Jennifer Marohasy

Hi Jennifer,
My greatest success as an “expert reviewer” to the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group I (WGI) Science Reports was with the first draft of the 1995 Report.
There was a Chapter entitled “Validation of Climate Models”
I commented that this was incorrect. No Climate Model has ever been “validated” in the sense understood [...]

“Today, the crew of the Nisshin Maru [the mother ship for the Japanese whaling fleet in Antarctica] were able to search the area of the vessel that caught fire. It is with great sadness they have reported finding the body of sailor Kazutaka Makita, who succumbed to the effects of the fire.
“He was located at [...]

The European Union does not regulate food ingredients which, in the US, would be considered “filth.” This seems at first to be an impossible conclusion, as it claims proof of a negative. Yet, that is the conclusion, and it’s not because these regulations have not yet been found. Rather, it’s because the European Union has [...]

It is only February, but 2006/7 is already shaping as one of Australia’s worst bushfire seasons. The extraordinary fires in Victoria have captured the headlines, but there have also been big, intense and damaging bushfires in Tasmania, West Australia, New South Wales and Queensland. These succeed the shocking fires in eastern and south-western Australia every [...]

It is not enough to say “excuse me” when you next fart. According to a new company ‘Easy Being Green’, if you really care about the planet you should be prepared to pay something. That’s because flatulence contains methane, a greenhouse gas thought to be contributing to global warming.
The front page of [...]

Last year Greenpeace’s little ship tug the Arctic Sunrise rammed the Nisshin Maru, the mother-ship for the Japanese whaling fleet in the Antarctic. Remember the photographs?
But this year, following a fire on the Nisshin Maru and the evacuation of most of its crew, Greenpeace is now offering help.
The Esperanza, another [...]