Forget drugs, extortion or prostitution. If the makers of the Underbelly TV series are looking for new worlds of organised crime, they need look no further than Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s policy to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Read more here.
Archives for July 17, 2009
Giant Squid!
Australian PM Blogging?
Welcome to the Australian Prime Minister’s new blog. A first topic for discussion is climate change. Visit here.
Solar Cycle Link to Global Climate: Now Something Official
THERE is nothing new about claims of a link between solar cycles and global climate. But now there is research which has been peer-reviewed and published somewhere reputable. Also, the work was by scientists at the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. According to yesterday’s press release it shows that maximum solar activity and its aftermath have impacts on Earth that resemble La Niña and El Niño events in the tropical Pacific Ocean. This is what they say:
“THE research may pave the way toward predictions of temperature and precipitation patterns at certain times during the approximately 11-year solar cycle.
“These results are striking in that they point to a scientifically feasible series of events that link the 11-year solar cycle with ENSO, the tropical Pacific phenomenon that so strongly influences climate variability around the world,” says Jay Fein, program director in NSF’s Division of Atmospheric Sciences. “The next step is to confirm or dispute these intriguing model results with observational data analyses and targeted new observations.”
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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.