Unable to See the Polar Bears for the Snow
The bottom-line is that despite a reduction in sea ice at the North Pole over this same period, there has been an increase in polar bear numbers.
Boris Johnson Is More Honest On Climate Than Scott Morrison
Boris Johnson’s enthusiasm for his enthusiasms is well known. After he made up his mind as to whether he was for it or against it, Brexit was one of his...
Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
How the IPCC Buries Evidence of the Sun’s Climate Influence
The latest IPCC report conclusively states that global warming can be attributed mainly to human activities, particularly emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels. Contributions to warming in...
No Evidence for IPCC’s Certitude
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its latest report, unequivocally stating that human influence has warmed earth’s climate at a rate that is unprecedented in at...
Fussing Over One Degree of Simulation
I was at the Australian National University in October 2018, when the largest supercomputer in the Southern Hemisphere began running the simulations that have now been published as the...
What Corals Can Tell Us About Climate Change
A new paper from Dr John Abbot, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs, reveals that records from living and fossilised corals show natural variations in temperature stretching...
Morrison’s 2050 U-Turn Is A Job Killer
Less than two years ago, Scott Morrison won the so-called “climate change election”. His victory was due in no small part to the Coalition’s successful attacks on the ALP’s climate...
Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review
Fly-Past Coral Surveys
This morning, Peter Ridd’s legal team will be asking the High Court to hear his appeal against his sacking by James Cook University. The High Court does not agree to…
Originally appeared in Jennifer Maroshasy Blog
Net Zero Jobs By 2050?
Australian farmers will hardly sleep easy with the assurance of the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions Michele O’Neil that ‘agriculture has more to gain from transition [to low...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
653,600 Jobs At Risk From Net Zero Emissions Target: IPA Report
Coal miners, farmers, and steel and iron workers hold the majority of the 653,600 jobs which could be destroyed by the adoption of a net zero emissions target in Australia,…
Measuring Old Corals & Coral Reefs (Part 2)
Late last year, I went on an expedition in search of a type of very old coral known as massive Porites. Stuart, Shaun and I dived five very different coral…
Originally appeared in Jennifer Maroshasy Blog
Unprecedented Panic Over Bushfire Impact
The word ‘unprecedented’ is often applied to destructive climate-related events, as though they could not have been predicted, and have never happened before. Last summer’s bushfires were no...
Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph