Jennifer Marohasy

As readers will see from the last 2 blog entries, comments of a defamatory nature made against organisations or individuals can get the blog owners into legal trouble. We will have to be more vigilant in future.

I hereby make a full public apology to the Australian Rainforest Foundation and its Chief Executive Officer, Roger Phillips, in relation to entries on blog site etitled ‘Daintree Compensation’ by the following persons (bloggers):
John Rainbird on 1 September 2007, at 3.40pm
Hugh Spencer on 3 September 2007, at 7.06pm
Zainab on 4 September 2007 at 11.01am
Wayne Brandon [...]

August 25, 2007
Daintree compensation
Posted by neil, at 02:41 PM
The Australian Rainforest Foundation (ARF) has thrown a cat amongst the pigeons, by lodging twenty-two applications for compensation with Douglas Shire Council, for development rights stripped from Daintree freehold properties.
The applications concern land bought by the ARF with funds allocated by the Commonwealth Government from its Biodiversity [...]

Julia Slingo and Rowan Sutton of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Walker Institute for Climate System Research, University of Reading, have an interesting letter in this week’s Nature magazine. They point out that this year’s loss of sea-ice cover in the Arctic is unlikely to be explained by temperature change alone. Arctic wind anomolies [...]

The Coalition will not fund future drought preparedness measures as part of its agricultural election policy, due out in a fortnight, but will stick with its existing drought assistance measures despite calls for change from State Governments and the National Farmers Federation.
farmonline: ‘Election ‘07: Drought preparedness not in Coalition ag policy’

For large parts of southern and eastern Australia, dry conditions have now persisted since October
1996, a total of eleven years. For some areas, the accumulated total rainfall deficit over this period
now exceeds a full year’s normal rain.
For the agriculturally important Murray-Darling Basin, however, October 2007 marks the sixth
anniversary of lower than average rainfall totals, with [...]

A vast rubbish dump, which covers an area bigger than Australia, is floating in the Pacific Ocean and research shows it is growing bigger.
The rubbish collects in one area because of a clockwise trade wind that circulates around the Pacific rim.
ABC News: ‘Pacific ‘rubbish superhighway’ going unnoticed’

It’s normally associated with copious rainfall, but this time around, La Nina has failed to deliver.
While the east coast of Australia has received some rain over the last few months, inland Australia has missed out.
It’s a very unusual event, and one that some scientists say has not occurred for many decades.
ABC News: ‘Farmland misses out [...]

Dear Jennifer,
I have been wondering what thoughts you may have on the NSW state governments stance on global warming and their seemingly contradictory actions of tying 2 or 3 million dollars of fireworks to the Sydney Harbour Bridge each New Year and Australia Day and letting it rip oblivious on at least these two days [...]

Driving to Cape Tribulation two nights ago, I was hit with the unmistakable stench of what the Guugu Yimithirr indigenous people (just up the coast) call yumu; a scummy residue of coral spawning in the shallows of the coral sea. On this same night, I located two Northern Leaf-tailed Geckos on the sides of [...]