This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. As the data for the last 400 years in the top level graph indicates, there is usually a strong correlation between between sunspots (solar storms) and the global climate. However, as the evidence now shows the past 20 – 30 years the correlation… Continue reading →
As the oldest, flattest, most arid continent on Earth, Australia has largely resisted the encroachment of humans. Even now, its people are largely confined to the coastal fringes, and their grip on its heartland is often tenuous. Any further deterioration of the global climate will slash Australia’s meagre carrying capacity more savagely than other continents. Meanwhile, as… Continue reading →
There is a sharply growing discord between the Global Temperature Index and the current level of solar radiation, a discord that only began some 3 decades ago and is unprecedented in 400 years of multi-disciplinary records. Atmospheric carbon dioxide has risen 36% during the past 150 years, but during that time the level of atmospheric… Continue reading →
Global Warming! It’s still the hottest topic of these turbulent times and in the public arena the political and economic argument continues to rage. Is global warming real? Is it our fault? Or is it a natural event? If it is real, can we prevent or alleviate it by reining in our carbon dioxide emissions… Continue reading →
The Russian geochemist Vladimir Vernadsky proposed life as a dynamic extension of the Earth’s crust and a by-product of the chaotic gradient that mediates between the energy-rich body of the planet and the void of galactic space. Since hydrogen is the basic energy courier of the cosmos, this proposition supports the contention that life too,… Continue reading →
“Our timebomb is mysticism. Its delivery system is language. And its hiding place? The unfathomable coils of our DNA.” (The Spirit in the Gene, 1999) With the aid of photographs, diagrams and graphs Reg Morrison summarises the massive impact that humans have had on our planet and explores the evolutionary and genetic origins of the behaviour… Continue reading →
