I was chatting with a friend on Friday, about the various dynamical state variables, as opposed to external drivers, that might need to be incorporated into my new Theory of Climate Resilience. Ultimately, I want a quantitative model, that can test various hypotheses including that the tropical Pacific Ocean never gets particularly hot — never […]
Before climate science became 'settled science', there were various theories suggesting that because the amount of carbon dissolved in the Earth's oceans exceeds that in the atmosphere by about a factor of 60, the atmospheric CO₂ content is dictated by the chemical state of the oceans. (I'm thinking of the work of W.S.Broecker and others.) […]
I was looking up the value of debating the other day, apparently debating is good for us because it fosters critical thinking, persuasive communication, and the ability to analyse complex topics from multiple perspectives. It empowers individuals to articulate their thoughts clearly, defend their viewpoints, and challenge opposing ideas respectfully. Most everyone can tell me […]
Earlier in the week, Judge Alfred S. Irving Jr. in the Superior Court in Washington DC found in favour of Mark Steyn. Mark Steyn is one of my heroes in the fight for some integrity in historical temperature reconstructions. One of the main reasons we now have such unaffordable energy in the West is because […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
One of my interests is in understanding how and why the climate is so stable, for sure it has been over the last several thousand years. Where I live, on the Tropic of Capricorn, daily atmospheric temperatures may fluctuate by 20C, yet the seasonal variation in sea temperatures is less than 10C and if there […]
It is one of the best wreck dives in the world, arguably one of the top ten dive sites in the world – and yet we know so little about it. Who did the last inventory of the megafauna at the Yongala? When I was there earlier this year, on May 6th, 2024, I got […]
