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 [...]
Provocative author and scholar Clive Hamilton will discuss why facing up to Climate Change is “Just too Hard” in a public lecture this month hosted by the newly established Global Change Institute at The University of Queensland.
There have been any number of urgent scientific reports in recent years emphasising just how dire the [...]
Dr Peter Gleick writes in the San Francisco Chronicle:
Here is the best argument against global warming:
. . . .
Oh, right. There isn’t one.
There is no good argument against global warming. In all the brouhaha about tiny errors recently found in the massive IPCC report, the posturing by [...]
Daily Telegraph, 15th March 2010
AUSTRALIA’S leading scientists have hit back at climate change sceptics, accusing them of creating a “smokescreen of denial”.
The CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology will today release a State of the Climate document, a snapshot of Australia’s climate data and trend predictions.
The [...]
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have joined forces to produce an effective and simple snapshot of how our climate is changing. See below for a summary, or download the entire document here. As a key document released by Australia’s two lead climate science agences, [...]
This looks pretty cool. I’d love the view from the kitchen. And there is great watersports potential (open ocean kiteboarding!). But having lived at sea on large ships and underwater in the NOAA Aquarius Habitat, I can attest that though very cool, it isn’t the most comfortable experience (think wet, cold, bad food, rough, [...]
Juan Cole, a professor of history at the University of Michigan, Middle East expert and high profile blogger has a piece on his site about whether and how scientists should engage environmental skeptics, in particular AGW deniers. His perspective is that we should and that it can be effective if done right but that [...]
Ecologists and environmentalism
Donald R Strong (2008) Ecologists and environmentalism. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: Vol. 6, No. 7, pp. 347-347.
Environmentalism needs serious discussion by ecologists. I was primed on this topic by recent statements made by colleagues to the effect that, “I’m no environmentalist, but… (insert an eminently reasonable environmentalist proposition of [...]
I read James Hanson’s first book on climate change (“Storms of my Grandchildren” ) over the Christmas break. It is a engaging book which quietly outlines the essential facts for why one of the world’s leading planetary scientists feels we are headed for planetary disaster. Phillip Adams does an [...]
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