Jennifer Marohasy

Warming in Antarctica?

22 July 2023 9:00 am

Only using ‘creative’ statistics

Rain Bom

12 March 2022 9:00 am

Are CO2 emissions to blame for the floods?

In defence of nomadic farming, including with fire

20 February 2022 12:00 pm

For traditional Aboriginal Australians the concept of ‘Wilderness’ was not a cause for fond nostalgia, but was perceived as a…

Australian notes

5 February 2022 9:00 am

Selling the dying Great Barrier Reef With the recent A$1billion announced to save the ‘dying’ Great Barrier Reef, I wonder…

Aloha carbon emissions

29 January 2022 9:00 am

The Tongan island that blew up explodes the climate myth about sea levels

Aussie Life

22 January 2022 9:00 am

I live by the sea and like walking along the coastline including scrambling over the rock ledges in Noosa National…

Maori science beats woke myths

8 January 2022 9:00 am

We need to return to empirical evidence

Dead reef? What dead reef?

13 September 2021 5:19 pm

Next time you read that such and such a percentage of the Great Barrier Reef has already been destroyed by…

Fighting for the truth about the Reef

10 June 2021 7:17 pm

It is an injustice that turtles are blown up in the Gulf of Mexico because American oil companies choose a…

A good day for Peter Ridd - and free speech

11 February 2021 2:01 pm

A potentially crucial blow for academic freedom and free speech has been struck today, with the High Court granting former…

Great Barrier Reef platitudes: more dangerous than sharks

31 August 2020 6:22 pm

It has always been the case that the individual is expected to conform and that there is hierarchy within myths.…

Peter Ridd loses, we all lose

23 July 2020 10:30 am

On 2 May 2018, Professor Peter Ridd was sacked by James Cook University for serious misconduct. It all started when…

Revealed: the true hottest day ever recorded in Australia

12 July 2020 2:48 pm

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology deleted what was long regarded as the hottest day ever recorded in Australia, Bourke’s 125°F…

Don’t let the truth of these terrible weeks be forgotten or rewritten

14 January 2020 5:44 pm

The infernos of January 2020 will be remembered for destroying so much of south-eastern Australia. I weep for their victims.…

Tragic, but unprecedented? Not yet

6 January 2020 4:57 pm

The word unprecedented is applied to almost every bad thing that happens at the moment, as though particular events could…

Why the left’s beef about the Reef?

24 November 2019 11:01 am

We live in an era when it is politically incorrect to say the Great Barrier Reef is doing fine, except…

The Beige Barrier Reef?

20 November 2019 4:03 pm

A key claim in a January 2016 article in the scientific journal, Nature, is that there are no longer any living colonies of Acropora…

Climate change; the facts — and how you can help to spread them

5 October 2019 12:21 pm

As the editor of the last book   — and the next — in the Institute of Public Affairs’ Climate Change:…

Jennifer Marohasy: come visit the reef with me, Misha Ketchell

23 September 2019 10:27 am

Fundamental to the scientific method is the assumption that reality exists independently of our belief systems; that there is such…

How will more pen-pushers help the Great Barrier Reef?

17 July 2019 5:00 am

The idea that the Great Barrier Reef is in need of saving from catastrophe is popular, especially among academics and…

Some coral just isn’t sexy enough for James Cook Uni and the Climate Inquisition

6 May 2019 5:00 pm

The First Finding handed down by Judge Salvador Vasta in the Peter Ridd court case concerned Bramston reef off Bowen…

Peter Ridd has defeated the Climate Inquisition thanks to you

16 April 2019 6:37 pm

Peter Ridd was a professor at James Cook University who dared to question claims that the Great Barrier Reef is…

The hottest summer on record except for the ones that we’ve changed

10 March 2019 9:00 am

This last summer has been hot in south-eastern Australia. But was it the hottest ever? Summer 80 years ago was…

Is Canberra’s strongest sceptic set for the high jump?

30 May 2018 12:46 pm

The Australian parliament is replete with closet-sceptics of human-caused catastrophic global warming. But Craig Kelly actually speaks out on this…

The Climate Inquisition burns a heretic

19 May 2018 3:01 pm

Back in 2016, when I asked Peter Ridd if he would write a chapter for the book I was editing…