Jennifer Marohasy

Following the very sad and sudden death of our 12 year old Border Collie, we only managed two weeks without ‘man’s best friend’ before heading off to the Border Collie Trust kennels to look at homeless Collies/Collie crosses. So, on Sunday 29th June we completed all the paperwork and came home with very docile/nervous [...]

The Australian media has been concentrating on the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) of late. Today is the day that the draft (or should that be daft?) Garnaut Report on Climate Change is released.
ABC News: Garnaut urges emissions trading scheme ‘without delay’
A reminder of how insignificant Australian CO2 emissions and an ETS are:

There are two articles of interest from a climate point of view in this week’s Science magazine. The first is entitled: ‘Large and Rapid Melt-Induced Velocity Changes in the Ablation Zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet’ by R. S. W. van de Wal et al.
The Abstract states:
Continuous Global Positioning System observations reveal rapid and large [...]

I gather from listening to the BBC 7.00am news on the way to work, that Japan is claiming that the terms of the Kyoto Protocol were loaded against them. The 1990 baseline favoured the likes of the UK and Germany – the Germans closed old, dirty, inefficient industry in the former East Germany, and the [...]

Earlier this week, Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, threatened to boycott Australian e-journal On Line Opinion because it publishes article by so-called ‘climate change denialists’. Today, the journal’s Chief Editor, Graham Young, responds:
“The idea that truth is relative has taken over some [...]