Informative Speaker

Jennifer Marohasy is sceptical of the consensus position on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and gives entertaining and informative talks on ‘Climategate’.  [Click here for testimonials.]  Dr Marohasy is quoted in the leaked emails from the UK's Climate Research Unit. 

Dr Marohasy has a Bachelor of Science and a PhD from the University of Queensland, worked for twelve years as a research scientist for the Queensland government, then for six years as environmental manager for sugarcane growers, before directing public policy research at the Melbourne-based Institute of Public Affairs for six years.  She recently moved to Cooee Bay in Central Queensland and is writing a book on environmentalism.  [Click here for more about Dr Marohasy.]
 

Popular Articles 

When the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Penny Wong, announced that there was insufficient water in upstream dams to flood the lakes at the end of the Murray River, ABC Online ran with the headline "Government says the Murray's Lower Lakes can’t be saved." But that's not what she said, and furthermore the lower lakes can be saved. The Murray River is at far greater risk and the solution for the river is not nearly as simple: Saving the Coorong by restoring its native state, Online Opinion, August 14, 2008.

As sea levels rise coral reefs can keep growing up, it is when sea levels fall that coral reefs are left high and dry: Reef may benefit from global warming, The Australian, January 31, 2007.

Let's acknowledge that the Murray River is an old river, running through a semi-arid environment and accept it as such. Let's not pretend it should be, or ever was, fresh, blue and always brimming with water: On Saving the Murray River, Counterpoint, May 22, 2006. 

A critical review of the chapter on Australia in Jared Diamond's book Collapse, showing that many of his claims of environmental degradation are not supported by the available evidence: Australia's Environment Undergoing Renewal Not Collapse, Energy and Environment, Volume 16, 2005.

If it is true to say: "if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it", then koala conservation is far from secure: Are Koala's in Decline, IPA Review, June 2005.

Why is it that the International Whaling Commission (IWC) condones the slaughter of rare whales by indigenous peoples using what are arguably inhumane traditional methods, while ruling against the commercial harvest of more common species by more humane methods:No science and no respect in Australia's anti-whaling campaign, Online Opinion, July 2005.

A critical review of The Australian newspaper's 'Save the Murray' Campaign:  Why "Save The Murray"?, Quadrant Magazine, December 2004 - Volume XLVIII Number 12.

Predetermined beliefs rather than science are driving public policy on environmental issues, warns Jennifer Marohasy in Environmental Fundamentalism , Policy, Vol. 20, No. 3, Spring 2004.

This report challenged conventional thinking on the Murray River and influenced national water policy: Myth and the Murray: Measuring the Real State of the River Environment, IPA Backgrounder, December 2003.

Why was the allegation of pesticide in dugongs included in the original summary report? Why was the allegation not corrected after I brought the error to Dr Baker’s attention in December 2002: Deceit in the Name of Conservation,  IPA Review, March 2003.

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