Here’s a story you haven’t heard, and you should have. An analyst, working for the government, uses computers to crunch numbers and find the truth. Let’s call him “Mann.” The trouble with Mann is, he has an ideology. He knows what he wants his results to be. more…
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We’ve been diving through the night for a week to examine the coral polyps, those goose-bump-like swellings decorating various corals. They are readying themselves for the greatest sex show on earth. more…
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Now that most scientists agree human activity is warming the Earth, the central debate has shifted to whether climate change is progressing so rapidly that, within decades, we’ll reach a “tipping point”. more…
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Last year, concerns that human activities were causing more frequent and more intense hurricanes received considerable attention. Hurricane expert Dr William Gray reviews the claims and discusses the 2006 hurricane season. more…
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We must admit we’re in real strife when even Tim Flannery says Hurricane Katrina proves global warming can destroy us. “These hurricanes have been a catastrophe just waiting to happen,” Flannery warned last weekend. more…
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An area of Siberian permafrost spanning a million square kilometres—the size of France and Germany combined—has started to melt for the first time since it formed 11,000 years ago. more…
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Recent major bleaching events on coral reefs of the South Pacific are not unusual. Earlier, higher sea surface temperatures did not cause dramatic bleaching and did not destroy the reefs. They regularly reconstruct themselves. more…
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Scientists have reached the disturbing conclusion that the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth’s surface has been gradually falling, which may mean global warming is a greater threat than previously thought. more…
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