In January 2011 I posted on seven “Green” companies on the ASX and linked to their share price charts. Here we are, a year on and I wondered how they had progressed. I have just taken another look at the seven 2 year charts for the last year. Five are down since the start of [...]

The purpose of this post is to draw attention to the Durack Development web page of David Archibald and to promote some discussion. We know that much of the West Kimberley region in Western Australia gets over a metre of warm season rain per year and total river outflows are listed at a huge 80,000GL [...]

When I first saw this I was somewhat gobsmacked. All these rainy days – in February !! Anyway – we will see in time how good is the Weatherzone 28 day forecast. You can make a forecast calendar for your own area. Remember that for the bright green days – 3 out of 4 should [...]

The BoM went public in December 2011 saying it was the hottest year ever in Perth. This press was followed up with their page spelling out the BoM case. I noticed the BoM said little about any stations except Perth Metro – it is well known around climate people that the Perth recording site has [...]

While having a look at temperature data for Harvey in Western Australia, approx 140km south of Perth, (BoM station Number: 9812) – I noticed the daily maximum readings for 2011 had a large number of even-number readings – readings with no decimal point – integer I think is the term. Looking closer I noticed the [...]

Thanks to Dave for the heads-up. Another post in the “Must be due to G-l-o-b-a-l W-a-r-m-i-n-g” series. This University of Alabama at Huntsville web page where you can graph daily NOAA satellite temperature data – for various altitudes – over the last decade – shows clearly that Earth has just entered into a series of [...]

How the media loves “freak”; BBC say – “Fifteen die in freak south India cold snap” Winter deaths are not uncommon in northern India – but lately southern India has seen century long record cold days. Sounds like central Asia air has slipped south. From the Indian Tribune News Service – “….Mysore sees coldest day [...]

Replace it with river/catchment based “boards” or councils partly elected by stakeholders, partly filled by expert water engineering State appointees – which can decide on the allocation and distribution of storage water. The MDBA has been such a colossal failure with its laughable plan in 2010 to release 4,000GL of env flows per year – [...]

David will speak tomorrow 17th Jan at the Combined Probus Club of Mandurah, thats south of Perth in West Australia. He is also invited to speak in Washington DC USA later. Download his 126 pages pdf file of graphics and charts – The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – go on enjoy – it is [...]

This news item buried in travel news (HT Tim Blair) relates that the supply ship Aurora Australis is trapped in ice 20km from land. I understand the Aurora Australis supply ship has good icebreaking capabilities. This graphic of the trend of Antarctic sea ice extent is thanks to “The National Snow and Ice Data Center” [...]

I have noticed how a large area of inland WA has been enjoying cool days lately – starting about 8 Jan – this map of the maximum anomaly is from the 14th. New 5 second animation of the 20 maps from 29 Dec 2011 to 17 Jan 2012 – shows clearly how the much ballyhooed [...]

Amazing stuff – IPCC compliant organization admits fault. Niwa concedes summer outlook off the mark By Matthew Backhouse – NZ Herald My earlier post; Are the New Zealand NIWA Outlooks as useless as those of the Australian BoM ?

That is since 1940 – Canberra Airport data started in 1939 – I can not find daily data from the Canberra city area before that – can anybody help ? Note that this media item “Cold snap sets new record low temperatures” - skilfully does not specify it is an “all time” record for Canberra [...]

A weird one. My graphic last Nov shows with crystal clarity that China is far and away the dominant nation where carbon emissions are concerned. Thanks to Chris de Freitas for the heads up. Presumably in the full article the authors show they know about China. But who would take the time to read further.

Check it out yourself. ACT Govt develops an idiot idea for a desalination plant to extract salt from wastewater and the Commonwealth would have kicked in $80Million if the project stacked up. Analysis showed the idea was a dog – anybody can check numbers for salt input to the Murrumbidgee downstream of the ACT and [...]

Readers have pointed out to me the huge rain totals for various parts of Aotearoa for December 2011. So I checked the NIWA 3 month Outlook for December-February issued on 1st Dec 2011. Not the slightest hint of the heavy rains – so if they could miss that huge event coming down the pipeline hardly [...]

Download the very readable 4.2Mb paper “Testing an astronomically-based decadal-scale empirical harmonic climate model versus the IPCC (2007) general circulation climate models” by Dr Nicola Scafetta – ACRIM (Active Cavity Radiometer Solar Irradiance Monitor Lab) & Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.

After a cool 2011 and an even cooler December – the BoM and their trusted main stream media (MSM) have been hyperventilating with excitement over a few warm days to start 2012 in SE Australia. It seems the BoM can not help exaggerating. I noticed the ABC article “Hot weather hits Canberra” – saying “The [...]

New book – Our Explosive Sun includes 143 color illustrations and photos of the Sun, several of which were made especially for the book and have never been published before. Additional material, available via Springer Extras, includes a large number of animations and video material. A PowerPoint presentation of the book is a useful resource [...]

On with our series exposing, inaccurate Australian Bureau of Meteorology Outlook predictions for max and min temperature – this time for October to December 2011. The comparison between the Outlook and real world result is stark. The BoM promised scorching daytime heat in a variety of places – note that amazingly – NO areas would [...]