Tag Archives: Tasmania

How did the science article title, “Nineteenth and twentieth century sea-level changes in Tasmania and New Zealand,” get translated into, “Southern sea levels rise drastically”? 0

If fair-minded intelligence were the key to holding a place on the planet, most of us would be dead Here is an example of the kind of sensationalized nonsense that feeds the anti-science political Right with ammunition.  It comes from comparing a press release from Australia’s University of Queensland to the science abstract that it [...]

Climate perspective depends on where the observer is — for example, unequal ocean warming and changed ocean and atmosphere dynamics 0

Western subtropical boundary currents are warming at 2 to 3 times the rate of sea surface temperatures generally — and the resulting change in ocean-atmosphere dynamics is apparently moving the currents poleward Subtropical western boundary currents flow comparatively quickly along the western sides of oceans.  They move warm water from the subtropics to middle latitudes.  [...]