The Bloodwood Tree

The US Supreme Court ruled last week that there should be no limits to how much money a corporation is allowed to give in “donations” to politicians. When something controversial is being decided (eg climate change legislation, rules around whether the US should sell weapons to a country that tortures people etc), companies are now […]

If ever you doubted it, the Copenhagen meeting has given a pretty clear picture of what human nature is really about.
The G77 body represents the world’s developing nations - the majority world that don’t have the option of turning on air conditioners, buying new cars when they don’t like the style of the one they […]

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a body made up of representatives from 166 different nations to rule out political bias. The 152 lead authors and 650 reviewers include experts with all sorts of personal opinions for and against climate change but all bound by the one rule - they can only say what […]

I have been encouraged by a recent interaction with two scientists from “Creation Ministries International”. CMI recently published an article called “God’s Global Warming worked just fine“, where Russ Humphreys attempted to “debunk some myths” about Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW - the idea that the climate is warming and humans have caused it).
It’s a noble idea and […]

Family First Senator Steve Fielding has posted the questions he put to Penny Wong on Climate Change recently, I’ve had a look at them and posted my analysis here. I’ve tried to keep it simple but be warned, there’s a bit to it. Unfortunately this is the stuff we have to learn if we want […]

Family First Senator Steve Fielding has made himself the obstacle that stands in the way of Australia’s emissions trading scheme and our (albeit very weak) efforts at reducing climate change.
In the name of finding out the facts, Mr Fielding recently visited Professor Ian Plimer, who has just published his work “Heaven and Earth” - a […]

In preparation for this December’s global Climate Change summit in Copenhagen, the University of Copenhagen has produced a synthesis report (http://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/files/synthesis-report-web.pdf) on what new evidence has come to light since the last IPCC report. Many points have not changed, but unfortunately what change we have is not good..
A few points stood out to me:
1) Globally, […]

“One warning sign that a dangerous warming is beginning in Antarctica, will be a breakup of ice shelves in the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the recent January 0C isotherm; the ice shelf in the Prince Gustav Channel on the east side of the peninsula, and the Wordie Ice Shelf; the ice shelf in George […]

January and February of 2009 have seen new records in extreme temperatures for South Eastern Australia. These temperatures combined with the dwindling rainfall totals have been hitting the trees hard - dying trees are becoming a more frequent part of the landscape. None of this should come as a surprise, we’ve been warned of it […]

Pacific island nations have taken the significant step of calling on the UN Security Council to address climate change as an issue of international peace and security - something security experts such as Thomas Homer-Dixon from the University of Toronto have been warning us of for at least 15 years.
While some have perhaps naively suggested […]