Link page that takes you to the research of
Warwick Hughes, free lance earth scientist from Australia. Exposing
situations where unsound science
is used to prop up fashionable and expensive policy notions,
usually policy coloured a shade of Green. Guest
papers are clearly identified.
The
Western Australian Government through its various bureaucracies has
opted for seawater desalination to solve Perth's supposed water
crisis. Read how obvious available natural water
sources are
ignored and basic science such as rainfall history has for
years become
the subject of lies, spin and propaganda, now that desalination
is "the chosen way". Email me if you
know of other cases where desalination is being oversold
. Email me:
sanur2007 AT
warwickhughes.com Will NSW taxpayers waste $Billions on the desalination
option for Sydney water supply ? The Govt might do anything
except sensibly augmenting the dams that have served Sydney so
well for 100 years. see link top left for rainfall history
Dr Jennifer Marohasy of
Gt. Barrier Reef and Murray-Darling fame at the IPA has just started
her Blog; a site to watch over time. Do not miss ClimateAudit, blog on the
downfall of the "hockey stick" millenial scale temperature graphic.
New page looking into evidence bearing on the rate of extinction of
species.
With a $Million,
Australian Parliamentarians can not get it right. New:Coolwire 15
exposes wrong statements about drought in ABC TV documentary
"Remembering Rain", Coolwire 14
extends through 2005 critiques of pathetic inaccurate BoM Outlook 90
day temperature predictions started in Coolwire 8. Coolwire 13
critiques David Parker's "Large-scale warming is not urban" and reports
on start of campaign to take New Zealand out of the Kyoto Accord. Coolwire 11
gets at the truth behind sensationalist Oxford University climate
modelling claims that a rise in temperature of 11 degrees C is possible
this century.
Worst drought ever Explodes Myths about the 2002 Australian
drought. Coolwire 10 explores Alaskan heat islands thanks
to Dr Willis Eschenbach.
Coolwire8 and Drought pages updated with latest hopeless
BoM
model "Outlook" results for rainfall and temperature. Look in Perth
Water page for our questions to Water Corporation.
Facts on Manjimup
rainfall history to help WaterCorp. Visit www.JarrahBark.com interesting
online Forum based SE of Perth. Geologist Harry Horvath
critiques Victorian
Govt. greenhouse policy
Climate change and Greenhouse
issues, big issues here leading to massive waste of taxpayers money on
bloated and biased science bureaucracies, costly efforts
to reduce carbon emissions, silly inefficient windmills.
In a nutshell, if you want electricity shortages and more
expensive electricity, then voting Green will help you.
In the 90's the Court Government in Western Australia cancelled the
building of a coal fired generating unit at Collie. What a great idea,
keeps the Greens happy,
who can be surprised when peak demand time brings massive power
cuts and brown-outs. The present Govt. seems to think that windmills
are a solution. Voters should be telling the Govt. to put in a
coal fired power station at Collie.
Map of the month, Australian Bureau of
Meteorology 3 month Rainfall "Outlook" or prediction. "Reduced winter
rainfall more likely in parts of southern Australia", opines the BoM on
May 17. See the actual VERY DIFFERENT result. To browse month
after month with prediction on left, real
world outcome
on right. Could the BoM run a chook raffle ?.
Temperatures are at Coolwire 8
what price climate models ?
Drought in Australia, rainfall histories
presented,
unreliable media claims about droughtare exposed.Read about solar cycle
based based prediction of future ENSO events which indicates La Nina
condition later in 2004 which is better news for agriculture than El
Nino.
Perth, Western Australiawater supply
issues including WA Govt plan to build "White Elephant"
desalination plant. Read how the water shortage Perth is currently
experiencing is simply a product of steadily rising consumption
colliding with political neglect of engineering infrastucture and a
failure to anticipate normal cyclic dry periods. But who would be
in there opposing new engineering works, you guessed it, the Greens.
A major negative factor has been neglecting to manage forest catchments
through thinning forest and clearing scrub and undergrowth, processes
which would increase runoff
and which the Greens naturally oppose on wildlife grounds. So once
again, if you want water shortages and look forward to the
prospect of paying more for water, vote Green.
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia water supply issues,
read about new Govt. policy based on scary and implausible CSIRO
climate models, while misrepresenting real world rainfall history.
Petrol price issues, how
Australian pump
prices trend up over three years while world oil price
trends down in A$. Not all the Greens fault here but they contribute by
pushing for increasing petrol quality which makes it more difficult for
independent importers to get competitive supplies. This new
petrol quality standard will go national in a year or so and will
result in more upward pressure on pump prices; -- if voters do not tell
their politicians to shelve the plan.
