Jennifer Marohasy

 
The proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street failed to pass the US Congress last night.   Across the world disappointed investors are now fleeing stock markets as the global economy teeters on ruin.
 
With the likely arrival of more austere times it is unlikely national governments will have a lot of time or interest in [...]

A branch of the Victorian Liberal Party has been attacked for holding a climate science forum in Melbourne that will hear only one, unfashionable point of view: the skeptics.  For more information on this, and other environment-related events, visit the community page at this blog. 

Well known climate change skeptic, Bill Kininmonth, will be speaking at a community forum on Wednesday , October 1,  at 8pm at the Marwal Centre, 9 Marwal Ave, North Balwyn.  The organisers, the Kew Branch of the Liberal Party, are offering tea and biscuits afterwards.

The forum received some publicity in yesterday’s The Age newspaper.

Dear Colleague,
The greatest gathering of global and domestic carbon market practitioners and businesses ever assembled in Australia – 100 speakers and 90 exhibitors representing leading carbon market experience from Europe, Asia, North America, New Zealand & Australia – will be on hand at Australia’s first international carbon market expo & conference on the Gold Coast [...]

 
The risk of a climate crisis, like the risks associated with sub-prime mortgage securitisation, are calculated using complex computer models and both are too complex for the average punter to understand.  
 
As Graham Young wrote last week in a blog post entitled ‘Sub-prime and climate change’, these models were created by clever people with PhDs [...]