Posts in ‘Environment’

What would a deliberative poll show on Greenhouse?

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Two weeks ago a deliberative poll held in Canberra persuaded a significant number of participants to soften their attitudes towards muslims – 14 percent, according to Mike Steketee in The Australian. Jennifer Marohasy draws attention to a slightly different deliberation in New York. Two teams debated the topic “Global Warming is not a crisis” and […]

Continue Reading...
Posted by Graham at 10:44 am | Comments (1) |
Filed under: Environment

IPCC ought to be feeling the heat.

Monday, February 5th, 2007

Imagine the outcry if BHP published the executive summary of its results, but kept the accounts under wraps for another couple of months. ASIC and the stock exchange would both issue notices, financial journalists would release thunderbolts from their op-ed columns and the shares would take a tumble, that’s if they weren’t suspended. Well, that’s […]

Continue Reading...
Posted by Graham at 3:17 am | Comments (11) |
Filed under: Environment

Framing the market

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Nicholas Stern has produced a report Interesting to see the paranoid left fawning over a former head economist of the World Bank. The report attempts to take an economic view of the global warming theory and comes to the conclusion that we need to radically change our ways to avert disaster. I haven’t read the […]

Continue Reading...
Posted by Graham at 8:02 pm | Comments (11) |
Filed under: Environment

Wayne Swan a casualty in the CO2 wars?

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

The Greenhouse debate seems to have swung firmly in the favour of the global warming alarmists, even as the science, and the IPCC reports, are tending in the other direction, and as happens when the public relations hacks really get their teeth into something, truth is replaced by half-truth and then plain hyperbole. The master […]

Continue Reading...
Posted by Graham at 7:12 am | Comments (8) |
Filed under: Environment

The Carbon Dioxide Wars

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

I’ve just seen Al Gore’s movie, “An Inconvenient Truth” and it has all the weight of a CIA dossier on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2003. He must be the only one in the world to think that Tuvalu and Kirribati have sunk into the Pacific Ocean! The whole reeked of either another […]

Continue Reading...
Posted by Graham at 9:22 am | Comments (8) |
Filed under: Environment

Very Gore-y, but not gory enough

Saturday, September 9th, 2006

A friend on the East Coast of the USA complains that An Inconvenient Truth is not playing at any of the local cinemas. That’s about 150 films per day within a 30 km radius of her house. After seeing the SBS program about the Bush admin’s suppression of information about the reality of global warming, […]

Continue Reading...
Posted by Ronda Jambe at 1:35 pm | Comments Off on Very Gore-y, but not gory enough |
Filed under: Environment

Those who do not understand the present are bound to misinterpret the past

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

In his 2004 Massey Lecture (rebroadcast on Australian radio this summer by the ABC) historian Ronald Wright argues that because we can understand what went wrong in past civilisations we can learn their lessons and not repeat them in the present. In the excerpt I heard he was particularly glowing of the work done on […]

Continue Reading...
Posted by Graham at 10:38 pm | Comments (5) |
Filed under: Environment

The Australian solution to Greenhouse

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

AP6 which just held its meeting in Sydney, is little more than a public relations exercise. Just like Kyoto. The solutions to earth’s problems are intractable. At the moment we are concentrating on moderating energy requirements by trying to limit carbon dioxide emissions per person. This is fraught, because it ultimately will require decreases in […]

Continue Reading...
Posted by Graham at 10:17 pm | Comments (5) |
Filed under: Environment

Marine Lawyer speaks for himself on ramming

Saturday, January 14th, 2006

I’ve corresponded with Eric Wilson, the marine lawyer referred to in my previous post, and he is happy for me to post the contents of his email to me. It raises its own issues about how the media is dealing with this issue, and by extension, media conduct in general. We refer to what we […]

Continue Reading...
Posted by Graham at 3:07 pm | Comments (2) |
Filed under: Environment

Marine lawyer concurs – Nisshin Maru was rammed

Friday, January 13th, 2006

An article in the New Zealand Herald was brought to my attention by a Greenpeace supporter who claimed: The evidence does not show that Greenpeace is to blame in fact when the evidence was reviewed by a marine law expert from Monash University he said the whalers were to blame. Here’s the article about it: […]

Continue Reading...
Posted by Graham at 6:59 am | Comments (4) |
Filed under: Environment