I’ve been arguing with my husband. Not about anything important. Just about science, and in particular theories of climate change. He agrees with Dennis Armstrong who wrote me, “We are not aware that there is a current theory of human induced climate change. There are assertions that the burning fossil fuels by humans generates CO2 […]
When it comes to extreme weather, cyclones are top of my list. The most extreme cyclone to hit Queensland, Tropical Cyclone Mahina, was arguably the world’s most intense with a central pressure recorded at 880 hectopascals, a 12-metre storm surge, and 300 kilometre per hour winds. It was named, by Queensland government meteorologist, Clement Wragge. […]
I have started a new series ‘Towards a New Theory of Climate Change’ that I am thinking of renaming 'The New Theory of Climate Resilience'. The series is an excuse for interviewing clever scientists. Today’s guest is Prof Ivan Kennedy from Sydney University. We have been chatting for about 10 years, but it’s Ivan’s most […]
Until I was sent away to boarding school, I would be about the farm usually a few paces behind my father. And I remember Noel Shipp, he would interrupt whatever he was doing to yarn with Dad. I would listen. Noel was a diesel mechanic, self-taught. He was also a tractor driver, and he could build […]
They are successfully creating a story that is unifying the conservative message on a range of issues, I am referring to the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship that will be meeting in London this week. They include so many influential politicians even Mike Johnson the 56th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Donald Trump mentioned […]
It could be that all the extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere – the steady increase year on year, reported since 1958, despite all the airplanes grounded through covid it kept on increasing – is a consequence of the oceans breathing out a bit more, and nothing to do with you and me. The amount […]
In his inauguration speech, on becoming the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump stated very categorically that there are only two genders: male and female. In making this statement, he seemed to have no problems offending the transgender community. Trump made no such bold, or counter cultural pronouncements about climate change. He avoided […]
Cinders are the black pieces that are left after something such as wood or coal has burned away. People can also burn. There was a terrible bushfire in southeastern Australia on 6 February 1851. Quoting from the National Museum of Australia: In the hills west of Geelong, a man helping fight a fire disappeared. His […]
I have a grandson; not quite six weeks old. I have been telling him – his name is River Jude – I have been telling Jude true stories about the Great Barrier Reef. I have told him that the corals across the bay from where we live in Yeppoon, that these corals in Keppel Bay […]
