Journalist Greg Roberts at Australia’s national daily newspaper has started asking the Australian Bureau of Meteorology some hard questions – and now he is even asking to see the actual temperature data for Antarctica. Bravo Mr Roberts! Read more here.
Archives for May 3, 2009
Defining the Greens (Part 7)
GREENPEACE is a large global corporation broadly committed to ‘saving the environment’. Greenpeace is currently focused on influencing the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December on the basis that this represents “the best chance we have of reversing current emissions trends in time to prevent the climate chaos that we are hurtling towards”.
Greenpeace has called on governments gathering in Copenhagen for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to agree to legally binding emissions reduction obligations for industrialised countries, as a group, of at least 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. But Greenpeace demands that this be achieved with the exclusion of what it deems unsustainable technologies in particular nuclear energy.
Swine Flu and ‘Factory Farming’
The first known case of the current swine flu pandemic occurred amid a highly unusual outbreak of contagious respiratory ailments near a large factory hog farm in Mexico; and the public-health community had been warning for years that hog farms posed just such a threat. Read more here.
Obama’s Hurricane Warning
During a town hall meeting prior to his primetime press conference Wednesday, President Obama offered a dire global weather forecast to mark his 100th day in office. Read more here.
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.