Author Archives: Tony Heller

Backed by a Marsden Fund grant of nearly $1 million over three years, the ambitious project will track ozone chemistry, atmospheric and oceanic currents and the weather-influencing role that is played by New Zealand’s rugged topography and the constant climate … Continue reading →

My mother is doing much better, and hopes to be back on her feet in about three weeks. Thanks for your your prayers and good wishes, everyone!

I saw the movie Red Dawn today. The story line is that both coasts of the US have been invaded by communists and are no longer under the control of Americans – but the interior of the country is still … Continue reading →

This is what Obama meant by the Arab Spring – an Islamist takeover. Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader ….. issued a series of measures preventing Egypt’s courts from challenging any laws or decrees passed since he assumed office in June. The decrees … Continue reading →

Temperatures have risen above -40, and play is resumed.   summit:status:webcam

Global Shift to Obesity Packs Serious Climate Consequences: Scientific American

Must have been Mammoth farts. The new paper by researchers in the US, Italy and Sheffield does not wholly answer these questions but shows that carbon dioxide may have led to a rise in temperature in the period studied. However, … Continue reading →

  Recent modeling work (Schubert et al. 2004a,b, Seager et al. 2005) has claimed that the Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s was forced by small changes in tropical SSTs, essentially several persistent years of La Niña-like conditions in the … Continue reading →

  22 Sep 1916 – Dirty Weather.

20 Mar 1925 – The Brisbane Courier – p7