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Jennifer Marohasy

Portrait of Jennifer Marohasy

Senior Fellow

Dr Jennifer Marohasy is a Senior Fellow at the Insititute of Public Affairs, a Director of the Australian Environment Foundation, a columnist for The Land and has her own blog at www.jennifermarohasy.com. Jennifer has a Bachelor of Science and a PhD from the University of Queensland and over a dozen research papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals mostly from her work as a biologist in Africa during the 1980s and early 1990s.  Jennifer is well known as a ‘global warming sceptic' and like many of the early naturalists, including Thomas Huxley, considers scepticism important for the progress of science. 

Contact details

Telephone: 0418 873 222

Related publications

Misbehaving models and missing mammals

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Jennifer Marohasy

Jennifer Marohasy reviews Science and Public Policy: The Virtuous Corruption of Virtual Environmental Science by Aynsley Kellow. In 2000 the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) claimed a species of Cambodian mountain goat,...

New satellite data casts doubts on global warming models

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Jennifer Marohasy

New NASA data from their Aqua Satellite throws doubt on the validity of climate change models currently being used by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. For the first time scientists have found a strong negative cloud...

Scientific independence is more than media releases

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Jennifer Marohasy

Just before Christmas a directive from the new Federal Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research mandated that all ‘strategic' media releases, including those dealing with climate change, must be consistent with the...

The new water minister has a chance to wean Adelaide off the Murray River

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Jennifer Marohasy

A disappointing cool down

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Jennifer Marohasy

Jennifer Marohasy reviews Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming.

Related news

Case of the warm and fuzzy

Food & Environment and Climate Change | | Jennifer Marohasy
The Australian 23rd August, 2008

Three claims have been repeated so often they are accepted as fact: global temperatures are rising, we have less rainfall and so water is becoming...

Saving the Coorong by restoring its native state

Food & Environment and Water | | Jennifer Marohasy
Online Opinion 14th August, 2008

When the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Penny Wong, recently announced that there was insufficient water in upstream dams to flood the...

More science less opinion on GM and rats

Food & Environment and Food | | Jennifer Marohasy
The Land 7th August, 2008

Another Look at GM Corn Seems Merited Those who make their living from lobbying/marketing sometimes claim "perception is reality".  One topic...

Wong rewriting history

Climate Change | | Jennifer Marohasy
The Land 24th July, 2008

Hottest 12 years in past 13? Wong's not even warm When Federal Climate Change and Water Minister, Penny Wong, released her Government's Green paper...

Delusions of Grandeur in the Wake of Garnaut

Climate Change | | Jennifer Marohasy
The Land 10th July, 2008

Since the election of the Rudd Labor government last year, and now with the release of the Garnaut Climate Change Review's Draft Report last...