Jennifer Marohasy

A Russian scientist claims global warming can be just a temporary inconvenience, since climatic changes show their natural fluctuating patterns and depend on our Sun’s activity level. A Research fellow of the Arctic and Antarctic research and science centre suggests the phenomenon, widely known as global warming, is not more than a natural variation.
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Listening to the Speech from the Throne Tuesday, one could be forgiven for thinking that the Conservatives were copying Stephane Dion’s leadership campaign tactics of 13 months ago. In Dion’s case, he took his climate change phraseology essentially verbatim from a David Suzuki report. In the case of the Harper government, they appear to have [...]

Washington Post Blog:
Last Friday, shortly after Vice President Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming, we posted an item on a recently concluded court case in Britain that questioned some of the facts in his movie, An Inconvenient Truth. We are now giving Gore’s spokeswoman, Kalee Kreider, the opportunity [...]

Peter Garrett, Australia’s Opposition Environment Spokesperson, is reported in the Age as having said,
A federal Labour government would commit $2million to a national plan to stop the spread of cane toads into the south and west of Australia.
Alas, his is pledge is unachievable; as cane toads are already in Western Australia. I saw them [...]

Science is the pursuit of the truth, not consensus
John Kay, Financial Times, 9 October 2007
The notion of a monolithic “science”, meaning what scientists say, is pernicious and the notion of “scientific consensus” actively so. The route to knowledge is transparency in disagreement and openness in debate. The route to truth is the pluralist expression of [...]

How can you predict global warming if you can’t predict rain?
Some say climate change is part of a complex natural cycle – so complex, in fact, that it can’t be forecast. Are current climate models reliable?
By Peter N. Spotts Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
To those of us who are not climate scientists, it [...]