I was greatly attracted by this article from grazier George King. It is very much in line with my thinking. photo: George King Published on March 13, 2020 George King Managing Director at The Whitney Pastoral Company Pty Ltd, "Coombing Park" Many people must be incredibly perplexed as to why the environmental discussion has abandoned real … Continue reading Religion of Carbon, the devil is in the doctrine →

Letter to the Editor The Australian                       18 Feb 2020 Sir What hope does business have in Australia when business leaders like those of the Business Council of Australia, coal miners BHP and  Anglo American and many others clamour for a net zero emissions by 2050 as the means to save this country from the perceived … Continue reading Global Warming-Honesty and Wisdom →

Without a mandate, Liberals in name only (Linos) under Malcolm Turnbull, introduced legislation forcing Australian electricity retailers to purchase, at peak hour, only unreliable and expensive renewable electricity instead of cheap and reliable coal-fired electricity. The result is that we have gone from having the cheapest and most reliable electricity grid in the world to … Continue reading A Letter To Angus Taylor and Matthais Cormann →

The graph, drawn from raw data supplied by NASA and sourced from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, plots global monthly satellite temperature measurements for the 20 years to December 2016. The graph shows that the observed temperature trend over the twenty year period was an increase of only 0.06 degrees C per decade, or 0.6 degrees over … Continue reading Global Warming Graph →

8th February-Weekend Australian The climate debate has turned hysterical and ugly; Scott Morrison must defeat this madness Climate politics in this country are so wacky that informed adults ought to scoff at them and move on. But with Labor, the Greens, much of the media and some Liberal moderates caught up in this nuttiness, Scott … Continue reading Climate Change-Chris Kenny Talks Sense as Usual →

Senator Cormann (at Davos) also stressed the huge size of the Australian continent and its history of extreme weather events in any global discussion of the bushfires. “Yes, climate change is making things worse … But we have also got to keep it in perspective. In a sense, Australia has always been a country that … Continue reading Bushfires-Perspective →

It is to be hoped that the inevitable post mortems-Royal Commission/government enquiries or whatever, will bring some appropriate balance to the polarised current debate and the lessons to be learnt for the future. The usual desire for a "silver bullet" single cause needs to be tempered with the recognition of the multiple factors which led … Continue reading Australian Bushfires -Post Mortems →