in the Journal ‘Science’
Science and Public Policy by Aynsley Kellow: Part 1, DDT
It is not often I read a book that summarizes a lot of issues that I have really wanted summarized. In fact, I think ‘Science and Public Policy – The Virtuous Corruption of Virtual Environmental Science’ by Professor Aynsley Kellow is the first. I … [Read more...] about Science and Public Policy by Aynsley Kellow: Part 1, DDT
The Spectacular Scarlet Bean
Plants that flower and fruit from their main stems or woody trunks rather than from new growth and shoots, are described as cauliflorous or cormiflorous; those that flower from the branches are ramiflorous. The Scarlet Bean (Archidendron ramiflorum … [Read more...] about The Spectacular Scarlet Bean
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
