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» 9/05/2016 10:40:42 AM And the horrifying part of all this, as shown in some comments, that activists cannot see .....
» 26/04/2016 5:02:34 PM Robert LePage - all that stuff would be in negligable amounts only.. the Fukushima is know.....
» 26/04/2016 10:32:42 AM This article is nuclear alarmism. The only deaths that can be unequivocally attributed to .....
» 19/04/2016 10:43:40 AM I was sufficiently surprised by the figures concerning an increase in out of home care to .....
» 11/04/2016 1:47:40 PM I have no time for Dr John Tomlison - I hope the taxpayer is not paying him a salary at AN.....
» 6/04/2016 10:19:22 AM The greens have never been anything more than a party of protest and, as another poster ha.....
» 22/03/2016 9:47:18 AM This article is an extreme justification of a program that has to be modified for obvious .....
» 15/03/2016 9:42:37 AM Bruce - time for some straight talking. The CSIRO's mission has always been subject of deb.....
» 3/03/2016 12:24:22 PM Suseonline You are one of those who completely missed the points made on the article. Its .....
» 3/03/2016 9:41:02 AM As Big Nana points out and as Dr Clover refuses to acknowledge, despite all his education,.....
» 29/02/2016 9:20:34 AM I doubt whether it would be possible to find any site acceptable to Ms Niepraschk. For any.....
» 24/02/2016 9:46:06 AM One in five raped? Irena, maybe you should dial down the propaganda? What you will find if.....
» 18/02/2016 9:34:40 AM Some parts of this analysis has value but when Mr Hickman goes to cash flows between natio.....
» 16/02/2016 9:29:25 AM I have been a journalist for 38 years and counting, most of it in the metros, and although.....
» 9/02/2016 12:26:39 PM popnperish You must indeed being seeing the projections through rose colored glasses. Go b.....
» 9/02/2016 9:31:51 AM You will note that the email sent out to staff said that they had provided "climate c.....
» 20/01/2016 12:32:55 PM Cobber the Hound Of course the answer from the mainstream is yes. Just as with the millenn.....
» 20/01/2016 9:41:16 AM Cobber the Hound - looked at the first of your posts.. Its just basic restatement of the g.....
» 11/01/2016 9:26:36 AM This is an extremely long article but to answer one of its questions the Paris deal basica.....
» 7/01/2016 9:35:14 AM John Ryan Sorry but you're living in a time warp.. you do realise that deaths on work site.....
» 6/01/2016 4:39:42 PM Geoff of Perth How can you know the facts in this Hills report have come to pass, if its o.....
» 6/01/2016 12:31:42 PM Geoff of Perth - you may kick against reality, and call the realists names, none the less .....
» 6/01/2016 9:38:14 AM This comment "Most of the "crimes" the union officials have been accused of.....
» 6/01/2016 9:28:10 AM Actually this article confirms what some commentators have been saying for years, that the.....
» 5/01/2016 9:28:31 AM Okay, so this Somali refugee women on Nauru said that she was pregnant because of an unrep.....
» 16/12/2015 9:16:28 AM Noel Look, I understand where you got this stuff about affordable solar power and so on, .....
» 15/12/2015 11:20:59 AM Mark Lawson here. SteeleRedux Your post assumes that renewables can be made cheaper than .....
» 14/12/2015 1:01:12 PM Mark Lawson here Cobber the hound - what new power plants, what govt support? Demand has .....
» 8/12/2015 9:24:30 AM This sentence "It was reported in June that Australia received more than $4 billion f.....
» 8/12/2015 9:11:15 AM Chris S, Robert LePage, Suseonline Guys go back and look at what McGarvie has written. He.....
» 3/12/2015 9:18:33 AM Rhosty - this business about 2C and 4C are just horror stories with no foundation in fact,.....
» 2/12/2015 5:05:48 PM Mark Lawson guys thanks for the comments.. have to dash.. Peter Lang - I will make an ef.....
» 2/12/2015 12:40:03 PM Mark Lawson Aidan - not inflicting pain is a reason, not an excuse. As Peter Lang points .....
» 19/11/2015 12:18:40 PM The author of this report is living in a world of his own, carefully selecting what he rea.....
» 17/11/2015 12:43:12 PM Actually Taswegion, sorry but no - the trends are pointing in the opposite direct. Cost of.....
» 17/11/2015 9:51:15 AM I got as far as "For example, a recent peer reviewed paper estimating ultimately rec.....
» 11/11/2015 3:50:14 PM imacentristmoderate I would take issue.. the author is a different type of extremist to t.....
» 11/11/2015 9:42:35 AM The definition of neo-liberal is a movable feast, but I suspect Dr Tomlinson's definition .....
» 5/11/2015 9:47:15 AM To add to the critical chorus and as other writers have suggested, Mark Beljac wants to be.....
» 14/10/2015 9:32:23 AM I was under the impression at the time of Copenhagen in 2009 that that conference was the .....
» 22/09/2015 1:33:31 PM But ateday, the middle-east battles aren't over resources or drinking water, or clean air......
» 10/09/2015 10:22:38 AM There is a long history of alarmism - alarms taken very seriously at the time that have no.....
» 7/09/2015 9:59:56 AM So the other side got a say for once on the ABC and this guy is complaining. The reason wh.....
» 2/09/2015 10:41:27 AM This guy is a scholar at QUT? He's paid to write this stuff? It's just a rant of little an.....
» 1/09/2015 10:20:31 AM I think most of the people at my work are aliens in human form, but if they do ride around.....
» 26/08/2015 2:07:47 PM Rhrosty The modeled extinction rate depended on land clearance as the article says. More l.....
» 26/08/2015 10:21:43 AM Fred has written a good article but I would take it one step further. the reason scientist.....
» 17/08/2015 5:43:30 PM Rhrosty Have to agree with Don - what unprecedented permafrost melting? I was also under t.....
» 13/08/2015 1:36:49 PM Rhrosty Aidan again you ability to ignore reality and make up the most bizarre stories i.....
» 13/08/2015 10:34:37 AM Robert Le Page and Rhrosty Again you guys have repeated stuff that has long been disprove.....
» 11/08/2015 10:10:16 AM Robert Le Page - no your original reference specifically said Australia. Your reference to.....
» 10/08/2015 1:27:42 PM Robert LePage.. Concentrate. ttbn was talking about world supplies.. your forecast is for .....
» 10/08/2015 10:55:36 AM A characteristic of the oil market is that minor, almost unnoticed changes somewhere in th.....
» 29/07/2015 10:43:21 AM warmair - again the material you are trying to peddle has all been disproved. You must che.....
» 28/07/2015 10:50:56 AM Cobber the Hound - where does this nonsense come from? Its the other way around. Can you n.....
» 21/07/2015 5:07:26 PM Aidan sorry but a few problems with your post. Last time I looked, although weather forec.....
» 21/07/2015 1:40:16 PM runner - your post was so clever I didn't understand it. Although I would mostly agree wi.....
» 21/07/2015 10:27:43 AM Cobber the Hound, Petrochemical and Ponder You guys have repeated all the myths renewable.....
» 14/07/2015 3:36:16 PM Cobber the hound Again you go off in tangents.. The situations of asbestos and climate are.....
» 14/07/2015 10:10:23 AM Cobber the Hound - the difference is that the mining of asbestos without proper protection.....
» 9/07/2015 5:52:50 PM Mark Lawson here Doog - as was pointed out, you're taking all this stuff from activist si.....
» 9/07/2015 4:52:31 PM Bugsy - you're right.. it does show a decade on decade increase.. I actually point that ou.....
» 9/07/2015 1:53:21 PM Mark Lawson here - guys thanks for all of that.. Doog - where does all this stuff come fr.....
» 7/07/2015 10:21:31 AM The author's loathing of nuclear energy is evident in this article but why is Scarce looki.....
» 29/06/2015 5:06:20 PM Bazz - while I appreciate the price in Aus is just too great, my recollection of the US sa.....
» 29/06/2015 5:02:11 PM Craig m - look, for heaven sake sit down and think.. your amortisation is depreciation whi.....
» 29/06/2015 1:38:10 PM Craig - sorry but most of your claims are quite wrong. The price of the vehicle most certa.....
» 29/06/2015 10:29:21 AM This author has made numerous errors.. the first is comparing costs per mile by simply loo.....
» 24/06/2015 10:45:04 AM By comparing regulations for Australian detention camps for those issued for Dachau Trante.....
» 9/06/2015 10:50:13 AM The author is trying to draw lessons from what happened back in the 1980s - Bond's heyday .....
» 5/06/2015 5:17:16 PM Mark Lawson here thanks for all the reaction guys.. off the grid for most of today and now.....
» 3/06/2015 10:54:04 AM As a journalist who will soon hit 60 I can say I only wish this was true, but there is no .....
» 27/05/2015 11:05:27 AM Good article and an interesting post by Minns.. one minor point. The Kyoto protocol was si.....
» 27/05/2015 10:49:14 AM Mark Lawson here Toni -good point, pun intended, stick with pencils.......
» 26/05/2015 3:58:24 PM Mark Lawson here Hi Bugsy - no I wouldn't give the kids their frisbee back. they might ha.....
» 24/05/2015 1:53:41 PM Valarie - your Easter Island views have been shaped by overturned theories from Jarad Diam.....
» 21/05/2015 10:15:26 AM While I don't disagree with the author, an inquiry would seen as supporting, giving some s.....
» 7/05/2015 5:09:53 PM Peter - I'm pushed just now, but I will look at those links.. tnks.......
» 7/05/2015 10:28:22 AM I have to agree with both Peter Lang and Martin N, the author's figures on renewable energ.....
» 4/05/2015 1:44:15 PM Aiden - I will let Peter defend himself on detail but it is certainly the case that accomm.....
» 27/04/2015 10:31:34 AM Guys I don't think we should bother to comment on Pilger at all. That would send a clear m.....
» 20/04/2015 10:27:43 AM Very amusing.. don't do anything as it will affect the environment. Maybe we could grant g.....
» 16/04/2015 10:32:41 AM So while working for the EPA this author wrote an article denouncing oil companies - using.....
» 15/04/2015 1:54:34 PM Mark Lawson here Raycom - I'm sure that would be a good point, if I had been aware of thi.....
» 14/04/2015 10:42:24 AM Cupric Embarrasment - your comment is so clever it doesn't make sense. Isn't the partial o.....
» 6/04/2015 5:13:00 PM Mark Lawson here. Sorry it took me so long to respond. I was away for Easter. I see no on.....
» 24/03/2015 9:16:16 AM Lee - go back and look at the $1.1 million figure you quote repeatedly. Its simply too sma.....
» 19/03/2015 9:36:42 AM Emily - what's the point of the article? Rather than rehash, yet again, the climate debate.....
» 17/03/2015 9:15:46 AM It is shocking. The students of my day would not have stooped to the gross anti-semitism r.....
» 11/03/2015 9:32:02 AM The author should make some efforts to condense his arguments, particularly if his assessm.....
» 10/03/2015 12:34:45 PM Grimm - your post did not constitute a response but the Opera House is a useful analogy.. .....
» 10/03/2015 9:51:19 AM Grim - certainly a series of dams in the Great Dividing range or blue mountains would ease.....
» 5/03/2015 9:37:03 AM 579 The reports of the type you refer to are legion. There are any number of trained analy.....
» 4/03/2015 4:07:14 PM Mark Lawson here Craig - I'd have to join with the others who have commented and note that.....
» 4/03/2015 12:38:38 PM Mark Lawson here Craig Minns - where did you get the idea that the central general model.....
» 4/03/2015 9:01:42 AM Mark Lawson here. Peter - as I know you are an ex nuclear power person I am duly flattere.....
» 25/02/2015 9:26:39 AM Rhian - I don't disagree with what you say, but the deep oil will still be more expensive .....
» 24/02/2015 12:33:58 PM Taswegian - the point you make about a decline in oil production is an attractive one, but.....
» 24/02/2015 9:26:09 AM The author's figures are hopelessly confused.. when he refers to investment increasing thr.....
» 23/02/2015 9:22:29 AM Whether it is bushfires or cyclones, the authorities have to be exact and honest or the pe.....
» 9/02/2015 9:20:11 AM Statements like this: "The mainstream media, in contrast, ignored the evidence and ad.....
» 4/02/2015 9:26:31 AM This author seems to know something about his subject, which is good, but oil production a.....
» 29/01/2015 4:07:51 PM The sentence: "The lowest earning household pays 24 per cent of its income in tax and.....
» 21/01/2015 12:28:35 PM The author sees a climate pattern and assumes it is due to climate change - ie a severe dr.....
» 8/01/2015 9:26:38 AM Steffens comments make some sense. In a market as active as oil with demand unlikely to mo.....
» 7/01/2015 3:58:34 PM Aidan no, you'll have to do better than that.. high levels of CO2 are well known to be an .....
» 7/01/2015 12:32:16 PM Aidan you are redefining what is meant by pollutant.. or rather you are talking about a di.....
» 7/01/2015 9:12:11 AM As Viv notes, CO2 is not actually a pollutant.. the stuff we notice is sulphates and parti.....
» 6/01/2015 9:30:00 AM Wow! And I thought some of the colleagues were left wing.. actually some of Marco's stuff .....
» 16/12/2014 9:21:41 AM Cobber - you haven't made any point refuting Don, just a sneer. The fact that 2014 might b.....
» 11/12/2014 9:22:45 AM It was my understanding that those who worked on the pyramids did so during the agricultur.....
» 7/12/2014 12:42:02 PM Many of the commentators have missed the point entirely. If the various groups mentioned w.....
» 5/11/2014 4:29:04 PM James O'Neill - I was pondering over you plantagent reference - what did that mean? - when.....
» 5/11/2014 9:18:09 AM Although Bruce Haig gets some things right, his slanted hard-left views make his commentar.....
» 3/11/2014 9:21:41 AM Good to see that Kininmonth is still trying to make his voice heard above the noise. There.....
» 29/10/2014 3:54:15 PM Mark Lawson here Martin N - it would be a solution if anyone was going to switch to nucle.....
» 29/10/2014 12:28:45 PM Mark Lawson here Spindoc - actually a version of the article first appeared in the Austral.....
» 29/10/2014 9:09:11 AM Mark Lawson here; Jardine - I certainly don't disagree but its not so much a question of p.....
» 20/10/2014 12:27:09 PM Rhrosty - you should develop the habit of making comments that are relevant to the actual .....
» 17/10/2014 9:43:43 AM John - Mark Lawson here.. yes, you've reminded me I forgot to say anything about property .....
» 13/10/2014 9:13:09 AM Half the number of species since? Who does this guy think he's kidding? Just try listing t.....
» 7/10/2014 12:43:46 PM James - you are in a fantasy world.. an entertaining one and good one in which to write th.....
» 7/10/2014 9:21:00 AM Greg - I'm not sure anyone should bother to respond.. the main allegation is not that the .....
» 2/10/2014 10:44:12 AM The carbon allowances in the RGGI - I believe these are about equivalent to the units sold.....
» 9/09/2014 10:54:05 AM Kathryn - a basic point seems to have completely escaped you. We have not stopped taking r.....
» 8/09/2014 10:09:05 AM Dr Starck's article makes excellent sense. The reef has supposedly been under threat of im.....
» 2/09/2014 10:47:08 AM As the other posters have noted, the article is long on rhetoric, but its use of statistic.....
» 26/08/2014 1:09:59 PM But James O'Neill it is fairly easy to sort through the arguments. Caldicott's stuff is ba.....
» 31/07/2014 5:02:41 PM warmair - sorry but you've miscalculated.. I do it quite often, so I always have to work i.....
» 31/07/2014 1:43:11 PM The actual increase in sea levels has been tracked by satellite for the past 20 years http.....
» 22/07/2014 10:23:47 AM Cobber the hound Its always a good idea to actually read the material you are criticising......
» 10/07/2014 1:41:24 PM "Neoliberalism in effect undermined the class positions of both major political parti.....
» 9/07/2014 9:57:59 AM I have to agree with the others. Those who come here by boat are basically jumping the que.....
» 7/07/2014 10:11:01 AM Rolf Harris's conviction has certainly put his achievements under a cloud but just how we .....
» 10/06/2014 1:11:26 PM Here is the link to the Methane concentrations data in the atmosphere collected by the CSI.....
» 27/05/2014 4:34:15 PM plantagenet - anarchosyndicalist.. like it.......
» 27/05/2014 9:52:20 AM A general strike over what amounts to merely a tough budget - particularly as many of its .....
» 12/05/2014 1:34:27 PM plantagenet - I think you'r confusing the cleanup due to the tsunami with the cleanup due .....
» 30/04/2014 1:37:21 PM Brian of Buderim go back and look at the article you've linked to.. note how it says 18 h.....
» 30/04/2014 10:48:30 AM Whatever you might or might not think of climate science there is no chance of renewables .....
» 29/04/2014 4:53:47 PM Mark Lawson here Cody and plantagenet In fact my wife was right beside me - or at least .....
» 22/04/2014 5:30:40 PM Agronomist - the article was a bit of fun. AGW is clearly a complete waste of money,withou.....
» 22/04/2014 1:29:42 PM What I could not get over in the film is the total waste of public money - billions upon b.....
» 31/03/2014 9:38:26 AM The Noah film, now that's what the warmists want.. none of this messing around with a few .....
» 24/03/2014 9:52:02 AM Judy I don't know much you've kept up with the debate but basically it was time the car in.....
» 17/03/2014 12:25:03 PM Ludwig no, the author's quite right - adaptation is the way to go. If we do start to run o.....
» 11/03/2014 9:38:07 AM Ken In any comparison of the global warming debate to the tobacco debate, the global warmi.....
