Climate & Climate Change

In today's The Age Geoff Strong repeats federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell's announcement of last week in The Australian, and Tim Flannery's recommendation in The Weather Makers, that we should stop debating the science of global warming and … [Read more...] about Should We Take a Faith-Based Approach to AGW?

Some of my colleagues were amazed to see The Australian newspaper run Environment Minister Campbell on its front page yesterday with some anxious comments about the threat of global warming. On the same day former NSW Premier Bob Carr launched a new … [Read more...] about GW Politics – An Update

Several people have emailed me a piece from the Washington post titled World Temperatures Keep Rising With a Hot 2005 by Juliet Eilperin. The piece was published a couple of weeks ago (October 13, 2005) and evidently impressed many. It begins: New … [Read more...] about Global Warming for Dummies

We've been told that Greenland is thinning at the margins,and the glaciers are retreating, but while all this is happening the icecaps are now apparently thickening. This is according to a new article in Science as reported by ABC … [Read more...] about Greenland Getting Taller

In his new book the 'The Weather Makers' (Text Publishing, Melbourne, $32.95) Professor Tim Flannery suggests that the medieval warm period was unique to Europe with "a survey of global temperature records (from ice-cores, tree-rings and lake … [Read more...] about Tim Flannery on Hockey Sticks

The US Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works continues to hear testimonials on climate change and related issues. Earlier this week Lord Nigel Lawson from Britian's House of Lords told the Americans what he thought: "I am grateful for … [Read more...] about Close Down the IPCC