With particular apologies to Andrew Barton ‘Banjo’ Paterson I HAD written him a letter which I had, for want of better Knowledge, sent to where I met him on the Murray, years ago, He was boating when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him, Just on spec, addressed as follows, “Flannery, of […]

You have probably missed it because the mainstream media hasn’t been reporting it much, but climate science just got a little less settled. A key component in the climate, and in climate models, is cloud formation, but according to results just published in Nature, much of what we thought we knew about cloud formation is […]

Crikey Weekender asks what is the future for local product. You’re a TV executive under pressure from shareholders. You could produce a local drama, commissioning Australian stories and putting local industry to work, at well more than $1 million a week. Or you could air an episode of Two and a Half Men, at less […]

These past few months of travel have sometimes felt like a tour of wars, both long ago and more recent. It is possible for individuals to learn about history, but do societies ever change? It is tempting to say ‘yes’, after being part of the cheerful crowd welcoming the Tour de France into Paris, and […]

The government might call Tony Abbott “Dr No”, but the evidence suggests he is sometimes too ready to say “Yes” and that this is a fault he shares with some of his state colleagues. Take his recent misstep over coal seam gas. Talking to Alan Jones Abbott said that he would give landowners the right […]

According to new research, increase in CO2 emissions are more dependant on global temperature and soil moisture than what we burn in our industrial world. Not what you are likely to hear from the government. CO2 is not in the driving seat, it is in the back seat. Speaking at a seminar held by the […]

I haven’t seen it reported in the mainstream of the Australian media yet, but two very recent high level scientific experiments, and their results, show just how unsettled climate science really is. An experiment at CERN into a theory of Henry Svensmark and a paper published by Roy Spencer in MDPI (peer reviewed for those […]

Will closing Tassie wood pulp mill endanger Sumatran tiger? Well it’s at least as plausible as the claim made by Greenpeace that IGA is endangering the tiger because it buys toilet paper from Asia Pulp and Paper which logs in Sumatra. If pulp milling stops in Tasmania, demand for pulp won’t go away, and the […]

Writing for that right-wing blog The Australian Caroline Overington refers to On Line Opinion as a “lefty blog”: THE campaign by those affiliated with the ABC to prevent SkyNews from winning the $220 million licence to run Australia Network continues. This week’s contribution comes from one Tania Penovic, who has written an essay for the lefty […]

Here’s another hockey stick graph. Interesting to compare it to the Michael Mann Hockey Stick that Al Gore used so effectively.     Gore’s Hockey Stick uses just the last five percent of this gr aph and makes you think that the temperature is about to explode. This graph shows some quite different things. First, […]