CORALS are animals, closely related to jelly fish, but they differ in having a limestone skeleton. This is hard-stuff, calcium carbonate, and it can persist in the environment and provide an indication of changes in sea level, and also the growth … [Read more...] about No Data on Coral Growth Rates for 15 Years
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What Can You See, Indicating Sea Levels are Rising?
Many Australians are fearful of catastrophic human-caused climate change because this is what the state-sponsored propaganda on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC) tells us. In Australia, we mostly live near the sea. All along our … [Read more...] about What Can You See, Indicating Sea Levels are Rising?
New Record Temperatures Need Justification
IN September 2017, the Bureau declared the hottest ever September on record for the state of Victoria based on temperature data from Mildura. I’ve since shown that this was helped along by the Bureau replacing a mercury thermometer with an … [Read more...] about New Record Temperatures Need Justification
Exquisite
Exquisite: that is my word for an important book published this year, entitled ‘A Stray Liana’. It is replete with the most beautiful photographs all by Neil Hewett, and all taken amongst the Daintree Rainforest where he has lived for perhaps … [Read more...] about Exquisite
Why Deny the Beautiful Coral Reefs Fringing Stone Island?
We live in an era when it is politically incorrect to say the Great Barrier Reef is doing fine, except if it’s in a tourist brochure. The issue has nothing to do with the actual state of corals, but something else altogether. Given that the Great … [Read more...] about Why Deny the Beautiful Coral Reefs Fringing Stone Island?
Experts Now Agree: Is Acropora Coral at Stone Island
APPARENTLY the Nature article I quote from in my new first film Beige Reef doesn't claim there is no longer any Acropora at Stone Island. According to Graham Readfearn, writing today in The Guardian, I got it wrong. In fact, he’s got it wrong. … [Read more...] about Experts Now Agree: Is Acropora Coral at Stone Island
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.