Jennifer Marohasy

CAR manufacturer Renault has announced a commitment to the production of at least 100,000 electric cars by 2016. 
The announcement was made at the Frankfurt Motor Show with the cars to be built for drivers in Israel and Denmark.  
The success of electric vehicles will depend on the development of a network of charging points and swapping stations.  [...]

Europe has clashed with the US Obama administration over climate change in a potentially damaging split that comes ahead of crucial political negotiations on a new global deal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.    US negotiators have told European counterparts that the Obama administration intends to sweep away almost all of the Kyoto architecture and replace [...]

 A TECHNICAL paper, Secular temperature changes in Hawai‘i, published just last year in Geophysical Research Letters indicates there has been recent warming on the island of Hawaii and this has been most evident at high elevations. Retired economist, Tim Curtin, has reviewed the paper and comes to a different conclusion.
Mr Curtin has also plotted his own chart, see above, [...]

IN some Australian schools science teachers are being asked to tell about the dangers of global warming and show Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth in order to prepare the students for the big vote at http://youthdecide.com.au/ .
The vote is sponsored by World Vision; Australia’s largest charitable organisation with a history of working with schools. 
When I was about 13, [...]