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
Author: David Boyd
A Letter To Angus Taylor and Matthais Cormann
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
Global Warming Graph
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
Climate Change-Chris Kenny Talks Sense as Usual
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
Bushfires-Perspective
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
Australian Bushfires -Post Mortems
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
Vale Roger Scruton
The sad overnight news of the death of Roger Scruton calls for a tribute. None better than digesting his own words- Roger Scruton Contributor World Affairs. Our world is hungry for meaning and I explore our ways of finding it.This article is more than 2 years old. In a report published last week in London, Andrew Miller, … Continue reading Vale Roger Scruton
Christmas Cheer
Matt Ridley: We’ve Just Had The Best Decade In Human History. Seriously The Spectator, 21 December 2019 Little of this made the news, because good news is no news Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through the greatest improvement in human … Continue reading Christmas Cheer
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More BGO’s (Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious)
''The panel, headed by former Murray Darling Basin Authority board member George Warne, called for an end to predetermined flow rates." A quote from this week's Water Minister's Brisbane meeting. In a massively variable rainfall/run-off environment, this should surely be a self evident truth. The establishment of a fixed Sustainable Diversion Limit (SDL) for each … Continue reading More BGO’s (Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious)
