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  • The Coming Storm

    Created: Wednesday, 30 June 2010 22:43 Author: G J Lau
    The June 30 Sydney Morning Herald had an interesting piece called "The Perfect Storm" written by Tony Bartlett. The article extensively quotes Donovan Burton from the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, so I will do the same: "By 2030 A...

  • Ants Versus People

    Created: Sunday, 27 June 2010 14:28 Author: G J Lau
    This Father's Day I was given a copy of Mark Moffett's new book Adventures Among Ants. It is true that I do tend to go on about ants and bees, but they offer us an important lesson about where they are and where mankind needs to be. Let's start with a fe...

  • What We Know

    Created: Tuesday, 15 June 2010 22:30 Author: G J Lau
    We know that the earth is getting warmer. That much is increasingly more evident with each passing year. The trend over the last 150 years or so is undeniable. We know that global warming is leading to climate change, which may be manifested in any numbe...

  • A Case Study in Misleading Reportage

    Created: Friday, 11 June 2010 10:10 Author: G J Lau
    I have read a fair amount of science writing (or more accurately, writing about science) over the last year or two. Time and again when it comes to global warming I see the same pattern repeated. A glaring headline announces that this or that aspect of g...

  • Ending Our Oil Dependency

    Created: Sunday, 06 June 2010 12:39 Author: G J Lau
    The other day I was listening to some politician urging the increased drilling for oil within the United States, even in environmentally sensitive areas. The reason: We need to end our dependency on foreign oil. But let's change this sentence by deletin...

  • Summer Rerun: Judgment Day

    Created: Thursday, 03 June 2010 11:55 Author: G J Lau
    Today's "Something to Think About" has a quote from Leigh Ewbank writing in The Energy Collective: "Unlike the civil rights movement, climate change has a complex causation. Its effects are indirect, systemic, difficult to perceive, and will increase ove...