Clare Fieseler is a Master of Environmental Management candidate at the Nicholas School of Environment at Duke University. She received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University with a concentration in Environment. At Georgetown, Clare first began her interest in marine life while working as a research assistant for marine [...]
A new study published in Science this week (Dorale et al 2010) indicates sea level can rise extremely quickly, as fast as “Twenty meters per thousand years [which] equates to one meter of sea level change in a 50-year period,” according to lead author Jeffrey Dorale, an assistant professor of geoscience at the University [...]
There is a great new must read article at RealClimate outlining and analyzing all those errors in the IPCC AR4 report you keep hearing about. Check it our here.
Currently, a few errors –and supposed errors– in the last IPCC report (“AR4″) are making the media rounds – together with a lot of distortion [...]
AIMS has issued an easy to read white paper on its home page, outlining its major findings related to coral reefs and climate change. This was apparently added on Dec 19, 2009 the same day as Jamie Walker’s “How the reef became blue again” piece in The Australian. Coincidence? I’ll excerpt [...]
The Australian recently published a letter from AIMS CEO Dr. Ian Poiner (only online as far as I can tell) written in response to Jamie Walker’s reef wipeout story. See our coverage of this debacle here, here and here.
This year the Australian Institute of Marine Science has observed that [...]
In the deep ocean, the pressure is much higher than on the surface. In order to illustrate this, researchers onboard RV G.O. Sars put a coffee cup into the trawl and brought it down to 2300 meters depth…
Not sure I agree with this strategy or in the science behind it, but I heard this was coming. The EPA is considering whether to list 82 new coral species in US Waters as threatened or endangered. Acropora palmata and Acropora cervicornis were listed as vulnerable under the Endangered Species Act in May 2006.
From the [...]
Amen. That is precisely how I feel. Overwhelmed and outgunned. Still, this great editorial by veteran ABC producer and reporter Jonathan Holmes of Media Watch is uplifting. The only thing I think he got wrong was to suggest Andrew Bolt “knows far more about the science than most other journalists, environment reporters included”. Bolt [...]
Articles from Peter Ridd of James Cook University in newspapers and on blog sites and letters to the editor supporting his position (e.g. Tom Darlington, 9 February 2010 in the Townsville Bulletin) claim there is no scientific evidence agricultural pollution is damaging the Great Barrier Reef. As well, claims are made that there is a [...]
Although you’d think so given how frequently he is quoted in the Australian media, almost exclusivly in stories arguing that the GBR is in “bloody brilliant shape” and that climate change, sediment pollution, and ocean acidification are not threats to the reef’s future.
For example, in Jamie Walker’s piece last December on “How the [...]
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