Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch expects News Corporation-owned newspaper Web sites to start charging users for access within a year in a move which analysts say could radically shake-up the culture of freely available content. Read more here. … [Read more...] about Free for How Much Longer?
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Greens Rescued by Big Oil
An expedition team which set sail from Plymouth on a 5,000-mile carbon emission-free trip to Greenland have been rescued by an oil tanker. Read more here. … [Read more...] about Greens Rescued by Big Oil
The Climatically Saturated Greenhouse Effect: A Note from Christopher Game
IN recent years, a major advance in our understanding of the physical dynamics of the climate process has come from the work of Ferenc Miskolczi. For the present note I am calling his discovery the ‘climatically saturated greenhouse effect’. I use … [Read more...] about The Climatically Saturated Greenhouse Effect: A Note from Christopher Game
How to Kill a Fox, to Save a Mouse and a Pademelon
A NEW paper by Mike Letnic from the University of Sydney adds more weight to the argument that the best way to save Australia’s small native rodents, in particular the dusky hopping mouse, is to protect the dingo because it also preys on foxes and … [Read more...] about How to Kill a Fox, to Save a Mouse and a Pademelon
Defining the Greens (Part 8)
"What's clear is eco-activists and their allies will do anything to avoid talking about their real goals, which have less to do with cleaning up the environment than with pulling down capitalism." 'What Green Means', Investor Business Daily, … [Read more...] about Defining the Greens (Part 8)
It May Get Even Drier Along the Murray
THERE has been no general decline in rainfall in Australia due to global warming. But it is possible that the Murray Darling Basin, once regarded as the food bowl of Australia, will get even drier. When farmers say that the region has never … [Read more...] about It May Get Even Drier Along the Murray
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