» 20/02/2014 3:57:23 PM Foyle - okay, I seem to have misread your post.. my apologies.......
» 20/02/2014 12:30:58 PM Foyle most of what you wrote is right as far as it goes, but overall its quite wrong.. Re.....
» 17/02/2014 9:39:13 AM Syd look I know you've been peddling this stuff for a while but protectionism is now very.....
» 12/02/2014 12:39:48 PM Valley Guy In fact I've seen through several oil price booms and busts and I'm still pratt.....
» 12/02/2014 12:32:08 PM Imperial you raise an excellent point but its been answered.. OPEC likes prices the way th.....
» 12/02/2014 9:55:06 AM Like Don Aitkin I have also tried to make sense of peak oil and the graph about says it al.....
» 11/02/2014 3:52:02 PM Noel - while it is good that you defend your own state and there are many good points abou.....
» 11/02/2014 12:22:56 PM About all large parts of SA is good for is as a nuclear waste dump but there is no possibi.....
» 23/01/2014 12:21:21 PM ozdoc pointless post. I also saw that story. It means nothing either way except, perhaps, .....
» 23/01/2014 9:19:23 AM Quite right. Basically the argument has moved on from the science. Its not a matter of whe.....
» 20/01/2014 12:17:16 PM The article is meaningless.. there are certainly risks in what the author describes, but h.....
» 16/01/2014 9:45:27 AM I was under the impression that the left had lost the election, so that means its concerns.....
» 17/12/2013 1:36:08 PM Daffy Duck - shame on you for feeding the nonsense the surrounds genetically modified food.....
» 11/12/2013 12:32:11 PM Foyle MacFarlane was quite right to make those comments you cited.. but they have nothing .....
» 11/12/2013 10:02:57 AM Geoff Davies sorry, but the article is ridiculous. You've absurdly muddled periods of free.....
» 5/12/2013 10:01:53 AM The analysis has merit as far as it goes, but the external circumstances of all the previo.....
» 29/11/2013 9:11:38 AM I have seen a few articles like this saying, hopefully, that the new fracking oil boom wil.....
» 29/11/2013 8:59:30 AM individual its a thought, but I'd be seriously surprised that if all the ships ever made s.....
» 28/11/2013 10:08:56 AM Very well Barrie - I have a question. A glace at the satellite readings of sea level heigh.....
» 28/11/2013 9:56:47 AM warmair I thought you might try to come back with the objection that the Philippines typho.....
» 27/11/2013 12:40:50 PM Warmair Building codes would certainly have made a difference in the Philippines and Darwi.....
» 27/11/2013 9:49:13 AM Yes, withdraw some student benefits to help the developing countries. Sounds like a good i.....
» 22/11/2013 9:13:18 AM This writer must be living in a different universe. Irrespective of what anyone may or may.....
» 21/11/2013 12:53:52 PM Luciferase Glanced at your link about the sun connection.. no-one now doubts that there is.....
» 21/11/2013 9:52:06 AM Others have dealt with the science aspect of it.. The problem from the public policy poin.....
» 20/11/2013 9:49:01 AM I agree with much of the article.. the bit about not forcing emission cuts until the rest .....
» 6/11/2013 3:43:17 PM Sparkyq thanks for the links.. actually I was asking those questions more about whether th.....
» 6/11/2013 9:35:18 AM Although Evans overstates the case, one area where reason and commonsense fly out the wind.....
» 5/11/2013 10:24:31 AM Lyn you would be far more comfortable on other sites where this stuff is accepted uncritic.....
» 30/10/2013 10:08:08 AM Rhrosty Ludwig and Pericles The point has been made many times now by both academics and .....
» 25/10/2013 2:44:20 PM Poirot - oh I see what you're saying. Oh sure after three years or rain and warm temperatu.....
» 25/10/2013 12:41:33 PM Poirot - didn't understand you post. Your point was too deep for me. Since looked at the f.....
» 25/10/2013 11:22:31 AM I slipped in my previous post.. the IPCC doesn't saying anything about bushfires in its su.....
» 25/10/2013 9:26:58 AM John Coulter - sorry but the global warming industry doesn't agree with you. If you look a.....
» 24/10/2013 9:27:10 AM GrahamY - fair point.. but my point also was that the stamp duty and other factors make mo.....
» 23/10/2013 12:24:32 PM Rhrosty - tax has some influence on the property market but 40 per cent of the purchase pr.....
» 23/10/2013 10:15:02 AM I agree with much of the article's analysis but I have puzzled over the lack of investment.....
» 21/10/2013 12:36:34 PM Leslie and Peter King Is it possible to establish that the polar caps are melting? Yes and.....
» 21/10/2013 10:21:28 AM Asho - of course the same arguments can be applied to economic modelling, as Aitkin would .....
» 21/10/2013 10:11:32 AM After 25 years of warnings about global warming, all Lynn can point to is a set of bushfir.....
» 15/10/2013 9:57:48 AM jeremy - look, the response to this point about consensus has been made many times, so if .....
» 14/10/2013 10:33:55 PM Cohenite - its true the IPCC has generated little else but alarmism, but would the alarmis.....
» 14/10/2013 9:56:42 AM Ignoring Cobber.. much as I hate the IPCC its better the devil you know. Without it climat.....
» 10/10/2013 3:51:36 PM Is Mise.. sorry, but did I read your post right, your friend shot the five gangsters dead?.....
» 10/10/2013 9:47:56 AM This author comes from a different planet with a nonsensical definition of violence that c.....
» 9/10/2013 9:29:17 AM JF Aus I read your first post with interest but parts are confusing.. beef-fish link? Sure.....
» 8/10/2013 4:05:06 PM The article is alarmist nonsense. The author complains about depressed prices for land and.....
» 7/10/2013 4:40:34 PM Robert LePage - so after 25 years of grim warning about climate armageddon that's all you .....
» 7/10/2013 10:53:27 AM stevenlmeyer - look, sorry but your first post added precisely nothing to the debate. That.....
» 4/10/2013 1:38:42 PM Yabby - good point.. they are relatively unhappy because they don't realise how bad things.....
» 4/10/2013 10:53:02 AM Quality of life declining? Richard, do you have any proof of this? You cite a survey of yo.....
» 2/10/2013 12:21:19 PM David G and Chris Lewis Sorry guys but there's been a major misunderstanding.. The stuff .....
» 1/10/2013 1:06:54 PM Chris Lewis, I have to agree with SPQR.. The figures you quote on insurance losses from cl.....
» 1/10/2013 10:17:21 AM a 2 degree increase by the 2030s? Kellie tell the authors of that report they're dreaming......
» 26/09/2013 10:21:46 AM So VK3AUU, one scare story isn't working so let's switch to a second scare story that can .....
» 25/09/2013 10:38:17 AM Quite so.. the climate commission was an activist body, publishing overtly activist materi.....
» 18/09/2013 10:38:42 AM Clearly the author of the book has an extreme left/passifist view of world history which, .....
» 15/08/2013 4:57:08 PM dkit I keep on hearing different things about the performance of the Collins.. can you rem.....
» 15/08/2013 10:26:10 AM I'm sure that its technically possible for Australia to run nuclear submarines, but its po.....
» 14/08/2013 4:50:51 PM Chris Lewis you actually think you won on the ag argument?? No, no.. I think from your pos.....
» 14/08/2013 1:27:22 PM Robert Le Page These arguments are all old hat and barely worth refuting now. They may st.....
» 14/08/2013 10:40:34 AM One of the lessons we have learned from recent decades, and one that Robert Le Page would .....
» 13/08/2013 1:29:07 PM Roses1 well when we do start to die off in heat waves and climate disasters then you'll be.....
» 13/08/2013 1:23:28 PM Peter Lang Played with the timeline in the item you linked.. very interesting.. tnks for t.....
» 13/08/2013 10:26:37 AM Lyn - you cite a figure of 12 per cent of people rating climate as an issue of concern.. s.....
» 12/08/2013 10:35:19 AM Like most other contributions to this debate has no solutions even remotely achievable for.....
» 1/08/2013 4:56:02 PM James O'Neill This statement "the major media became owned by the same companies that.....
» 1/08/2013 10:47:58 AM Syd - as a working member of the media, some sections of your article I'd agree with but m.....
» 30/07/2013 10:37:20 AM I don't have any comment to make on the use of drones, but David's analysis is completely .....
» 23/07/2013 1:36:38 PM As Geoff says, international action simply is not going to happen.. at least, not for the .....
» 16/07/2013 6:03:39 PM Daffy Your post does not make a lot of sense. Fascists don't like environmentalists. But t.....
» 16/07/2013 5:02:50 PM Johnj look, go back and look at what you've written and then at your links. Just how convi.....
» 16/07/2013 10:31:20 AM This article rambles, but instead of the six stages of grief or whatever it was, why don't.....
» 10/07/2013 4:56:11 PM Peter Strachan thanks .. I'm sure what you say is correct and the rate of increase has ret.....
» 10/07/2013 10:36:22 AM I'd have to go back and look at the figures but I was under the distinct impression that f.....
» 4/07/2013 5:23:25 PM Roses1 and Ludwig I'm referring to the actual figures on land clearance. Sure you can poi.....
» 4/07/2013 11:08:13 AM I was under the distinct impression that there was a natural reversion .. that the major l.....
» 3/07/2013 1:24:21 PM VK3AUU David - and I only responded because there was nothing else that day to respond to......
» 3/07/2013 10:33:06 AM Although I see the author is not exactly praising Gillard, but he is taking an unnecessari.....
» 2/07/2013 11:07:26 AM The real surprise in this article is that the author would find many of the trends in the .....
» 27/06/2013 10:34:36 AM Wim's analysis might have some value but as a tool for forecasting future developments eit.....
» 20/06/2013 5:01:55 PM Hear! Hear! No more climate commission and so less of this total nonsense about no humans .....
» 20/06/2013 10:37:28 AM As others have pointed out, there is no hope of any kind of green energy replacing convent.....
» 18/06/2013 1:19:14 PM Foyle interesting stuff on Taiwan but how come they got exposed? Got a reference or some i.....
» 18/06/2013 10:37:04 AM In essence this article emphasises the very point the author cannot understand.. Noel rej.....
» 12/06/2013 1:24:18 PM Poirot Actually Mann himself has conceded his original hockey stick was in error, albeit w.....
» 12/06/2013 11:11:42 AM Like most of those who want to blame psychology for a failure to sprout propaganda, Robert.....
» 11/06/2013 4:47:42 PM Daffy - referring me to other writers with the same bent world view does not excuse your s.....
» 11/06/2013 1:23:01 PM Daffy - you did read the article, right? As LEGO says its just a hark back to political id.....
» 11/06/2013 10:52:54 AM This article is so thoroughly confused its hard to really say anything about it except tha.....
» 6/06/2013 10:35:36 AM Tanveer - although the article has some interest basically you're missing several big piec.....
» 3/06/2013 1:37:37 PM runner Science? I'm curious, where do you think Sophie made any reference to science? In .....
» 3/06/2013 11:03:59 AM Sophie - I can only agree with cohenite.. before the introduction of vaccination children .....
» 19/05/2013 9:41:38 PM Mark Lawson here Shockadelic - now that is interesting. Never thought about the dark and .....
» 17/05/2013 5:02:41 PM Hasbeen I'll see what I can do about promoting you to king, but my fantasy universe come.....
» 17/05/2013 1:31:50 PM I forgot to mention that the book is being launched at 6.30PM on Wednesday, May 29 at the .....
» 15/05/2013 11:09:31 AM True Hasbeen In my view he's barely worth a response. This statement "And if we had d.....
» 14/05/2013 5:03:37 PM James O'Neill an interesting defence of the article but doesn't absolve the author from wr.....
» 14/05/2013 10:49:50 AM Okay, so we don't understand the Chinese classics. Many more students study Latin and anci.....
» 13/05/2013 1:32:48 PM But Daffy, you're still here, and still able to point to irrelevant images, and fictional .....
» 13/05/2013 10:52:38 AM warmair Of course safety in nuclear mattes is important and the case of Madam Curie underl.....
» 10/05/2013 11:01:31 AM Pilger is again a million years behind the times.. the media he thinks he knows is disinte.....
» 8/05/2013 11:20:38 AM As Martin Freeman points out, that recent AEMO study on renewables did little more than em.....
» 23/04/2013 4:49:24 PM curious M don't disagree with a word of your post.. the problem is that its the activists .....
» 23/04/2013 1:29:09 PM Poirot Oh sure, the difference is quite straight forward.. in the other pauses, there was .....
» 23/04/2013 10:46:30 AM curious M Look, sorry, but you completely misunderstood what I was saying. I dunno if you'.....
» 22/04/2013 4:31:04 PM Curious M the trouble with that attempt to dismiss obvious problems is that you don't need.....
» 22/04/2013 1:33:15 PM Guys - it says a great deal for global warming activists that all they can point to what i.....
» 16/04/2013 10:56:55 AM So now we've finally got to the point where the scientists now also generally agree that g.....
» 25/03/2013 9:52:49 AM The author wants to cut through the confusion but then adds to it, by not distinguishing p.....
» 22/03/2013 8:56:23 AM Whatever else you may think about climate change, much of the effort to cut emissions is, .....
» 19/03/2013 9:45:48 AM Snake - sorry, disagree with almost all points. A million killed in land disputes since 67.....
» 18/03/2013 10:41:17 AM Indeed the Northern food bowl plan has problems quite apart from climate change. If it was.....
» 12/03/2013 9:45:50 AM I was most entertained by the article. We did have several very hot days this summer and I.....
» 11/03/2013 9:36:13 AM I can only agree with CARFAX. The author simply repeats the same old material, without rea.....
» 6/03/2013 10:16:58 AM While I agree with the author that the paperless office has proved to be so much nonsense,.....
» 5/03/2013 9:38:44 AM Not sure what to make of the other posts.. But the author may be looking at two, connecte.....
» 18/02/2013 10:15:18 AM The other posters made fair points but I think the point that Atkin is making is that this.....
» 13/02/2013 10:30:52 AM Scratching around for some justification for his extreme position the author cites lead le.....
» 11/02/2013 10:11:24 AM My take on this, and its a long article, is that the Greens support burn-offs in principle.....
» 7/02/2013 9:54:20 AM Tombee You make some excellent points. I know that the question of total energy input an.....
» 29/01/2013 10:59:49 PM JohnBennetts replying a week later, but only just saw your point. I didn't accuse you of .....
» 29/01/2013 10:35:12 PM Leslie technical note - all mineral rights in Aus are owned by the state and federal gover.....
» 29/01/2013 10:24:36 PM Saltpetre quite so - a cost benefit analysis would be nice. The high Aus dollar is a probl.....
» 29/01/2013 12:07:59 PM The suggestion that we spend multi-millions to extend a pipeline just so the remote town o.....
» 24/01/2013 12:45:38 PM 579 and ponde This bit about Australia only getting a fraction of the wealth from mining .....
» 24/01/2013 9:37:26 AM The TV series Dirty Business and Ms Burnside are coming from the extreme left of the debat.....
» 22/01/2013 11:01:08 PM JohnBennetts Look, I'm sure the output of nucelar reactors does get ramped up and down but.....
» 22/01/2013 4:40:10 PM Günter go back and look at your post and the National Geographic article that you cite. As.....
» 22/01/2013 12:35:49 PM re nuclear - renewables, a few comments.. You can't mix nuclear and renewables, at least .....
» 22/01/2013 10:06:01 AM individual You make an excellent point about affordability but that is why house prices ha.....
» 22/01/2013 9:31:52 AM popnperish But the fact that temperatures have stalled for the last decade is now widely a.....
» 21/01/2013 4:42:05 PM Pericles "Government taxes account for 44% of the cost of a median priced home.".....
» 21/01/2013 1:05:36 PM Geoff of Perth, Rhrosty and 579 Look Fellas, pound this hard into your heads.. high price.....
» 21/01/2013 9:50:35 AM I can understand that the author would get so caught up in his academic theory that he wou.....
» 18/01/2013 3:56:16 PM halduel duly noted - tnks for that.. Chris Lewis the problem with Julian's arguments is t.....
» 18/01/2013 12:44:56 PM The whole article is in fact a load of assertions. Julian does not bother with sources for.....
» 18/01/2013 12:35:45 PM cohenite You misunderstand what I said.. the article is a departure from the climate orth.....
» 18/01/2013 9:19:56 AM While I have the greatest respect for Julian in his time as science correspondent with the.....
» 17/01/2013 10:52:04 PM Bugsy, cohenite, 579 Was locked out of the site by server error, but anyway cohenite, sor.....
» 16/01/2013 10:38:43 PM Bugsy Actually my apologies.. the first explanation was given in haste and is a sort-off .....
» 16/01/2013 10:07:33 AM Taswegian Its not a convoluted argument at all, but they are covering their bases. In esse.....
» 15/01/2013 4:14:55 PM Rhosty Where are you getting this stuff from?? Are you just making it up, or is there some.....
» 15/01/2013 12:31:16 PM Rhrosty commercial scale power from waste? Um, did you get that stuff from anywhere? I'm s.....
» 15/01/2013 9:58:25 AM If we want to reduce emissions in anything like the time frame required by the greenhouse .....
» 14/01/2013 12:58:43 PM I doubt that the author has any chance of election, which is something to be thankful for......
» 10/01/2013 11:22:57 AM James O'Neill and David G By balance you two mean stacking OLO with loony left rants.. th.....
» 9/01/2013 4:50:07 PM Brenton Luxton There are some excellent comments in this set of posts - my own contributi.....
