Climate & Climate Change

While planet earth has warmed only 0.6C on average over the last 150 or so years, warming in the artic has been more significant. Clifford Kauss et al have written in the New York Times about new opportunities in the Artic as the ice melts: It … [Read more...] about New Port to Open as Ice Melts

There is a new long article at BBC Online about variations in warming, melting, and thickening across Antartica and Arctica. There is also info on glaciers, I was impressed by this graph: The graph was accompanied by the following text: "The … [Read more...] about Glaciers Melting

I received a note from a reader of this web-log who was a bit cranky with my post advertising the current review by Warwick Hughes, see post and thread here. The really relevant piece of information from the long email was perhaps this graph: View … [Read more...] about The Ocean is Also Warming

Michael Crichton's recent address to the US Senate on the integrity of science and problems with global warming research in particular the IPCC process is worth a read. It is interesting to ponder how Crichton became so concerned about the integrity … [Read more...] about Crichton on Science (Part 2)

I saw the Michael Moore movie Fahrenheit 9/11 when it first came out in Australia as part of an 'invited audience' with some other local ABC listeners and a few celebrities. I found the movie entertaining and amusing but assumed it to be about as … [Read more...] about Michael Crichton or Michael Moore

What is it about 'global warming' that brings out the worst in people like Tim Flannery? Prof Flannery was on ABC Television's The 7.30 Report last night promoting his new book. I have not read The Weather Makers but I understand from the interview … [Read more...] about The Weather Makers