Sell all your re-insurance stock

Extreme weather is here to stay:SOMETHING strange is happening to our weather.Sydney has endured the most sodden school holidays in living memory, including the longest unbroken spell of April drizzle for 77 years, a month after some state capitals sweated through the worst continuous period of baking heat ever recorded. And unseasonably early snow fell in the mountains at the weekend."The

First to go: Iconic Polar Bear or Fabled Narwal?

Andrew Bolt repeats he doesn't want us to use polar bears as a symbol of global warming in our media any more: Bear With Us: More Hype DeflatedThe eco-hype is cooled, along with the weather: The polar bear is in trouble in Canada because of overhunting and global warming, but it is not endangered or threatened with extinction, an independent committee advising the Canadian

Brendan Nelson holds the line on global warming

I almost forgot to tell you about my first scoop ever: Last month the leader of the Liberals, Brendan Nelson, in reply to an email I sent to him, wrote this:As Australians, it is time for us to start living on environmental interests, rather than just capital interests.I made the observation, then, that he 'is working up a lovely line on climate change'.Last week Brendan told Kerry, on The 7:30

Carbon dioxide up 2.4 ppm on last year

Here's the sobering bit: The average annual increase of carbon dioxide between 1979 and 2007 is only 1.65 parts per million (ppm). Suddenly, we are measuring a 0.5% rise in a year.Researchers from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) reported new data that shows a higher than usual average increase in carbon dioxide levels over the last

Trolling the climate trolls

Professor Barry W Brook is Director of the Research Institute for Climate Change and Sustainability at the University of Adelaide. He warns against engaging with climate change deniers on science blogs, likening them to Internet trolls:"Don't feed the troll!" This is a common admonition in the expanding science blogosphere - at least the rational quarters.Trolls, in the internet vernacular, are

I'd love to have a beer with Brendan...

...'cos Brendan's me local member; leader of the opposition; he replied to my email; .... and he is working up a lovely line on climate change:Climate change is one of the most significant moral, political and economic challenges that will face our generation.Ok, that's Kev07, and Blair05, and Gore06. But the next line is Brendan's. You read it here first.As Australians, it is time for us to