Jennifer Marohasy

IT is not a new paper, it was being discussed back in July by Roger Pielke Sr, but the paper by Compo and Sardeshmukhj was only recently brought to my attention and as an example of the use of the IPCC’s computer models to explain warming without reference to greenhouse gases.  That’s right, a peer reviewed paper [...]

There are… growing doubts about the long-term viability of the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme.  Read more here.

Folks,
As you might expect, Australia’s Canberra Times is a conformist newspaper that mostly goes along with the capital’s political fashions, and has long run the alarmist AGW line.   Over the weekend there has been a turn-around. Their economics editor, a well respected David Alexander, has written a long opinion piece plus a news item, in which [...]

Australia’s Independent Complaints Review Panel (ICRP) has upheld a complaint made against a segment on the 7.30 Report, titled “Pulp mill could taint catch: fishing industry”, broadcast on 5 June 2007 and later made available on ABC Online.   Read more here.

THE big news in Australia at the moment is yesterday’s Prime Ministerial announcement that Australia will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 5 per cent of 2000 levels by 2020, but could cut up to 15 percent if other countries also sign up to stronger reductions.
In response to criticism that the target is too low, [...]

The only clear, outright winners from Australia’s climate-change policy unveiled on Monday are the accountants and lawyers who will have to make sense of it.  Read more here.