IT is my prediction that in not so many years time weather station data will be collected more for fun, a sense of history and for site-specific information, than for serious regional and global climate statistics. In the future it will be data from satellites that is recognised as much more reliable for understanding regional and global temperature trends. [Read more…] about Temperature Data from Satellites: Inconvenient but Accurate
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Coal for Breakfast?
Starting with an average grain yield of 3.75 tonnes hectare and a realistic average price of $220 per tonne, a Haystack farm will produce $497,775 from each hectare in a hundred years, which is the life expectancy of a child born today.
This allows for a modest 3% increase p.a. for combined yield advantage and price increase. Haystack yields are currently increasing at 2% p.a. due to improved genetics and farming technology, and with predictions that we will run out of food long before we run out of energy, 1% for natural price increase is modest.
This amount of wheat makes $10,774,349 worth of bread at $2 per loaf from every hectare over a child’s life expectancy. Real figures!
Talk about kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
How can a Mining Licence be in anyone’s best interest?
Food4Naught
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=669lsVI4Zrc
Website: www.coal4breakfast.com.
No ‘IPCC’ For Biodiversity
Plans for a scientific panel on biodiversity, similar to a Nobel-winning group on climate change, have been knocked back by representatives of 80 countries at UN-sponsored talks. Read more here.
Industries Prepare to Abandon Australia
There is increasing anger in Australia over plans for an emissions trading scheme with State governments urging changes to the proposed formulas for compensating export industries to ensure they are not pushed offshore. Read more here.
Did Napoleon Use Hansen’s Temperature Data?
Following a blunder at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Steve McIntyre, at the Climate Audit blog, has reminded James Hansen, from NASA, that its colder in Russia in October than in September, as Napoleon found out to his cost in 1812. Read more here .
Tasmanian Timbers
Hi folks,
the Fine Timbers Tasmania inc. Chain of Custody has been officially launched earlier today. The website is up and running, and the roll-out of the program is beginning…
Visit the website at www.chainofcustody.com.au
cheers, George
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.