The two main reasons why 2008 was the coolest year since 2000 was that the Pacific ocean was in its La Niña phase, and the sun was remarkably inactive and showed us a blank face for essentially the whole year. Both of these factors (oceanic and solar) exert a mild to strong influence on year-to-year […]
Category: Hot News
Discussion of the latest hot finding in the multidisciplinary field that is climate science.
For those who do not yet have the book (tsk, tsk), you can now read Chapter 4 of Prescription for the Planet, “Newclear Power”, by downloading it here. Tom Blees has generously decided to put this chapter (pg 117 — 139) on the web to allow a more rapid dissemination of the basic facts about […]
My scientific colleague and regular collaborator, Corey Bradshaw of ConservationBytes, has been hitting the media this week to talk about mosquitoes, models and environmental change. Together with our postdoctoral researcher Guojing Yang, we’ve published a couple of papers on the population dynamics of mossies in northern Australia. The latest one has just appeared in the […]
A long-standing research interest of mine has been the impact of prehistoric people and palaeoclimate on ancient biota (animals, plants, ecosystems). Millennia before the modern biodiversity crisis — a worldwide event being driven by the multiple impacts of anthropogenic global change — a mass extinction of large-bodied fauna occurred. These end-Quaternary (late Pleistocene and Holocene) extinctions […]
Climate change is like a stalking predator, a threat that first crept up, and then swiftly leapt out at the ecological science community. There is no doubt it was an issue around which there was a simmering awareness for decades. However, recent detailed multidisciplinary studies, which have pored over numerous long-term datasets (most compiled for […]
Brave New Climate 