In Toronto, Canada this week there was an excellent debate on the issue of climate change-(Google Monk Debates). I watched it all live and much of it a second time. I remain convinced that like with the Millennium Bug, much of the world has been the subject of a huge "con". Allbeit that most of … Continue reading Climate Change Debate →

Dear Ian,I have watched the development of your political career from QGGA to Minister for Industry, with admiration. However, to hear you as a genuine "bushie" refer to the CPRS as a "cimate change solution" truly shocks me. I am afraid that you and my friend Malcolm Turnbull have been playing populist politics on this … Continue reading Email Sent to Ian Macfarlane MP at 8:30AM on 01.12.09 →

Senators,Just look at the Breaking News:Electricity bills forecast to increase by 60%-half due to the ETS. "Climategate" getting big coverage particularly in the UK-the key scientific global warming alarmists have been "fiddling the numbers". Messrs Minchin and Abbott are on a vote winner and are prepared to show leadership in challenging conventional wisdom. Please get … Continue reading Email Sent to Certain Senators on 30.11.09 →

The truth is, evidence of man's impact on climate remains maddeningly elusive, in part because man's impact on climate is so small as to be hard to disentangle from natural variability. This is not Mr. Gore's position, of course. If anything, however, the case for action has become less closed since he pronounced it closed … Continue reading Al Gore and Global Warming →

An Interview with Ian Plimer by Robert Tracinski and Tom Minchin Aug 05, 2009In our recent article on the "intellectual climate change" in the global warming debate in Australia, Tom Minchin and I mentioned the key role played by geologist Ian Plimer of the University of Adelaide. Plimer's book Heaven and Earth, which is now … Continue reading Ian Plimer Interview →

Dear Senator,I would like to congratulate you and encourage you on the stance you are taking on this subject. The arrogant dismissal of legitimate questioning of the science behind the conventional position has been appalling. It is my view that we humans are inclined to overstate our impacts and our level of control. I think … Continue reading Global Warming Theology-Open Email to Senator Fielding →

Carbon DioxideWednesday 07 May, 2008 - 10:49 by David Boyd FUN FACTS about CARBON DIOXIDEOf the 186 billion tons of CO2 that enter earth's atmosphere each year from all sources, only 6 billion tons are from human activity. Approximately 90 billion tons come from biologic activity in earth's oceans and another 90 billion tons from … Continue reading Fun Facts of Carbon Dioxide →

In his new book, Heaven and Earth: Climate change – the real science, Prof Plimer, from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Adelaide, notes that climatic change is ‘the norm’, sea levels rise and fall all the time, and that climate cycles are driven by massive forces completely unrelated to … Continue reading Climate Change-Ian Plimer →

Global WarmingWednesday 07 May, 2008 - 10:20 by David Boyd in Global WarmingThe Conservative Position on Global Warming:The strongest conservative position on global warming is as follows:Climate change is happening, always has happened and always will; humans contribute to it to some unknown degree; a hysterical U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has leapt far … Continue reading Climate Change-Washington Times →