Jennifer Marohasy

A recent paper by IPCC lead author Kevin Trenberth and Aiguo Dai:
Effects of Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption on the hydrological cycle as an analog of geoengineering
suggests that there would be adverse effects, including drought, as a result of the use of geoengineering in order to offset greenhouse warming:
Abstract
The problem of global warming arises from the [...]

As Hurricane Dean works its way through Mexico, we are reminded of the debate between those who link Hurricanes with global warming, and those who don’t. Scientists Chris Landsea of NOAA and Greg Holland of UCAR find themselves on opposite sides of the debate. Holland has recently claimed that tropical storms have doubled due to [...]

Over the last decade or so Tasmanian forestry issues have emerged as the predictable wildcard in Australian federal politics. I say predictable because the issue is always there but tends to manifests itself in unpredictable ways.
At the last federal election unionists rallied for John Howard, a Liberal Prime Minister, when Mark Latham, the Labor [...]