The economic costs of ocean acidification and molluscs
Dr Selina Ward, University of Queensland, Jan 20, 2012 The literature on the effects of ocean acidification on the biology of marine organisms continues to grow and now covers a wide range of taxa, regions and ecosystems and is reaching the consciousness of the larger community. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal by [...] |
Oops – its real after all.
Global warming is real, according to a major study released today. Despite a issues raised by climate denialists, the Berkeley Earth’s Surface Temperatures study finds reliable evidence of a rise in the average world temperature of approximately 1°C since 1950. Professor Richard A Muller, who led the study, is UC Berkeley physicist, and long-time climate [...] |  |
Climate Scientist Wins A Round for America
Shawn Lawrence Otto, Huffington Post, 11/1/11 A hearing today has implications for academic freedom across the country. A Virginia judge grantedclimate scientist Michael Mann the right to intervene on his own behalf in a lawsuit filed by a climate change denial group seeking to get his private papers and emails from the [...] |  |
2011 Climate Change in Pictures and Data: Just the Facts
| I thought this summary of the latest climate facts at the end of 2011 is useful. Peter Gleick is a specialist in water and climate change, and is a MacArthur fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in the US. He reminds us here of the key facts of the climate issue, which [...] |  |
Wow – Christy’s Global Warming Skepticism is Evolving!
While some ecologists worry about whether or not life can evolve fast enough to keep up with the current rate of rapid anthropogenic climate change, another ‘evolutionary’ event is in progress. Prof John Abraham has updated a graph from a few years ago which shows an upward trend in climate skeptic Dr John [...] |  |
Pesticides and the Great Barrier Reef: Extensive new data and analysis and increased concerns (a note from Jon Brodie)
As a result of an extensive research and monitoring program funded by the Queensland and Australian Governments over the last 5 years a greatly better understanding of the risks to Great Barrier Reef ecosystems from pesticide residues is now available and in the process of being published in the scientific literature. Most of [...] |  |
Polite professional responses – from the experts.
I thought these responses to the BEST study from the leading experts are worth posting (comments collected by our friends at the UK Science Media Centre). A far cry from the response of ideologues such as Anthony Watts and Andrew Bolt: Prof Sir John Beddington, Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government, said: “Clearly this study [...] |  |
Cardinal Pell fails to practise what he preaches.
John Cook, ABC Religion and Ethics, Nov 17 2011 In a much publicised recent speech, Cardinal George Pell strongly endorsed the importance of evidence in public debate. He argues that “the debates about anthropogenic global warming can only be conducted by the accurate recognition and interpretation of scientific evidence.” It would be hard to [...] |  |
A new low for Arctic sea ice
AFP: September 11, 2011 PARIS — The area covered by Arctic sea ice reached it lowest point this week since the start of satellite observations in 1972, German researchers announced on Saturday. “The extent of the Arctic sea ice has reached on September 8, with 4.240 million square kilometres (1.637 million square miles), a new [...] |
The 2011 Climate B.S.* of the Year Awards
| Peter Gleick, Contributor CEO Pacific Institute, MacArthur Fellow, National Academy of Sciences + Follow on Forbes [*B.S. means “Bad Science.” What did you think it meant?] The Earth’s climate continued to change during 2011 – a year in which unprecedented combinations of extreme weather events killed people and damaged property [...] |  |
