Climate Change

An Inconvenient Truth

Jun 8, 2006

I've been thinking about writing something about Al Gore's new book, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It.A book such as this naturally controversial, but from at least two points of view. Firstly, its a...

Global Warning

Jun 5, 2006

Global Warning? Global Warming? Which is it? Well, probably both if you take the position of Al Gore, and many climate change scientists. As you know, Gore put together a slide show on the danger posed by the warming of Planet Earth, and then was approached by film...

Rita and Katrina, Linking Natural Disasters, People and Science

Sep 25, 2005

The two hurricanes, Rita and Katrina, that have impacted millions of people directly, and the rest of the US population indirectly, as well as many people around the world, bring home the importance of making science education real, and encouraging students to be...