BACK in 2016, when I asked Peter Ridd if he would write a chapter for the book I was editing I could not possibly have envisaged it could contribute to the end of his thirty-year career as a university professor. Considering that Peter enrolled at … [Read more...] about University Professor Sacked for Telling-the-Truth
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‘Kill Climate Deniers’ – Now Showing at a Sydney Theatre
JUST two generations back, in the 1960s, mainstream Australian society shunned both unmarried pregnant women and also homosexuals. They were loathed, and it would have been considered reasonable for the local police to turn-a-blind eye should … [Read more...] about ‘Kill Climate Deniers’ – Now Showing at a Sydney Theatre
Concerned About Prof Peter Ridd
I have been chatting off-and-on with Peter Ridd, now Professor of Physics at James Cook University, for nearly two decades. We both resent the lack of honesty in the reporting of many environmental issues. Earlier this week, Prof Ridd was … [Read more...] about Concerned About Prof Peter Ridd
Her Best Memories Were of Lying on the Sand in Dry Creek Beds, Watching the Stars
When I was at University in Brisbane in the early 1980s, some of my friends used to going skiing during the winter holidays; the two or three weeks in June or July between semesters. I assumed I didn’t have enough money for skiing, and anyway I was … [Read more...] about Her Best Memories Were of Lying on the Sand in Dry Creek Beds, Watching the Stars
Will the Senate Select Committee Care About the Fish, or the Estuary?
I will be in Goolwa, just to the north west of the Murray River’s sea mouth, on Tuesday 8th December to give evidence to the Senate Select Committee on the Murray Darling Basin Plan. This committee is chaired by David Leyonhjelm, the … [Read more...] about Will the Senate Select Committee Care About the Fish, or the Estuary?
Bureau Just Makes Stuff Up: Deniliquin Remodelled so Rutherglen can be Homogenized
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology just makes stuff up. You may remember Rutherglen, that town in north eastern Victoria, Australia, where the Bureau changed a slight cooling trend in the minimum temperatures to catastrophic global … [Read more...] about Bureau Just Makes Stuff Up: Deniliquin Remodelled so Rutherglen can be Homogenized
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.