With the climategate ‘scandal’ over and done with, it seems like we’ll never figure out who was responsible for the email hack at CRU. Oh wait, it was Russian secret service. Intrigued? Read the article below… oddly enough, published by the usually pretty reputable New Scientist and quoting Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, the [...]
Here’s a great article by the ABC News quoting David Wachenfeld (the Chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority) that places the recent ship grounding on the Great Barrier Reef in perspective:
Oil not the main threat from the coal ship (ABC News, 6th April)
“From my point of [...]
Here’s an interesting one. A commentor on Reddit posted the above photos (titled ‘My god, it’s a monster‘) along with the following text:
“I work for a Sub-sea Survey Company, recently this beast came up attached to one of our ROVs. It measures a [...]
The results are out, and the recent British Parliamentary enquiry into the CRU email leak found no evidence
The Commons Science and Technology Committee criticised UEA authorities for failing to respond to requests for data from climate change sceptics.
But it found no evidence Professor Phil Jones, whose e-mails were hacked and published [...]
According to James Lovelock, anyhow:
“I don’t think we’re yet evolved to the point where we’re clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change,” said Lovelock in his first in-depth interview since the theft of the UEA emails last November. “The inertia of humans is so huge that you can’t [...]
The best 8 minutes you’ll spend this week (well, at work anyhow…)
The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of [...]
Here’s an interesting one: Hawaiian scientists discover a terrestrial caterpillar (that eats tree snails) has an innate ability to survive underwater for weeks at a time. It seems that this isn’t a survival mechanism (just in case they fell out of a tree and into a stream whilst munching on tree snails), but [...]
Ove is presenting at the Universities Australia National Policy Forum tomorrow at Parliment House, Canberra, along with Dr Blair Trewin, Professor Roger Jones, Professor John Quiggin and quite a few other leading authorities on climate change. The forum is being webcast to journalists, so hopefully we will be able to put [...]
WEATHER Bureau forecasters predict Cyclone Ului will turn south today, tracking parallel with the Queensland coast.
But the US Joint Typhoon Warning Centre has the cyclone easing and veering towards the coast in an area between Fraser Island and Airlie Beach on Friday.
Ului was situated south of the Solomon Islands [...]
Here is the slightly haunting underwater gallery of statues in Cancun, Mexico (courtesy of the Isla Mujeres Underwater Art Museum – more pictures here)
And finally, here’s a great use for what is probably the last Elkhorn fire coral left in Mexico (thanks Pim!):
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