DROUGHT is cruel. The farmer doesn’t know when it is going to end, how much longer they will need to keep feeding their livestock, and how much longer they must wait until they can plant a crop. If the Australian Bureau of Meteorology were … [Read more...] about New Drought Report: Consistently Dishonest, Consistently Misleading
Drought
Solar Cycle Could Point to Mega-Drought
THROUGH the Millennium drought of 2001 to 2009, I was optimistic that it would rain again, that the drought would end and probably with flooding rains. The drought did break, and the aggregated average annual rainfall for the Murray Darling … [Read more...] about Solar Cycle Could Point to Mega-Drought
Not a Natural Disaster, Just another Rainfall Deficit
In announcing yesterday’s $320 million drought assistance package for farmers there was some mention of the situation out west being akin to a natural disaster. A more accurate description would be that its part of a natural cycle - not a natural … [Read more...] about Not a Natural Disaster, Just another Rainfall Deficit
It Never Rains
"POETRY, said Auden, makes nothing happen. Usually it doesn't, but sometimes a poem gets quoted in a national argument because everybody knows it, or at least part of it, and for the occasion a few lines of familiar poetry suddenly seem the best way … [Read more...] about It Never Rains
Market Research and Unhealthy Rivers: David Boyd
The market researchers/analysts tell me that you wont win a "counter-intuitive" argument. Because people have been conditioned by repetitive claims of a particular point of view, to forthrightly state the opposite is likely to be dismissed out of … [Read more...] about Market Research and Unhealthy Rivers: David Boyd
Save the Murray: Remove the Barrages
The release of a new Murray Darling Basin plan on October 8, 2010, is likely to reignite debate over how best to solve the problems of the Murray River. It will further pit some environmentalists and some South Australians against upstream irrigators … [Read more...] about Save the Murray: Remove the Barrages
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
