WE live in a world in which we are constantly bombarded with the results of surveys about attitudes to political, social and economic issues of the day. Even the Australian Statistician undertakes surveys that produce subjective data that has potential implications for government policies. Read more here.
Climate & Climate Change
Local Level Climate Projections
Up until now, most projections have been at a sub-continental level – giving information at a regional level in squares of 300km on a side. Defra’s projections are among the first in the world to give information at a local level – to the scale of large cities of 25km square and, in some cases, projecting weather patterns to a village scale of 5km square. Read more here.
Mutant Climate Debate
Synthesis Report from Copenhagen March 2009, Now available
http://climatecongress.ku.dk/ downloads & videos here
Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC)
http://www.nipccreport.org
Global Politics is being Influenced by Climate Contrarians
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25661632-5013457,00.html
More on Meeting with Australian Climate Change Minister
I am certain that we were interrupted many, many more times than we interrupted. Often you could do more than acknowledge the last point when they interrupted you just as you started to make your own point. Read more here from David Evans:
In Defence of ‘Heaven and Earth’ (Part 2)
DON Aitkin, a former member of the Australian Science and Technology Council and Foundation Chairman of the Australian Research Council, wrote to Kurt Lambeck, President of the Australian Academy of Sciences, concerning his public criticism of Ian Plimer’s new book Heaven and Earth. Professor Aitkin waited ten days for a response, and, in its absence, has decided to release his letter more widely.
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Fielding the Hard Questions on Climate Change (Part 4)
STEVE Fielding recently attended a climate change conference in Washington, DC. Listening to the papers presented, the Family First senator became puzzled that the scientific analyses they provided directly contradicted the reasons the Australian government had been giving as the justification for its emissions trading legislation.
Fielding heard leading atmospheric physicist Dick Lindzen, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, describe evidence that the warming effect of carbon dioxide was much overestimated by computer climate models and remark: “What we see, then, is that the very foundation of the issue of global warming is wrong.
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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.