Recently the Australian Environment Foundation had extensive media coverage of their “scientific report” titled “Plugging The Murray River’s Mouth: the Interrupted Evolution of a Barrier Estuary”. What vibe do you get from the name “Australian Environment Foundation”? Do you feel like hugging an old-growth forest, or chaining yourself to an endangered lesser spotted swamp frog? ABC… [Read more…]
October 6, 2011
Check out the full post about the supremacy and necessity of science on ABC’s The Drum: …. But the white heat of the climate change debate has brought not just climate scientists, but science itself in for public questioning. So it is worth restating a simple and unambiguous fact. There is one and only one… [Read more…]
June 5, 2011
So this is what the ‘debate’ has degenerated to – even here in Australia climate scientists are receiving death threats. Death threat campaigns against scientists are something I naively tend to associate with other countries, such as the letter bombs sent by animal rights extremists in the UK. More than 30 Australian researchers have reported… [Read more…]
May 12, 2011
I’m A Climate Scientist It’s not going to win music video of the year, but Hungry Beast make an excellent point – the absence of climate scientists from the conversation about climate change. I loved the point of their “I’m not a climate scientist” montage at the start. Why have the real climate scientists disappeared… [Read more…]
April 8, 2012
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