The Right Climate For Optimism
This article from the Summer 2019 edition of the IPA Review is by IPA Research Fellow and co-host of the Young IPA Podcast, Peter Gregory. Doom and gloom are rife among young people over the state...
Great Minds Shunned Alike
This Editorial from the Summer 2019 Edition of the IPA Review is by IPA Executive General Manager and Editor of the IPA Review, Scott Hargreaves. I wish I’d been in the room in Oslo, Norway, when...
Hayne Is The Green Harbinger Of More Red Tape
Far from being a disinterested arbiter of banking regulation, Kenneth Hayne’s comments about climate change have proven he is just another left-wing representative of the Canberra swamp and the...
Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review
Haunted By The Miserable Ghost
I still think back to that night in mid-May this year: scrutineering in some far-flung warehouse in suburban Melbourne, running down my phone battery to check seat-by-seat results, as it dawned on...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Clive James’ Chapter In Climate Change: The Facts 2017
This essay first appeared as Chapter 22 of the IPA publication, Climate Change: The Facts 2017. Click here to read this as a PDF. When you tell people once too often that the missing extra heat is...
Why Deny the Beautiful Coral Reefs Fringing Stone Island?
We live in an era when it is politically incorrect to say the Great Barrier Reef is doing fine, except if it’s in a tourist brochure. The issue has nothing to do with the actual state of corals...
Experts Now Agree: Acropora Coral at Stone Island
APPARENTLY the Nature article I quote from in my new first film Beige Reef doesn’t claim there is no longer any Acropora at Stone Island. According to Graham Readfearn, writing today in The...
IPA Media Release – IPA Launches ‘Beige Reef’: A New Short Film By Dr Jennifer Marohasy On The Great Barrier Reef
The Institute of Public Affairs has released a new, must-watch short film by Senior Fellow Dr Jennifer Marohasy which contradicts everything you’ve heard about climate change threatening the Great...
Jennifer Marohasy’s Top Ten Hits on the Bureau of Meteorology
Dodgy Data Homogenisation Practices and Deficient Temperature Data Collection Background: Much of Dr Jennifer Marohasy’s research over the past decade has been on how the Bureau of Meteorology...
Climate Change: The Facts — And How You Can Help To Spread Them
As the editor of the last book — and the next — in the Institute of Public Affairs’ Climate Change: The Facts series I spend a lot of time pondering the nature of ‘facts’. A fact is something...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Watering Australia’s Intellectual Deserts
If what happened at RMIT University in Melbourne last week was a one-off event, it could be laughed at as the behaviour of a single rogue academic. But the pity is that the actions of a senior...
Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review
How To Evaluate The Evidence Of Contrarians – Scientifically
Fundamental to the scientific method is the assumption that reality exists independently of our belief systems; that there is such a thing as evidence, and that it matters. There seems to be...
Originally appeared in jennifermarohasy.com on 21st September 2019
Come Visit The Reef With Me, Misha Ketchell
Fundamental to the scientific method is the assumption that reality exists independently of our belief systems; that there is such a thing as evidence, and that it matters. Misha Ketchell, is the...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Our Universities Have Caved In To Lazy Groupthink
In the lead-up to Friday’s Global Climate Strike, enlightening emails have found their way into staff and student university inboxes. These communications are as illuminating as they are...
Originally appeared in The Australian
IPA Announces Fundraising Campaign Climate Change: The Facts 2020
The Institute of Public Affairs has announced the fourth book in the Climate Change: The Facts series will be published in 2020. It has launched an appeal to crowdfund publication of the book and...
Dr Peter Ridd Wins $1.2 Million In Damages For Unlawful Sacking By JCU For Questioning Climate Science
The Institute of Public Affairs has welcomed the decision of the Federal Circuit Court in relation to Dr Peter Ridd’s case against James Cook University. Today, it was announced in the Federal...
Found: 25 Hectares of Acropora at Stone Island
CORAL reefs in shallow waters adjacent to the Australian mainland are considered particularly susceptible to coral bleaching, and also smothering by sediment from turbid water. This was all...
Aunty Complains About A Lack Of Alternative Views? That’s A Bit Rich
Media Watch is everything that is wrong with the ABC, squeezed into 15 insufferable minutes. Smug, elitist and, above all, awash with the misguided idea that commercial media outlets are not to be...