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After nearly two weeks the ABC carrier pigeons finally brought the news that Bob Brown, former Greens leader, is campaigning against this gigantic wind farm — the $1.6b one in NW Tasmania that wants to be the largest...

Methane emissions are a bit of a sleeper. They are ignored (even by me) yet and cows, sheep, pigs and lamas produce a whopping 11% of the Australian national greenhouse emissions (mostly as methane and nitrous oxide). Livestock...

Mysterious CO2 activity in New Zealand shows Phytoplankton at work Tom Quirk both finds a mystery and solves it. Emiliania huxleyi coccolithophore | Alison Taylor. Carbon dioxide is a “well mixed gas” yet...

An update on the graph that is death to climate models Good people of Earth are spending thousands of billions of dollars to prevent a future predicted by models that we know don’t work...

Crash Test Dummy Update: Data analysis thanks to Tom Quirk In the South Australian experiment total wind power capacity is now far above the average state demand most hours of the day...

Everyone is talking about the NEG (National Energy Guarantee) which will supposedly attain the mythical trifecta of cheap, reliable, and planet cooling electricity.In terms of meeting our Paris “commitment” Tom...

Australia is figuring out how to change the global climate and power up the nation. It’s the old “have cake: eat cake: sell cake and build a sea-wall with cake” dilemma. The PM, Malcolm Turnbull, has come...

It’s just not cricket. And in so many ways. Shame to let a perfectly good dataset go to waste… Australian data comes from some of the longest stations running in the Southern Hemisphere, it could be useful. Instead...

No matter which way we slice and dice it, China is The-CO2-Player that matters. India is forecast for a larger percentage-wise increase, but it’s starting from a small base. By 2030 even after doubling its output, it...

Here’s the full copy of a half page advert in The Australian. In a normal world, this would be discussed at conferences, and reported by science reporters in magazines like New Scientist or Scientific American, or on...

There is a mystery peak in global CO2 levels in 1990. For some reason from 1989 suddenly global carbon levels jumped higher than they normal would and by 9,000 million tonnes (that’s equivalent to 2,500 mT of carbon)*....

There is a mystery peak in global CO2 levels in 1990. For some reason from 1989 suddenly global carbon levels jumped higher than they normal would and by 9,200 million tonnes (that’s equivalent to 2,500 mT of carbon)*....

There is a mystery peak in global CO2 levels in 1990. For some reason from 1989 suddenly global CO2 levels jumped higher than they normal would and by 2,500 billion tonnes. It’s only a little blip in an upward line,...

Across the West, there is a layer of smart-but-busy intellects who have not been involved in the climate debate. For one reason or another they’ve been too busy setting up IPO’s, doing research projects, or directing...

More errors in ACORN -- The Bureau of Met wonder-database corrects for mysterious “statisticals” but not for 15 story buildings built next to the thermometers...