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Prophet of doom - converting?

The UK paper, The Telegraph wasn’t content with abruptly reversing its position on global warming to global cooling once, it had to bolster the claims a couple of days later in an amusing twist of events…

Media blinds politicians

If you really want to save the world, then its a little frustrating right now. If you really know your stuff, and it runs counter to the media’s interpretation of events, then its even more frustrating.
The market meltdown has been horrifying to watch - but the American government response has been even more horrifying. But [...]

Daintree white possum - another wrongly blamed extinction?

A tiny white possum found high up in the tropical Daintree forest in Australia hasn’t been spotted in 3 years.
“Probably extinct due to man made global warming…” expounds Professor Stephen Williams of James Cook Unversity in Queensland according to a recent news item on ABC Online.
The article then went onto mention tempertures in the rain [...]

Climate change vs environmental disaster

It was intriguing to read an article in the Washington Post today by Joe Achenbach. He echoes the sentiments of The Dappled Planet - remove the global warming hysteria and you still have a planet beset by environmental disasters which are man made - and contributing more to some of the catastrophe’s out there than [...]

Beach and sunscreen equals no coral?

Oh dear, now another thing is assaulting coral - sunscreen! Since late May, various news sources have been picking up on a study done by the European Commission on sunscreen and tourists. With 78 million people visiting areas of coral reefs each year (according to the World Trade Organisation), about 4,000-6,000 tons of sunscreen gets [...]