Much confusion and spin infects current public discussion of “peer reviewed” research: first we had Maurice Newman, the Chairman of the ABC, who suggested that “distinguished scientists” challenge the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change by “peer reviewed research”, although he oddly failed to name such research.
Now [...]
Dobu Island in Papua New Guinea has active underwater fumaroles (Jennifer Marohasy posted on it a few years back) that seep high concentrations of CO2 into the environment, in turn acidifying the surrounding ocean. These vents have been active for at least 50 years: according to village elders these seeps have existed at that [...]
Fiona Harvey, Environment correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 29 May 2011 22.00 BST
Economic recession has failed to curb rising emissions, undermining hope of keeping global warming to safe levels Photograph: Dave Reede/All Canada Photos/Corbis
Greenhouse gas emissions increased by a record amount last year, to the highest carbon output in history, putting [...]
Update: Andrew Bolt is at it again. Either he doesn’t understand the science or he is wilfully distorting the information surrounding the impact of climate change on coral reefs.
See also this previous posting (Bolt gets it wrong again) and this post on record mass coral bleaching occurring right now off Western Australia.
Update: this piece was first published [...]
Contribution by Dr Chris McGrath
A useful update on climate science relevant to the Australian policy debate was released today by the Climate Commission, authored by Professor Will Steffen, Executive Director of the Climate Change Institute at the Australian National University, Canberra.
The report is titled, “The Critical Decade: [...]
After all the misinformation bad reporting from The Australian (Summer of disaster ‘not climate change’: Rajendra Pachauri), here is a more accurate piece about what Dr Rayendra Pachauri actually said when visiting Australia this week.
By Tom Arup, The Age
May 17, 2011
SCIENTIFIC evidence linking climate change to the intensity and [...]
USA Today: Evidence of plagiarism and complaints about the peer-review process have led a statistics journal to retract a federally funded study that condemned scientific support for global warming
May 16, 2011
Climate science is a solid edifice built around the work of thousands of scientists, vast amounts of data, and countless peer-reviewed [...]
By Prof Stephan Lewandowsky, Australian Professorial Fellow, Cognitive Science Laboratories at University of Western Australia
Reposted from The Conversation (May 16 2011)
Quick, consider the following: all polar bears are animals. Some animals are white.
Therefore, some polar bears are white. Is this conclusion logically implied or not?
There is a 75% chance you [...]
An interesting post at Think Progress By Lee Fang on May 11th, 2011.
Corporate takeover of academic freedom! You would have to conclude that Florida State University President Eric J. Barron needs to do a little deep thinking about what his institute stands for. He wouldn’t want to end up as the president of Florida State [...]
Seems that the money is running away from Channel 10′s newest show, The Bolt Report … wonder why? 11 May 2011
A group of advertisers have pulled spots from Network Ten’s The Bolt Report as a Facebook campaign urging advertisers to boycott the show attracts growing support.
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