In 1983 Lodestone Reef, east of Magnetic Island, was the scene of a series of gruesome attacks by a five-metre tiger shark. It was also in the path of Cyclone Yasi and so I was curious to finally get there on the weekend and see how the Reef looks four months after one of the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'climate change'
The Politics of Pumpkins
May 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Blog
I don’t much like pumpkins and I don’t much like the end of Summer. I always know when winter is coming because Prue harvests all the pumpkins and we have a mountain of them placed somewhere inconvenient. This year they have been turned into a sculpture in the exact spot where I like to sit [...]
The Latest From Lough….
March 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Janice Lough is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science and one of the nation’s leading climate scientists – her work on cores from ancient corals has confirmed that dramatic, unprecedented climate changes are underway right now. Lough’s message at the recent Coral Reefs Symposium, held in Brisbane in August, [...]
ABBOTT – NOT NECESSARILY WONG
February 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Blog, Real Dirt Fast
By JAMES WOODFORD I hate to say it but there is one small way Opposition leader Tony Abbott is right. His two most repeated and quoted recent comments on the environment may sound like hyperbole but he is in fact absolutely correct. Whether it be an emissions trading scheme or a carbon tax the new [...]
Wonder Wonder Copenhagen: Our Copenhagen Correspondent
November 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Guest Viewpoint
In Copenhagen the signs of the climate change summit are everywhere, at least in the public thoroughfares. In the center of the city, around the Kongens Nytorv, the posters were going up today: two-story high images of the Alps, another says ‘France is committed!’ On the weekend the lights on the giant Christmas tree in [...]
Tags: climate change·copenhagen
BARNEY AND NICKY’S NEVER-ENDING CARBON PARTY
November 13th, 2009 · 4 Comments · News, Real Dirt Fast
This week we had the spectacle of climate-denier-politicians Barney Joyce and Nicky Minchin (Nobel prize-winning scientists and philosophers that they aren’t) telling us everyone else with a doctorate and a brain is wrong and that they are right. Humans have nothing to do with climate change, they say. We actually don’t need to worry, our [...]
TURNING TURTLE: FROM SYDNEY TO THE DEEP BLUE SEA
November 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments · News
Exclusive footage of green turtle being released off Lord Howe Island by marine parks ranger, Sallyann Gudge After months in the care of humans, three precious green sea turtles are back in the hands of chance. The three young reptiles were born last summer somewhere on an unknown beach in Queensland and were rescued, off [...]
Tags: climate change·lord howe island·turtles·wildlife rehabilitation
Our Copenhagen Correspondent….
March 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · News
Dr Alistair Paterson is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Western Australia and in 2009 is an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of Copenhagen….Over the next few months as the world counts down to a crtical international climate change conference Real Dirt is hoping to run occasional news from Alistair. The latest conference [...]
Tags: climate change·copenhagen
Hazard Reduction: The Blame Game
February 18th, 2009 · 51 Comments · Guest Viewpoint
The Bushfires in Victoria were a paradigm-shifting event – gripping, terrifying and devastating for dozens of communities and hundreds of families…The news was shocking in its magnitude and the disaster will have enormous consequences for land management and housing development across the nation. Professor Poongschtok is an alias for one of Real Dirt’s most informed readers. [...]
