Killer Greenhouse Effect (or Pardon my Anoxia): A Note from Luke
Luke Walker reminds us that geological history includes evidence of mass extinctions from “killer greenhouse conditions”: “Readers of this blog are often witness to accusations of alarmism by those...
View ArticleThe Language of Climate Change: A Note from Luke Walker
Last night Australia’s “premier television current affairs program” Four Corners showed a documentary purportedly about the “campaign to deny the science of global warming”. A regular reader and...
View ArticleNew Future for the Last Great Savanna: A Note from Luke Walker
A new report The Nature of Northern Australia** advocates responsible conservation and development of one of the world’s great ecological treasures – the northern Australian tropical savanna. This...
View ArticleSoil Carbon: Just Another Dirty Greenhouse Deal? A Note from Luke Walker
This blog’s fraternity of AGW denialists (climate realists) would be dismayed to learn that their good friend Al Gore was in Sydney yesterday to open the Financial and Energy Exchange (FEX). Another...
View ArticleA Round Up of Climate Related Articles from Luke Walker
Study finds global warming affecting bird migration Climate change may not be noticeable to all humans yet, but the behaviour of birds suggests the seasons have already changed. A researcher at the...
View ArticleFerals go Crazy on Australian Sub-Antarctic Island: Who Cares? A Note from...
Rabbits and rats are posing a severe threat to World Heritage values on Macquarie Island, as research reveals widespread damage to terrestrial ecosystems. This includes destruction of vegetation...
View ArticleOld Growth Forest as Official Carbon Sink: A Note from Luke Walker
At the United Nations climate conference in Bali last year delegates agreed to include forest conservation in future discussions on a new global warming treaty. If adopted, REDD (Reducing Emissions...
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Flood Crisis Consistent with Accentuated Hydrological Cycle: A Note from Luke...
Yesterday David Karoly from Melbourne University’s school of earth sciences told the Sydney Morning Herald that while individual events could not be attributed to climate change, the wild extremes...
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Looking for AGW in a Sea of Natural Variability: Drought to Flood (Part 1): A...
After the Queensland floods, Stewart Franks’ research on the interaction of El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) driving cycles of drought and flood in...
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Looking for AGW in a Sea of Natural Variability: Declining Rainfall in SW...
Finding anthropogenic global warming (AGW) shapes in the fog of variability is a major challenge, simply because natural climate variability is large. And then the problem becomes attributing those...
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