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.

Sydney water supply	Polar regions	EastAust temperature trends	Jones '86   20th ann review	Species & Extinction issues
Brisbane  water supply		Huge UHI's in Sino IPCC data	Dubious SST data	Geologists view of  climate
Global warming	Road toll	Perth Water	Urban ozone	Petrol prices
Cubbie Station issues	Blog Dec 2005	Rebuttal of Jones et al 1990 Letter to Nature	History of SST trends	USSR high warming grid cells
Worst drought ever	Bush Fire Patrols	Open Letters to Jones et al 1986 authors	UNAIDS data and delusions	GHCN vs Jones, differences
BoM rainfall prediction failures	Air quality	Dr Doug Hoyt's  web site	Dr Vince Gray's newsletter	Dr Jaworowski's  ice core research
Dr Jack Barrett, Greenhouse Molecules  paper	Melbourne Water	Dr Harry Priem's web site	Bob Foster shreds IPCC	CoolwireIndex  (Now plus contents)

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: wshblog2013  ATSINE  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.

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 drought are 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 Australia water 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..? "

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 wshblog2013  ATSINE  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

Steve Milloy's huge site debunks all manner of Green and Govt. myths and lies.
http://www.junkscience.com/

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

Track all grain and commodity prices
http://futures.tradingcharts.com/

Qld DPI Long Paddock for El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) actual daily values with 30 and 90 day rolling averages.
http://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/SeasonalClimateOutlook/SouthernOscillationIndex/30DaySOIValues/

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/

Air quality and tropospheric ozone:

Australian Government survey of air quality history from all cities, "State of the Air" has many weaknesses and shortcomings but it is a start. 
http://www.deh.gov.au/atmosphere/airquality/status/index.html#download

Joel Schwartz dot com many  sound articles on air quality subjects, "..a breath of fresh air.."

Melbourne Victoria Australia air quality improving over decades
http://www.warwickhughes.com/air/epa.htm

Kwinana Western  Australia industrial district near Perth, air quality improving over decades
http://www.warwickhughes.com/air/aqual.htm

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/

California Air Resources Board (ARB), will mail a data CD if you ask.
http://www.arb.ca.gov/aqd/aqd.htm

Western Australia Department of Environment in Perth, annual AQ reports for download
http://www.environ.wa.gov.au/

French air monitoring, you can make maps (try modelisation link), even get limited data auto emailed to you.
http://www.airparif.asso.fr/

ASL web site, huge amount of reading and information
http://www.asl-associates.com/

Greenhouse / Climate change issues:

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

CLIMATE CHANGE. GLOBAL WARMING. CLIMATE SCIENCE, MEDIA & POLITICS by
Timo Hämeranta M.LL., Moderator of Climatesceptics
http://personal.inet.fi/koti/hameranta/climate.htm

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.

Economist Alan Oxley's concise and to the point Climate Change Backgrounder
http://www.worldgrowth.org/pages/sustain/wg-climate.shtml

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.

Dr. Douglas Hoyt thoughtfully discusses many aspects of the various global temperature datasets, take a coffee into this one.
http://www.warwickhughes.com/hoyt/climate-change.htm

A link for IPCC output where you should find the Summary for Policymakers.
http://www.unep.ch/ipcc

Ice Core CO2 content, summary paper by 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 

Site by Peter Krahmer, said to be the German John Daly.  What more can I say.
http://www.schulphysik.de/klima.html

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

NASA   2000  "Culprits of  Climate Change"  Explains Dr. Jim Hansen's new position.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast29aug_1.htm?list

NASA Top Stories, selections from NASA research, good archive, some surprises here
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/archives.html

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/

New Little Ice Age Instead of Global Warming?   by the late Dr. Theodor Landscheidt
http://mitosyfraudes.8k.com/Calen/Landscheidt-1.html

Klaus Öllerer's Newsletters on climate science issues
http://www.klimanotizen.de/index.html

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/

Drought:

Track all grain and commodity prices
http://futures.tradingcharts.com/

Qld DPI Long Paddock for El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) actual daily values with 30 and 90 day rolling averages.
http://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/SeasonalClimateOutlook/SouthernOscillationIndex/30DaySOIValues/

ENSO Prediction Based on Solar Cycles
 Dr. Theodor Landscheidt has a good track record with the last few ENSO events.
http://www.john-daly.com/theodor/new-enso.htm

New Columbia University model claiming stunning success predicting ENSO
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/news/2004/images/04-14-04_image.html

The Bureau of Meteorology (Australian) rainfall outlook page
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/ahead/rain_ahead.shtml 
Forecast ENSO page;
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/ahead/ENSO-summary.shtml

Water Resources / Rainfall:

Australian Dams database, large archive of historic information
http://www.ancold.org.au/

Bureau of Meteorology FTP site, Australian high quality rainfall data 379 stations, but maybe ~300 updated thru 2003
ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/home/ncc/www/change/

Global Historical Climate Network data
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/ghcn/ghcn.SELECT.html

Adelaide Hills, much local rain data and weather photos
http://www.hillsrain.com/Default.htm

Indian Ocean site by Jean-Luc Le Blanc
http://indianocean.free.fr

Perth Water Users for those reluctant to contribute the Government "white elephant" desalination plant
http://au.geocities.com/perth_water/

Jacobs Perth Climate data pages, links to real time weather observations
http://members.iinet.net.au/~jacob/weather.html

Follow link on right to "Snowfall Augmentation by Cloud Seeding", many pdf reports to read note Searle 2002.
http://www.snowyhydro.com.au/

Ryan and Sadler overview of cloud seeding in Australia                                          http://www.dar.csiro.au/publications/cloud.htm

CSIRO media man Paul Holper's summary of cloud seeding.
http://www.dar.csiro.au/publications/holper_2001c.htm

Northwest Cloudbands, site by Nicola Telcik UWA scientist
http://www.cwr.uwa.edu.au/~telcik/menu.html

The Water Corporation, administers WA water supplies. Look in downloadable reports for useful info.
http://www.watercorporation.com.au.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, research projects of Dr. Warren B. White, including  forecasts for global rainfall.
http://jedac.ucsd.edu/PERSONNEL/WHITE/index.html    his home page
http://jedac.ucsd.edu/PROJECTS/index.html    papers by Dr White
http://jedac.ucsd.edu/acw/    his Antarctic Circumpolar Wave web pages

Viacorp, background on Perth water supply
http://viacorp.com/perth_water.html/

WA Water and Rivers Commission, much rainfall, river flow and groundwater data, little that is long term
http://www.wrc.wa.gov.au/

Water Forum, new web site with what the Government wants us to know.
http://www.ourwaterfuture.com.au

Road Toll

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/

Safe Speed  UK site promoting intelligent road safety
http://www.safespeed.org.uk

Australian Transport Safety Bureau
http://www.atsb.gov.au/road/index.cfm

Safer Roads web site with useful information
http://www.aaa.asn.au/saferroads/

WA Dept of Transport's Office of Road Safety, follow Research to statistical reports. Many links
http://www.officeofroadsafety.wa.gov.au/

New Zealand research
http://www.ltsa.govt.nz/research/annual-statistics-2002/

Fast and Safe a New Zealand site refuting shonky official propaganda about speed on our roads