Jennifer Marohasy

Doublethink is when we hold two contradictory beliefs in our minds simultaneously and accept both of them. Doublethink has been described as a form of trained, willful blindness to contradictions.
I reckon it afflicts a good percent of academics, activists, politicians and bureaucrats who comment on the management of water, particularly, groundwater in the Murray Darling [...]

About 75 percent of the landmass of Australia could be classified as ‘rangeland’ and about 60 percent of this area is under pastoral lease. Many pastoral leases are not well managed and campaigning by the Wilderness Society and others tends to miss the point.
Contrary to popular perception created by misleading environmental campaigns there is [...]

Dr Gary Sharp, Scientific Director of the Center for Climate/Ocean Resource Study in Monterey Bay, California, makes a few good points regarding global warming and coral bleaching with particular reference to the Florida Keys in a recent article published by Tech Central Station titled, ‘Coral Bleaching: What (or Who) Dunnit?’:
1. Cold winters, not global [...]