Jennifer Marohasy

For 9550 years a Spruce has survived in the mountains on the Swedish landscape, Dalarna, bordering Norway. This means that this tree is the oldest known tree in the world.
About 20 Spruces have been found in the mountain area that are over 8000 years old. They have survived climate changes due to their [...]

The University of Birmingham will unveil the only hydrogen gas fuelling station in England on its Edgbaston campus on Thursday 17 April 2008 at 11.30am.
Press Release: Fuel for Thought: University Opens England’s Only Hydrogen Fuelling Station
Watch the Video report on the BBC News wesite: Hydrogen car filling station
The Air Products Series 100 fuelling station is [...]

An Australian Department of Defence proposal to cull 400 Eastern grey kangaroos in Belconnen has generated a diverse range of responses on ABC News Online comments.
A contributor, Annabelle, said,
“The killing of kangaroos for convenience is disgusting. Killing kangaroos is just like killing whales-not necessary. It is a hang over from the ‘we must conquer the [...]

There is very little justification for asserting that global warming has gone away over the past ten years, not least because the linear trend in globally-averaged annual mean temperatures (the standard yardstick) over the period 1998-2007 remains upward. While 1998 was the world’s warmest year in the surface-based instrumental record up to that point in [...]

Some years ago an irrigator in the Macquarie Valley explained to me that they had been giving back water for years as part of negotiated and then renegotiated water sharing plans.
He then asked me how much more water I thought the environmentalists would be asking for, before they had enough water for the environment.
My considered [...]

I have recently made a superficial analysis of temperature trends at York, Western Australia, the nearest weather station to my place at Gwambygine. York is approximately 100 kms inland from the Indian Ocean, on about latitude 32.
The weather data for York is interesting for two reasons: (i) there has been a continuously reporting weather station [...]

Some recent stops on Gore’s travel schedule:
May 4, 2008–Ohio
May 3, 2008–Philadelphia
April 15, 2008–Geneva
April 11, 2008–San Francisco
April 8, 2008–Iceland
April 5, 2008–Montreal
March 18, 2008–New York
March 15, 2008–India
March 12, 2008–Poland
March 11, 2008–Geneva
March 1, 2008–Monterey, California
February 14, 2008–New York City
January 31, 2008–Atlanta
January 24, 2008–Switzerland
January 19, 2008–Park City, Utah
Dec 13, 2007–Bali
Dec 7, 2007–Norway
November 30, 2007–London
November 20, 2007–The Turks and Caicos [...]