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: 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: 28 October 2010
First published The Chronicle, Canberra ,Tuesday 26 October The only connection between SETI and Seti is that both deal with the extra terrestrial. SETI is the acronym for Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence while Seti, the son of Pharaoh Rameses II, is already extra terrestrial having gone there many centuries ago. And though I don’t [...]
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: 1 July 2009
First published The Chronicle, 23 June 2009 With the Government promising to invest $43 billion in the rollout of a National Broadband Network (NBN) that, allegedly, will put all but a few thousand Australians within range of high speed broadband, I wondered what Glen Boreham, Managing Director IBM Australia & New Zealand and a company [...]
Posted by: donallan on: 14 June 2009
What do we know about genes other than that every plant and animal has them and that in many cases, some plant and animal genes are little different to the ones that drive the human engine, meaning you and me? However, apart from finding this out scientists also have found out that by splicing genes [...]
