The Climate Institute are responsible for this great video that is currently getting airplay on Australian television:
Some dinosaurs in Australian politics and business are blocking climate action that will grow the hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs we need now more than ever.
In a world turning to clean energy [...]
Hurricane season has started late this year. NOAA are issuing advisories on Hurricane Guillermo (Category 3) affecting the Pacific Baja Penninsula and heading towards Hawaii, and Tropical Storms Ana and Bill are heading straight towards the Dutch Antilles.
A few weeks ago we posted about how Australian Senator Fielding attempted to convince the Australian senate that global warming didn’t exist by questioning the link between global warming and CO2 using a few highly questionable graphs and cherry picked science (Fielding the hard questions? Not likely). Along with Bob Carter (who seems to [...]
So it’s that time of year again in the Caribbean where the corals undergo the annual mass spawn. Along with this ritual comes the coral researchers, who run a bunch of experiments with coral recruitment, settlement, fertilization, which involves catching coral sperm and eggs using nets (see above) and mixing it all up in [...]
Loch Ness Monster? Torpedo? US Navy installation? Apparently, this image captured by tourists off the Scottish coastline is a breaching basking shark (estimated at 3m in length!). More from Wikipedia:
The basking shark is one of the largest known sharks, second only to the whale shark. The largest specimen accurately measured was [...]
My UNC colleague Justin Ries and his collaborators just published a paper in Geology that offers an important new clue about the cause of the Cambrian explosion, the rapid radiation and appearance of new life forms on earth just over half a billion years ago. One theory has been that suddenly increased oxygen [...]
ABC News, 10th August 2009 – An international study has found that the economic cost of coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef would be $37.7 billion.
The Oxford Economics report, which values the reef at $51.4 billion, also found up to 50 per cent of tourists who would normally visit the [...]
From yesterday’s NYT:
Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security
By JOHN M. BRODER
Published: August 8, 2009
The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and [...]
There is a neat article (or “peer-reviewed letter”) in this months Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment about the carbon contribution of conservation ecologists’ airplane flights. Their point is that we fly too much and are clearly part of the problem. They also point out the obvious hypocrisy.
Science simply doesn’t have enough venn diagrams (who doesn’t love logical relationships?). Go see the rest of the graph competition over at Tamino’s blog.
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