ANOTHER year, and I’ve received another photograph from the Spangled Drongo, a regular commentator at this weblog who visits a waterfront property at Cleveland Point, Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia, around this time of year. Spangled is … [Read more...] about King Tides at Cleveland Point, and Sea Level Change Over the Holocene
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When Is the Right Time to Abandon Ship?
IN September, Patrick J. Michaels likened the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to a treed cat. He wrote, “Instead of closing its eyes and scurrying to the ground, it climbs onto even higher and thinner branches, while yowling ever … [Read more...] about When Is the Right Time to Abandon Ship?
Carbon Off-setting an Expedition to the Antarctic
CHRIS Turney is professor of climate change at the University of New South Wales. He recently set off on a 233-foot-long Russian-flagged ship with 70 or so colleagues to check-out the climate by following in the footsteps of famous explorer Douglas … [Read more...] about Carbon Off-setting an Expedition to the Antarctic
Seasons Greetings from the Capricorn Coast
I have a home not far from an ICOLL (Intermittently Closed and Open Lake and/or Lagoon) at the bottom of Lammermoor Creek on the Capricorn Coast. There is a sandbar across the top of the lagoon that stops it emptying at low tide, but allows the … [Read more...] about Seasons Greetings from the Capricorn Coast
How Long Before AGW is recognised as a Spectacularly Wrong Scientific Theories by the Academies?
“ONE of the best things about science is that the discipline is self-correcting.” So wrote Eric Berger in a blog post in which he lists, what he considers, the top 10 most spectacularly wrong once widely held scientific theories. His list … [Read more...] about How Long Before AGW is recognised as a Spectacularly Wrong Scientific Theories by the Academies?