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…]
September 29, 2011
The Advertiser front page today: Retrovirus threatens Kangaroo Island koalas The survival of Kangaroo Island’s koalas in is grave danger because of an AIDS-like virus affecting 40% of the population. Experts say the disease has the potential to impact koalas in a similar way to how mouth cancer is wiping out Tasmanian devils. The Environment… [Read more…]
August 16, 2011
I was going to write a quick straightforward post on this ABC news report quoting a survey commissioned by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), taking advantage of the general superiority we all like to feel when we read that people believe that light sabres are real, dinosaurs and humans co-existed, and the… [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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