Recent content by Bigblu

Carl Sagan said for me best: "The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It's a possibility, you know. You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to winnow through all the differing contentions is...

I guess it depends on how the virus evolves. If it's around long enough then you would expect it to become less deadly and more spreadable as more transferable forms survive over the longer term. It's not in the viruses interest to rapidly kill the host. The main reason it's so deadly now is...

And CSIRO took delivery of the RV Investigator: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/csiro-celebrates-arrival-of-126m-science-ship-20140909-10efkc.html http://csirofrvblog.com/

Possible new branch of animal life: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29054889

Nature has a podcast: http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/ as does Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/multimedia/

Redwing and I worked in the same industry. I remember those events well. I had a small run in with a shark myself. I was just finishing my first row of pearl shell one morning surround by a school of Scarlet Perch when I saw shark to my right. It was moving pretty quickly towards me. It's not...

Great I look forward to reading some of their research then (except they don't do any).

Not sure if you already do this kind of stuff but you could get a Hobo light and temp logger and add it to your data collection. http://www.instrumentchoice.com.au/instrument-choice/data-loggers/ua-002-08-hobo-pendant-temp-light-data-logger

You would have to ask BOM that. They have a feedback link here:http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/hqsites/about-hq-site-data.shtml Temperature records come from lots of sources (satellites, ice cores, sediments, written records, SST, etc). I'm not buying that they are all biased. Here's a...

I thought the cold snap had something to do with the North Atlantic Oscillation. This is one for the conspiracy theorists. $900 million/year is a lot to spend on advertising. Maybe I should get out of property and start a website/write a book.

I'm still thinking about the relationship between CO2 and global atmospheric warming. Here are some more studies. So we have the models, the detection and attribution studies, the polar ice cores. Here's some summaries: The authors of the first paper estimate the individual contributions of...

I agree that the global climate system is complex and research is ongoing but there's a difference between refinement and throwing a theory out. The pause is not outside what has been experienced in the past. Those pauses didn't invalidate climate change, neither does this one. Where...

Sorry forgot to add the paper.

As a non-scientist why are you so quick to make up your mind? You're absolutely convinced aren't you? To be honest I haven't really made up my mind about ice cores. I've been reading about them for 5 minutes. Here's another paper I'm reading. It's a line of enquiry. The authors don't seem to be...

As soon as you make an assertion then you should provide evidence. Are you saying you haven't made any assertions about the influence of CO2 on the atmosphere or the content of the atmosphere? Also, I've provided you with relevant studies but you have failed to find any articulate way to refute...