My husband, John Abbot, has kept going with research into AI and climate forecasting. One of his most important recent papers can be downloaded from Earth Sciences. Some of the latest Nobel prizes in science, including in chemistry, have been for developments in artificial intelligence (AI). Of course, John Abbot and I began working […]
In May 1992, and again in March and April 1993, the Royal Australian Navy, specifically HMAS Tarakan, was involved in the translocation of tens of thousands of clams as part of Operation CLAMSAVER. The clams were moved from a successful breeding program at Orpheus Island to various locations on the Great Barrier Reef, including to […]
It is a magical time, just before the Sun comes up each day – especially outside with a view to the horizon. Two days ago, on Wednesday morning, I was at the Cairns foreshore just on sunrise. This mudflat is home to a great diversity of migratory birds, including the Eastern Curlew that travels back […]
Before the advent of computer simulation modelling and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the past record of climate change was assembled from a variety of different types of evidence including chronicles, grain price records, radiocarbon dating, pollen analysis and vegetation history, tree rings, ocean bed deposits as well, of course, as meteorological instrument […]
This year the Australian Bureau of Meteorology waited until after close of business on Friday 6th January 2023 to release the official climate statistics for 2022. After claims of unprecedented extreme rainfall all year, the statistics must be disappointing for those animated by the idea of a climate catastrophe: Nationally averaged rainfall was [just] 25% […]
To the extent that it is possible for any human endeavour to be so, science is value-free. Science is a way of attempting to understand the world in which we live from a rational point of view, based on observation, experiment and tested theory. Irritatingly, especially for governments, science does not operate by consensus and […]
After years of dithering here in Australia, we have finally chosen a government that ‘will act on climate change’. So said Penny Wong as she welcomed the new prime minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, to the stage last night. I would argue it is mass delusion to suggest that we can change the climate – […]
I live by the sea and like walking along the coastline including scrambling over the rock ledges in Noosa National Park. All the way from Noosa to Sydney it is possible to find wave-cut platforms etched out of the sandstone towards the bottom of the cliff faces. The sandstone is very old, thought to date […]
Journalist Clarissa Bye from the Daily Telegraph has done a really good job of summarizing my concerns and recommendations for better bushfire management across Australia. The article entitled 'Burning Question on Fires and Climate Link' has been republished in so many of the News Ltd regional papers including The Frazer Coast Chronicle and The Byron […]
