Author: David Boyd

Travel Log – Ashes to Ashes

Here we go again... Saturday 10th August, 2019 Riots in Hong Kong and a very deep atmospheric low over south-eastern Australia gave rise to more than the usual pre-departure concerns about this trip. The latter meant Sydney Airport’s strong westerly winds reduced runway availability to the single east-west strip and we were 90 minutes late … Continue reading Travel Log – Ashes to Ashes →

Recommended Reading for Business CEO’s

Here is the speech Mr BHP should have delivered by JANET ALBRECHTSEN 12:00AM JULY 31, 2019 I am the chief executive of BHP. For a brief moment last week, I thought about giving a speech in London to an august crowd, some lords and ambassadors and other masters of the universe. It’s not as neat … Continue reading Recommended Reading for Business CEO’s →

Beware The Precautionary Principle

Sanjeev Sabhlok: Why The Precautionary Principle Is Bad Policy The Times of India, 23 July 2019 We have evolved as a species to be curious about scary things. Newspapers love to publish scary reports, which are like click-bait: they catch our attention. Health scares fascinate us the most. Environmental scares grab our interest, as well. … Continue reading Beware The Precautionary Principle →

Climate Change- Essential Reading

https://www.spectator.com.au/2019/07/if-theres-just-one-thing-you-need-to-read-on-climate-science/ Arthur Chrenkoff https://spectatorau.imgix.net/content/uploads/2019/07/edit.jpg?auto=compress,enhance,format&crop=faces,entropy,edges&fit=crop&w=820&h=550 This could be it. None of the contents are new or original, but in this longer-than-an-average opinion piece, Bjorn Lomborg distils all the elements of the argument he has been making for the past decade or two – coincidentally, from a position of someone who is not a “climate change denier” … Continue reading Climate Change- Essential Reading →

Energy Hard Facts

COMMENTARY Inconvenient Energy Realities Mark P. Mills JULY 1, 2019  ENERGY The math behind “The New Energy Economy: An Exercise in Magical Thinking” A week doesn’t pass without a mayor, governor, policymaker or pundit joining the rush to demand, or predict, an energy future that is entirely based on wind/solar and batteries, freed from the … Continue reading Energy Hard Facts →

A conversation with John Christy, for Association des climato-réalistes

Guest interview by Grégoire Canlorbe. John Raymond Christy is a climate scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) whose chief interests are satellite remote sensing of global climate and global climate change. In February 2019 he was named as a member of the EPA Science Advisory Board. In May 2019 he was interviewed … Continue reading A conversation with John Christy, for Association des climato-réalistes →

ABC Four Corners-Murray Darling Basin Massacre

Not for the first time, last night's Four Corners programme must surely go down in broadcasting annals as quite the most misleading, dishonest dissertation ever produced. The major target for the attack, Webster Limited, has drawn a strong reply which everybody interested should read-http://www.websterltd.com.au/ This nationally damaging episode should be called out for what it … Continue reading ABC Four Corners-Murray Darling Basin Massacre →

Pommies Go Mad

  Press Release 27/06/19 House of Lords Rebukes Government for Rushing Through Net Zero London, 27 June: Last night, Peers rebuked the Government for committing the UK to a Net Zero emissions target with little scrutiny and no plan for how it might be achieved.  The Chancellor has warned that the cost of reducing net greenhouse emissions to zero by 2050 could … Continue reading Pommies Go Mad →

When Will the Conventional Wisdom Accept Realities?

Climate Models Have Been Predicting Too Much Warming Leading scientist warns that computer simulations are unreliable London, 23 May: A leading climatologist has said that the computer simulations that are used to predict global warming are failing on a key measure of the climate today, and cannot be trusted. Speaking to a meeting in the … Continue reading When Will the Conventional Wisdom Accept Realities? →