Great resource to counter any global warming sceptic

26/09/2010 -

climate change science

The website Skeptical Science is an invaluable resource to anyone interested in climate change. It has over 120 commonly used arguments against climate change / global warming and rebuts them in the simplest terms possible. Anything from: It’s the sun! There is no consensus! It’s El Nino, to Other planets are warming  The website has a blog with regular posts as further information is added. There’s even an app for your Android phone (or your iPhone if you’re one of those people 😉 so that you…

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Would our environment have been better off with John Howard?

04/05/2010 -

climate change environment politics

An interesting article from Ross Gittins in the Sydney Morning Herald that proposes Australia would have been better off environment wise if John Howard and the Coalition had won the last election. Sounds pretty radical but I read to the end because I usually find that Ross Gittins makes sense so I gave him the benefit of the doubt. It’s hard for me to admit but he might be right. Sadly KRudd is turning out to be a politician of convenience and when the going gets tough he doesn’t appear to have…

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