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
Tag: Global Warming
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
Let’s Not Pollute Minds With Carbon Fears-Ian Plimer
NOVEMBER 22, 2019 As soon as the words carbon footprint, emissions, pollution, and decarbonisation, climate emergency, extreme weather, unprecedented and extinction are used, I know I am being conned by ignorant activists, populist scaremongering, vote-chasing politicians and rent seekers. Pollution by plastics, sulphur and nitrogen gases, particulates and chemicals occurs in developing countries. That’s real … Continue reading Let’s Not Pollute Minds With Carbon Fears-Ian Plimer
Global Warming/Climate Change -A Search for Balance
Data is Everything!
https://youtu.be/8455KEDitpU Looks pretty convincing to me! Son Michael tells me that "data is everything"! Why is this such an emotional topic? It's more like a religion where faith is required, rather than one which we should be able to deal with, by the use of rational hard facts. The hypothesis of human caused, huge increases … Continue reading Data is Everything!
Climate Change-All in One
The Globalism of Climate: How Faux Environmental Concern Hides Desire to Rule the World Barbara McKenzieUncategorized February 23, 2019 [Edit: it was in 1988, not 1986, that Hansen and Wirth sabotaged the air conditioning in a US Senate committee room in order to make their global warming point] The primary function of ‘global warming’ alarmism, aka as the … Continue reading Climate Change-All in One