Climate & Climate Change

According to today's NEWSMAIL@YOUR.ABC.NET.AU: Tasmania's main turkey producer is warning customers to expect more than they have ordered, after climatic conditions resulted in bigger-than-usual birds. Nichols Poultry owner Robert Nichols says the … [Read more...] about How Big is Your Christmas Turkey?

According to Foreign Policy magazine the world will remember 2005 for its natural disasters, the passing of a pope, and the ongoing insurgency in Iraq. In terms of environmental issues that "fell through the cracks" the magazine focused on reduced … [Read more...] about What Was Special About 2005?

I posted on how Europe might end up cooler rather than warmer as a consequence of global warming and its affect on ocean currents, click here for the post. Following the post, a reader of this blog, Phil Done, suggested in response to a comment from … [Read more...] about Ian Mott on Googling the ‘Atantic Conveyor’

About 10,000 climate experts, diplomats, politicians and groupies met in Montreal over the last two weeks to put in place global policies for 'climate control' post the Kyoto agreement which will expire in 2012. Before the conference, and some way … [Read more...] about The Power of One: Clinton Trumps Blair in Montreal

How did this get past the editors at science journal Nature: "Any public campaign benefits from having an iconic image - something that captures the essence of the message and engraves it indelibly on our memories. But it is almost impossible to … [Read more...] about Climate Icons

The latest much discussed paper in science journal Nature on global warming is predicting it may get cooler as it gets warmer! At least that's my reading of the paper by Harry Bryden et. al. (Vol 438, Dec 1, 2005, pg 655-657) which explains that … [Read more...] about Walk Against Warming, But Could it be Cooling?