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: 16 March 2011
First Posted The Chronicle, Tuesday, March 15 Reports by experts often confuse rather than inform. For example: reports of various experts say the National Broadband Network (NBN) will cost either $36 or $44 billion while some say the cost could be $100 billion. I can only say that if the experts can’t agree and because [...]
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 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: 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 [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 17 November 2009
To all owners of beachfront pads: do you think global warming will raise sea levels to such an extent that you will need to move the pad inland before it sinks beneath the waves? I ask because, if the predictions of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and those of other global warming prophets, [...]
