The Journal
Science
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Homophobia And Heterophobia
Some interesting observations here on healing, hope, and homosexuality. The article is not long, and is worth reading in its entirety. This is an excerpt: I saw a genuine love and acceptance of men and women…
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Climate Change Hits Indigenous Australians Hardest
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma, recently returned from the UN’s Conference for Racism and Anti-Semitism, says that Australia’s indigenous people will be hardest hit by climate change. If temperatures in North…
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Anthropogenic Global Warming Could Have Been Right
In laboratory conditions, increases in the proportion of CO2 in air result in a small, but proportional increase in heat retention. It was reasonable to ask whether a similar effect might apply in the real world. If…
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D-Day (Dimwit Day) In South Australia
The Rann government’s ban on lightweight plastic shopping bags starts today. I predict chaos and frustration at supermarkets around the state. Tim Blair notes that the people who grow marijuana are subject to a fine of $300,…
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Global Warming Is ‘Zombie Science’
From Dr Bruce Charlton at Science Direct: … that so many vague, dumb or incoherent scientific theories are apparently believed by so many scientists for so many years is suggestive that this ideal does not necessarily…
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Climate Change – We Don’t Need No Steenking Debates
Three brief notes. Lord Monckton was invited by Rep. Joe Barton, the senior Republican on the US Energy & Commerce Committee, to speak alongside Al Gore at a global warming policy meeting in Washington. Democrat members decided…
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WHO: ‘All Humanity Under Threat’ From Swine Flu
The World Health Organisation has warned that “all of humanity is under threat” from a potential swine flu pandemic and called for “global solidarity” to combat the virus. The plea came as the WHO raised the…
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I’m Not Convinced Swine Flu Is Going To Be A Pandemic
But a 23 month old child died of Swine Flu in the US today – the first recorded death outside Mexico. All deaths from any disease are sad. It is sad that so many have died in Mexico,…
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Contradictory Policy Statements From The US
Two oddly contradictory statements today. President Barack Obama says he wants to bring science to the forefront of US thinking, to make the US once again world leaders in scientific research and development. OK. Excellent. But how does…
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Scientists And Ethicists Growl At Cloning Doctor
The objection is not that Panayiotis Zavos claims to have cloned human beings. Others have done that. Nor is it that he claims to have made hybrid human-animal clones by putting human DNA into cow eggs. Others have done…
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Queenslanders Cleared Of Flu, But..
Tests on two Queenslanders thought to have contracted Swine Flu after visits to Mexico and the US are negative. New strains of flu emerge every year. What is worrying about this apparently new version of swine…
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I Want My Global Warming
Still raining on Kangaroo Island, which is great – we have no mains water, only what we catch and store ourselves. The tanks are starting to fill. They were virtually empty five days ago, and are now at about…
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Best Chance Yet For Extra-Terrestrial Life
Scientists at the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland have found an earth-like planet orbiting the red dwarf start Gliese, about 20 light years away. The planet’s gravity is too high to support life in forms similar to those…
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Hundreds of Millions Hurt By Stupidity Says Oxfam
No they didn’t. They said hundreds of millions would be hurt by climate change. It is true that lots of people are hurt each year in natural disasters. But apart from increased casualties caused by more densely…
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Wind Farms An Expensive Waste Of Time
A real-world test performed by the Dutch province of Zeeland (a very windy place) confirms that small windmills are a fundamentally flawed technology. Twelve wind turbines were placed in a row on an open plain. Their…