Managing director of Ebono Institute and major sponsor of The Generator, Geoff Ebbs, is running against Kevin Rudd in the seat of Griffith at the next Federal election. By the expression on their faces in this candid shot it looks like a pretty dull campaign. Read on
Flooding worst threat facing UK Published January 27, 2012 | By John James Flooding rated as worst climate change threat facing UK Flooding is the greatest threat to the UK posed by climate change, with up to 3.6 million people at risk by the middle of the century, according to a report published on Thursday Continue Reading →
Teetering on a tipping point: dangerous climate change in the Arctic Published February 7, 2012 | By John James If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! We are seeing the first signs of dangerous climate change in the Arctic. This is our warning that humanity is Continue Reading →
EU nuclear waste disposal plans ‘not safe’ claim scientists Emily Shelton 16th September 2010 Experts warn EU proposals for deep geological disposal of radioactive waste have ‘serious potential for something to go badly wrong’ There are ‘serious flaws’ in the advice being given to EU ministers on disposing of nuclear waste deep underground, scientists have Continue Reading →
If you read RL Miller’s post on “climate zombies” you know that open climate denialism is back in vogue in the GOP. However muted denialism may have gotten in the late 2000s, it has come roaring back — like everything reactionary — with the economic downturn. This is from Gallup:
For the most part the American public’s feelings on climate change are shallow, sloshing around with the economic and political tides. When people are feeling safer and more prosperous, climate scientists will magically become more persuasive.
As for the professional skeptics and culture warriors, there’s little point hashing out the same arguments with them again and again. I have long since abandoned it. Many people do it well and G*d bless them but I’ve had my fill of sunspots and medieval warming periods and Pacific Decadal Oscillations. Ideological trench warfare is wearisome and there are many other issues in dire need of attention, principally how we’re going to respond to climate change. That’s a conversation that engages people outside the armed camps.
The Pentagon’s Strategy is Full Spectrum Dominance, from Asia to Africa Mikhail Gorbachev, 2009: “Unless we prevent weaponization of outer space, all talk about a nuclear-weapon-free world will be inconsequential rhetoric.” I recommend a careful and full reading of the following. It will take no more than 5 minutes, but will change your perspective. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39516.htm Continue Reading →
Upper atmosphere shrinking say scientists
THE upper reaches of Earth’s atmosphere are unexpectedly shrinking and cooling due to lower ultraviolet radiation from the sun, US scientists say.
The sun’s energy output dropped to unusually low levels from 2007 to 2009, a significantly long spell with virtually no sunspots or solar storms, according to scientists from the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
During that period, the thermosphere, whose altitude ranges from about 90-500km, shrank and contracted from the sharp drop in ultraviolet radiation, said the study published in the American Geophysical Union’s journal Geophysical Research Letters.
The thermosphere cooled by 41 Celsius in 2008 compared to 1996, and shrank by 30 per cent, “more than at any time in the 43-year era of space exploration” the researchers said.