Air Quality: Read how city air quality
has been improving for decades. Yet we still read Green inspired
doom and gloom stories in the media saying air quality is a serious
problem and that our bad air quality is causing
thousands of deaths. And I understood our life expectancy
has been increasing for centuries. A question I would
like answered by these claiming current air pollution is
causing a statistically significant increase in the death rate,
"..where were they hiding the bodies in the 1960's and 70's when AQ was
a
lot worse than it is now..? "
Read critique of weaknesses and omissions in new April
2004 Canberra Govt. report "State of the Air" (SOTA).
Urban and Tropospheric Ozone,
a
major component of smog, is widely believed to form from pollutant
precurssors (such as NOx oxides of nitrogen produced during combustion,
(read auto engines and power plants). However the more
I examine data the more I am convinced that this is not the whole story
and that much tropospheric (lower atmosphere) ozone, which includes
urban ozone of course, is in fact natural in origin, the product of
peak afternoon temperatures on hot days acting on reactive
particles in the air which are very often chemicals given off from
vegetation, forests, sea foam and soil, not necessarily in
urban areas at all. Air monitoring data are discussed from
France, California and Perth, Western Australia which indicate much
peak ozone is natural and can not be logically attributed to combustion
pollutants.
The road toll: Looks at the history of Australian road fatality
statistics, discusses concept of "collision enhancing
actions", questions if the huge emphasis put on minor speed
infractions is justified, proposes many new actions we could take
to reduce the road toll.
I can be emailed at inward@warwickhughes.com
Links to outside sites:
Sites drawing attention to faulty science
across a range of subjects:
Acerbic Anti-Green blog by Dr John Ray of Brisbane. Wide
range
of articles all homing in quickly on Green fallacies. http://antigreen.blogspot.com/
ClimateAudit Weblog by Stephen McIntyre and Ross
McKittrick, destroyers of the infamous "hockey stick" http://www.climateaudit.org/
Institute of Public Affairs. In their Environment
section see the Jennifer Marohasy demolition of Green / media view of
Murray River, and Great Barrier Reef. http://www.ipa.org.au/
Bizarre Science by Dr Aaron Oakley and Louis Hissink is an
informative, entertaining and very readable weblog site detailing case
after case where sound scientific principles take a back seat.
http://www.gravett.org/bizarrescience/
Dryland Salinity Action Plan developed by Agritech,
Peter Coyne's group
Numberwatch by John Brignell, highlights misleading use of
statistics and general media ignorance where politicians, science,
numbers & stats are concerned. Witty and rapier sharp. http://www.numberwatch.co.uk
Karl Popper, Hayek, and Bartley's philosophies. Insights by Rafe
Champion. Something a little off the main track for us science
types. Take Rafe's link to "full index", scroll down to Short Reviews,
several on science subjects. http://www.the-rathouse.com/
The Scientific Alliance, another web site putting
balancing views on science and environment issues, solid and very
British. http://www.scientific-alliance.com
SEPP: Dr Fred Singer's Science and Environment Policy Project,
publishes The Week That Was (TWTW), critiques a range of
environment science issues each week, pricks many balloons, not to be
missed. http://www.sepp.org
Shoshone Natural Resources Coalition, Shoshone County, Idaho
A group
of citizens and scientists convinced that, "that local citizens needed
to
take action, voice their opinions, and effectively influence natural
resource decisions being made by federal agencies for the resources
that are found in Shoshone County. http://snrcsciencecommittee.org/
Weblog monitoring coverage of environmental issues and science in
the
UK media. By Professor Emeritus Philip Stott. The aim is to
assess
whether a subject is being fairly covered by press, radio, and
television.
Will focus on science, but not just on poor science. It will also bring
to public notice good science that is being ignored because it may be
politically
inconvenient. http://greenspin.blogspot.com/
Tech Central Station - where free markets meet
technology, a huge resource of articles on science and
environment http://www.techcentralstation.com/
Cockburn Association of Pragmatists.(CAPS)
Details how issues surrounding air quality in Kwinana, the
Perth W.A. main industrial district, generate media reports
from the far side. Read how the local "EPA" looks to be helping
Green groups promulgate their inventive complaints time after
time, via a pliant or lazy media. No, CAPS is not inventing
this stuff. http://www.geocities.com/cementatcockburn2002
NASA telling us about the urban heat island,
wonderful pictures of infra-red inages from satellites. Click on Air
Quality for very good vertical section of ozone content across the
Knoxville UHI in USA. Like a flower the UHI / pollution plume rises a
couple of thousand metres. http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/urban/
Argentinean Foundation for a Scientific Ecology has a page
building where you can examine State by State a graphic of all
temperature records (1500 odd) in the USA Historical Climate
Network ( HCN ) dataset. A Herculean labour indeed. Many
other interesting articles on their site. http://www.mitosyfraudes.org/Calen4/Ghostbusting.html
Balling Central: Homepage of noted climate
scientist, and greenhouse skeptic Professor Robert Balling Jr. Dozens
of links including to most of his papers. http://geography.asu.edu/balling/
Paal Brekkes solar site, interesting info on sun's impact on
climate change. http://www.uio.no/~paalb/
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change.
