Jennifer Marohasy

Professor James Lovelock gave a public lecture hosted by the UK Royal Society on Monday 29th October.
Lovelock said, “Any economic downturn or planned cut back in fossil fuel use, which lessened the aerosol density, would intensify the heating. If there were a 100 per cent cut in fossil fuel combustion it might get hotter not [...]

MOST farmers believe climate change is a natural phenomenon and not man-made, senior delegates to a farmers’ conference said today.
NSW Farmers Association (NFA) executive councillors Howard Crozier and Ian McClintock’s comments were applauded by the 60 fellow NFA councillors at their bi-annual meeting in Sydney today.
Read the full article entitled, ”No link’ between drought and [...]

An extensive plan to save Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has been announced by Prime Minister John Howard’s main rival in the forthcoming elections.
He announced the A$200m (£90m, US$185.5m) plan while on a glass-bottomed boat tour of the reef in Queensland in the north-east of the country.
Mr Rudd said the bulk of the fund, A$146m (£65.4m), [...]

New Zealand scientists have found what appears to be a cure for the disease that is responsible for wiping out many of the world’s frog populations.
Chloramphenicol, currently used as an eye ointment for humans, may be a lifesaver for the amphibians, they say.
The researchers found frogs bathed in the solution became resistant to the killer [...]

Every year millions of birds die in oil spills around the world. Here’s the basics of how to clean a seabird:
- The birds suffer from hypothermia and have damages to their internal organs due to toxic oil. They suffer also from dehydration from diarrea.
- Do NOT clean the birds immediately. They need first [...]

A delegation of Japanese anti-GM activists recently visited Australia demanding our farmers not grow genetically modified canola and then the Australian Democrats declared “keeping Australia GMO free” a federal election issue.
Today the Australian Oilseeds Federation has responded with a media release:
“The Australian Oilseeds Federation (AOF) urges recognition of the Australian grains industry’s capacity to deliver [...]

I was interested to hear Australia’s shadow Environment Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, on ABC Radio National yesterday explain that should Labor win government, Australia would sign up to a post Kyoto agreement even if China and the US did not come onboard.
I then heard the Prime Minister, John Howard, phone in to local ABC radio [...]

Details of a strengthened, more effective and more transparent Bill to help tackle climate change have today been set out by Environment Secretary Hilary Benn.
Mr Benn said that the Government would amend its draft Climate Change Bill, following a three-month public consultation and pre-legislative scrutiny by three parliamentary committees.
When originally published in March 2007, the [...]