Jennifer Marohasy

A NEW paper by Mike Letnic from the University of Sydney adds more weight to the argument that the best way to save Australia’s small native rodents, in particular the dusky hopping mouse, is to protect the dingo because it also preys on foxes and foxes are more damaging to the small cute and furies than the [...]

“What’s clear is eco-activists and their allies will do anything to avoid talking about their real goals, which have less to do with cleaning up the environment than with pulling down capitalism.”
‘What Green Means’, Investor Business Daily, http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=326414989713648
Parts 1-7 of this series are archived here http://jennifermarohasy.com/blog/tag/philosophy/
Picture shows the impact of crabs burrowing on the beach, Yeppoon, Queensland, [...]

THERE has been no general decline in rainfall in Australia due to global warming.   But it is possible that the Murray Darling Basin, once regarded as the food bowl of Australia, will get even drier.  
When farmers say that the region has never been as dry in their lifetime they are correct.  However, the data clearly show [...]

Where the output of computer software is held in higher regard than observational data, where marketing spin is more important than fact and evidence, and where a trenchant defence of the notion of man-made global warming is seen as paramount…  Read more here.

R.K. Pachauri, Chair of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says he hopes that other developed countries are not as vulnerable as Australia to business pressures and lobbies working against stiff carbon emissions targets.  Read more here.