» 9/01/2013 12:44:14 PM Brenton Luxton tnks for responding. No, its not intellectually lazy to label the greens m.....
» 8/01/2013 11:07:54 AM Despite Brenton Luxton's education and high-toned article he makes crass mistakes.. This.....
» 19/12/2012 10:00:25 AM There have been various proposals for climate engineering over the years but there are maj.....
» 15/12/2012 4:35:37 PM Geoff of Perth and leckos One more go at making you two see reason. I'm not denying this .....
» 14/12/2012 11:17:52 PM leckos for heaven go and look at the chart.. then sit and think. Ask yourself what has hap.....
» 14/12/2012 12:36:29 PM Geoff of Perth for heaven sake go back to the chart you link in that story and take anothe.....
» 14/12/2012 9:58:34 AM Like most of these articles, the interview is long on generalities, but then its difficult.....
» 12/12/2012 12:26:28 PM Poirot As I pointed out earlier, the status quo is the green orthodoxy. That is predominan.....
» 12/12/2012 10:14:44 AM CatMack Online Opinion has always run articles handed to it - there's never been any other.....
» 11/12/2012 12:25:09 PM Cheryl Didn't quite understand your post.. the greens want the wind power stuff, although .....
» 11/12/2012 9:53:47 AM This writer is so clever he is difficult to understand, however the main problem with the .....
» 10/12/2012 10:06:09 AM International action was always going to be very difficult.. if anyone can think of any wa.....
» 7/12/2012 12:36:12 PM Rhrosty hate to rain on your parade but the solar and PV stuff here is not going to get p.....
» 7/12/2012 9:59:49 AM Solar and wind power sounded like a good idea to anyone outside the electricity business, .....
» 6/12/2012 10:34:03 AM JohnBennetts This comment is simply absurd. "Proven and probable resources of gas in.....
» 5/12/2012 9:52:23 AM I have no comment to make about the author's main argument. If carbon pricing makes LNG mo.....
» 5/12/2012 9:37:27 AM Poirot those are exactly the comments that could be made about the believers.......
» 4/12/2012 4:25:06 PM Hasbeen you mean someone was seriously talking about 10 meters of sea level rise in this .....
» 4/12/2012 12:29:52 PM stevenlmeyer So far you've scored zero in serious response.. the Economist graph you refe.....
» 4/12/2012 9:56:50 AM Look, how about some realism in these green articles? DavidL would do well to read Tasweg.....
» 3/12/2012 4:04:46 PM stevenlmeyer There you go again linking activist sites with the disadvantage, this time, .....
» 3/12/2012 12:21:08 PM stevenlmeyer At least this time you are not linking marketing material, as I pointed out .....
» 3/12/2012 9:55:36 AM stevenlmeyer Please think before you link material. Of course the two reports you linked a.....
» 29/11/2012 12:36:26 PM Bugsy Only a five year pause for methane? Hmmm! Its true that the readings shown some sli.....
» 28/11/2012 12:39:13 PM PEST I also saw that article on methane from permafrost in the SMH. Now go and look at th.....
» 27/11/2012 4:02:31 PM Bazz you raise a good point about the ice.. certainly the temperature increases should no.....
» 27/11/2012 12:38:21 PM Rhrosty This comment: "A rise of just 2C, as attested to by the palaeoecological rec.....
» 27/11/2012 9:40:22 AM Julian Just supposing for a moment that any of the emission and temperature projections ar.....
» 26/11/2012 12:31:28 PM Cheryl Hate to burst your balloon on this one but the 26 per cent of power being generate.....
» 26/11/2012 9:49:19 AM Robert LePage Where did you get the idea that the article was inspired by fossil fuel com.....
» 22/11/2012 4:20:47 PM Saltpetre Slave laborers? Wrong century and please don't quote anti-Nike propaganda which .....
» 22/11/2012 10:13:04 AM Rhrosty Loathe as I am to correct your learned dissertations, we are not number 30 in term.....
» 21/11/2012 9:47:55 AM Mr Kampmark seems to be one of those people who accuses everyone else of being biased and .....
» 21/11/2012 9:37:13 AM Taswegian Look, please don't link green propaganda. Just think what you would have said ha.....
» 20/11/2012 12:39:49 PM Sophie Love - where did you get the idea that alternative energy is being blocked by facel.....
» 19/11/2012 12:31:11 PM Quite right John Bennetts I remember magazine articles of more than 40 years ago talking .....
» 15/11/2012 10:06:16 AM Dr Weeks wants to push her own speciality and there is nothing wrong with that, but was th.....
» 7/11/2012 9:46:14 AM David G While obviously any deaths add up to too many, go and have a look at the actual c.....
» 6/11/2012 4:15:10 PM R0bert the solutions you are proposing are worse than the disease, and impossible to put i.....
» 6/11/2012 12:26:11 PM Although I don't disagree with anything Compton wrote, I wondered why he bothered to write.....
» 4/11/2012 7:49:07 PM Cameron I see by your latest post that you are showing some signs of sense - that's good.....
» 2/11/2012 9:42:27 AM Lekos Look, I would like to be able to retort that the only place peak oil exists is bet.....
» 2/11/2012 9:07:13 AM wobbles just saw your comment.. I don't know where you got the idea that denial of alt en.....
» 1/11/2012 12:59:02 PM Wow, the peak oil guys just do not want to let go of their concept. Basically peak oil as .....
» 1/11/2012 12:40:37 PM Mark Lawson here wobbles I never said it would be too difficult so don't do it.. th art.....
» 31/10/2012 3:55:29 PM Mark Lawson here I would second the comments made by Peter Lang and Hasbeen on Rhosty's .....
» 31/10/2012 12:33:50 PM Mark Lawson here.. For once, at least to date, I won't take issue with any of the posts o.....
» 29/10/2012 9:40:23 AM The court's verdict and Don Atkin's article raises some interesting questions. Basically .....
» 24/10/2012 12:36:42 PM This article needs to connect a few dots.. the author starts taking about radiation damage.....
» 22/10/2012 3:59:14 PM Mollydukes I was referring to DavidL's comment but its a small matter, and probably not wo.....
» 22/10/2012 12:31:30 PM Robert L A small victory.. the fact that the Met Office found virtually no warming or sta.....
» 22/10/2012 12:25:48 PM Although I would deplore any straight abuse of the author, this article is long, dull and .....
» 21/10/2012 4:57:14 PM Robert Le Page congratulations. I have committed the sin that global warmers often do of .....
» 19/10/2012 12:53:43 PM Robert LePage and Rhrosty come now, you must know most of what you say is wild exageratio.....
» 18/10/2012 9:54:14 AM jeremy Sorry, but you lose badly on that one, and your plea for quality control is based o.....
» 17/10/2012 9:33:23 AM I certainly agree with King in that Franks' failure to file tax returns for so many years .....
» 12/10/2012 10:42:53 AM I'm in my 50s and my earliest memory of television news is of a bulletin about how the cro.....
» 10/10/2012 4:02:22 PM Periot No, no.. had a look at your link.. although I don't contest some (note some) of th.....
» 10/10/2012 12:47:41 PM Cheryl Oh, okay, the bit about speculators going into the market when food prices rose is .....
» 9/10/2012 12:34:10 PM Poirot Look - how do you make the connection between multinational involvement in agricult.....
» 9/10/2012 9:49:19 AM DavidL makes an excellent point.. high prices should result in additional spending and eff.....
» 4/10/2012 1:44:49 PM Robert LePage People like you drawing attention to what's really happening in the world! A.....
» 4/10/2012 11:02:29 AM Poirot Okay, go back and look at the picture you link to. Which would you rather have, man.....
» 4/10/2012 10:38:06 AM JenniferGJ It does help if you also read the posts. The point about FIFO, as I noted earl.....
» 3/10/2012 11:51:32 AM ..and this guy is a professor. There was an article complaining about fly-in fly-out roste.....
» 2/10/2012 1:38:28 PM Robert LePage Go back and look at your own links. They in no way contradict anything I sa.....
» 2/10/2012 11:42:58 AM Robert LePage Rapid melting of the artic ice? Oh come now, surely you know better now tha.....
» 28/09/2012 10:27:18 AM Leaving aside Grim's rather odd argument, statements by enator Milne noted by the author s.....
» 27/09/2012 11:44:25 AM So a faction within the Islamic community riot and its the fault of the rest of Australia .....
» 26/09/2012 11:35:51 AM This declaration "a development that ensures that developed nations will be in increa.....
» 25/09/2012 5:03:53 PM Bazz I'm not just reacting to Monbiot so it does you little good to point to supposed &qu.....
» 25/09/2012 11:25:41 AM Divergence Okay, a reasonable response from you (unlike Geoff of Perth), but I must expre.....
» 24/09/2012 11:53:05 PM Bazz, Geoff of Perth and others Fellas, look this business about peak oil ending has been.....
» 24/09/2012 6:03:37 PM Divergence I'm well aware of the price, of course.. Unfortunately your link does not work.....
» 24/09/2012 12:26:00 PM Peter is another hold out in this idea of "peaks" in resources. the idea of &quo.....
» 19/09/2012 4:58:37 PM Its as Foyle says.. FIFO is the only possibility for getting workers to those sites in the.....
» 19/09/2012 11:05:02 AM Ludwig - yes, our growing population is good, but planning for it could always be improved.....
» 18/09/2012 1:37:52 PM Okay, I'll point out the problems. This article has been written by someone who knows so l.....
» 18/09/2012 11:02:45 AM Tombee and runner Although it is probably true that the Liberal offsets program won't act.....
» 13/09/2012 1:19:58 PM Raycom No it does not make any kind of sense, and it is absurd to say so. National affairs.....
» 13/09/2012 11:50:58 AM This article is a continuation of the alarmist nonsense about the sale of Cubby station wh.....
» 11/09/2012 6:16:05 PM csteele congratulations! Now you're beginning to get it! The arguement all along has been.....
» 11/09/2012 1:34:18 PM csteele this sentence "but the denying a warmer global temperature causing more of th.....
» 11/09/2012 11:23:21 AM cornonacob No go back and read the paper. Its difficult I know but you'll see that Hansen .....
» 10/09/2012 11:37:44 PM ybgirp Oh sure.. the problem is that the CO2 that the argument is about isn't a polutant .....
» 10/09/2012 5:00:28 PM csteele in fact it is the global warmers that are the biblical fundamentalists. Not only d.....
» 10/09/2012 12:22:50 PM Sir Vivor, Kenny, shal, WmTrevor, JohnBennetts and Agronomist Now fellas, come along its .....
» 7/09/2012 10:55:35 AM Robert LePage Denial as a defence mechanism! Look, sorry but where have you been.. The sc.....
» 6/09/2012 5:08:03 PM Poirot and Kenny and others As has been pointed out many times now.. your fabled scientis.....
» 6/09/2012 12:10:19 PM Robert LePage and Bonmot Wikipedia is a doubtful source on activist issues and it is know.....
» 4/09/2012 4:51:33 PM Rhosty - no I meant sold to China.. as for the bit about the tax regime, there are already.....
» 4/09/2012 11:20:55 AM Quite so - if Chinese investors want to buy run-down cotton producing stations out in the .....
» 3/09/2012 11:43:21 AM I don't necessarily disagree with either Geoff or Tombee or Taswegian but one point should.....
» 31/08/2012 1:43:00 PM Cohenite All fair enough although we must disagree on Brussells (like saying "we'll .....
» 31/08/2012 10:41:41 AM Anthony is quite right to say that market-based carbon schemes have basically proved a was.....
» 28/08/2012 11:54:27 AM Where to start with this one. Although the author's heart is in the right place - and who .....
» 24/08/2012 10:17:23 AM Of all the issues mentioned by Julian the one that actually matters is over-fishing, and t.....
» 23/08/2012 11:13:21 AM csteele In fact, you are right. Hydro is a renewable, but that was not the point. The poi.....
» 22/08/2012 4:56:43 PM CSteele's contribution put me in mind of one of the many problems with the Climate Commiss.....
» 22/08/2012 11:33:41 AM Ludwig You mention risk. There may be doubt about global warming but why don't we do somet.....
» 20/08/2012 11:26:48 AM This is straight alarmism where the "facts" presented are obviosuly wrong. This .....
» 20/08/2012 11:12:41 AM As has been pointed out, about the only group in Australia that still supports onshore pro.....
» 17/08/2012 4:58:17 PM Roses1 I have an apology .. I didn't mean capacity factor in my earlier posts that's the .....
» 17/08/2012 1:47:06 PM Roses1 - your point "the AEMO has set capacity factors for wind at 3-7%' is nonsense&.....
» 17/08/2012 1:27:45 PM EthanB Pointed noted on shale/CSG but this point: "Despite this, my argument that we .....
» 17/08/2012 10:46:45 AM There is no reason why CSG developments should affect renewable energy development.. they .....
» 16/08/2012 5:14:03 PM Roses1 I'll look at your biomass study when I get to it, but I don't think you'll like wh.....
» 16/08/2012 2:24:08 PM cohenite take your point on the figures but actualy the agreement is reasonably close con.....
» 16/08/2012 12:00:27 PM cohenite/roses1 Actually roses1's figures are somewhere close to reality.. there is a bre.....
» 15/08/2012 11:40:58 AM Meyer's article is interesting although I think the reason for the success over asia over .....
» 14/08/2012 11:40:38 AM Mark Lawson here Csteele - I finally got around to looking at your reply post, as I promis.....
» 13/08/2012 5:13:19 PM renew - well, I'm sorry to hear that you don't want to see sense. The bit about getting br.....
» 13/08/2012 12:19:41 PM Look fellas, I hate to break this to you but the article was clearly hysterical nonsense. .....
» 9/08/2012 5:33:33 PM csteele I was sufficiently intrigued to look at one of your links comparing Hansen's fore.....
» 9/08/2012 1:24:42 PM csteele Look, again we come to the problem that most of those who debate this issue about.....
» 8/08/2012 11:44:05 PM csteele Go back and look at your own post. Basicaly its a case of throwing stones in a gl.....
» 8/08/2012 11:28:36 PM divine_msn Quite right. Violence is rightly to be deplored but there are some instances w.....
» 8/08/2012 5:07:03 PM Robert Look, I don't mean this unkindly, but have you caught up with the extensive resear.....
» 8/08/2012 4:45:57 PM popnperish Look, where have you been for the past two decades? The global warming scare s.....
» 8/08/2012 1:28:14 PM JohnBennetts You may declare it to be your last post, but you should not be allowed to get.....
» 8/08/2012 12:00:50 PM Rhrosty and JohnBennetts The problem has always been that there has never been any confir.....
» 7/08/2012 4:59:56 PM voxUnius - quite right and a slap on the wrist to Poirot. The difference is that there w.....
» 7/08/2012 11:17:54 AM Whatever you may make of his analysis it is interesting that Muller presented himself as a.....
» 6/08/2012 12:12:49 PM individual Okay, quite a number of misconceptions. I can only deal with a few. the problo.....
» 6/08/2012 11:59:14 AM Sorry Prof Blakely but you have wildly over-stretched the analogy. You may or may not blam.....
» 5/08/2012 11:02:45 AM Poirot "Do you honestly believe that it's possible for the billions in China, India .....
» 4/08/2012 7:56:03 PM Mark Lawson here individual - Jon J was quite correct. Growth has produced considerably .....
» 3/08/2012 3:54:32 PM Geoff of Perth Although I did not fully follow your argumement on risks, the problem with .....
» 3/08/2012 10:55:27 AM Mark Lawson here Jon J - an excellent point. No one has looked carefully at the feedback .....
» 2/08/2012 11:54:39 AM Geoff certainly makes some good points. As it is presently designed the carbon tax is basi.....
» 31/07/2012 5:15:06 PM So we're back to 0.5 per cent with, I assume, potential for thyroid cancer which makes a l.....
» 31/07/2012 5:02:41 PM Saltpetre no, you're missing the main point of most of our recent economic history. Farme.....
» 31/07/2012 12:32:52 PM Pericles no its you who should be serious. jimbonic it is you who should get some perspect.....
» 31/07/2012 12:07:51 PM Killarney and Poirot Your posts are bizarre.. Australia had an extensive system of protec.....
» 27/07/2012 4:52:19 PM 579 While I haven't checked your biodiesel figure, there are severe limits to that resourc.....
» 27/07/2012 1:26:05 PM Rhrosty "There is little doubt in my mind that very low water use algae framing will .....
» 27/07/2012 11:08:13 AM Whatever you might think of global warming, as the author points out renewables are next t.....
» 26/07/2012 1:26:58 PM Julian could do with a history lesson.. Australia once had elaborate system of protecting.....
» 25/07/2012 11:48:40 AM Interesting points made in article and by Rhrosty.. The rise of the amateur professional .....
» 24/07/2012 11:15:09 AM Roses1 and Poirot as you have both been told many times now, expert consensus in and of it.....
» 20/07/2012 11:41:46 AM Whatever you might believe about the US system, Australia is now avoiding the problems tha.....
» 19/07/2012 11:43:48 AM michael_in_adelaide the peak oil concept was dead long before Monbiot said anything and t.....
» 18/07/2012 11:34:30 AM Graham - there may be a case for defending the Euro but this isn't it. Sure the delgates p.....
» 17/07/2012 11:22:34 AM Certainly at the moment the consensus is that industrial emissions are changing climate, s.....
» 13/07/2012 11:52:02 AM Although Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence's comments are all very nice, much of it entirely misses th.....
» 11/07/2012 12:06:25 PM Duncan Your piece starts with a virtually unknown and unpublicised hookup between two educ.....
» 6/07/2012 11:59:20 AM plantagenet and Squeers Fellas, look, go back and read the article. You've allowed yourse.....
