March, 2011

How does someone know which models are “bad science” in regard to CO2 modelling? What concentration of CO2 makes it critical? We ask the climate scientists. Got a question about climate science? Crikey’s environment blog Rooted has been running the Ask a climate scientist series for several months though, and it’s well worth trawling through the [...]

Journalist Graham Readfearn writes: There’s a new service over in the UK set up by the Media Standards Trust which allows the public to check for cases of “Churnalism”. Churnalism, says the trust, is “a news article that is published as journalism, but is essentially a press release without much added”. Using the free Churnalism website, you [...]

If scientists can only claim to be 90% sure of man-made climate change, does this make it a judgment call rather than fact? Does the same concept apply to other scientific issues and theories? Plus, how it is even proved what is man-made and what isn’t when it comes to climate change? It’s an interesting [...]

One interesting thing to come out of the Japanese quake and resulting ongoing difficulties at the Fukushima nuclear plant, is the two vastly different takes on the issue of nuclear power, writes Amber Jamieson.

New Murray-Darling Basin Authority chairman Craig Knowles has acknowledged the long-held belief that his appointment symbolised the end of the guide to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan in its current form. “I have very little ownership of the guide. If there’s anything useful in it to salvage, I’ll use it… But by and large, I think both [...]

Josh Dowse writes: Environmental writer Bjørn Lomborg gave a thought-provoking talk at Sydney’s Lowy Institute yesterday. Lomborg is articulate and persuasive, has an international reputation and is an exemplary self-promoter. Unfortunately he is, once again, dangerously wrong. Lomborg argues that putting a price on carbon is a waste of money, that instead we should be [...]