Jennifer Marohasy

LAST Wednesday, I had the privilege of appearing in front of the Australian Senate Select Committee on Climate Policy.
My main advice to the committee was that making a decision regarding an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) must be considered as a cost:benefit matter.
According to the only estimates that I could find, after ramp-up the cost of the [...]

Public hostility toward George Bush and the Republicans likely expressed itself in part as hostility toward global warming scepticism, with which Bush and the Republicans were identified. As soon as the Republicans lost power, many in the public lost their fervour in opposing climate change scepticism.  Read more here from Lawrence Solomon.

The book entitled ‘Heaven And Earth’ by one of Australia’s foremost Earth scientists and outspoken climate change sceptic, Professor Ian Plimer, is “brilliantly argued”.  At least that’s according to Paul Sheehan writing in the Sydney Morning Herald.   Find out for yourself by attending one of the book launches and getting yourself a copy:
The ADELAIDE book-launch at Parliament [...]

WE were all appalled by the death and destruction that was the Victorian bushfires early this year.  On Black Saturday nearly 200 people died.   The number of koalas incinerated probably runs into the thousands, the number of native birds dead in the millions.  
A Royal Commission was established with the Victorian Government promising an inclusive process with the [...]

More than 32 species of amphibians in danger of extinction are being held in captivity to protect them against the Chytrid fungus.  Read more here.  Picture from Wikipedia.

The annual media portrayal of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica has become a predictable event.  Read more here.

Steve McIntyre finds it hard to believe that the British Antarctic Survey would permit the deletion of relevant files for two recent publications or that there aren’t any backups for the deleted data on institutional servers.  Read more here.