The Journal
Science
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Cold Water On Warming
This column by a physicist and climatologist is a week old. But it is worth reading because of its clear comparison of the predictions of global warming theory with real word observations. The conclusion: global warming theory is: a…
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Since Our Car Manufacturers Are Doing So Well
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has declared his intention to follow Barack Obama’s plan to impose strict limits on CO2 emissions from motor vehicles. This will increase costs, and cost jobs. CO2 is not a pollutant. It is…
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Page After Page Of Vitriol
On Tim Lambert’s Deltoid blog, all about what’s wrong, or might be wrong, with Ian Plimer’s book Heaven and Earth. Some of the critics seem not to have read the book at all. Most attack Professor Plimer…
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DVDs With 1,000 Times More Storage
Current dual layer DVDs hold 9GB – enough for a couple of full length movies, or about 2,000 photos. Researchers at Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology have found a way to store some 10,000 GB of…
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Dolphins Are Nasty
Be sure to pass this one on to your ‘dolphins are our water-siblings’ loony friends. Dolphins are violent predators, pack rapists and baby-killers. The sites linked in that article are worth visiting too. My favourite was…
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Worthwhile Comment On The Budget, But…
Paul Kelly makes some typically clear and concise remarks about the budget, and the options now open to both Labor and Liberal leaders. Budget details often obscure the bigger picture, but Australia is heading into a serious…
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Your iPod Is Melting My Snow
In many rich countries electricity use by appliances which had previously accounted for most usage – white goods such as refrigerators and clothes washers – is falling. But the growth in use of electronic devices such as…
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Global Warming – The Science Is Settled
It really might be so – just not the way Al Gore thinks. Via Jennifer Marohasy. Measurements show that global atmospheric temperature has been static or cooling for the last ten years, despite increasing levels of…
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DDT – From De Facto Ban To Real Ban
And more people, possibly millions, will die as a result. Every 30 seconds someone dies from Malaria. The same number as were killed in the 9/11 attacks every day and a half. Most of these deaths…
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Experts: We Have No Idea If This Could Happen
And it has never happened before. But hey, you know, anything’s possible. So just be scared, OK? A ‘top flu expert’ is warning of the dangers of a mutant swine/bird flu – one that is as infectious…
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Even MSN Says Swine Flu Warnings Overdone
A longish article with lots of quotes from poeple saying the Swine Flu alarms were a perfect example of authorities crying wolf. Many blame such alarms and the breathless media coverage for creating an overreaction that…
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ETS Petition – Emissions Trading Will Cost But Achieve Nothing
I don’t know that there has ever been a successful online petition. But what is at stake is the destruction of major industries, and massive damage to an already struggling economy. So I’ll take any chance I…
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Frogs Misunderestimated
Up to 221 new species of amphibian have been discovered after a survey of Madagascan forests. Some interesting photos at that link to National Geographic. The work suggests that tropical amphibian diversity has been underestimated at…
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Solar Panel Subsidies
The Kangaroo Island Council has decided it will take responsiblity for local management of a government subsidised scheme to install solar panels on the roofs of homes. Even with proposed government subsidies, the installation of solar panels will not be…
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Science A Political Tool
John McLean has some interesting comments on the politics of climate change in an article in yesterday’s Australian. THE notion that human activity has an alarming influence on climate is based on Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…