» 2/07/2012 11:51:53 AM Two basic points. * It is now blindingly obvious to everyone but the most extreme activis.....
» 29/06/2012 11:50:32 AM This writer is one of the very few commentators who apparently has not realised that the R.....
» 29/06/2012 11:42:46 AM As usual Pilger is refighting old battles without realising the technical problems make th.....
» 28/06/2012 11:54:49 AM As a member of the media I can say that to claim the left does not dominate the media is a.....
» 27/06/2012 1:30:17 PM Taswegian Time to catch up. The Santos statement relates to domestic gas prices which has .....
» 27/06/2012 11:47:35 AM James This article is really hard line. You mention the target that 20 per cent of our ele.....
» 22/06/2012 11:39:19 AM Rio will be like all the others in this endless parade of international meetings. There wi.....
» 21/06/2012 2:04:48 PM Other posters have noted problems with Jeffreys' article but in essense she has confused t.....
» 20/06/2012 11:10:11 AM Arjay Yes, your comments on the Japanese incident versus Chernobyl are completely wrong. .....
» 19/06/2012 5:21:07 PM Geoff Russell wow! Good stuff.......
» 19/06/2012 5:07:03 PM Hi GrahamY - okay, I take your point on Eureka, although I was told by others who would be.....
» 19/06/2012 1:49:14 PM A few points - obviously its not good to get any additional radiation and the surveys of.....
» 19/06/2012 1:21:17 PM David G nope, all wrong.. go back and read Graham's article and a few of the posts. the p.....
» 19/06/2012 11:18:43 AM As one of the potential losers in yesterday's announcement - I am not likely to be retrenc.....
» 14/06/2012 11:35:07 AM popnperish Both prompete and Atman made valuable contributions, although you seem to thin.....
» 13/06/2012 11:11:52 AM Look John, as a working member of the media (Australian Financial Review) I can see where .....
» 8/06/2012 11:28:57 AM Ahem - as is now well known, the story of Noah's Flood in the bible was pinched from the B.....
» 6/06/2012 11:22:00 AM Brian I can appreciate the reasons for some of what you say, but as a working member of .....
» 5/06/2012 11:22:10 AM ozandyh I see we still haven't got through to you the basics of the scepticism. Of course.....
» 4/06/2012 11:53:35 AM Attempts by global warmists to explain away waning public support for their assertions in .....
» 1/06/2012 5:19:23 PM Geoff of Perth - your original post about how contamination of vaccines lead to AIDS - at .....
» 1/06/2012 11:08:04 AM Pardon me DavidL, I think you may have misread the article as I did initially - it debunks.....
» 31/05/2012 11:53:12 AM Naomi sorry but your arguement is quite flawed.. I think you're use to conventional HR in.....
» 29/05/2012 11:08:47 AM For once I am in agreement with Michael_in_Adelaide.. (don't worry Michael it won't last)......
» 25/05/2012 12:07:29 PM Foyle - it is not surprising you are puzzled by BoM's results on sea level increases, so a.....
» 23/05/2012 12:29:46 PM Sara I don't mean to be difficult here but your article is aimed at people who already ha.....
» 21/05/2012 11:41:43 AM I must agree with the bulk of the posters that although the Gillard Government could have .....
» 17/05/2012 11:59:30 AM KAEP Your post verges on incoherence, but what I think you're saying, in part, is that the.....
» 16/05/2012 5:21:08 PM Cheryl the ratio of food exported to food imported in dollar values is something like 6 to.....
» 16/05/2012 5:16:04 PM Divergence You may even have a point when you say that population can be controlled by red.....
» 16/05/2012 12:24:53 PM Ludwig No one ever said the population growth was required, or necessary. All Ross' articl.....
» 16/05/2012 11:55:34 AM michael_in_adelaide no its you who are wasting my time.. now there is some excellent mate.....
» 15/05/2012 5:08:33 PM michael_in_adelaide You were the one who keep on insisting that oil is about to run out wh.....
» 15/05/2012 1:50:24 PM michael_in_adelaide Only one definition of peak oil? Sorry but there are peak oilist who .....
» 15/05/2012 11:30:05 AM Michael Lardelli's article doesn't say anything about the theoretical basis for peak oil, .....
» 11/05/2012 1:58:00 PM If the US gas is too expensive to market to Europe so be it.. if its too expensive, at pre.....
» 10/05/2012 11:08:38 AM The geological efects mentioned in the original paper were driven by really big changes su.....
» 9/05/2012 4:47:08 PM Yuyutsu People may/or may not have a reason for refusing. The question is do they have th.....
» 9/05/2012 1:27:58 PM Yuyutsu But is it illegial to refuse vaccination at the moment? If not it should be. Thos.....
» 9/05/2012 11:39:10 AM Quite right. I was astonished and horrified by one colleague who, after laughing over my .....
» 8/05/2012 1:24:48 PM Geoff of Perth this is actualy a reasonable point; "For example, Canada produces ab.....
» 8/05/2012 11:19:27 AM I look on the bright side of this in that finally some progress is being made in peak oile.....
» 7/05/2012 11:54:16 AM For most taxes it is possible to find calculations about their efficiency - that is, how m.....
» 4/05/2012 12:10:46 PM If this guy is so wedded to Aus why didn't he take out Aus citizenship or even residency? .....
» 1/05/2012 4:00:51 PM Rhrosty I know I'm going to regret asking this, but I'm curious. This sentance "Jus.....
» 1/05/2012 1:35:24 PM Geoff of Perth - thanks for the reference where I got footnoted.. interesting.. now as for.....
» 1/05/2012 11:01:35 AM I don't disagree with the article but a point overlooked in the paper it cites is the rise.....
» 30/04/2012 4:50:09 PM Geoff of Perth I see from your second post that you're beginning to see reason in this deb.....
» 30/04/2012 1:51:22 PM Mark Lawson here Peter King No, go back and look at the article. The forecasts I was refe.....
» 30/04/2012 1:35:13 PM The 20 years figure sounds like 20 years of production at known reserves and is low. I dou.....
» 29/04/2012 5:12:01 PM Mark Lawson here. Rhrosty - actually it was Egypt that was the granary of Rome, specifical.....
» 27/04/2012 4:55:44 PM Mark Lawsoner here.. Roses1 - the references can easily be checked.. just do a search and.....
» 27/04/2012 12:19:07 PM Mark Lawson here tnks fellas.. few more specific comments. Geoff of Perth - look closely.....
» 26/04/2012 11:42:32 AM So Kathy what would you have the US and Australia and others do? Withdraw at once and leav.....
» 20/04/2012 12:29:02 PM Jim sorry but I don't follow you. You are saying the press council was wrong for requirin.....
» 19/04/2012 11:35:11 AM Like most of these article, David Morris's blather is long on declarations and motherhood .....
» 18/04/2012 11:49:45 AM Karl Fitzgerald Although some points in the article are correct, there are a few problem.....
» 17/04/2012 11:32:42 AM Although Brian Holden's concerns are understandable, the article could do with a few more .....
» 13/04/2012 2:40:06 PM Wow! The philosophical approach to climate change scepticism. This guy has a PhD and it sh.....
» 12/04/2012 12:12:20 PM leckos it is you who are in denial. The Matthew Simmons book 'Twilight in the Desert' you.....
» 11/04/2012 4:02:17 PM Daffy Duck/Taswegian Taswegion - I'm well aware that petrol prices are high, the question.....
» 11/04/2012 1:06:33 PM Daffy Duck Water supply problem? After two years of flooding you are seriously pushing wa.....
» 11/04/2012 12:25:59 PM Michael Lardelli The present upheaval in the energy industry as a "small uptick".....
» 10/04/2012 11:05:04 AM Sadly the problem is not confined to human rights bodies at the UN. To judge from the repo.....
» 4/04/2012 11:12:11 AM Benjamin Jones come now where is the clear thought that should be the hallmark of our aca.....
» 30/03/2012 4:04:02 PM Geoff of Perth no its you who need to look at the forecasts in the light of commensense.......
» 30/03/2012 1:08:24 PM Geoff of Perth and Poirot Guys, the only qualifications you need is some knowledge of ari.....
» 30/03/2012 12:58:46 PM Valerie Yule's trip down memory lane is of some interest but of little use, and her histor.....
» 29/03/2012 1:52:45 PM Rhrosty Wow! Now I don't mean this unkindly but you've been through every green dream boo.....
» 29/03/2012 10:52:24 AM Exactly, but I would add another few points. I was surprised to hear that this turbine ma.....
» 28/03/2012 10:37:19 AM Knock back Huawei simply to show solidarity with the US, and because the government is tot.....
» 27/03/2012 10:36:37 AM The bulk of the article is wild-eyed nonsense, and to make matters worse for the author he.....
» 26/03/2012 12:29:58 PM PEST the ratpack will also point out, with some truth, that the precautionary principle w.....
» 23/03/2012 2:16:10 PM Hasbeen Once you see them seriousdly exploiting those shale oil deposits around Gladston.....
» 23/03/2012 10:16:07 AM popnperish Haven't you been one of those complaining about limits to resources, and how w.....
» 22/03/2012 12:51:11 PM halduell Its true that the old Maralinga site would be good but there isn't much more ra.....
» 22/03/2012 10:26:12 AM You will note that the author has said nothing whatever about the site itself. However, it.....
» 20/03/2012 11:31:40 AM Cheryl - I think what the author means by that statement is that the original seeds for ou.....
» 19/03/2012 12:59:11 PM What Chris Golis should have told us but did not is that Singapore reformed its education .....
» 15/03/2012 4:19:54 PM Geoff of Perth from your post I think you're beginning to understand the arguments.. that.....
» 15/03/2012 1:22:43 PM Taswegian/KAEP/Geoff of Perth look fellas, peak oil was declared dead a few weeks back, a.....
» 14/03/2012 4:27:00 PM Daffy Duck this comment "Meanwhile Graham you consistently feature posts by right-wi.....
» 14/03/2012 10:54:38 AM A few points I don't know much about Robert Manne's work as an academic but as a social c.....
» 8/03/2012 4:21:56 PM And while on the subject, let us not forget the various warnings we heard some years back .....
» 8/03/2012 12:59:34 PM Geoff of Perth Again you have been caught out making completely untrue statements, notabl.....
» 7/03/2012 10:56:54 AM I must agree with the other posters. Ken McNabb rails against globalisation without bother.....
» 5/03/2012 1:11:11 PM The article's analysis has huge problems. Although the IEA report has some relevence world.....
» 1/03/2012 10:40:25 AM It is nice that John McRobert's son and partner have settled in Ireland, but it seems to h.....
» 29/02/2012 12:58:21 PM 579 - NASA the only reputable web site.. total nonsense.. you can't have been that out of .....
» 28/02/2012 12:42:37 PM 579 quite right, CO2 is a greenhouse gas. But the real question has always been is are we.....
» 28/02/2012 10:32:35 AM Class actions involving climate haven't worked even in the US, where the courts will consi.....
» 27/02/2012 10:38:39 AM Although there is some merit in Dr Woldring arguments, I think the Westminster system has .....
» 24/02/2012 4:30:26 PM Kevin Rennie/Top Ender think you've misread something, or perhaps I wasn't sufficiently c.....
» 24/02/2012 1:18:42 PM Kevin Rennie While I appreciate your courtesy in replying, the response doesn't get you o.....
» 24/02/2012 10:50:12 AM Kevin Rennie and Daffy are entitled to scream and shout against those that contradict thei.....
» 23/02/2012 4:14:56 PM Bugsy - I see Herbert S has given you quite a list but the one I mentioned in the original.....
» 23/02/2012 10:49:58 AM As Stopa points out, the whole thing depends on a feedback mechanism built into climate mo.....
» 23/02/2012 10:38:01 AM Max Rheese Whatever you may think of global warming, there is no doubt that the bulk of t.....
» 22/02/2012 4:10:19 PM NaomiMelb - of course its self-centred, just as the article is ridiculously self-centred, .....
» 22/02/2012 10:54:38 AM Ms Tranter is entitled to talk her own book, or that of her interest group, just as the re.....
» 21/02/2012 5:28:37 PM Sir Vivor - no, go back and read your original post.. you're talking about finite resource.....
» 21/02/2012 4:18:01 PM Geoff of Perth Never mind Ghandi, we're at that stage in scare stories where the scare pa.....
» 21/02/2012 12:52:47 PM Sam Powrie As Spindoc says and as Sir Vidor should know but apparently does not, peak oi.....
» 20/02/2012 5:16:18 PM diver dan go back and look at what you wrote. You did know that the property market in Au.....
» 20/02/2012 12:48:01 PM diver dan and roses1 sorry fellas but news for the past few weeks has made it reasonably.....
» 16/02/2012 11:18:33 AM plerdsus a useful point.. um, is that actually what they do or is it surmise on your part.....
» 16/02/2012 11:10:40 AM I have no problem with the basic message that management of the Murray-Darling basin shoul.....
» 15/02/2012 12:50:30 PM Roses1 Germany has nothing like 20 per cent power from alt energy - 10 per cent is closer.....
» 15/02/2012 10:28:25 AM Matthew Wright I have no disagreements with the rent seeking accusations but you've left .....
» 13/02/2012 4:59:04 PM Geoff of Perth no new research is required.. people have been warning of peak oil for dec.....
» 13/02/2012 12:47:07 PM Poirot - yep, there are activists protests, but there will always be activist protests. Th.....
» 13/02/2012 10:32:00 AM Michael Lardelli BBBBWWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Okay, so you've been peddling this line for.....
» 7/02/2012 10:10:07 AM popnperish and 579 Again we have examples of activists believing any nonsense at all othe.....
» 6/02/2012 12:44:22 PM Daly writes this piece of nonsense.. "scientific concerns have risen along with produ.....
» 5/02/2012 9:29:45 PM Tombee - look, go back and look at your earlier post with both eyes, then you'll realise w.....
» 3/02/2012 4:52:13 PM Tombee Had a look at the European ExternE Project stuff you're talking about.. you've go.....
» 3/02/2012 12:47:48 PM Tombee - actually you make an excellent point about people being told the costs of doing s.....
» 3/02/2012 10:46:34 AM popnperish Yes, lets look at the figures.. Go back and look at how much temperatures have .....
» 2/02/2012 11:57:10 AM Arjay - sorry but Graham Young was right. Perhaps without realising it you've wandered int.....
» 1/02/2012 4:05:17 PM GrahamY - okay, good point.. not useless so much as difficult to control. Certainly change.....
» 1/02/2012 10:23:52 AM The first poster, Bruce, is right. Economists use to track changes in money supply - which.....
» 31/01/2012 10:21:20 AM Syd Hickman - I have no quibble with the main thrust of the article but you make an assump.....
» 26/01/2012 10:26:25 AM I came to this article late and I am distressed to see that only a couple of the author's .....
» 20/01/2012 10:38:12 AM Senior academic though he is, Rees' article is typical of the occupy movement which he ref.....
» 17/01/2012 10:39:47 AM Over-population is a common theme in this sort of writing, and has been since the 1930s at.....
» 16/01/2012 11:21:08 AM Chris - as an academic you should be well aware of the long debate in Australia over the d.....
» 15/01/2012 11:36:56 AM Rhrosty in mentioning the bit about paying interest to loans to overseas parents you hit o.....
» 13/01/2012 10:17:58 AM Most of the article is barely worth responding to, or even noticing. The bit about miners .....
» 20/12/2011 10:04:27 AM Daly's article highlights the vast problems that confront India or anyone else who tries t.....
» 20/12/2011 9:30:06 AM Pericles - true, I probably am hoping for too much.......
» 19/12/2011 8:10:10 PM And Bendle seriously expects us to believe that we rank above, say, China or Malaysia on t.....
» 14/12/2011 11:35:01 AM The author makes repeated references to the Dark Ages. In the Dark Ages the climate is kno.....
» 12/12/2011 7:53:09 PM The ins and outs of exactly where the carbon is coming from is for another article, for no.....
» 9/12/2011 10:03:07 AM Chris Shaw, Carisbrook 3464 Chris - you realise the photographs you link to destroys your.....
» 9/12/2011 9:48:02 AM Roses1 you and I have been over this stuff before and my recollection is that you had no .....
» 8/12/2011 12:02:24 PM Quite so.. alternative energy is a bust. If emissions are a problem then how else would we.....
» 8/12/2011 11:51:07 AM Sorry david f and individual, but Martin N and Taswegian are far closer.. in fact, solar a.....
» 7/12/2011 6:46:53 PM Poirot I don't disagree with what the Governor of the Bank of England has to say, so I do.....
» 7/12/2011 10:01:50 AM Poirot quite right, the Yanks got very enthusiastic with these derivatives, even bundling.....
» 6/12/2011 10:17:39 AM The article is a very gloomy and badly flawed piece of analysis. Cumes is in the same cate.....
» 2/12/2011 3:43:44 PM Daffy - Heartland never tried to prove that smoking was good for you.. the issue was over .....
» 2/12/2011 12:41:18 PM Geoff of Perth (and cactus..2 should listen in) I said personal indicators, as they are f.....
» 2/12/2011 10:01:22 AM Geoff of Perth - the writer is simply acknowledging reality. The blind are those who insis.....
» 1/12/2011 4:01:14 PM Bugsy - dunno about debt limits .. the actual peaks are just what you'd expect if there's .....
» 1/12/2011 1:08:21 PM Bugsy Sigh! go back and look the article you linked. All it really does is illustate the .....
» 1/12/2011 10:17:20 AM Heather No one expects the Durban conference to achieve anything at all.. as for the deadl.....
» 1/12/2011 10:12:34 AM Geoff Davies Again, clearly you need to take a closer look at the marekts. Sure house pri.....
