Hi Jennifer, The shallows near Dobu Island off Papua and New Guinea have active underwater fumaroles pumping out virtually pure CO2. The sea grass is extraordinarily lush and healthy and there is very healthy coral reef a few metres away. May 2008 … [Read more...] about Ocean Acidification: Photographs from Bob Halstead and a Note from Floor Anthoni
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New Australian Movie Starring Caroline Marohasy
Caroline Marohasy, a reader of this weblog and my daughter, makes her debut in a new Australian revenge thriller 'The Horseman' that will premier at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Caroline Marohasy and Peter Marshall in The Horseman If … [Read more...] about New Australian Movie Starring Caroline Marohasy
Clive Hamilton Boycotts e-Journal for Publishing ‘Climate Change Denialists’
Clive Hamilton, Professor of public ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, is leading an attack by left-leaning Australian academics on Graham Young and his e-journal On Line Opinion because it publishes article by so-called … [Read more...] about Clive Hamilton Boycotts e-Journal for Publishing ‘Climate Change Denialists’
Crying Need for Skepticism: Gerard Henderson
There is an opinion piece in yesterday's Sydney Morning Herald entitled 'Crying Need for Doubting Peter' in which Gerard Henderson suggests that even if carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are contributing to global warming it … [Read more...] about Crying Need for Skepticism: Gerard Henderson
Global Warming for Dummies (Part 3)
The prediction of how much manmade global warming we will see in the future (as well as how much past warming was manmade) depends upon something called "climate sensitivity". For many years, climate researchers have struggled to diagnose the … [Read more...] about Global Warming for Dummies (Part 3)
The UN IPCC ‘2500 Scientists’ Hoax
It’s an assertion repeated by politicians and climate campaigners the world over: “2,500 scientists of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) agree that humans are causing a climate crisis.” But it’s not true. And, for … [Read more...] about The UN IPCC ‘2500 Scientists’ Hoax