Joanne Nova
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Joanne Nova | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | Molecular Biology[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Western Australia |
| Website | Jo Nova |
Joanne Nova is an Australian author, science presenter, and professional speaker & former TV host,[2] who specializes in the communication and presentation of scientific issues. She has done presentations on television, radio, stage and at exhibitions.[2][3] She is a past Lecturer on Science Communication at Australian National University[3]
Nova received a Bachelor of Science first class and won the FH Faulding and the Swan Brewery prizes at the University of Western Australia. Her major was microbiology, molecular biology and she also did honours research into DNA markers for use in muscular dystrophy trials.[1]
Career
After graduating from university, Nova managed Shell Questacon Science Circus for five years, touring Australia to give science presentations.[2] She now manages the company Science Speak.[4]
From November 1999 to February 2000 Nova was the presenter for the Australian children's science television show Y?[5] and worked for a short period on Space Cadets, a science fiction show by Foxtel.[1]
She has worked for ABC Radio as a science presenter [6], and has given over 200 interviews on radio.[7]
Work in Genetics
Because of her background in genetics she has been interviewd about human longevity [8] In an interview with Ian Thomson on ABC she stated that people may live to 150 years of age due to the advances made in the field of genetics. [9]
Views on climate change
Nova is sceptical over the theory on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) and is the author of The Sceptics Hand Book which has over 200,000 copies distributed and has been translated into eleven languages.[3][10]
Writing on the ABC The Drum, she has said "Sceptics are fighting a billion dollar industry aligned with a trillion dollar trading scheme. Big Oil's supposed evil influence has been vastly outdone by Big Government, and even those taxpayer billions are trumped by Big-Banking". After she investigated the amounts of funding given to those sceptical of AGW, she stated that Exxon Mobil had given $100 million to Stanford University's Global Climate and Energy Project, and $600 million for researching Biofuels.[11]
On the Climatic Research Unit email controversy controversy she has said, "The emails show some of the leading players in climate science talking about tricks to 'hide declines', they boast about manipulating the peer review process, and 'getting' rid of papers they didn't like from the IPCC reports. It's clear the data wasn't going the way they hoped, yet they screwed the results every way they could to milk the 'right' conclusion. Above all else, they feared freedom of information requests, and did everything they could to avoid providing their data. ClimateGate shows these people were not practising science, but advocacy and have been doing it for decades".[12]
Nova has had a five part debate on AGW with Dr Andrew Glikson, first on Quadrant Online,[13] and continuing on her own blog.[14]
She supported Peter Spencer's hunger strike against New South Wales laws on combating climate change.[15]
Ebook
References
- ^ a b c Nova, Joanne. "Who is Joanne?". Joanne Nova. p. 1. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
- ^ a b c Nova, Joanne. "About". Joanne Nova. p. 1. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
- ^ a b c http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2835633.htm
- ^ http://sciencecircus.questacon.edu.au/scholars/display.asp?ID=180
- ^ http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2835633.htm
- ^ http://www.smh.com.au/national/hunger-strike-drives-further-wedge-into-coalition-20100104-lq7j.html
- ^ http://www.heartland.org/books/SkepticsHandbook.html
- ^ Hamer, Michelle (11 August, 2003). "Mere immortals". The Age. The Age Company. p. 1. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Townsend, Ian (3 October , 2001). "The implications of longevity". ABC News. ABC. p. 1. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Nova, Joanne. "The Skeptics Handbook". Joanne Nova. p. 1. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
- ^ Nova, Joanne (4 March 2010). "The money trail". ABC. ABC. p. 1. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
- ^ Nova, Joanne (12 April 2010). "Who needs a committee report to spot rank deception?". ABC. ABC. p. 1. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
- ^ "Glikson or Nova?". Quadrant Magazine. Quadrant Magazine. 30 April 2010. p. 1. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
- ^ Nova, Joanne (11 May 2010). "Great Debate Part III & IV – Glikson accidentally vindicates the skeptics!". Joanne Nova. p. 1. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
- ^ Harrison, Dan (5 January 2010). "Farmers rally for hunger striker". Brisbane Times. Fairfax Media. p. 1. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
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