HOLOCENE COOLING, ANTHROPOCENE WARMING? March 10, 2013
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In recent days a study has been publishing suggesting that over the past 11,300 years the mean surface temperature has been showing cooling trend, until the hundred years or so.
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HOTTEST SUMMER ON RECORD! March 1, 2013
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The judgement is sources to the Bureau of Meteorology. So I suppose, allowing for the inevitable conspiracy theorists, I will take their word for it. Of course, now we are in Autumn, at least in terms of the calendar, the risk of bush fires is, if not over, reduced. Can there now be too much rain? All I know is that it was badly needed.
SO IT IS CLIMATE CHANGE THEN? January 10, 2013
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Let’s get conspiratorial. The recent hot weather, with resultant bush fires, is due to climate change.
STORM WITHOUT SIGNIFICANCE? November 4, 2012
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Even though the Super Storm hit last week, and its impact is still being experienced as it will be for some time, the modus operandi of the news cycle is to move on.
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RESEARCHING TREE RINGS August 20, 2012
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Tree ring research predates the amplified voice of climate change denial by decades. Like any observations there are doubtless variations.
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WHAT [CLIMATE] DEBATE? June 11, 2012
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I am not following Australian politics because it has been reduced to a Punch and Judy show. It is remarkable how policy issues and concerns get buried.
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PLANET WRECKING June 5, 2012
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Politicians, who hold relevant portfolio’s in relation to climate change continue to voice scepticism about the findings of the climate science.
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COUNTER-INTUITIVE CLOUD TALK May 28, 2012
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I would have guessed the more clouds the less warming, but the scientific evidence suggests otherwise. So climate science is not only important but interesting.
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FLOODING IN NEPAL May 7, 2012
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The floods that occurred in Western Nepal have described as the worst flooding in living memory.
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THE CLIMATE AIN’T WARMING? April 30, 2012
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Three days after the program was aired on ABC television I caught up with the program featuring Nick Minchin and Anna Rose.
THE OLD AND THE NEW April 16, 2012
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Bob Browns resignation as Greens leader surprised me. His replacement, fellow Tasmanian, Christine Milne, who similarly is an alumni of the State Legislative Assembly anticipates a tipping point between the old and the new economy.
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GLOBAL PARALYSIS ON CLIMATE March 20, 2012
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As far as I can tell, time and time again, the problem is not the data but it is the political paralysis. Delay in taken effective, concerted global action adds to the problems of climate change.
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CLIMATE SLEEP WALKING February 22, 2012
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At Common Dreams, John Acherson, argues that the ” United States is headed towards a dystopic plutocracy”. The reason, he says, is because ”the country is running on lies, myths, deceptions and distractions” So what is new and what is different?
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SEEKING EARTH (2.0) February 17, 2012
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The search to extrasolar planets has been extraordinarily successful. Now it seems this search will have to be aborted because of budgetary restrictions.
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MELTING GLACIERS February 13, 2012
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The danger posed to the global habitat by posed by human-induced climate change is real, but the political response is not in proportion.
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LA NINA AND RAIN February 12, 2012
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Over the last weeks, almost every day it has rained. Sunny days without rain have been rare. The positive side to these circumstances is that there have not been bushfires and the water storages are relatively full.
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ERUPTIONS ON THE SUN January 25, 2012
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Complacency may be due to ignorance, although in this instance there is said to be no cause for concern from the solar storm that the sun has just experienced.
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NELSON FLOODS AND MUDSLIDES December 23, 2011
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The rainstorm that last week hit the New Zealand city of Nelson, the 9th largest urban area in the country, was the heaviest ever to hit such a populated area. Civil Defence operations controller, Jim Frater, was quoted in the Nelson Mail as saying:
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