Posted by: donallan on: 21 May 2012
This is the copy of an e-mail I received yesterday. I am posting it because climate change is an important issue not just here in Australia but across the world. Now you may believe the world is doomed unless the predictions of the climate change lobby are accepted unquestioningly. But let me confess that I [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 1 December 2011
Published The Chronicle, Canberra, Tuesday, 29th November, 2011 “Showing a greater fondness for their own opinions than for truth, they sought to deny and disprove the new things which, if they had cared to look for themselves, their own senses would have demonstrated to them.” Galileo Galilei, 1615 Senator Bob Brown, Energy Minister Greg Combet [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 21 July 2011
Unabridged version of article in The Chronicle, Canberra, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 When minority Labor Government leader Prime Minister Julia Gillard – with support from powerful mini government Greens leader Senator Bob Brown and so called Independent MPs Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor – revealed details of the carbon (CO2) tax, I decided not comment immediately but [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 8 June 2011
First published, The Chronicle, Canberra, Tuesday 7 June Is the science of global warming settled as alleged by the scientists of the IPCCC, or are the sceptics who challenge the science right? Many people who know nothing of the science say the IPCC is right when they experience summer in winter and spring in autumn. [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 20 April 2011
First published The Chronicle, Tuesday, April 19, 2011 I view the Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as pessimists. I incline to that view because their theories say oceans will rise, islands will disappear and much of earth will become uninhabitable due to anthropogenic warming and a view that runs contrary to a commonly [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 13 March 2011
No new statute needed for statue removal I am delighted when people respond to my Chronicle column by e-mails, rude and otherwise. And while I don’t want readers to stop sending them if they want to tell the community that what I wrote was wrong a letter to the editor would serve their purpose better. [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 28 February 2011
As with budgets the figures given in many reports produced by experts pushing their own barrow are designed more to confuse than inform. Take the National Broadband Network for example. Depending on which media is the source of their information – newspaper, television or radio- little wonder voters are confused as to its cost: will it [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 14 December 2010
First published The Chronicle, Canberra, Tuesday14 December 2010 I understand the new world wide Church of Planet Earth (COPE) will soon make an application to build its new international headquarters and first Climate Change Temple in Canberra. However, before ACT developers start salivating, I understand that, in keeping with COPE’s environmental principles, architects and planner [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 14 September 2010
First published The Chronicle Canberra, Tuesday 14 September Prophets of doom regularly forecast that technology will kill off newspapers. Let me turn prophet and say in return that if these prophets are relying on making a living as doom forecasters they had better start searching for more likely corpses than newspapers. As they search they [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 7 September 2010
Published The Chronicle, Tuesday 7 September, 2010 Strangely, IPCC scientists (and Lord Nicolas Stern) all of whom say that planet earth is doomed unless CO2 emissions are cut never seem to mention nuclear fusion. Perhaps they’re shy? If so, I’ll say it for them. The fact is, energy produced by nuclear fusion is not only [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 7 September 2010
Posted 7 September extended version in ‘Online Opinion’ of article with same title posted 7 September, The Chronicle, Canberra. If the IPCC scientists who predict CO2 emissions cause climate change, and talk of the new technology being developed to combat it, never seem to mention nuclear fusion why should I be surprised that economist Professor Lord [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 13 March 2010
Due to shortage of space only a shortened version of this article was published in “The Chronicle,” Tuesday March, 2010. The proverb “Who is so deafe, or so blynde, as is hee,/ that wilfully will nother here nor see” (John Heywood Dialogue of Proverbs II, ix. K4 1546 and grandfather of John Donne, the famous [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 9 January 2010
Been reading, watching or listening to reports of the whale of a battle about whales in what, allegedly, is Australia’s Antarctic Southern Ocean (exclusive) Economic Zone? Whether or not the latter is accurate is a matter of dispute as some 47 member countries of the International Whaling Commission do not recognise Australia’s hegemony over the [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 19 December 2009
COP 15 has been a total cop out. From where I sit the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen puts me in mind of the TV programme Deal or no Deal although it seems to me the intellectual capacity of competitors on the TV programme compares favourably with the capacity of many delegates attending Copenhagen. That [...]
