Professor Barry Brook’s research involves bringing the power of statistical modeling to ecological issues, most notably the effects of climate change on the environment. So it’s great to discover that he’s now blogging about it at bravenewclimate.com, where he already has some fascinating posts up.
One particularly interesting, and provocative post, is on the topic of methane emissions, linking to an Age op-ed he coauthored on it. Essentially, he argues that the Garnaut Report grossly underestimates the effects of methane emissions (which only persist in the atmosphere for a couple of decades) by averaging them over a century.
Brook has also organized a six-part seminar series on climate change - he’s already put the slides and the audio up from the first . If you’re in Adelaide you might be interested to get along to the remaining seminars, or, for the rest of us, downloading the podcasts.
In any case, it’s great to welcome somebody with Professor Brook’s expertise to the Australian blogosphere. I’ll certainly be reading regularly.
This is a most welcome addition to the Australian blogosphere and is worthy of interest internationally. Prof Brook has had plenty of practice in communicating science in the press and on radio. Blogging is a different medium, of course, but the entries so far are admirably pithy, take full advantage of links, and are quite sophisticated in creating and using visual images.
Congratulations and best wishes, Barry, hope it doesn’t take over your life.
The slides Robert linked to contain an amazing array of graphs, where Bolt could get lost forever if he attempted to debunk, cherry pick and spin his way through them, as per his usual practice. If only this quality of information had the reach of the Bolta climate change policy and politics would be in much better shape.
Thanks for the heads-up - it’s good to see a new Aussie blog tackling the science.
God, the more I read, the more despondent I become about this.
I feel like we’re standing on a sinking ship talking about whether we should build lifeboats, when we should be getting in them.
Graeme Bird? Hysterical? No you are…. etc etc.