Yep, no wonder Australia is condidered a nation of dunder-heads in science and maths.

Yes, you're playing the man and not the ball Poirot, and it's not to your credit. I assume you realise that not all Lords sit in the House of Lords, so what is the point of your first point?

He's not using any claim to being a scientist as the argument behind this article, so I'm not sure what your point is about his scientific credentials.

In the past he's over-egged his publishing record and claimed to be a member of the House of Lords, but he's doing neither in this article, so I am not sure how it is relevant.

I should also point out that anonymous posters are in no position to question the credibility of what others say based on that person's credibility rather than their actual words.

Yes Bonmot, led unfortunately by our academics, who's opinions are the best money can buy. It really is amusing to see how high they can jump when ordered.

I'm suitably chastised, Graham.

However, I also believe that an author's reputation and credibility precedes them, and influences the readers opinion as to the pertinence of author's latest commentary - just a personal foible.

Mr 'hasbeen', you really are out of touch - appropriate pseudonym.

Graham, as the overwhelming majority of OLO posters are anonymous and prefer it that way, it seems self defeating to change course mid-stream.

After all, it's not like real people with real scientific credentials haven't found the Lord Father Christmas' epistles egregious - numerous times.

Poirot, you say "an author's reputation and credibility precedes them, and influences the readers opinion as to the pertinence of author's latest commentary".

I agree but would go one step further Poirot. The author in question is a master at "playing the audience" (not just the man), much the same as what our media shock-jocks do, more so when they have a particular agenda and 'dumbed-down' audience to push, imho.

forgive them father
they know not the evil they think to know

fear has dulled their thinking
and paying money..is easier than changing their enegy use

especially when we subsidise their off peak power
with our cheap coal powers

and give them double credit
for the energy they made...when the sun shone
but steal ours..when their power source went off

guilt has blinded them
made them mind numb

thus they attack the mess-anger...
not the mess-age...nor hold that messanger to full accounting

its ok to lie
if your not..stopping the elites from..stopping their thievery

no tax without representation?
force the poor to pay for their own chains

tax them into bailing out
commercial corperate gamblers..capita-list's
banking on being too big to fail..to enshine..their speculative carbon credit gain underwriting..the communal good..into peonic poverty

tax the poor..to death..
for simply wanting to keep on breathing

let nature take its course
if consumers can spend..as they will chose..to spend..

[their own money..not mine]
tax the big ab-users

teach them
to live more simply
so others can simply live