ACCORDING to NASA we are in for a period of low solar activity which means more cosmic rays getting through to earth. According to research at the Danish National Space Center more cosmic rays means more cloud nuclei in the lower atmosphere and … [Read more...] about Low Clouds Cause Cooling
Climate & Climate Change
Big Handouts for Climate Change
By 2011-12, carbon emission-related direct and indirect hand-outs for industry will constitute about half the total of overall Australian Government help to industry. In short, business has a new trough into which it can aim its ravenous snout. And … [Read more...] about Big Handouts for Climate Change
Earth’s Atmosphere to Cool and Contract: NASA
THERE is a new forecast from a panel of international scientists who study the sun. In a media release from Science@NASA, Tony Phillips explains they predict that the sun will remain generally calm for at least another year and this means low solar … [Read more...] about Earth’s Atmosphere to Cool and Contract: NASA
Enron’s Other Secret
Every penny that leaves the hands of consumers does so by design, the final step in elaborate and often brilliant orchestrations of public policy, all the more brilliant because the public, for the most part, does not know who is profiteering on … [Read more...] about Enron’s Other Secret
Relative Humidity has been Falling
Correlation is not causation. But it is always exciting to see a good correlation between two variables that one assumes will correlate because of some theory or other. According to the ‘Saturated Greenhouse Effect’, a controversial theory … [Read more...] about Relative Humidity has been Falling
Gaia – Saved by the Seas
THE idea that the earth’s physical and biological systems adjust to perturbation through feedback systems is central to James Lovelock’s Gaia theory. Let me declare upfront that I don’t subscribe to this theory because I don’t see the earth as a … [Read more...] about Gaia – Saved by the Seas
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
