Jennifer Marohasy

Dr David Jones, the head of climate analysis at the Bureau of Meteorology, recently attributed a decline in Melbourne’s rainfall to global warming.    Amongst various comments, he claimed in The Age that the autumn drying trend could be linked to either human-induced climate change through greenhouse gases or changes in the ozone layer over Antarctica.  
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Dr Roy Spencer is a well known climate sceptic who has published extensively in mainstream peer-reviewed scientific journals and earlier this year had a popular book published entitled ‘Climate Confusion’. 
Yesterday, November 3, 2008, two technical papers that Dr Spencer had recently submitted to the journal Geophysical Research Letters were outright rejected in back-to-back emails and on [...]

The United States presidential election of 2008 is scheduled for today, November 4.  While the campaign was dominated initially by foreign policy and more recently by the financial crisis, there are other issues including energy.    The likely new President, Barack Obama, has promised $150 billion for renewable energy, while Republican hopeful, John McCain, has promised 45 [...]

The European Union (EU) is developing a new ‘Thematic Strategy for Pesticides’ including a proposed new ‘Sustainable Use Directive’.  According to the UK’s Pesticide Safety Directorate the new regulation could outlaw up to 85 percent of pesticides currently used by farmers and render conventional agriculture as it is currently practised unachievable.  Professor Sir Colin Berry, [...]