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Gore cools planet
Dr Roy Spencer, US Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite, updates his temperature graph: When one takes into...
Andrew Bolt - Published 6 hours, 33 minutes ago
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Health symposium to advise on rural strategies
Some of the world's leading experts in rural health have gathered in Brisbane for the inaugural Rural and Remote Health Scientific Symposium, starting today.
ABC News federal politics - Published 1 day ago
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Links for 03 July 2008 through 04 July 2008
Stilgherrian’s links for 03 July 2008 through 04 July 2008, gathered with joy and mutton: Draft Report | Garnaut Cimate Chnage Review: The Draft Report describes the methodology for evaluating the costs and benefits of climate change mitigation; to the application of the science of climate change to Australia; to the international context, and to Australian [...]
stilgherrian - Published 1 day, 22 hours ago
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Smart move to boost services sector
THE Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Senator Kim Carr, yesterday launched a Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) aimed at significantly increasing productivity in Australia’s services industry and enhancing its global competitiveness.
Manufacturers' Monthly - Published 2 days, 6 hours ago
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QUT to merge science and computing
QUEENSLAND University of Technology will merge its information technology and science faculties to create a faculty of Science and Technology in time for the start of the 2009 academic year.
The Australian Higher Education News - Published 2 days, 6 hours ago
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Australia's climate change challenge
THE weight of scientific evidence tells us that Australians are facing risks of damaging climate change.
Herald Sun - Published 2 days, 16 hours ago
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If you read nothing else today, read this - an extract from ...
The full draft report of the Garnaut Review is here. "The weight of scientific evidence tells us that Australians are facing risks of damaging climate change. The outsider to climate science has no rational choice but to accept that, on a balance of probabilities, the mainstream science is right. There are prominent dissenters on this matter, gathered under the rubric of ‘sceptic’. For the
Peter Martin - Economics, Canberra, human behaviour - Published 2 days, 17 hours ago
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The Perils of Playing Nice
Global warming is an emergency, and "for emergency situations we need emergency action," UN secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon told the world in November 2007. Why, then, has climate policy moved in such a painfully slow manner? How can the impasse be resolved between what needs doing quickly, based on the science, and what seems a "reasonable" thing to do in the current political environment? It seems as if there are two great tectonic plates - scientific necessity and political pragmatism - that meet very uneasily at a fault line. read more
New Matilda - Published 2 days, 19 hours ago
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Uni cheats outsource to India
Computer Science students are farming out their coursework to cheap programmers in countries like India and university staff admit they are powerless to detect and prevent it.
WA Today - technology - Published 2 days, 20 hours ago
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New R&D facility for Australian biotech sector
SENATOR Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, yesterday opened a new R&D facility in Sydney for Australian biotechnology company Arana Therapeutics Limited.
Manufacturers' Monthly - Published 2 days, 20 hours ago
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Asian students outperforming in US
WASHINGTON : A belief that Asian - Americans are taking over US universities, outperforming other groups and grabbing the bulk of math, science and engineering degrees has been debunked in ...
The Economic Times (India) - Published 3 days, 5 hours ago
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QUT sharpens focus on science and technology
Queensland University of Technology has announced plans to strengthen and renew its undertaking in science and technology by forming a major new faculty that will seek to significantly reconceptualise its approach to this field.
Queensland University of Technology - Published 3 days, 6 hours ago
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Radical scepticism
For a long time, I've used the term "delusionist" rather than "sceptic" to describe those who reject mainstream science on global warming. In general, the term "sceptic" is inappropriate for the vast majority of this group, since their position is hardly ever based on a willingness to look sceptically at evidence without reliance on a preconceived views.
John Quiggin - Published 3 days, 7 hours ago
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Mars Exploration Conference examines hard science in Adelaide (audio)
Kel Richards gets the rundown on the weekend agenda from Mars Society vice-president, Dr Jonathan Clarke
ABC NewsRadio science and technology - Published 3 days, 10 hours ago
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Study debunks theory Asian students outperforming in US
WASHINGTON : A belief that Asian - Americans are taking over US universities, outperforming other groups and grabbing the bulk of math, science and engineering degrees has been debunked in ...
The Economic Times (India) - Published 3 days, 19 hours ago
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