The Dappled Planet

Loosing perspective in the fight to regulate CO2

nomadeca — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:04:06 +0000

Sigh… It just keeps on getting more and more ridiculous… Now some scientists with nothing better to do with the funding they must be receiving to continue to prop up the (what should be ailing) global warming debate have concluded we should be eating our dogs rather than having dogs or cars – as one [...]

The rising sea level problem

nomadeca — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:25:21 +0000

It was intriguing to read a Reuters news article about using ‘high tech’ (actually old tech which has been around a few decades now…) to pinpoint risk associated with Antarctic ice melting. As noted in the article, if all the ice was to melt on Antarctica, sea levels would rise by over 50m and if [...]

Nimble CO2 versus plate tectonics

nomadeca — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:43:29 +0000

It has been achingly and painstakingly documented by geologists that over an incredibly long time, first Africa broke off from Antarctica about 200 million years ago, then India ripped away at a blistering pace around 100 million years ago… then Australia began to separate from Antarctica around 70 million years ago. About this time, the [...]

Sueing for the truth about Global Warming

nomadeca — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:23:30 +0000

Only in America… This article came across our desk. Apparently the US Chamber of Commerce feels that if the AGW movement (as they call the people who strong advocates of Anthropegenic Global Warming) wish to use billion of dollars of taxpayers money to ’save the world’ then lets establish if there really is a threat. More [...]

Australian bushfires and climate change

nomadeca — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:44:19 +0000

It was with increasing horror we read of the people who died in the bushfires in Victoria last weekend. Bush fires have always plagued the outskirts of cities and rural communities in the southeast and to a far lesser extent, the southwest of Australia. But never have the horrors been visited upon the local residents [...]

Prophet of doom – converting?

nomadeca — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:10:21 +0000

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

nomadeca — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:56:27 +0000

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?

nomadeca — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:18:15 +0000

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 [...]

Contradictions in American resource policy

nomadeca — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:20:01 +0000

At the Dappled Planet, we are fascinated by the contradictions being played out in the US right now. All eyes are clearly on preventing a ‘meltdown’ of the financial system as we know it, but what has caught our attention today was a obscure reference to a new bill somewhat quietly (to the vast majority [...]

Climate change vs environmental disaster

nomadeca — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:18:20 +0000

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 [...]