» 30/11/2011 3:54:06 PM Prompete - quite right.. 579 - you keep on destroying your own case. You cite an increase.....
» 30/11/2011 12:22:16 PM 579 - how does anyone know what the norm is.. and this reference.. "Warmth in the no.....
» 30/11/2011 10:18:19 AM The effects attributed to climate change by the writer are in fact due to climate cycles. .....
» 30/11/2011 10:06:33 AM Ludwig its fair enough that the stuff on Diamond is just a distraction from the main thru.....
» 29/11/2011 12:44:14 PM Geoff Look, pound this into your head. Diamond's work is full of howlers and cannot be ta.....
» 29/11/2011 10:27:59 AM Geoff, mate, if you want to be taken seriously you cannot quote Diamond. His stuff on coll.....
» 28/11/2011 10:18:15 AM Daffy D. - I'm not the moderator but I would have thought David L.'s comments boarderline .....
» 25/11/2011 10:04:40 AM Daffy, or would you prefer DD - I was judging Graham by what he wrote, which shows that he.....
» 24/11/2011 3:49:45 PM "techno-barbarian suspects that inhabit this forum" Bbbwwwhahahah! As one of t.....
» 24/11/2011 10:18:23 AM Graham Harris construed a few odds and ends from the public debate into a shift away from .....
» 22/11/2011 3:52:15 PM michael_in_adelaide the earlier encounter is of no account.. In this encounter your count.....
» 22/11/2011 10:11:41 AM Shame on VK3AUU and michael_in_adelaide. Its been pointed out many times that the premise .....
» 21/11/2011 11:08:01 AM Mark I was intrigued to see you base an arguement on population levels in the time of the .....
» 16/11/2011 10:26:18 AM stevenlmeyer sorry but you've completely missed the point with earlier posts. The sort of.....
» 16/11/2011 10:05:34 AM Those who want to reduce emissions are going to have to face the fact that Geoff is right......
» 15/11/2011 4:31:07 PM Agnostic of Mittagong while I admire your efforts to keep this scare story going the figu.....
» 15/11/2011 3:50:09 PM Bugsy good, you're getting it. Quite right. There is no track record for solar activity e.....
» 15/11/2011 11:07:18 AM 2m increase inevitable this century.... BBBBWWWWHAHAHAHAH! Mike, mate, they had to abando.....
» 15/11/2011 10:55:01 AM It would help if Steven Meyer would bring himself up to speed with the basic arguments alr.....
» 14/11/2011 3:51:56 PM 579 Pardon me, but where have you been? Renewable energy is no where near developed enough.....
» 14/11/2011 10:28:48 AM As other posters have noted, the German government has been stampeded into a solving a pro.....
» 14/11/2011 10:18:39 AM This article slipped by me on Friday but now that I've caught up, the real surprise of the.....
» 7/11/2011 10:13:01 AM As other posters have noted, the article is just pious nonsense. The vast bulk of Austral.....
» 4/11/2011 4:05:42 PM TurnRightThenLeft no, the real question is why should anyone listen to the scientists.. t.....
» 4/11/2011 10:25:51 AM stevenlmeyer makes an excellent point in that there is no way we can curb CO2 emissions. B.....
» 2/11/2011 12:18:42 PM Geoff of Perth Actually its not an expoential increase.. the peak is expected in the next.....
» 2/11/2011 10:17:24 AM There have been quite a few, similar articles marking the birth of the 7 billionth person,.....
» 1/11/2011 10:27:55 PM VK3AUU for heaven sake look up fertiliser and start reading.. you were the one who insiste.....
» 1/11/2011 12:51:04 PM Divergence, Michael_in_Adelaide, VK3AUU and KAEP Again, all these arguments have been ref.....
» 31/10/2011 4:02:33 PM KAEP Maybe you could make your own declaration of support for Malthus by declaring that yo.....
» 31/10/2011 12:44:44 PM colinsett/michael_in_adelaide Come now posters, we've been over all this before, and your.....
» 28/10/2011 4:01:11 PM jord In fact, all I had to say about them was the straight truth. that they are copying a.....
» 28/10/2011 10:14:43 AM Tristan Okay, fair enough.. my recollection of the Danish system is that the workers get p.....
» 27/10/2011 10:42:19 PM jord/tristan In America the occupy movement is essential pointless but understandable, gi.....
» 27/10/2011 1:03:40 PM Tristan You've got quite a bit wrong there. Company tax rates are the same now as they we.....
» 27/10/2011 10:15:13 AM It is evident that Tristan has virtually no idea of current trends when he talks about ten.....
» 25/10/2011 9:53:29 AM Trashcanman But you represented that plant as a cure, and I'm not suggesting we stop rese.....
» 24/10/2011 3:59:56 PM TrashcanMan sorry but that plant you mentioned is not operating 24/7, and is not going to.....
» 24/10/2011 10:44:09 AM In fact, Merkel has basically opted to increase emissions. She has agreed to shut down an .....
» 21/10/2011 10:29:23 AM Shepherd's article, long on rhetoric though it is, has some value in that I was not fully .....
» 19/10/2011 4:14:54 PM Chris Lewis - go back and look at the UK article you cite. It doesn't say what you think i.....
» 19/10/2011 12:28:39 PM Chris Lewis - actually Singapore is a good example of free trade, as is the use of cheap l.....
» 19/10/2011 10:28:25 AM Had trouble working out just what the article was saying and, certainly, as another poster.....
» 19/10/2011 10:09:22 AM It had slipped by me that the government had decided to abolish the wheat export authority.....
» 17/10/2011 10:31:36 AM Had a quick look at the report mentioned in the article. Although there are, obviously ser.....
» 11/10/2011 10:41:33 AM I have lost track of all the proposals for high speed train services in Australia and the .....
» 14/09/2011 12:28:03 PM Luciferase Its for you to go back to your own reference and look at the material and follo.....
» 13/09/2011 4:58:13 PM Luciferase one last go to make you see sense. "A world-wide attack does exist..".....
» 13/09/2011 1:31:43 PM Luciferase No, its a straight waste of time and money. As Tim Curtain points out, it is s.....
» 13/09/2011 11:27:26 AM Luciferase and Services Economist Look both of you show some sign of training in economic.....
» 7/09/2011 11:57:24 AM David has a realistic assessment of the chances of other carbon trading schemes.. these ju.....
» 6/09/2011 11:18:32 AM So there is to be serious exploration in the Kara Sea, that is good news. I was under the .....
» 5/09/2011 11:19:09 AM Julian has an interesting idea but I suspect he's been carried away by the possibilities o.....
» 2/09/2011 1:53:40 PM Chris Lewis In my earlier post I incorrectly referred you to the competition commission (.....
» 2/09/2011 11:19:58 AM Chris Lewis Are you serious! If you want studies try the Reserve Bank, and the competitio.....
» 1/09/2011 11:30:43 PM imajulianutter I think you've misunderstood the nature of the resources taxes.. they are .....
» 1/09/2011 5:10:24 PM Geoff of Perth Perpetual no growth situation? Its a two speed economy with considerable co.....
» 1/09/2011 11:16:36 AM sarnian/Luciferase/Grim/Peter Hume Look, where have you guys been for the past few decade.....
» 26/08/2011 12:08:46 PM The last I heard of MMPR it was being described as a failed experiment. Duncan Graham obvi.....
» 25/08/2011 11:30:06 AM Dr Currie - what country was this article written for and in? as far as I know cash flow s.....
» 24/08/2011 12:01:35 PM While I have some sympathy for Macnabb's stance, the sort of online villification he is ta.....
» 23/08/2011 1:35:31 PM Diver Dan - you need to read the book. The problem is that what you say in that last post.....
» 22/08/2011 11:56:06 PM Mark Lawson here rstuart/bugsy - I thank you for complementing the article guys, but you .....
» 22/08/2011 5:13:36 PM Mark Lawson here Diver Dan - that stuff you mentioned is beyond the point I was making. B.....
» 22/08/2011 11:50:02 AM Mark Lawson here. Yabby - yeek! thanks for pointing out the misspelling.. I dunno where t.....
» 18/08/2011 2:41:06 PM diver dan Take another look (or a first look) at the arguments. The 15 per cent rejected,.....
» 18/08/2011 11:28:05 AM Gerard, this business about flood insurance has been kicked around quite a bit and its tim.....
» 16/08/2011 11:35:10 AM Matt - I can appreciate just how you would view these riots but the UK Prime Minister was .....
» 12/08/2011 11:28:52 AM As someone who works in the media, Valarie's article is too much about academics controlli.....
» 11/08/2011 11:42:35 AM The author insists that a bad situation is far worse than it is, and to improve things we .....
» 5/08/2011 11:33:29 AM Mollydukes I must agree with GrahamY - your standards are far too high for any debate, par.....
» 4/08/2011 12:14:46 PM Mollydukes - you are accusing Graham of the sins which you are committing. Pelican is a lo.....
» 2/08/2011 5:38:36 PM Bugsy - actually that's true. It will just make the man more notorious. Just look at Paul .....
» 2/08/2011 11:38:45 AM Atman - true. People just see this politically correct stuff and dump all critical reasoni.....
» 1/08/2011 5:43:20 PM Mark Lawson here shal - I wasn't accusing you of being abusive; I was accusing you of appl.....
» 1/08/2011 2:08:03 PM Mark Lawson here Ludwig - the reference to the carbon tax is just a facetious comment. A .....
» 1/08/2011 11:48:15 AM Mark Lawson here. Matthew Lloyd - I sort of see where you're coming from. In fact, the hi.....
» 29/07/2011 2:02:27 PM PEST Well, I am a sceptic, and the world has far beyond the simplistic thinking of this a.....
» 29/07/2011 11:37:20 AM Quite so. Even if we accepted global warming theory (and I don't) its way too early for an.....
» 27/07/2011 11:42:31 AM While I can appreciate the reasons for Mr Vaknin's lengthy piece on why everything is goin.....
» 26/07/2011 12:01:02 PM Of these statements "national system of feed-in tariffs (modelled on the very succes.....
» 25/07/2011 11:28:30 AM Saul Eslake shows at least more sense than most activists in acknowledging that the Austra.....
» 21/07/2011 1:42:46 PM Yes, the Hydro can run dry, and that is a problem.. One of the key arguments for wind sys.....
» 20/07/2011 3:30:01 PM rstuart You're beginning to get it! Congratulations! You've grasped the point of the artic.....
» 20/07/2011 10:30:31 AM jimoctec - "Free trade is anything but, it allows the exploitation of the markets of .....
» 19/07/2011 4:26:47 PM Amicus - yes the subsidies thing is clearly wrong. In no sense can fossil fuels be said to.....
» 19/07/2011 11:31:30 AM Bonmot wow, you're really into green agit-prop. I glanced at the Diesendorf material. He's.....
» 18/07/2011 11:56:09 PM rstuart no, sorry, you lose out on all counts. Although the term capacity credit is confus.....
» 18/07/2011 5:28:11 PM Mark Lawson here rstuart Go back and look at the material you link from 2009.. now look a.....
» 18/07/2011 1:50:52 PM Mark Lawson here Hestia The main reason wind farms are spinging up is because of governme.....
» 18/07/2011 11:07:22 AM Mark Lawson here Geoff Davies. How can it be naysaying to point to the readily available .....
» 15/07/2011 4:58:11 PM JSB Oh sure, the bit about buying credits overseas, in either direction, is quite crazy b.....
» 15/07/2011 1:29:09 PM JSB so, okay, what we've come down to is that the article is right - or at least the argu.....
» 15/07/2011 11:39:03 AM Heather so let this old cynic get this straight. As well as pay the carbon tax you are pro.....
» 15/07/2011 11:25:11 AM JSB In fact what you really mean is that you don't like the article, hate the conclusions,.....
» 14/07/2011 4:57:50 PM Bugsy - its a thought but I have come to the regretful conclusion that the world does not .....
» 14/07/2011 11:11:10 AM The author is at least right on one point, that once a carbon tax is in place people will .....
» 13/07/2011 5:15:03 PM Ammonite All of the examples you cite so indignantly are just window dressing.. I've looke.....
» 13/07/2011 12:16:14 PM Quite right! To introduce a carbon tax here with no international agreement worthy of the .....
» 11/07/2011 12:28:50 PM But where are the blood sacrifices required to ward off climate change? We need sacrifices.....
» 8/07/2011 4:25:49 PM Squeers Nope - again your approach is to require the entire system to be overthrown, which.....
» 8/07/2011 9:11:05 AM Squeers I'll repeat the basic point. There is simply no hope of any effective action in r.....
» 7/07/2011 4:50:01 PM bonmot a minor factor in the lack of action on this point may well be some commentators a.....
» 7/07/2011 11:19:34 AM Saul - I had no particular objection to the pooint you make that if we accept the scientif.....
» 6/07/2011 11:32:23 AM Mike - it all makes good sense if you realise these are political concessions made to appe.....
» 5/07/2011 5:11:06 PM rstuart "No. Weather models are sensitive to starting conditions. Climate models are.....
» 5/07/2011 1:44:51 PM Bonmot - no, I always use the UAH satellite data. Its audited and not subject to the vast .....
» 5/07/2011 11:26:17 AM The article cites quite dated opinion polls, such as the 2008 poll which led the story. Th.....
» 5/07/2011 12:04:38 AM Rich2/Bonmot my apologies I seem to have confused you with Roses1. No, the post was large.....
» 4/07/2011 5:50:38 PM rstuart Okay, to anyone familiar with the computer models, the section you cited is straig.....
» 4/07/2011 1:36:59 PM rstuart "The limitation in the models has been the amount of computer power we can d.....
» 4/07/2011 12:18:24 PM GlenC No Chris was only using the stomach ulcers case as an illustration of just how far o.....
» 29/06/2011 4:59:56 PM Agnostic of Mittagong why must we be subjected to rehashes of IPCC scare stories, particu.....
» 29/06/2011 11:15:40 AM Roger Welch has pointed to another area where the current obsession with global warming, a.....
» 28/06/2011 4:53:32 PM Chris - this point.. Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, .....
» 28/06/2011 11:52:22 AM Quite right. Our major trading comeptitors are doing little to nothing about reducing carb.....
» 24/06/2011 11:16:36 AM As a consumer of future history - there is a surprising amount of it about - I was enterta.....
» 22/06/2011 1:29:23 PM rstuart And yes, you're quite right to say that Freud was not a scientist. The problem was.....
» 22/06/2011 12:26:56 PM VK3AUU Oh quite so.. in fact that's been the case for decades. WA has been likened to a gi.....
» 22/06/2011 12:20:58 PM As a print media journalist (albeit in finance rather than general) I can say that Brian i.....
» 21/06/2011 5:08:55 PM Divergence I'm glad you recalled my point about Freudian psychology. It is an excellent e.....
» 21/06/2011 1:25:35 PM Roses1 population curves exponential? Nope. Try again. There have been several attempts to.....
» 21/06/2011 11:06:49 AM Fiona you cite a lot of sources, but you don't realise that it would have been possible to.....
» 18/06/2011 9:53:24 AM Rich2 - no, not every institution. There are exceptions (the Russian academy for example)......
» 17/06/2011 5:10:38 PM rich2 no, the finding most definitely extends to scientists with the important exception, .....
» 17/06/2011 1:45:57 PM Rich2 yes, quite serious. This is well known, and I'm shocked its the first time you've si.....
» 17/06/2011 11:29:16 AM Sarian - it is you who are spouting nonsense, as shown by your post. You can't have the hi.....
» 16/06/2011 4:50:11 PM VK3AUU I was poking fun at the anti-pops. It all harmless, there's no way their ideas will.....
» 16/06/2011 2:07:02 PM At some point I will check the ABS stats for myself, but if the workforce is set to expand.....
» 15/06/2011 5:12:31 PM Nicco thanks for the references. Just so you know, citing a Michael Mann paper is akin to .....
» 15/06/2011 1:47:45 PM Nicco despite insulting suggestion that I'm engaging in debating tricks, your post is a d.....
» 14/06/2011 5:11:26 PM rpg - catastraphonica.. oh wow, I like the word. Fully agree. Nicco - again, and I think .....
» 14/06/2011 1:26:04 PM VK3AUU - oh sure, glaciers are melting. Sure temperatures are high. The problem is that no.....
» 14/06/2011 11:35:40 AM Every country on earth legislating to drastically penalise couples having more than one ch.....
» 14/06/2011 11:25:58 AM Tom Quirk makes some valuable points with his analysis, however, there has been too much e.....
» 10/06/2011 5:13:31 PM Poirot your comment on India is a closer shot but I still won't pay it. If any of our brav.....
» 10/06/2011 1:49:42 PM VK3AUU - actually they have been setting time frames for decades, and this or that limit, .....
» 10/06/2011 11:53:00 AM Trainer's article is welcome in one respect in that he recognises the total impossibility .....
» 10/06/2011 11:27:26 AM Nicco the point of your earlier post was that you were accusing me and others of overlooki.....
» 9/06/2011 5:12:17 PM squeers - if you seriously believe that your earlier post was not a silly, abusive rant th.....
» 9/06/2011 2:06:42 PM Mart N - if you believe that on Y2K you are in a tiny minority, which includes the experts.....
» 9/06/2011 1:45:04 PM bonmot/popnperish - you guy are complaining about us being cynical and repeating the same .....
» 9/06/2011 11:11:15 AM Hey fellow posters - don't be so hard on Andrew. There is some indication in this article .....
» 8/06/2011 11:41:26 PM Mark Lawson here rstuart - again you want to refight the climate arguement which is essent.....