Challenging reviews and articles. Very good "Subject Index"
page where material on a wide range of climate topics
can be located. http://www.co2science.org
If you are interested in the greenhouse debate you can not miss the
late John Daly's comprehensive website
Waiting for Greenhouse. Bigger than Ben Hur and more
useful.
New site in 2002 by Hans Erren of The Netherlands
who has analysed UHI's in the historically significant De Bilt and
Uccle data and shown relationship to population. Also shows how
De Bilt has been composited. We look forward to more
revelations about European UHI's. Also much thoughtful analysis
of carbon dioxide and climate history. http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/ErrenWijlens/cooling.htm
Goddard Institute for Space Studies, (GISS) Dr
Jim Hansen's magnificent web creation where you clik on a global map
and can
see a graph of the temperature record of your chosen station, can
also choose the dataset and can even download the table of data. http://www.giss.nasa.gov/data/update/gistemp/station_data/
Greening Earth Society. Site packed with topical
articles re greenhouse, global warming issues. Look for John Daly's
paper on tide gauges, sea levels, IPCC version of science etc. http://greeningearthsociety.org
Hockey Stick Graph of global temperature
trends for the last millenia now utterly discredited. The
Mediaeval Warm Period did happen after all.
A link for IPCC output where you should find the Summary for
Policymakers. http://www.unep.ch/ipcc
Ice Core CO2 content, summary paperby
Zbigniew Jaworowski, Another Global Warming Fraud Exposed:
For more detailed 1997 paper get your Visa Card out and go to
https://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/
Spring Vol 10 No 1
The Lavoisier Group., New Australian greenhouse sceptics
group. Look in "papers" for pdf file with interesting exchange of
letters with Dr Pearman, head of CSIRO Div of Atmospheric
Research. CSIRO is the Oz version of NOAA. New paper by Bob
Foster, download in pdf. http://www.lavoisier.com.au
This NASA site, "Contrary Thermometers" discusses the
difference between lower troposphere and surface temperatures.
New in July. signs that the NASA Goliath might yet figure out
the connection between, urban temperature records, the
Urban Heat Island effect (UHI) and "Global Warming".
Great potential but their first effort on 21, July needs
editing. P.S. 28, July. Yep, the editor has been at work. http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast21jul_1m.htm?list
Another branch of the far flung NASA Empire, this time
with convenient site where you see an image map in red and blue of
global temperature anomalies from 1979, collected by satellite, you can
choose various layers of the atmosphere and by clicking on the map or
making a rectangle with your mouse, can see a graph for that area. http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/temperature/
NATIONAL TIDAL FACILITY AUSTRALIA at The
Flinders University of South Australia for Australian and pacific
sea level history data. They say Australian sea level is rising
at a miserly 0.3 mm pa. http://www.ntf.flinders.edu.au/
Gary D. Sharp, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study.
Lots of provocative ideas and data, long term climate change, ice ages,
solar & orbital influences. Examples of
how we often do not understand mans place in the environment. http://sharpgary.org
Viewpoint Paper on Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
"Does CO2 really drive global warming? by Robert Essenhigh. Chemical
Innovation 2001, 31 (5), 44-46. Copyright (c) 2001 American Chemical
Society. This article expresses the
views of the author and not necessarily those of Chemical Innovation
magazine or the American Chemical Society." http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/ci/31/special/may01_viewpoint.html
INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution,
whose President is Professor Nils-Axel Mörner of Sweden. Under the
title "Research Topics 5: The expected sea level changes
in the next century", the Commission says: This is a topic of much controversy. … As it is now, the scenarios
are primarily presented by people
with little or no specialization in sea level research. This is
especially true for the IPCC project where "sea level changes" are
treated in ways far away from proper observational records.
Sounds like the IPCC I know. http://www.pog.su.se/sea
World Climate Report: Professor Pat Michaels and colleagues
exposing inadequate climate science and all sorts of new material.
http://www.co2andclimate.org/climate/
Association of British Drivers Excellent
comprehensive web site on all issues where drivers are under attack.
Their pages on the way environmental issues are twisted to denigrate
cars appeals to me. Good links page too incl. Australian and Intnl.
links. http://www.abd.org.uk/
