Bleaching in Ningaloo?  I believe this is a first for high temperature-related coral bleaching. People have wondered why these reefs have not suffered from mass coral bleaching.  Unfortunately, that is no longer true. Here is a report by coral biologist, Dr Tyrone Ridgway (Australian Institute of Marine Science)

Posted on 01 March 2011

SEE UPDATE here.

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Natural gas is widely advertised and promoted as a clean burning fuel that produces less greenhouse gas emissions than coal when burned. While it is true that less carbon dioxide is emitted from burning natural gas than from burning coal per unit of energy generated, the combustion emissions are only part of story and the [...]

You just have to love them.  Here is a fascinating insight from Paul Krugman in the Opinion pages of the New York Times.  You have to admit, the GOP and their antics really do take the cake!

By PAUL KRUGMAN

So the joke begins like this: An economist, a lawyer [...]

Here is something I came across recently in the  Courthouse News Service.  After the abuse that this internationally recognized scientist has received from the anti-science movement, this seems (if anything) a little overdue! VANCOUVER, B.C. (CN) – A Pennsylvania State University professor claims climate-change denier Timothy Ball defamed him in an interview published by the Frontier [...]