Category Archives: ENVIRONMENT

Global Cooling – current Colder-than-normal Events


Today’s very simple post, takes advantage of other blogs, but adds depth to this blog theme of the Australian Carbon Tax being an unjustified, unnecessary, unfair, unsupported (scientifically and publicly), unsatisfactory and unscrupulous burden on the Australian public. It is … Continue reading

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Can’t Resist! (An illustration by Bill Leak. Source: The Australian )


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Possible ‘Little Ice Age’ for Ireland could last 11 years as sun cools


Bernie Malone, ‘Irish Central‘ writes: Ireland will have record breaking snowfall and freezing temperatures once again: Possible ‘Little Ice Age’ for Ireland could last 11 years as sun cools According to British academics, Ireland and the UK should brace themselves for … Continue reading

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Carbon Tax – “Sorry Julia, Bob and Greg, you are wrong”


This ‘Financial Post‘ article was published, April 7th, it didn’t seem to spread much. I had picked up a bit of it and published “Former “alarmist” scientist says Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) based in false science“.  Chiefio (http://chiefio.wordpress.com/), found it meaningful … Continue reading

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Solar Max 2014, then Grand Minimum for perhaps 100 years


It offers a serious assessment of the past relationship of ‘solar activity’ to Earth’s ‘Global Temperature’ and more importantly, a forecast of significantly lower temperatures in the near future.

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Chinese coal blamed for global warming er… cooling


The refusal of the global temperatures to rise as predicted has caused much angst among academics. “The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t,” wrote one in 2009. Either the instruments were wrong, or the heat energy had gone missing somewhere.

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Ballarat’s extinct volcanoes could pose risk, expert says


  Potential of Natural Disaster close to home, in Australia   Tom McIlroy Courier   © Unknown Our extinct volcanoes, including Mt Buninyong, suggest similar volcanoes could form in the area. The Ballarat region could be at risk from new … Continue reading

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What’s Going On With the Sun?


Solar physicists agree that the Sun has been acting strangely of late. It relates to apparent abnormalities in the solar cycle, an approximately 11-year period during which the Sun’s magnetic activity oscillates from low strength to high strength, then back again. Continue reading

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Australia: Victoria’s Overdue for Volcano – Warning


Tom Minear, Herald Sun, Australia, reports: © Museum Victoria, Australia Mt. Kooroocheang is a composite scoria/lava volcano 14km northeast of Creswick, Victoria. At 230m high it is one of the largest volcanoes in Central Victoria.   Scientist have told a … Continue reading

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Australia: Korumburra earthquake sparks earth tremors across Melbourne


© Herald Sun Melbourne has been rocked by a series of earth tremors after a small earthquake hit Korumburra in Gippsland. Geoscience Australia recorded the 4.4 magnitude quake as hitting at 11.37am. The tremors, which lasted up to 15 seconds, … Continue reading

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