» 8/06/2011 5:06:57 PM popnperish you are leaping far ahead of what I actually wrote. I have no ideological oppo.....
» 8/06/2011 1:58:55 PM Spindoc - um, MSM? Lost me on that one. But yes, there have been numerous attempts to shif.....
» 8/06/2011 11:54:03 AM Mark Lawson here. rstuart and nicco - fellas, you've completely missed the point of the ar.....
» 7/06/2011 5:06:26 PM Mark Lawson here Sarian - this sort of abuse in place of arguement has become quite old. I.....
» 7/06/2011 1:54:13 PM Mark Lawson here. Several posters want to refight the climate debate. I really wasn't goi.....
» 6/06/2011 1:36:26 PM JohnBennetts Ah, you've read the original Garnaut report.. good stuff.. then I have a ques.....
» 3/06/2011 2:11:43 PM Tristan I don't really disagree with your second post, and I care not a jot about being ca.....
» 3/06/2011 12:19:24 PM Tristan - look, where have you been? This statment: "these kind of ideas have been r.....
» 2/06/2011 2:11:08 PM popnperish - I belive I've deflated all these wild-eyed disaster stories you managed to sc.....
» 2/06/2011 12:07:12 PM Roses1 - took a closer look at the biomass stats you cite.. I really only had time for Fin.....
» 2/06/2011 11:42:19 AM Julian "around half of Australians are dying as a result of their diets". That'.....
» 1/06/2011 2:12:30 PM Shadow Minister - take your point. Fair enough. Roses1/Ben - now I'm even more confused. .....
» 1/06/2011 1:40:04 PM Tombee very well, fair enough. You most certainly have an arguable case that the feedbacks.....
» 1/06/2011 11:45:41 AM I would disagree with shadow minister on one point - a biomass plant shouldn't need any mo.....
» 1/06/2011 11:28:06 AM Tombee - come now, surely you've been in the debate long enough to repeat this sort of stu.....
» 31/05/2011 11:10:05 AM Instead of studying Jevrons or Malthus, Varie Yule should have glanced at Adam Smith, and .....
» 30/05/2011 11:04:21 AM My first thought was why hasn't John Pilger retired? Why must we see him on Online Opinion.....
» 28/05/2011 3:58:39 PM Bugsy we've hit more total misunderstandings. You're talking about solar IRRADIANCE. Yes, .....
» 27/05/2011 4:52:55 PM Yes, bonmot, still beating the same drum. Problem is that there is simply no research fund.....
» 27/05/2011 2:09:15 PM Although the author's article means well I cannot see the campaign as being useful. For s.....
» 27/05/2011 1:52:52 PM Bugsy Excellent! You've nailed it! An alternative theory is indeed missing. One alternativ.....
» 27/05/2011 11:25:02 AM Agnostic of Mittagong finally you are getting the idea that the arguement is over whether .....
» 26/05/2011 5:07:35 PM No, Nicco, this silly insistance that skeptics are just denialists is becoming old, tireso.....
» 26/05/2011 2:21:49 PM And then Roses1 comes out with this equally tired nonsense. "Nine out of ten of the m.....
» 26/05/2011 12:37:32 PM To my surprise I agree with about half of Mike Pope's article. However, he spoils it by hi.....
» 23/05/2011 6:30:52 PM Bonmot - yes indeed I got onto the site you linked to because someone tried to refute a po.....
» 23/05/2011 12:30:40 PM For Dr Tim Stephens and posters to this article to complain that Cardinal Pell is, in effe.....
» 22/05/2011 5:43:32 PM MattWright - The figures you quote for wind costs are patently ridiculous, even absurd. Si.....
» 21/05/2011 4:53:15 PM Bugsy - the stat on farmland falling out of production it was in an ABS release. Don't hav.....
» 20/05/2011 5:12:24 PM MattWright - you've picked an extremely bad example to make your point. The reason there a.....
» 20/05/2011 5:01:04 PM L.B. Loveday - I was just quoting what was said in the article and I am prepared to be gui.....
» 20/05/2011 1:46:24 PM MattWright - we don't need another lecture on how those plants work. We need to see one wh.....
» 20/05/2011 11:33:23 AM Although I don't agree with the author's initial assertion that alternative energy can pro.....
» 20/05/2011 11:22:59 AM As the majority of the other posters point out, there is a lot wrong with the article and .....
» 18/05/2011 11:58:51 AM Okay, look I'll point it out - ther author writes that seven other countries, including th.....
» 17/05/2011 11:29:47 AM Pilger gives one example of this campaign - that of Andrew Bolt's court case and suggestio.....
» 13/05/2011 5:19:45 PM Skeptic Skeptic - to go over the ground again, our arguement with Suzanne is two fold. Fir.....
» 13/05/2011 2:22:09 PM Loathe as I am to intrude in a perfectly good fight between Pericles and stevenlmyer, the .....
» 13/05/2011 2:08:01 PM That brings me to the next level of criticism.. Children should be included as a matter of.....
» 13/05/2011 11:47:45 AM Suzanne to add to the chorus of disapproval over what is ultimately a silly article, you d.....
» 12/05/2011 5:07:27 PM Bruce - just to add to the chorus of posters pointing out the blindingly obvious, which yo.....
» 12/05/2011 1:49:14 PM Nicco - actually there is no proof in the scientific literature, as such. If you look care.....
» 12/05/2011 11:33:04 AM Leigh - go back and look at the President Obama's statement. Now look online at the stuff .....
» 10/05/2011 2:02:23 PM Roses1 - I actually never said anything about the existence or otherwise of man-made clima.....
» 10/05/2011 11:28:26 AM The article is difficult to follow, but the author has forgotten one political reality in .....
» 9/05/2011 5:02:13 PM Geoff of Perth If the IEA wants to rant about peak oil then it is welcome to waste its t.....
» 9/05/2011 3:14:58 PM As someone who managed to stir up Diesendorf enough to be called names, by pointing out th.....
» 9/05/2011 2:23:06 PM Candide - true, they are just the same as they were when first laid down, and there is alw.....
» 9/05/2011 11:27:38 AM Finally someone who actually knows something about the energy industry, at least to the po.....
» 7/05/2011 5:06:05 PM cornonacob and rache You guys are throwing muck around hoping something will stick. I wou.....
» 6/05/2011 1:55:28 PM Roses1 - well, thanks, I guess.. sure we can cut down on wasteful fossil fuel use. The rea.....
» 6/05/2011 11:33:21 AM Martin N - yes, all things being equal more CO2 in the atmosphere should mean temperatures.....
» 5/05/2011 1:43:56 PM Tombee - fair enough.. I wasn't saying you made facts fit theories.. I was referring to cl.....
» 5/05/2011 11:34:38 AM Actually Tombee, basic arithmetic from the figures you have admitted, shows that the globa.....
» 4/05/2011 5:25:44 PM popnperish - I'm sure a carbon tax in Australia would probably reduce emissions in Austral.....
» 4/05/2011 1:49:20 PM popnperish - rich2 managed to read all of the above material in the posts and in the artic.....
» 4/05/2011 11:17:50 AM A carbon tax or an ETS, as policies, have so many problems that it is difficult to know wh.....
» 3/05/2011 11:50:59 PM VK3AUU/David - you make the good point in that atomic bomb recipies can be found online, b.....
» 3/05/2011 1:56:18 PM There are many points on which I would disagree with Wareham but this sentence "For n.....
» 3/05/2011 11:40:25 AM King Hazza - no, AEMO operates the grid. Check out their site. The organisation has other .....
» 2/05/2011 5:10:48 PM Sarian - why did you bother us with a press release from island with wind/pumped storage f.....
» 2/05/2011 1:54:00 PM Breeding outselves back into the stone age! Well, if you're going to forecast, why do thin.....
» 2/05/2011 11:29:12 AM Diesendorf has abandoned all reality for a fantasy world where no technical difficulties e.....
» 29/04/2011 1:43:00 PM Pericles - all good points, although I don't support either Carlton or the Swans (the Pies.....
» 29/04/2011 11:35:55 AM I have suggested to my wife that there is an AFL match on television about the same time (.....
» 28/04/2011 5:07:02 PM Nicco The supposed cooling was always very slight. Basically temperatures have been on a .....
» 28/04/2011 1:31:48 PM Nicco - its actually Mark not Max.. Your response points to another source of total confu.....
» 28/04/2011 11:18:29 AM The opponents of a carbon tax are certainly as guilty as the proponents of global warming .....
» 27/04/2011 11:27:56 AM I would not dream of critiquing Geoff's analysis of carbon tax compensation, but his artic.....
» 20/04/2011 1:41:49 PM Paul Budde delivers a call to arms but does not say in which direction we are supposed to .....
» 20/04/2011 11:39:53 AM Nope fellas, Cheryl is far closer to the truth than our mate Dick. But Dick is right to t.....
» 17/04/2011 10:51:08 AM King Hazza - I would not disagree with in your response to me. Sure those cities could be .....
» 15/04/2011 5:26:27 PM Sarian - no, sorry, as you yourself seem to have agreed, peak oil is dead. You admit that .....
» 15/04/2011 2:12:25 PM Ross - I see a few posters have trotted out the scare stores with Peter A claiming - in th.....
» 15/04/2011 11:31:23 AM Alice - what Amicus has begun I can take further. The main clean technology manufacturer .....
» 14/04/2011 11:39:04 PM Bazz and Leckos - fellas, what I and the other posters are saying is just not penetrating......
» 14/04/2011 5:14:47 PM Bazz - sorry, but none of that's relevent. Oil industry analysts would have largely dump.....
» 14/04/2011 2:05:05 PM Ben/popnperish - as you've basically agreed to in a previous post, the peak oil scare is d.....
» 14/04/2011 11:43:13 AM Ben - this statement "Governments' policies have reduced fuel taxes far below real c.....
» 13/04/2011 4:56:10 PM Spindoc - oh, okay, my apologies, I may not have grasped your point .. you're saying why s.....
» 13/04/2011 1:19:15 PM Spindoc sadly I don't recall your no doubt valuable contribution from Geoff's last article.....
» 13/04/2011 11:24:48 AM The worrying part for the Labor government is, as Geoff points out, that companies will do.....
» 12/04/2011 6:53:28 PM mayrog - international comparisons are only of limited use. The number of engineers gradua.....
» 12/04/2011 11:26:42 AM Peter Hume is correct, or at least much closer to the mark than Julian. This business abou.....
» 11/04/2011 5:30:04 PM Fellas, it is difficult to believe the way greens, which seem to include some posters, cli.....
» 11/04/2011 4:58:08 PM Leo Lane - good point. pedestrian - others have suggested to me that better management o.....
» 11/04/2011 1:36:46 PM Agnostic of Mittagong Um, re your post, I dunno if anyone's told you this but you did kno.....
» 11/04/2011 11:57:23 AM Should global warming be completely disproved, for many years after everyone has stopped t.....
» 10/04/2011 8:54:35 PM Bonmot/Bugsy - no that silly arguement does not get you out of it. You dragged Plimer in b.....
» 8/04/2011 5:56:42 PM bonmot - the reason there is a lot about Plimer's book is because scientists can apparentl.....
» 8/04/2011 2:09:10 PM Raycom - tnks for the books, Mark Lawson.....
» 8/04/2011 11:37:41 AM As a journalist who occasionally gets to write about the science, I have some idea about h.....
» 7/04/2011 11:26:55 AM sarnian - your post was a prime example of what the author was talking about .. 10,000 peo.....
» 6/04/2011 6:39:36 PM miacat - I disagree strongly with almost all of your post. You will note that the two area.....
» 6/04/2011 4:50:31 PM Spindoc - I don't disagree with a word you say but the authorities in Japan are only parti.....
» 6/04/2011 3:14:39 PM cornonacob No probs, but I have a counter question for you. Would you be prepared to rais.....
» 6/04/2011 12:29:15 PM Amicus - some good stuff there.. been meaning to catvch up with Brooks site.. tnks.......
» 6/04/2011 11:40:42 AM Ho Hum - I looked at your post .. 417,000 cancers by 2061.. Bbbwwwhahahahah! Oh come now,.....
» 5/04/2011 6:21:05 PM Martin N - oh sure, the fear has nothing to do with the actual risks involved, but I have .....
» 5/04/2011 11:35:28 AM Wow, I'm actually agreeing with Tombee. Forecasting in this area is inherently impossible,.....
» 2/04/2011 4:54:06 PM Vanna - that's your view of society. Very few would agree, particularly the bit about bein.....
» 1/04/2011 4:01:01 PM There you go, Taswegion knew of the CO2 out of fuel proposal. I regret that I agree with .....
» 1/04/2011 12:44:45 PM Amicus - I haven't heard of the fuel out of CO2 idea - although it would be poetic justice.....
» 1/04/2011 10:19:15 AM So Cameron, we'll all have to start raising chickens and veggies in our back gardens. Bbb.....
» 31/03/2011 12:53:04 PM Tombee since when has the "the bulk of scientific wisdom" been a test for accep.....
» 31/03/2011 10:20:59 AM Although it is difficult to judge popular feelings from demonstrations, there is little do.....
» 29/03/2011 4:11:03 PM Jedimaster About the only source of Chinese wind efforts are newspaper reports. So to com.....
» 29/03/2011 10:43:01 AM Jedimaster - No the reference to wind power in Denmark was correct. The exact proportion.....
» 28/03/2011 4:22:36 PM Jedimaster - after reading your first post, I went back and read your second. All I could .....
» 28/03/2011 12:43:34 PM Jedimaster - excuse me but my comments have always been parliamentary. To call someone a &.....
» 28/03/2011 11:01:28 AM The author has, perhaps not deliberately, highlighted the immense problems involved in any.....
» 25/03/2011 4:17:41 PM Rich2 - it is highly unlikely that a price on carbon would make alternative energy competi.....
» 25/03/2011 12:56:43 PM Kenny - to suggest that global warming is in the same league as relativity and evolution i.....
» 25/03/2011 11:07:51 AM Tombee and others - You are quite corect to say that CO2 increases will change temperature.....
» 24/03/2011 10:10:31 AM Bonmot - Actually those skeptics you mention all appeared on the ABC program Counterpoint.....
» 23/03/2011 12:44:09 PM A further point, made by other posters, is that you will never get more support on the med.....
» 23/03/2011 11:18:48 AM The author covers many points in his article but one theme, I suppose, is that the message.....
» 18/03/2011 10:17:42 AM The author does not say much about rates of bullying but as far as inter-personal violence.....
» 17/03/2011 4:02:45 PM popnperish - actually climate change is real and none of us are denying it. What we are qu.....
» 17/03/2011 12:54:15 PM Squeers - you have stumbled into an enormous subject, the measurement of "happyiness&.....
» 17/03/2011 10:21:24 AM Andrew is one of those many academics that seems to have an aversion to checking his own t.....
» 16/03/2011 4:12:36 PM Jedimaster - come now, if you're a physicist as you claim to be, you should know better to.....
» 16/03/2011 12:52:16 PM Jim - as an anti-nuclear activist you are in position to complain about anyone else's ideo.....
» 16/03/2011 10:47:49 AM David's article is an example of the extreme moral stances taken by activists. Nuclear en.....
» 15/03/2011 12:29:34 PM Quite right rpg.. Kenny if you have no better arguements than references to long gone issu.....
» 15/03/2011 10:54:16 AM Sophie - you have made the mistake, common to activists, to equate street protests with pu.....
» 15/03/2011 10:38:19 AM Jedimaster - there is a real problem with your arguments. You seem to be saying the there .....
» 14/03/2011 10:47:39 PM Jedimaster - I hate to burst your balloon but who told you that wind was competitive? It m.....
» 14/03/2011 5:37:12 PM wobbles - quite interested in your C12 C13 thing - you know they measure the concentration.....
» 14/03/2011 4:04:27 PM Bazz - while I think you for your book suggestions, you do realise that peak oil, as a cau.....
» 14/03/2011 10:16:07 AM Graham - good article. I see your article has attracted a more than usually mixed group of.....
» 13/03/2011 8:20:45 PM Leo Lane - fully agree.. Jeremy - good stuff! I quoted the CO2 temperatures effect in th.....
» 12/03/2011 9:33:06 AM jeremy - thank you for your explanation about snow. But I regret I must join the doubters......
» 11/03/2011 5:09:47 PM bonmot - good to see that you understand there is natural variability. We're getting somew.....
» 11/03/2011 12:57:07 PM Jeremy - for heaven sake, there is plenty of material to show that the earth's climate var.....
» 11/03/2011 10:19:32 AM Alex - I agree with the article but its always best to adopt neutral language in these thi.....
» 10/03/2011 10:09:48 AM I had a little trouble working out just what the writer was saying but he is right to the .....
» 9/03/2011 10:15:58 AM I'm still puzzled over why the coal service bothered with these guys. The magistrate was q.....
» 9/03/2011 9:55:35 AM Jedimaster - oh come now, surely you can think of a more plausible pretext for dismissing .....
» 8/03/2011 10:46:55 PM Jedimaster - Good to see that you are aware of some of the difficulties, but you drag in p.....
» 8/03/2011 4:41:09 PM Rich2 - after reading your post I now know the idea of a carbon tax is not just ridiculous.....
» 8/03/2011 10:08:24 AM A couple of reality checks. Firstly it is quite ridiculous to announce that we will have .....
» 7/03/2011 10:27:43 AM Prof Rowan's effort to help with his cricket analogy has just further obscured the issue. .....
» 4/03/2011 12:46:55 PM one under god Go back and look at http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/aggi/ Clearly the two impo.....
» 4/03/2011 10:16:26 AM One under god - while I admire your efforts to drag tensor calculus into the debate, a few.....
