Climate & Climate Change

Danish physicist, Henrik Svensmark, is a bit different from your average climate change skeptics. He has an alternative theory of climate change and he has just written a book about it. Published this week by Icon books, but not yet available at … [Read more...] about The Chilling Stars – A New Book and a New Climate Change Theory by Henrick Svensmark

Sir Richard Branson is offerering a prize of $32 million to the inventor who can come up with a design which removes harmful greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Great idea? What about genetically modified diatoms designed to consume more carbon … [Read more...] about How to Get CO2 Out of the Atmosphere?

There will be a federal election in Australia later this year and the leader of the Labor opposition, Kevin Rudd, has indicated he plans to make climate change a key issue. There has been a big change in public opinion in Australia over the last … [Read more...] about Could ‘Global Warming’ and ‘Tim Flannery’ Cost Kevin Rudd the Election?

In the movie 'An Inconvenient Truth' Al Gore falsely claims that all climate change skeptics are in the pay of big oil. Just last week there were more false claims inparticular claims that the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is recruiting … [Read more...] about What’s Opinion from a Skeptic Worth?

Hi Jennifer, I've only just noticed this week's Jakarta floods. Most of the reportage has concentrated on the immediate disaster and the associated political recriminations, but I see in the Sydney Morning Herald that, "meteorologists have claimed … [Read more...] about Jakarta Floods: A Note from Mitchell Porter