Jennifer Marohasy

“An Indonesian court has thrown out a lawsuit brought by a mining executive against the New York Times over reports the firm dumped toxic waste into an Indonesian bay, lawyers said Thursday.
Richard Ness, an executive with US mining giant Newmont, sued the newspaper and one of its reporters for more than 64 million dollars for [...]

Whether it’s throwing a fresh local prawn on the BBQ or dangling a line off the local jetty, fisheries resources are economically and socially important for many Australians. Australian fisheries have undergone significant management changes over the last decade and Australia is now recognised as a world leader.
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of [...]

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for [...]

Australia’s leading climate alarmist was recently quoted in the Herald Tribune on the IPCC report due to be released in November:
Scientist: Global greenhouse gas emissions already beyond ‘worst-case’ scenario
SYDNEY, Australia: Strong worldwide economic growth has accelerated the level of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere to a dangerous threshold scientists had not expected for another [...]

On October 16 the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization celebrates World Food Day – and this year’s theme is “The Right to Food”. As well meaning as this campaign may be, it ignores the real reasons why the majority of farmers in developing countries are poor. In order to set out a better [...]

The errors are listed in this article:
Judge attacks nine errors in Al Gore’s ‘alarmist’ climate change film
Another brief article here:
Gore hails climate film ruling

A new paper predictably makes a big splash in this week’s Nature magazine:
Attribution of observed surface humidity changes to human influence
Katharine M. Willett1,2, Nathan P. Gillett1, Philip D. Jones1 & Peter W. Thorne2
Climatic Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road, Exeter EX1 3PB, [...]

Study finds global warming affecting bird migration
Climate change may not be noticeable to all humans yet, but the behaviour of birds suggests the seasons have already changed.
A researcher at the weather bureau has found that some spring migrating birds are arriving many days earlier than they used to.
Short-term targets key to tackling climate change: report
A [...]

Thanks to Luke Walker for links to the following articles:
Government to ban plasma TVs?
Your new TV may soon be a consumer relic
Plans to ban plasma TV’s

The CSIRO 2007 Climate Report: an assertion-laden sales brochure by John McLean, October 2007
The report, “Climate change in Australia”, by the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology was released on 2
October 2007 and predicted a dire climatic future. The contents of the report have been widely accepted by politicians, the media and the public with hardly [...]