» 3/03/2011 3:52:32 PM one under god.. although I'm relutant to stir you up, um, you realised that the concentrat.....
» 3/03/2011 10:38:52 AM Geoff makes an intriging point, which I had not previously considerd, when he says that th.....
» 2/03/2011 10:20:32 AM The author of this article is from a different planet, or perhaps I am being unfair - the .....
» 25/02/2011 3:50:45 PM Briar rose - no, its not a matter of agreeing to disagree. You never responded to my queue.....
» 25/02/2011 10:02:40 AM Briar Rose - you completely missed the point of what I was saying .. the law demands that .....
» 24/02/2011 3:53:40 PM Illegials are legal to the extent that they have been found by our navy - otherwise they m.....
» 24/02/2011 10:21:07 AM michael_in_adelaide and others - no, Foyle was not being attacked so much as being reprove.....
» 23/02/2011 12:57:04 PM Foyle - on the contrary, you have missed the main points of the posts. You can't serve my .....
» 23/02/2011 10:04:56 AM Forecasts of mass starvation have a long and venerable history of being believed when they.....
» 22/02/2011 3:53:36 PM Wakatak - fossil fuel subsidies?? You may be confused on that point. Overall fossil fuels .....
» 22/02/2011 12:17:35 PM Martin N Yes, good point on nuclear plants, although purely from a public relations point.....
» 22/02/2011 10:34:03 AM Josh - go back and look at your reference to the Spanish thermal power station. It shows a.....
» 18/02/2011 10:28:24 AM The real reason the constitution was not changed, and never mind the author's muddled reas.....
» 18/02/2011 10:14:14 AM More grandstanding by eminent people and more interference by the UN, which amounts to gra.....
» 17/02/2011 10:05:42 AM Ho Hum "propaganda hack for the IPA" Dear! Dear! Are you so unsure of your own .....
» 16/02/2011 10:46:21 AM Bugsy and Divergence - fellas look closely at the stuff you cite. Whoever is citing Diamon.....
» 16/02/2011 10:22:35 AM Tim - the real surprise of your article was that some banks offered coverage for flood dam.....
» 15/02/2011 4:10:55 PM Divergence - go back and look at the material you cite. None of that gets diamond off the .....
» 15/02/2011 10:41:19 AM ponnperish - no these theories are drive by Diamond, although I have read that Thor Heyerd.....
» 14/02/2011 10:36:29 PM Bugsy, read mate, read.. I've just been glancing through some of the stuff on shale oil a.....
» 14/02/2011 4:37:00 PM Look, I dunno where the author has been but doesn't he realise the immense revolution that.....
» 14/02/2011 4:05:42 PM Pelican - civil disobedience is an acceptable term.. same term was applied to Ghandi's pro.....
» 14/02/2011 12:49:54 PM JL Deland - dust from coal mining causing asthma?? Bbbwwwhahahahah! Is there, in fact, a.....
» 14/02/2011 10:11:10 AM The coal loading company should have simply accepted the court's decision concerning the f.....
» 11/02/2011 1:03:14 PM Although Andrew's statistics about the production of CO2 seem impressive, what he does not.....
» 11/02/2011 10:28:49 AM Andrew - go back and look at your own article.. you talk about increases in CO2 and, in pa.....
» 10/02/2011 10:42:48 PM Keith yes I know Tracy is classified as a category four, and it was for the most part.. I .....
» 10/02/2011 1:06:04 PM Colinsett - sorry but nope on all counts. KAEP should pay attention to. First off there .....
» 10/02/2011 10:40:58 AM Julian - go back and look at what you wrote about that dodgy piece of CSIRO research where.....
» 9/02/2011 5:32:24 PM Garum Masala - true. Another example of a forecast disaster that did not happen, and in fa.....
» 9/02/2011 10:56:24 AM Geoff - I most certainly did talk about the substance of the paper. As I pointed out you c.....
» 9/02/2011 10:40:29 AM Whatever you might think of the evidence for human-induced global warming, and ignoring Ho.....
» 8/02/2011 8:12:16 PM Geoff As with most of this pleading you accuse us of everything you are doing. But havin.....
» 8/02/2011 5:21:48 PM Geoff Davies look, I regret, your reassuring explanation answered none of my concerns, nor.....
» 8/02/2011 12:47:29 PM Geoff go back and look at your own article. To my reading both the deep ocean sentiments .....
» 8/02/2011 10:27:59 AM Has John been walking around with your eyes closed? An academic of his reputation could d.....
» 7/02/2011 10:50:50 PM Malrob - tnks for that.. will look.......
» 7/02/2011 4:02:12 PM Malrob - interested in your comment that atmos temps were expected to remain high for a ti.....
» 7/02/2011 1:05:17 PM Actually Geoff 2010 was an el Nino year, but a la Nina also developed very quickly. One of.....
» 7/02/2011 12:51:37 PM Mark Lawson here - The CSIRO brochure refered to by other posters is a case in point of j.....
» 6/02/2011 11:18:26 AM Bonmot Puzzling over your response - I assume you're neither stupid, nor crazy - it has oc.....
» 4/02/2011 4:25:36 PM Mark Lawson here Bonmot - while I have tried not to be negative with your comments in ot.....
» 4/02/2011 11:30:24 AM Mark Lawson here Jeremy - I see you do realise that higher temperatures may have quite d.....
» 1/02/2011 10:03:33 AM I can almost sympathise with the public servants that they are being forced into doing som.....
» 27/01/2011 3:55:09 PM Bugsy - why have you dragged feedlots into it? No beef in Aus has ever been produced by an.....
» 27/01/2011 12:47:31 PM Bugsy - delighted to see you are still around.. and you almost have a point. Now that I lo.....
» 27/01/2011 10:44:03 AM In fact this is the origin of that bizaare stat.. this is just from Wikipedia, which is qu.....
» 27/01/2011 10:33:21 AM Note to the other posters.. as you all rightly point out, methane supposed contribution to.....
» 26/01/2011 10:28:01 AM Bon Mot - In an earlier set of posts I pointed out that the actual temperature results of .....
» 25/01/2011 10:24:20 AM Climate models were originally - 70s, 80s - designed simply to investigate the interaction.....
» 24/01/2011 3:55:57 PM Bonmot - again, go back and look at your second link. Now try and work out how the author .....
» 24/01/2011 1:17:23 PM Chris Shaw - terribly sorry, your argument also referred to water. Yes, the sea surface te.....
» 24/01/2011 12:59:14 PM Chris Shaw, Geoff Davies and Bon Mot.. go back and look at the first link Bon Mot so thoug.....
» 20/01/2011 3:54:53 PM Bonmot - the 2007 report you can't do much with as its only just under four years old. Eve.....
» 20/01/2011 10:47:16 AM Bonmot - Rich3.. congratulations! Particularly to Bonmot, who had the right link. The 1990.....
» 19/01/2011 4:00:00 PM Rich2 - I won't go through all of that but as a start the 1990 report by the IPCC forecast.....
» 19/01/2011 12:33:44 PM Rich2 in fact its the other way round.. what evidence will convince you that climate chang.....
» 19/01/2011 10:39:55 AM The storms and floodings (both riverine and from the sea) of the little ice age are known .....
» 19/01/2011 10:31:23 AM Bonmot - the 2007 IPCC report did not include climate cycles at all - in part because they.....
» 18/01/2011 4:04:40 PM Agnostic of Mittagong - look, I dunno where you got the business about the 70s floods in B.....
» 18/01/2011 10:39:17 AM Bonmot - thanks for the link but was there any point you wanted to make? Rich2 - no the a.....
» 17/01/2011 4:33:39 PM popnperish - the business about ocean temperatures making the la nina effect worse was eit.....
» 17/01/2011 11:00:28 AM popnperish and rich2 - sorry but the author made several good points which you have not re.....
» 8/12/2010 9:30:55 AM There is a lot of argue with in Le Mesurier's article, although cetainly a more measured a.....
» 6/12/2010 9:54:30 AM Tim - which particular set of rose colored glasses are you wearing? Even if the delegates .....
» 6/12/2010 9:47:05 AM Jim - for once I find myself in agreement with Taswegian. Go back and look at your article.....
» 30/11/2010 10:09:38 AM While it may be simplistic to dismiss the greens as anti-growth, they should still be dism.....
» 26/11/2010 10:39:46 AM Cliff - there is no doubting your reasoning but one of the odd parts of the climate debate.....
» 25/11/2010 1:30:39 PM Further on that, I just refreshed my memory with some of the debate follow labor abandonin.....
» 25/11/2010 1:19:16 PM Geoff Davies - you have caught my attention. Where does the $1 billion subsidy for coal fi.....
» 25/11/2010 10:26:33 AM Ged - fellow posters have said most things but a couple of points. You mention spending o.....
» 19/11/2010 1:08:26 PM Stephen - a belated comment.. a better article than most as you actually show some underst.....
» 15/11/2010 10:46:07 AM Sorry fellas but the IEA report changed nothing whatever. All it really shows is what the .....
» 12/11/2010 4:18:13 PM Ken Fabos - congratualtions, you have grasped the reality that there is no possibility at .....
» 12/11/2010 11:13:59 AM Actually some part of what the author thinks should happen has already happened. Farmers,.....
» 11/11/2010 4:16:33 PM sarnian - one of the points about the article is that all the indicators are simply not sh.....
» 11/11/2010 1:02:35 PM VK3AUU sorry but the simple withdrawl of the West most emphatically does not mean that the.....
» 11/11/2010 10:36:46 AM Geoff Davies - your lecture about physics would carry a good deal more weight if you had u.....
» 10/11/2010 10:30:16 AM Kellie I don't dispute that Clinton's talk was full of hot air but will the Afghan MP's t.....
» 8/11/2010 10:59:10 AM Although I don't agree with all the article, I agree with the main thrust that if activist.....
» 4/11/2010 5:29:50 PM Divergence - actually Diamond's errors in the collapse book are legion. As I said before, .....
» 4/11/2010 10:18:09 AM colinsett yes, I can agree to that. People brought the rats so they must take some of the .....
» 3/11/2010 5:03:06 PM sarnian - sorry but you can't take Diamond as an authorative source at all. Hunt says ther.....
» 3/11/2010 12:56:03 PM Those whose minds are still open, may care to look at a scientific paper available online .....
» 3/11/2010 12:36:42 PM Yabby - just caught the Easter Island thing.. just a point on that.. you're quoting Diamon.....
» 2/11/2010 4:03:09 PM geoffc Quite right, everything will become more expensive. There is no possibility of oil .....
» 2/11/2010 1:05:52 PM Um, fellas, it has long been know that the problem with the oil industry is not peak oil b.....
» 28/10/2010 10:15:27 AM Jedimaster - I'm glad you were at the world solar congress in Beijing in 2007, where you h.....
» 27/10/2010 12:51:21 PM Whatever you may think of the hypothesis that industrial emissions are warming the atmosph.....
» 27/10/2010 10:08:26 AM Mark Lawson here. Jon J - good point about the ironware. Jedimaster - sorry but you are h.....
» 26/10/2010 4:28:57 PM Mark Lawson here Ken Fabos - I didn't say a single word about the science in this article.....
» 26/10/2010 10:06:06 AM Mark Lawson here Jedimaster - I don't say anything about politics one way or another. Wha.....
» 13/10/2010 12:29:28 PM For once I agree, mostly, with Taswegian. Perhaps John Le Mesurier should wait until geoth.....
» 12/10/2010 1:25:27 PM When the head of the Royal Society was interviewed originally, a Dr Rees, an astronomer, m.....
» 12/10/2010 10:19:36 AM Ken Fabos - no, you have missed the point. The people who keep on saying that CO2 emission.....
» 11/10/2010 1:11:32 PM Mark Lawson here. Ken Fabos - you have completely mistaken what I was saying. You think it.....
» 11/10/2010 1:03:58 PM Graham/Susan - as I've said before, OLO is a lot of fun. Even the extreme opinion pieces a.....
» 11/10/2010 9:54:04 AM Mark Lawson here Fellas - sorry I didn't look the posts again until just now. Thanks for.....
» 8/10/2010 1:10:08 PM Mark Lawson here. bitey and and 579 I don't get to the science or the policy issues at al.....
» 7/10/2010 12:50:48 PM Sarian - its the other way round. How many years of temperatures not doing much and sea le.....
» 7/10/2010 10:26:39 AM It is difficult to know where to start with this one. Although I haven't looked at the mat.....
» 6/10/2010 10:13:40 AM John Passant can dream on if he likes. The article has some entertainment value as an exam.....
» 5/10/2010 4:10:21 PM Rhian/BAYGON - interesting posts.. good counters. Divergence - I think you've almost enti.....
» 5/10/2010 1:00:20 PM Moving one from Garum Masala's outburst, Coulter makes a few useful points but fails to ge.....
» 28/09/2010 6:04:06 PM Yabbie - maybe you have a point and Kloppers is just playing a deep game, but he still sou.....
» 28/09/2010 2:17:33 PM Sir Vivor - no, in fact the points I made are vital. They go to the heart of making a diff.....
» 28/09/2010 11:34:19 AM Syd/Sarian - look, before you burst into print with this stuff, at least take into account.....
» 27/09/2010 5:09:43 PM Thankyou M Fahy, I take your point. However, that still doesn't excuse Michelle from givin.....
» 27/09/2010 11:30:40 AM Michelle - if you really want your article to make a difference you are going to have be m.....
» 24/09/2010 11:26:40 AM Theactions of activists of all stripes has certain similarities with those of the Bolshevi.....
» 22/09/2010 5:19:11 PM Oh yes, and while we're at it, in fact there has been substantial progress in combating hu.....
» 22/09/2010 2:10:34 PM What a collecdtion of discredited scare stories in both the article and the posts.. and ev.....
» 22/09/2010 11:47:38 AM Peter's musings on why we need "stuff" are of limited interest, and very dated. .....
» 20/09/2010 11:55:06 AM Didn't think the media coverage of the election was all that different from its coverage o.....
» 17/09/2010 11:44:07 AM Mirko makes a few points. The internet can be overused, but the very same comments were pr.....
» 16/09/2010 12:00:29 PM Marcus Kloppers statements are puzzling, considering that anyone who has looked at it know.....
» 15/09/2010 11:44:48 AM Michael - just what recent election are you talking about? Granted the environment played .....
» 14/09/2010 6:27:21 PM Geoff Davies - no, you've misunderstood what was said.. I was not imputing personal motive.....
» 14/09/2010 11:25:26 AM Geoff Davies - no it was a 'mutual admiration club' style debate until I pointed out the o.....
» 13/09/2010 12:37:46 PM I don't agree that the article was clear or succinct but I do agree with the basic message.....
» 10/09/2010 11:02:33 AM This article illustrates the real danger to the environment. Uncaring regimes such as the .....
» 9/09/2010 2:27:36 PM Ozandy - no, none of that excuses you of supporting rank nonsense. The 60,000 figure comes.....
» 9/09/2010 11:34:21 AM Ozandy - why are people prepared to believe the most outrageous nonsense simply because it.....
» 8/09/2010 11:59:22 AM There is little point in discussing most of Pilger's story. Its not clear how he knows tha.....
» 7/09/2010 11:48:41 AM I can only agree, but the problem is that the rating agencies are the only game in town.......
» 7/09/2010 11:45:09 AM Don - for once I will side with everyone else. Fusion is just a dream at the moment. If yo.....
» 6/09/2010 11:55:01 AM At least the author is aware that the costs and difficulties of extracting oil in and arou.....
» 2/09/2010 11:54:23 AM Mark Lawson here Atman - true. I was too late to be villified, but I think the real break .....
» 1/09/2010 4:13:32 PM Tom Tiddler - thanks for the boost. Much appreciated. Bugsy - in fact I like to think I a.....
» 1/09/2010 11:15:43 AM Mark Lawson here. Kenny - you flatteringly over-estimate the effect of my piece. I deliber.....
» 31/08/2010 11:24:14 AM John - the electorate has spoken and they were far from overwhelmingly in favour of the ET.....
» 24/08/2010 1:56:22 PM This article is typical of the muddled thinking often encountered in this area. Both flood.....
» 24/08/2010 11:57:27 AM Geoff - did you realise another la Nina is developing? The "warmest year" foreca.....
» 24/08/2010 11:47:30 AM Fickle Pickle - depreciation is most emphatically not the book keeping name for repayments.....
» 23/08/2010 6:08:01 PM Fickle Pickle - actually the main costs of a wind farm is in depreciation which is tax ded.....
» 23/08/2010 1:33:38 PM Fickle Pickle - as Raycom points out, the cost of alternative energy is more than three ti.....
» 23/08/2010 11:40:30 AM Geoff - true the author's point about CO2 not increasing in historical terms is from the m.....
» 20/08/2010 2:08:27 PM Population is like the weather. Everyone talks about it but nobody does anything about it......
» 20/08/2010 11:23:31 AM Slasher - you are concentrating on the waste you see in the private sector - executives us.....
» 19/08/2010 6:31:56 PM Slasher - there is no reason why your green bond proposal would not work, but now we have .....
» 19/08/2010 11:40:35 AM So instead of a number of small companies taking advantage of government subsidies to set .....
» 13/08/2010 11:50:33 AM One of the great things about democracy is that it often returns governments, on the right.....
» 13/08/2010 11:34:35 AM It is a shame that these two obviously dedicated authors do not have a better issue on whi.....
» 12/08/2010 11:49:45 AM Bob Brown should pay more attention to the electoral research run by both Labor and the Li.....
» 9/08/2010 5:21:57 PM Although the author is obviously concerned, in essence her article adds nothing to the deb.....
