Jennifer Marohasy

The UK Conservative Party’s Boris Johnson, climate realist and member of Benny Peiser’s scholarly electronic network CCNet, has been elected Mayor of London, defeating ‘Red Ken’ Livingstone.
There are a hundred reasons why Boris Johnson should not be Mayor of London. But his dinosaur views on the environment alone are enough to show what a disaster [...]

TEN years ago, scientists specialising in climate change counted themselves lucky to find a job.
Now employers are beating paths to their doors. From the federal Government down, Australia’s corporations and institutions, public and private, are falling over themselves to appoint people with the knowledge and skills to advise on what is becoming a central public [...]

Following are some comments on the last 10 years of global non-warming.
Roger Pielke Jr comments:
“For a while now I’ve been asking climate scientists to tell me what could be observed in the real world that would be inconsistent with forecasts (predictions, projections, etc.) of climate models, such as those that are used by the IPCC. [...]

How old was our eucalypt when it died in 2008?

Although frequently promoting trees as evidence of current climate change, it’s been my view for a while that the science of “dating” any specimen’s history via its growth rings, must account for extended droughts and abrupt climate disturbances such as flash flooding.

This example from yesterday’s street [...]

All good things must come to an end. Yesterday the tree surgeons moved in with their trucks, cherry picker and mobile chipper but the birds had moved back. A hasty roadside conference followed phone calls to base and several door knockings. The high drama was supervised all morning from above by currawongs, suburban pests [...]