Jennifer Marohasy

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Archives for September 6, 2009

Not Evil Just Wrong

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HOLLYWOOD loves a movie full of dire predictions about the end of the Earth.   Of course global warming has been all the rage with Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth winning an Oscar.  Although I did prefer The Day After Tomorrow in which a climatologist, played by Dennis Quad, tried to save his son in New York from an ice age.

There is a new movie due for release on October 18, Not Evil Just Wrong, which explores society’s interest in Armageddon-type scenarios with a particular focus on the cost, and potential costs, of the policies following concerns about DDT and AGW [anthropogenic global warming].

I was lucky enough to be given a sneak preview of the feature length documentary by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney last week.   [Read more…] about Not Evil Just Wrong

IPCC Climate Modeller: World Might Cool

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Mojib Latif predicts that in the next few years a natural cooling trend will dominate because of cyclical changes to ocean currents and temperatures in the North Atlantic, a feature known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). He told 1,500 climate scientists in Geneve recently: we could be about to enter one or even two decades during which temperatures cool. Read more here.