Posts Tagged ‘Climate Change’

Whether you like it or not, Australia got a new Prime Minister yesterday  —  and climate change is a big part of the reason why. Julia Gillard, from the seat of Lalor in Melbourne’s West, is now Australia’s first female Prime Minister, after Kevin Rudd took a tumble in the polls in the last few months. Rudd was undermined […]

Cross-​​​​posted from my blog, Moth Eyes One of the most hyped emails from the Climategate hack was this one, sent by Phil Jones: I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline. “Proxy records” […]

This might be pretty controversial, but I’m going to go ahead and say it anyway. I don’t have any problem with people who call themselves “climate change skeptics”  —  if they really are good skeptics. In fact, based on what I consider a reasonable definition of the term “climate change skeptic”, I’m a climate change skeptic. More on […]

President of the Victorian Skeptics, Terry Kelly, was joined by Elliot Birch and Jason Ball from the Young Australian Skeptics on ABC1’s Insiders program this morning. We discussed Tony Abbot’s climate change plan, skepticism and politicians in general. Check us out.

How many creationists clichés can you fit into a two minute video? Unfortunately this guy has the answer  —  42! Someday I can’t wait to work at the CSIRO. Want to know how to misrepresent agricultural science? Watch this hippie video of fail! Climate change denialists like Andrew Bolt are jizzing their pants over the hacked “ClimateGate” emails. […]

You may have already heard us interview Amanda McKenzie  from the Australian Youth Climate Coalition in the latest episode of The Pseudo Scientists, but just a reminder that the Youth Decide 09 voting poll is now open! See below the jump for further analysis about the campaign…