Jennifer Marohasy

Maybe I have been a bit harsh with my title for this post? Then again, I am, after all, at heart, a global warming skeptic.
And now the NT government is proposing aboriginals stop burning-off to reduce C02 emmissions.
“Government figures show the Territory has Australia’s highest rate of emissions per person. The service’s hazard reduction [...]

I received the following email from someone looking for advice:
“I rarely get involved in environmental causes but I think this one is worth it because the opportunity seems to be now or never. The consequences of cane toads don’t seem to be life or death but I’d certainly rather live without them and also [...]

Some residents of Taralga don’t like windmills and have sent me the following poster picture Download file (180 kb).
It came with the following text:
“Place on notice boards, dart boards, toilet doors……the mind boggles. Let’s just get the message out. No prizes for the most original use…………….”
I am not sure that windmills are the most efficient [...]

The following note on rangeland management is from a reader of this blog who lives in western Queensland. The note was followed by the the comment that, “a major problem of rangeland management is that politicians and bureaucrats have undying faith in the efficacy of pious hope and regulation to rectify problems now largely caused [...]