Climate & Climate Change

PSYCHIATRISTS have detected the first case of "climate change delusion" - Writing in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, Joshua Wolf and Robert Salo of our Royal Children's Hospital say this delusion was a "previously unreported … [Read more...] about Psychiatrists Identify ‘Climate Change Delusion’ Phenomenon

“If we are to understand the real state of the world, we need to focus on the fundamentals and we need to look at realities, not myths.” Bjorn Lomborg, 2001 According to geological history the earth has been warming for about 18,000 years and … [Read more...] about Measuring Global Temperatures

The Australian media has been concentrating on the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) of late. Today is the day that the draft (or should that be daft?) Garnaut Report on Climate Change is released. ABC News: Garnaut urges emissions trading scheme … [Read more...] about Draft Garnaut Climate Change Report Released

There are two articles of interest from a climate point of view in this week's Science magazine. The first is entitled: 'Large and Rapid Melt-Induced Velocity Changes in the Ablation Zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet' by R. S. W. van de Wal et al. The … [Read more...] about Atmospheric CO2 Not So Scary – Wheel Out Ocean ‘Acidification’

I gather from listening to the BBC 7.00am news on the way to work, that Japan is claiming that the terms of the Kyoto Protocol were loaded against them. The 1990 baseline favoured the likes of the UK and Germany - the Germans closed old, dirty, … [Read more...] about Japan Complains about the Kyoto Protocol