Climate & Climate Change

Queensland's Premier, Peter Beattie, has been telling the 2 million or so people who live in the south east of Queensland that “we have a water crisis and the worst drought on record”. We are dependent on three dams to the north-west of the city of … [Read more...] about Will It Rain on Peter Beattie This Summer?

I was sent the following note from Walter Starck: "The Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) debate is not about a paradigm shift or even about a basic theory. No one is arguing that CO2 does not absorb IR or that burning fossil fuel does not add CO2 … [Read more...] about Why We Argue Over AGW: Walter Starck

Dear Jennifer, You might be interested in my recent Blog entry 'Long term reduction in Australian deaths from, bushfires, cyclones and heatwaves'. The next entry down 'Is massive UHI warming in China distorting Jones et al gridded T data ?' is … [Read more...] about Update from Warwick Hughes

I've just been sent some publicity for Al Gore's new movie 'An Inconvenient Truth'. It's an apocalyptic tale about climate change opening in Australia from 14th September with screening times to soon be available at the films new Australian website: … [Read more...] about Al Gore’s New Movie In Australia In September

If you do a search at this blog site for 'hockey stick', Google will provide you with about 70 links and the first will link to a question I posted a year ago: "What is the evidence for the medieval warm period? My understanding is that the Vikings … [Read more...] about Global Warming Icon ‘Hit For Six’

Hollywood blockbuster 'The Day After Tomorrow' was an apocalyptic tale about the Gulf Stream -- the ocean current which circulates warm water from the tropics to the Northern Hemisphere -- being disrupted by global warming. In the following guest … [Read more...] about Screaming Gulf Myths: A Comment from Rog