noesis
21-04-2009, 11:59 PM
I just wanted to highlight this story from Australian columist Andrew Bolt who has long been very public about his climate change/global warming scepticism. He can be a bit of a tosser on some issues but he is one of the few media voices in our country that writes on this topic.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25367707-5000117,00.html
He highlights an Australian climatologist who has come out with a book that challenges the government line on climate change.
ownoiz
22-04-2009, 04:32 AM
And unfortunately next to the article, ol' Rupert is advertising how news limited will be 'carbon neutral'
http://m1.au.2mdn.net/viewad/1790500/OneDegree_March08_300x250.gif
Anyway, back OT...the National Famers Federation has also backed the professor..so something is definately cooking (or cooling) here...lets hope its not controlled opposition...you know...tell the people what they wanna hear kind of deal...
The National Farmers' Federation has thrown its backing behind controversial climate change dissenter, Professor Ian Plimer, whose new book aims to debunk the theories and dire predictions of some within the scientific fraternity.
In 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 carbon emissions.
"Climate changes in the past have been far greater and far more rapid than anything measured in the present," he writes.
"Not one previous climate change has ever been driven by carbon dioxide.
"To talk of carbon pollution shows an appalling ignorance of basic school science.
Full Story:
NFF backs climate change dissenter (http://sj.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/agribusiness-and-general/finance/nff-backs-climate-change-dissenter/1491908.aspx)
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