Hey Jennifer,
I read your post today mentioning the polls for the 2008 Weblog Awards. I recently wrote a feature length PBS article about the blog awards and got a chance to interview the administrator of the award and several of the nominees:
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/01/can-blog-awards-identify-quality-online-content012.html
Anyway, I thought this was something you and your readers would find interesting.
take care,
Simon
In the same way as the full moon is supposed to cause a rise in lunatic acts, I hate hot days because it brings out the AGW fringe. Art Raiche, Sydney
HAVE you ever wondered what happens when corals grow so tall they are above sea level or whether the Great Barrier Reef could extend its range further south with global warming?
If you are curious you will probably enjoy and learn much from a new 81-page report by Craig D. Idso on global warming and coral reefs [1].
The report doesn’t come to any quick conclusions, but rather, in plain English, explains how corals grow, how they can change and adapt following “coral bleaching” and why it is important to consider real-world observations rather than theoretical predictions.
[Read more…] about New Report on Corals and Carbon for the Curious
THE Gaia hypothesis first proposed by British scientist James Lovelock – the notion that all living things are interlinked as a single self-regulating body – is popular with some scientists and accords with the idea that because human activity has changed the chemical composition of the atmosphere we are likely to be interfering with the climate and upsetting the balance of nature.
Paleontologist, Peter Ward, rejects the notion of Gaia, and is running a contrarian but equally hubris argument in his new book, ‘The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?’ [1]. Professor Ward suggests because there is no balance of nature mankind will needs to intervene and thus advocates geoengineering solutions including to climate change.
I SUBSCRIBE to a magazine called Quadrant. It comes out every couple of months and often includes interesting articles by well-known Australian conservatives, libertarians and mavericks on a range of topics from dinning in New York to global warming and it is the only magazine I read that includes pages of poetry.
When I first took out my subscription to the magazine it was edited by a fellow called Paddy McGuinness – a Veteran Sydney journalist who apparently once worked for a Russian bank in London and for many years was editor of the Australian Financial Review. In an interview before his death last year, Paddy said that he had been able “to ‘re-establish’ Quadrant as a ‘sceptical and non-ideological’ journal in the conservative spirit of Samuel Johnson, the literary colossus of 18th century England.”
[Read more…] about Magazine Duped by anti-GM Activist – A Case of More of the Same
Dear Jennifer,
Prof Paul Reiter has just informed me of a recently published article of his in Malaria Journal that may be of interest to you.
The article is based on the chapter he wrote for the Civil Society Report on Climate Change.
It is freely available at http://www.malariajournal.com/content/7/S1/S3.
I would especially recommend reading the ‘Review’ section where Paul Reiter dissects the existing alarmist literature on vector-borne diseases and global warming (what is really a tiny group of individuals who self-reference each other to uphold unjustifiable claims).
Caroline Boin
International Policy Network
www.policynetwork.net
www.sdnetwork.net
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Paul Reiter, 2008, Global warming and malaria: knowing the horse before hitching the cart, Malaria Journal 2008, 7(Suppl 1):S3doi:10.1186/1475-2875-7-S1-S3
http://www.malariajournal.com/content/7/S1/S3
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.
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