Assumptions underlying the CEF package
In case the acronym hasn’t stuck yet, CEF means Clean Energy Future. If I’d said “carbon tax”, no problems. In my 2009 submission to the Senate Select Committee on Climate Policy I ripped into the Rudd Government for commissioning Ross [...]
Maldives pulls a stunt, but is anyone listening?
Just about everyone in the world must know that the Maldives government decided to hold a cabinet meeting under water. (Scroll down for video of the president’s message.) Strangely none of the news items carried an image of the meeting [...]
Water rise from West Antarctic melt reassessed
I’m trying hard not to adopt a misleading headline. The first article I saw on this was West Antarctic’s Sea-Level Rise May Be Overstated, Study Shows. Apparently the New York Times ran the headline “Study Halves Prediction of Rising Seas” [...]
The West Antarctic ice sheet really can collapse and regrow
The Australian has carried its war on science another step, step 35 according to Deltoid. This time they have published an article Revealed: Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking by Greg Roberts, plus another Change is a cold certainty. If you’ve [...]
Wilkins ice bridge shatters
It had been long expected. It happened on Sunday, 5 April 2009. Where is it, what happened and what significance does it have? The first is easy. The Wilkins ice shelf is between three islands off the west coast of [...]
Sea level rise: how much by 2100?
Al Gore talked about some scary stuff with respect to sea level rise, but didn’t in fact put a time limit on it. James Hansen has suggested that multimetre sea level rise by 2100 is highly probable. At least twice [...]
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