Jennifer Marohasy

“With understandable reluctance, Prime Minister Howard recently donned the political hair-shirt of a carbon trading system. On the very same day, NASA chief Michael Griffin commented in a USA radio interview that “I am not sure that it is fair to say that (global warming) is a problem that we must wrestle with”.
NASA, of course, [...]

Ken Smith, Coordinator-General and Director-General,
Department of Infrastructure, Queensland Government.
A recent publication circulated by your Department, Water for the Future, argued that Queensland is experiencing the worst drought in more than 100 years. It included the following diagram to make this point, and at face value this implies that unforeseeable drought is the major cause [...]

G’Day Jennifer,
Maroochy Shire Council on the Sunshine Coast is attempting to build a mega garbage dump in a beautiful fertile valley just 500 metres from homes.
This dump is a Bioreactor, like the two at Ipswich west of Brisbane. Our committee members have visited both of these dumps and you can smell the stench for [...]

“Europe’s first songbird reintroduction programme is celebrating after cirl buntings, one of Britain’s rarest and most attractive small birds, were found last week to be breeding in Cornwall – where they had been extinct for many years…
Read the complete good news story ‘Rare songbird is returned to Cornwall’ by Michael McCarthy here: http://environment.independent.co.uk/wildlife/article2669864.ece