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Earth rising (M&G)
Friday, January 30th, 2009 | climate change, cosmology | No Comments
It’s Monday, 5am. Earth is pirouetting around the tip of its axis, spinning Africa back towards the sun. Birds have finished belting out their morning song (bloody racket, sometimes, the dawn chorus, but you can’t help loving it). Soon, a crescent of flaming orange will slice across the eastern horizon, as if someone’s peeping through a curtain.
I’d rather be in bed, but astronomical phenomena wait for no one. In two hours the moon will begin to roll between us and the sun, drawing the curtain closed again in a partial solar eclipse. › Continue reading
“Sky is falling” – 60 seconds to save the Earth
Thursday, December 11th, 2008 | climate change | No Comments
Blue Man Group : “Message to America”
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 | climate change | No Comments
Stormy weather (M&G)
Friday, August 8th, 2008 | Mail & Guardian column, climate change | 1 Comment
How many global citizens does it take to change an incandescent light bulb to something more energy-efficient? None, apparently, because the light bulb doesn’t need changing.
The dissident view of climate change is growing in popularity as the media continue to thrash out both “sides” of the story: the Earth may be warming, but it’s not our fault. Projections aren’t nearly as dire as the alarmists tell us. So sit back, everyone, and enjoy the sunshine.
This approach assumes there are two sides of the story — which just shows how vast the gulf is between climate scientists and those of us who aren’t privy to the reams of discombobulating data and models on which climatologists build their projections. › Continue reading
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