Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is obligated to apply the information element of IT for public benefit.

I have informed Malcolm Turnbull that AGW and IPCC and Kyoto associated science has not measured and assessed photosynthesis-linked warmth in ocean algae plant matter proliferated by unprecedented sewage nutrient pollution.

I have also raised the subject numerous times on OLO yet university and government and political and especially media interests do not take due action, such as investigating and reporting the reality or likelyhood or not.

There is no relevant mention in major media about incorrect climate action and expenditure of public money on the wrong cause of ocean warming and climate change. Yet it is inevitable reality becomes known.

http://www.pnas.org/content/112/19/5921

Perhaps it's good that universities are getting a shake up over control of information.

However there is still time for real science in universities to make ocean algae an issue at the forthcoming Paris climate talks.

As a post graduate and full time professional journalist I have developed ways to carry on international digital discussions over the last 10 years. Here is an example http://gentleseas.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/pakistan-to-receive-chinese-type-035.html Note that my site-meters indicate that the commenters are frequently from the US, Australia, India, Pakistan and eslewhere.

The author talks of students populating the four walls of universities OR being digital participants in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).

There is a third way, which is formal Online Courses, with:
- graded seminar discussions
- formally assessed essays
- marked exams
- actual books from university libraries are ordered, loaned and arrive by snail-mail
- traditional academic journal articles are downloaded from the Internet
- Pass, Honours and Masters Degrees are formally conferred after years of study.

These formal Degree Online Courses have the added benefit of teaching essential digital skills that cannot be instilled through school-like classroom face to face teaching.

Four walls university teaching have some social advantages.

Formal Online Courses (which are not MOOCs) have other advantages in preparing students for the largely online work lives (populated by emails and skype) that they increasingly use in the 21st Century. Online courses also make it easier to work and study at the same time.

Pete

Marine algae, more commonly known as seaweeds, come in all shapes and sizes. Algae are not plants, even though they sometimes look like them. The classification system of algae can be confusing, as the classification schemes change as we learn more about them. Interestingly, although they are all referred to as algae, the red, green and brown algae are classified into three different kingdoms: the protists, chromists and Plantae, respectively. The algae all have cell wall structures and are capable of photosynthesis like our plants on land.

Brown algae is the largest type of algae. Brown algae is in the phylum Phaeophyta, which means "dusky plants." Brown algae is brown or yellow-brown in color and found in temperate or arctic waters. Brown algae typically have a root-like structure called a "holdfast" to anchor the algae to a surface.

There are more than 6,000 species of red algae. Red algae has its often brilliant color due to the pigment phycoerythrin. This algae can live at greater depths than brown and green algae because it absorbs blue light. Coralline algae, a group of red algae, is important in the formation of coral reefs.

There are more than 4,000 species of green algae. Green algae may be found in marine or freshwater habitats, and some even thrive in moist soil. These algae come in 3 forms: unicellular, colonial or multicellular.

It looks like OLO is becoming the new information campus.

doog, you seem to have expert knowledge about algae.
Do you know anything about solar warmth absorbed by algae during photosysthesis. That is, warmth in all algae.
I think universities are yet to learn about warmth in ocean algae plant matter, algae is vegetable matter, not animal, not mineral.

Microscopic algae in the ocean can be seen from a NASA satellite in space. Look closely like a doctor examining an xray.
It's obvious algae is linked to weather and climate.

Pinpoints of cloud can be seen forming virtually parallel above micro algae in the Bering Sea, the pinpoints forming into bigger cloud. See:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40716

Ocean algae is now beginning to be "impossibly" discovered by science (2012) but still there is no mention of warmth in algae warming areas of oceans.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/june/arctic-algal-blooms-060712.html

My lay knowledge of warmth in algae dates back over 50 years though I made relevant comment in 2009, yet universities are still lacking such insight.
There are many words at the following link but the first para or two should be enough f.y.i. See:
http://www.solomontimes.com/letter/1969

Dr Suter will need to change his futurist outlook when he becomes aware of the impact of algae on world seafood supply and weather impacting agriculture, all linked to nutrient overload pollution proliferating algae and need to sustain AFFORDABLE food supply to feed over 7 billion humans daily.

Giday JF Aus and strop

It is typical of the low murky depths that perfectly good articles are dragged down to when commenters talk about algae?

OLO is Indeed "becoming the new information campus"

OLO is a abiding interest to:

- insane fringe dwellers

- and the psychologists-psychiatrists who study them

- rightwing political extremists

- and the security services who study them

While the author's article presents a rare opportunity to discuss university functioning it is typical of OLO's middle aged rogue male punters that they seize on algae.

I'm happily returning to my website.

Cheers

plantagenet, it is unfortunate for you being blind to new information that could help develop prosperity and overcome hardship.

How can you justify turning away from critically serious consequences of nutrient overload in ocean ecosystems that control weather and affordable food supply for seafood dependent island and many coastal people?

You sound like a CO2 desciple.
My focus is algae because it is the cause of consequences to humanity, the environment and the economy.
You plantagenet, seem to comment on everything but I do not complain about that.

This thread is also about knowledge.
Knowledge can be derived from a NASA photo in this modern IT world, compared to knocker mentality educated from old literature in resource-starved libraries.

Why engage in ad hominem, subtle or not, and not address new knowledge about a source of warmth in oceans that has not been measured and assessed in AGW science?

I submit new knowledge yet to be realized about algae and associated phenomena and impact could even support whole new fields of study in an existing university or a completely new one.

Congratulations on your new website. Wish I had one.