Jennifer Marohasy

The heavy rain which has fallen across southern Australia in the past few days and caused flooding in parts of Victoria, has hardly made a dent in the record low storage levels of the Murray-Darling system.
ABC News: ‘Murray-Darling still in trouble despite welcome rain’
Thanks to Luke Walker for the link

New Climate Bill (Lieberman-Warner) Gets Critiques from Unexpected Sources
Excerpt: Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards: “Worst of all, [Lieberman-Warner] gives away pollution permits to industry for free – a massive corporate windfall – instead of doing what is right and selling them so that we can use these resources to invest in clean energy [...]

The Australian Rainforest Foundation (ARF) has recently distributed an explanation of its position and the work it has been tasked to do, particularly where it applies to the rainforest areas between the Daintree River and Cape Tribulation.
Much of what it describes as ‘always controversial’ is all too frequently rationalised against a series of subdivisions that [...]