The risk of a climate crisis, like the risks associated with sub-prime mortgage securitisation, are calculated using complex computer models and both are too complex for the average punter to understand. As Graham Young wrote last week in a … [Read more...] about More Problems with Computer Models: Our World is One of Novelty and Change
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Farmers want Protection for Iconic Farmland
At a hastily convened Landcare meeting yesterday, around 100 landholders affected by the proposed Tarong Coal mine on the Haystack Plain called on the Queensland government to protect iconic farmlands from mining development. Landcare Project … [Read more...] about Farmers want Protection for Iconic Farmland
BBC Misrepresented Climate Skeptics
The BBC is being investigated by television watchdogs after a leading climate change sceptic claimed his views were deliberately misrepresented. Lord Monckton, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, says he was made to look like a ‘potty peer’ on a … [Read more...] about BBC Misrepresented Climate Skeptics
Carbon Emissions Scaling Record Peaks
A new report by a research consortium called the Global Carbon Project has confirmed that China leapfrogged the United States in 2006 as the world's biggest carbon emitter and India is heading for third place. The report also claims global … [Read more...] about Carbon Emissions Scaling Record Peaks
The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Consensus
“A pervasive myth has taken hold in the public consciousness: That there was a consensus among climate scientists of the 1970s that global cooling or a full-fledged ice age was imminent.” At least that is according to Thomas Peterson, William … [Read more...] about The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Consensus
Dying, I’m Not: A Poem from the Murrumbidgee
I begin as a trickle, of melting snowflakes, High in the mountains as Springtime awakes. I ooze from the sedges, and springs neath the ground. Drawn by gravity, it’s downward I’m bound. I’m one of the elements of antiquity, The basis of life, I … [Read more...] about Dying, I’m Not: A Poem from the Murrumbidgee
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
