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Jennifer Marohasy
Personal blog · jennifermarohasy.comsciencepolitics
Jennifer Marohasy's personal blog at jennifermarohasy.com covers science and politics. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jennifer Marohasy's blog for its climate-change commentary, including a post on a 'climate of fear' that one commenter found a super interesting read. Other links cover tree-clearing in Australia and the author's institute affiliation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Scientist, author and speaker, Dr Jennifer Marohasy, advocates for the restoration of the Murray River’s estuary and an empirical approach to climate change
What Hacker News says?
I found this a super interesting read https://jennifermarohasy.com/2021/10/plain-english-lost-on-t... It isn't exactly what you're asking for but shows a clear picture of the climate of fear which prevents certain things even being put out there. It reminds me of the group that didn't believe HIV causing AIDS had ever been given sufficient scientific proof to be a fact and how they were treated. (Including Kary Mull…
Comment linking /2021/10/plain-english-lost-on-the-high-court-of-australia/
on “Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the literature”> I'm also not sure what you mean by "controlled". Obviously not. You just offered the definition of uncontrolled. > climate change is just blah Well he makes a pretty good point that data dredging for correlations is bad science. But the real reason climate change is "blah" is that the world isn't actually warming. Clearly shown for over ten years now by satellite and ground station data. There was only warming aft…
Comment linking /blog/2009/06/how-the-us-temperature-record-is-adjusted/
on “The Longevity Experiment”It's long been a problem, couple decades at least in North Queensland, especially along the built up areas adjacent to a beach or rocky outcrop where some specially clever arsehole has figured if they were buying for cheap they could have million dollar views with a little bit of sweat and a half a bucket of poison. Same I feel was the case for selling a sheltered property that could have a couple of spectacular vie…
Comment linking /2026/06/25-years-diuron-mangrove-dieback-2011-paper/
on “If You Cut Down a Tree for a Better View in Australia, Authorities Block It”http://jennifermarohasy.com/about/ > In September 2015, I was appointed a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) – I had previously worked at the IPA from July 2003 to the end of 2008. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_Public_Affairs#Do... > The IPA funded by its membership which include both private individuals and businesses. Among these businesses are ExxonMobil, Telstra, WMC Res…
Comment linking /about/
on “Most of the Recent Warming Could Be Natural”