Jennifer Marohasy

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LAST year Queensland farmers were informed that the Government had granted Tarong Energy a mineral development licence over the Haystack Road coal deposit on prime agricultural farmland.  The farmers are running a campaign against it.  Here’s the latest update:  
It was pleasing to see the very public commitment on the front page of the Toowoomba Chronicle [...]

P.D. Jones et al are now accepting urban warming over China at a rate of a degree per century. Bit of a change from 0.05 that the IPCC have parroted for decades, say Warwick Hughes, read more here.

We were very excited when we realized a lot of changes in the past century from warmer to cooler [global temperature trend] and then back to warmer were all natural, says Anastosios Tsonis, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.  Read more here.

CONNOR Court Publishing is about to release a new book by well known Australian geologist and climate change skeptic, Ian Plimer. 
It is entitled, ‘Heaven and Earth – Global Warming: The Missing Science’ 
According to the pre-release publicity:
THE Earth is an evolving dynamic system. Current changes in climate, sea level and ice are within variability. Atmospheric CO2  is [...]

Indonesia needs to squeeze far higher yields from existing palm oil plantations rather than open up more land – but chances are they will do both.   Read more here.