Summer 2008

Get your head out of the sand! it’s all in nature

Amidst all the hype about global warming it’s easy to write off a lot to doomsayer’s hyperbole.

19 February 2009

But what are the scientists saying? Duncan Miller reviews recent issues of Nature, one of science’s most respected journals.

Cyclone Nargis has just killed an estimated 100,000 people in Myanmar (Burma), but if climatic models are even half right we can expect many more–and worse – events like these. While environmental predictions are not definite, science deals in probabilities and in this game the stakes are climbing.

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