» 5/08/2010 5:10:29 PM Rhian - quite right everyone has gotten rich but some have become more richer than others......
» 5/08/2010 12:21:50 PM I would have to side with mhaze. As for plantagenet perhaps I could respond that it may be.....
» 4/08/2010 5:50:25 PM Ludwig - I was hoping for a substantial response rather than a repeat of the original asse.....
» 4/08/2010 11:32:11 AM Ludwig - you said.. "It is costing us all an arm and a leg to chase the tail of rapid.....
» 3/08/2010 1:47:14 PM Spindoc - what are you talking about? The reasoning behind a carbon tax is straightforward.....
» 3/08/2010 11:19:30 AM A carbon tax may certainly be preferably as a means of reducing carbon. The CPRS, unbeliev.....
» 2/08/2010 12:29:15 PM Where has the author and some of the posters been the past few years? Hasn't legislation b.....
» 30/07/2010 11:29:20 AM Leigh, let us be clear and frank. Green technology will cost jobs, and cost a lot of them......
» 30/07/2010 11:13:34 AM Decline in non-OPEC oil?? Nope, sorry, the author has to justify that one. As far as I kn.....
» 29/07/2010 11:42:29 AM John - you do realise that there has been a lot of tooing and froing over the economic eff.....
» 29/07/2010 11:32:51 AM Denniss - I dunno if anyone has sat down with you to explain the dilemma the government fa.....
» 27/07/2010 11:10:49 AM To accuse the posters of talking down to Sophie is grossly unfair. Sophie's article, after.....
» 26/07/2010 11:33:25 AM Let us assume for a moment that the many climate forecasts bear some relation to actual re.....
» 23/07/2010 4:56:03 PM Loxton - to complain that the rants against the IPCC is over the top and that therefore ju.....
» 23/07/2010 2:33:10 PM Malcolm - I'm happy to clear up any confusion with my recently released book. Drop me a li.....
» 22/07/2010 4:04:17 PM Ozzie I looked at material on that report. That's really unconvincing. What you cite is p.....
» 21/07/2010 5:36:19 PM Ozzie - nope, sorry, your attempted refutation does not cut it. In fact immigration's effe.....
» 21/07/2010 11:49:12 AM I would disagree strongly with the first poster.. there is some evidence that immigration .....
» 20/07/2010 4:59:49 PM And air travel.. lets us not forget airplane trips as the young tend to travel more. Try t.....
» 20/07/2010 11:49:25 AM This climate change youth group has 50,000 members! Dear lord but activists can get organi.....
» 19/07/2010 5:20:24 PM Rhian - okay, the consensus has since been broken but it was interesting there for a while.....
» 19/07/2010 5:05:17 PM Shadow Minister and Yabby - I have no doubt that what you write in the more reasoned secon.....
» 19/07/2010 2:12:06 PM Wow! This is a first time I can remember where all the posts to an article on online opini.....
» 19/07/2010 1:58:37 PM Shadow Minister and Yabby - sorry guys but the writer is making some excellent points.. if.....
» 15/07/2010 5:39:41 PM Kellie - we've been over this before. The bad decision was going there in the first place......
» 15/07/2010 5:28:52 PM Leo Lane - beg to differ, Climate Central bills itself as a non-partisan organisation but .....
» 15/07/2010 11:56:57 AM The writer points out, quite rightly, that there is now some sort of continuous record of .....
» 14/07/2010 5:51:07 PM Despite Daniel B. Botkin being a professor something his figures are completely wrong, and.....
» 14/07/2010 5:29:41 PM While I admire Graham's efforts in analysing Nimbin's media coverage as someone who's been.....
» 14/07/2010 5:10:33 PM I have printed out the article to read in detail but I have no doubt that it is at least p.....
» 13/07/2010 5:58:33 PM The real difference between Australia and the countries the author mentions is that our me.....
» 13/07/2010 3:58:02 PM Protagoras - all of the figures you quote in your post were wildly exagerated, taken out o.....
» 13/07/2010 11:18:42 AM Dino - a motherhood statement made by Don Chipp, of all people, more than 30 years ago is .....
» 12/07/2010 6:36:19 PM Guy V - I was asking Peters, not unreasonably, to improve his article. Why should we belie.....
» 12/07/2010 2:05:01 PM Gary Peters quotes from many books but the most telling is when he castigates two writers .....
» 9/07/2010 11:42:37 AM The article is quite right in suggesting that universal action is required to really do an.....
» 8/07/2010 5:52:47 PM Otokonoko, true a scare story can be useful. the trouble is that it is being used to justi.....
» 8/07/2010 1:43:31 PM Shadow Minister - quite right, Gen X have become so concerned that they think strong actio.....
» 8/07/2010 11:34:08 AM Lucy - its nice that you defend Harry Potter, but one of the reasons that younger people a.....
» 6/07/2010 2:17:44 PM Protagoras - what vast amounts of waste from nuclear plants? think of the MCG or the SCG. .....
» 6/07/2010 11:37:54 AM Martin - I'm glad to see that you have a realistic idea of the costs and difficulties of s.....
» 5/07/2010 11:40:29 AM The author has a lot of certainties which I do not share, nor do many others. Muttrering a.....
» 2/07/2010 11:29:23 AM I have no real objection to Barnett's article but as a side comment, we should note that A.....
» 1/07/2010 11:23:09 AM I also disagree with the main thrust of the article. Although telling the truth sometimes .....
» 29/06/2010 1:38:35 PM Andrew - I don't object to the article but for those not in the field it would be helped g.....
» 29/06/2010 11:37:38 AM Mark Lawson Bugsy - true, there are a lot of sceptical books out there now, including mine.....
» 29/06/2010 11:11:12 AM Mark Lawson here Qanda your response does not make sense. The point about the article is t.....
» 25/06/2010 11:20:51 AM Legal Eagle's article makes a few interesting points but he does not take the arguement to.....
» 23/06/2010 11:27:35 AM JDB Williams is obviously angry but being angry does not make him right. If I understand t.....
» 21/06/2010 11:58:41 AM Sure engineering solutions are of no use, for the very good reason that the earth may cool.....
» 18/06/2010 6:12:29 PM Protagoras - As an explanation aerosols has mostly already been and gone, but if you're in.....
» 18/06/2010 5:06:45 PM Ozandy - are you sure you work with scientists? This is what you wrote: "Another issu.....
» 18/06/2010 2:10:01 PM qanda, in the shops three weeks from Monday and thanks for asking. $29.95, Connor Court. Y.....
» 18/06/2010 11:31:56 AM The opposition to global warming orthodoxy which Oreskes and Conway complain about is noth.....
» 17/06/2010 11:41:14 AM The article is quite right on forestry activists, and the lessons can be applied to many o.....
» 9/06/2010 12:43:26 PM Dr Walter is a lecturer in sociology and it shows. The article is long in generalities dre.....
» 8/06/2010 12:08:18 PM qanda - no what I said was right. Latif is on your side for heaven sake. The problem for y.....
» 7/06/2010 6:27:38 PM PhilipM - at the cool point of both the ENSO and the solar cycles? Where did that come fro.....
» 7/06/2010 11:54:02 AM While I cannot comment on the issue of the effectivenes of past direct action campaigns, t.....
» 7/06/2010 11:40:25 AM PhilipM - just caught up with all the responses. None of your replies did anything to help.....
» 4/06/2010 12:11:24 PM Sorry Machanick, although the Australia went overboard in claiming an ice age was coming, .....
» 3/06/2010 6:13:23 PM Slobodon Meshirtfront and Kumbalia Slobodon - your first post was reasonable - although, o.....
» 3/06/2010 2:42:58 PM Slobodon Meshirtfront and Susan M One of you point out there was 81 left in one camp, but .....
» 3/06/2010 11:22:14 AM Susan Metcalfe's article almost entirely misses the point about the Pacific Island solutio.....
» 2/06/2010 11:55:03 AM While I appreciate that Dr Joe Thomas is concerned with his own field, and knows far more .....
» 31/05/2010 11:41:51 AM Rosenthal's article underscores the immense difficulties any one country has in reducing e.....
» 21/05/2010 2:06:13 PM Loxton - one more go to make you see reason. Again you have it almost entirely turned arou.....
» 21/05/2010 11:27:43 AM Eric Claus is alledging that the rich and greedy want more population to make themselves r.....
» 21/05/2010 11:09:51 AM Peter A. - tnks for the link. The report Monbiot is referring to is another example of the.....
» 20/05/2010 6:09:37 PM Mark Lawson here Michael_in_ Adelaide - looked at your Jerome a Paris article. Its straigh.....
» 20/05/2010 2:15:55 PM Mark Lawson here Spindoc - thanks for the note.. saved it Loxton - I wrote the first comm.....
» 20/05/2010 11:20:24 AM Mark Lawson here Ozandy, Ken F - your points about climate change are entirely beside the .....
» 19/05/2010 12:35:58 PM no_THIS_ismeBD - erhm, I think you've read the wrong set of figures. DFAT stats show that .....
» 19/05/2010 12:26:44 PM Do kids really want to see endless Bambi-style films and will it change them from being mo.....
» 14/05/2010 11:34:41 AM The article is quite right in that ID is nonsense but it was known to be nonsense from the.....
» 13/05/2010 11:49:33 AM Makes a change from the usual post but, okay, Athens as a democracy conducting wars. A gla.....
» 12/05/2010 2:11:29 PM Fair enough as an article but I will warn the author on one point. Don't treat critics wit.....
» 12/05/2010 1:57:37 PM It is true, as the writer suggests, that living in the Far North is an acquired taste so s.....
» 12/05/2010 12:03:35 PM Sorry Fellas but the author is basically right, nor is the article in any sense incoherent.....
» 11/05/2010 5:16:42 PM Protagoras - had a look at the paper you referenced. Your Chinese guy isn't a nutter but y.....
» 11/05/2010 11:36:02 AM Michael Lardelli's article is much better than most of the raving loony anti-pop stuff, bu.....
» 10/05/2010 5:15:02 PM Tony - What the IPCC actually said was that they were 90 per cent certain that human activ.....
» 10/05/2010 4:58:33 PM Protagoras - your professor Zhou Qiulin is a right, raving nutter. Do you a link for him? .....
» 10/05/2010 2:21:24 PM Kellie - you point to various stories about rising sea levels affecting food sources in th.....
» 10/05/2010 1:50:54 PM Yes Tony, you will have to do much better than that on OLO full, as it is, of nasty denali.....
» 7/05/2010 1:58:10 PM Cam - quite so, that's the way it should happen, of course. But bottlenecks develop in the.....
» 7/05/2010 11:33:22 AM I will conceed that, unlike most anti-pops, Murray is not a raving loony and knows somethi.....
» 5/05/2010 11:16:35 AM Even if any of the projections for temperature changes are right they are still too small .....
» 4/05/2010 5:15:19 PM qanda and bugsy the point is in my article of last week. It is clear and has been repeate.....
» 4/05/2010 11:02:24 AM Andrew - if you are going to come out with this stuff then at least you need to ackowledge.....
» 3/05/2010 5:58:53 PM qanda and bugsy - qanda, no you were citing the wrong set of figures when you were talking.....
» 3/05/2010 11:19:34 AM Qanda and Bugsy - only just saw your not very constructive response, but I enjoy exchangin.....
» 30/04/2010 5:46:14 PM Mark Lawson here Phil Matimein - I don't say anything about the supposed affect industrial.....
» 30/04/2010 4:06:55 PM quanda - actually no and yes. I'm interested in the comment that I don't understand the di.....
» 30/04/2010 1:44:48 PM Who is aware of the actual levels of CO2 and methane in the atmosphere and how these compa.....
» 30/04/2010 11:28:43 AM Rudd's problem was that the CPRS was a costly ideological exercise in which the Australian.....
» 30/04/2010 11:18:57 AM Mark Lawson here. CJ Morgan. If you read the article you will see that the real question .....
» 29/04/2010 12:08:53 PM I have no quarrel with the author of this article but one point needs to be made. Manne an.....
» 28/04/2010 11:49:20 AM In essence the article said very little. It was a plea to think about the war without taki.....
» 22/04/2010 11:38:34 AM Geoff - okay, that's better. For whatever reason the headline (final measured) global warm.....
» 21/04/2010 12:17:10 PM When the report trumpeted by Davies in his extraordinary article came out the sceptics all.....
» 20/04/2010 11:15:46 AM Bruce Haig is entitled to his occasionally odd views but I must take issue with his commen.....
» 15/04/2010 5:12:36 PM Miso - useful points but not relevent to the argument or the story. The decision to go in .....
» 15/04/2010 2:20:08 PM Kellie - okay if you're going to stray into this area you need to take a few reality check.....
» 14/04/2010 11:21:59 AM The article is a strange, I agree on that point. But at least it is an admission that the .....
» 12/04/2010 11:33:36 AM Okay, I'll be the evil monoculturist as one poster puts it. I am that guy down the back of.....
» 9/04/2010 2:01:11 PM George - I take your point but, no, the article doesn't make the stats clear. You mention .....
» 9/04/2010 11:19:27 AM I read this article to find out where the statistic of 105,000 homeless youths came from. .....
» 8/04/2010 11:33:37 AM Where do these lunatics come from? First off, no-one is now predicting an increase of two .....
» 7/04/2010 5:45:24 PM I read that CSIRO report referred to by BAYGON. It is simply ridiculous. The Club of Rome .....
» 7/04/2010 1:59:53 PM I endorse Cheryl's comments. The Zoo analogy does not stand up to a moment's scrutiny. Aft.....
» 6/04/2010 1:52:31 PM Seibert has got the story the opposite way around. Since the failure of Copenhagen, the pu.....
» 6/04/2010 12:31:00 PM Well, the article shows at least some modicum of sense in that it acknowledges that the Co.....
» 31/03/2010 12:53:29 PM John Pilger's may make a lot of sense to him but the rest of us are left wondering what he.....
» 31/03/2010 10:24:27 AM The climate changes to date are supposed to have caused these vast changes in American for.....
» 30/03/2010 12:49:10 PM The author says the two main sources for temperature readings but he forgets all about sat.....
» 29/03/2010 4:18:21 PM Amicus - tnks for that.. the link worked. I shall read with interest. Others - If Austral.....
» 29/03/2010 1:02:54 PM I see that this business about renewable energy being of any use has already been comprehe.....
» 26/03/2010 10:17:17 AM rpg - very well, my apologies, I did misunderstand your post. rstuart - look, Wikipedia h.....
» 25/03/2010 4:48:19 PM rpg - there is no point in getting stuck into me. I am simply the messenger. Reality is a .....
» 25/03/2010 11:08:01 AM Azize - look, I hate to upset your dreams but there is simply no point to a CPRS, now that.....
» 25/03/2010 10:31:12 AM VK3AUU - you want to be very clear; are you talking about the evidence for climate change .....
» 24/03/2010 10:41:07 AM The author is unwittingly using the priesthood arguement. Scientists say it is so, therefo.....
» 23/03/2010 12:50:30 PM lillian - look back at your own comments. Hardly any of it relates to GM as such but a lot.....
» 23/03/2010 10:50:42 AM This article is quite welcome. There has neve been any substantial evidence against GM cro.....
» 18/03/2010 4:37:21 PM Cheryl - its not a 90 per cent cut in emissions. There is no saving at all. The emissions .....
» 18/03/2010 11:05:03 AM Quite so - Australia is funneling billions into climate research and is set to spend billi.....
» 18/03/2010 10:46:44 AM Julian - sorry mate but its all of a load of nonsense. Electric cars are not cheaper than .....
» 17/03/2010 4:11:23 PM BBoy - although I haven't gone over the CSIRO/BoM report carefully my impression is that i.....
» 17/03/2010 1:04:58 PM I agree with Amicus and others in decrying the tendency of scientists to complain that the.....
» 16/03/2010 11:34:30 AM Although I'm sure Prof Johnson's analysis of the politics is competent as far as it goes, .....
» 15/03/2010 5:20:24 PM I would have hoped for something a little more focused and balanced from someone of Cumes .....
» 10/03/2010 11:03:16 AM Cameron-Bazz sorry fellas, I didn't make myself clear before.. the peak oil concept died s.....
» 9/03/2010 5:25:16 PM Cameron - the oil debate has moved far beyond any of this stuff. You don't want to believe.....
» 9/03/2010 10:46:35 AM VK3AUU - the 25 per cent figure cannot possibly be right. If we had to dedicate a quarter .....
» 8/03/2010 4:58:14 PM Had another thought about the 25 per cent figure. As I previously pointed out the figure i.....
» 8/03/2010 11:22:05 AM 25 per cent of GDP is required to expand capacity by 2 per cent! Bwhahahahahah! No serious.....
» 4/03/2010 10:36:58 AM Nope, I'll be the difficult one. Brian, just before you race off to collect your humanitar.....
» 3/03/2010 3:28:54 PM Examinator - actually Fred Singer isn't dead, or at least he was alive last week. He's 86 .....
» 3/03/2010 11:13:52 AM Watson is correct to at least this extent, the series of errors and omissions found to dat.....
» 2/03/2010 4:14:10 PM Anthony sure.. just to correct one impression.. I mentioned the breakdown from 1985 to be.....
» 2/03/2010 10:26:16 AM Anthony - you are quite right to point out that the IPCC's emission scenarios report conta.....
» 1/03/2010 12:50:28 PM Anthony - a sensible comment. That's quite so.. in fact about 1960 it was about 0.5 ppm a .....
» 1/03/2010 11:42:58 AM Andrew - its time to give this theme away. The view of the carbon cycle and the connection.....
» 26/02/2010 10:18:27 AM partTimeParent - erm, I dunno where you've been but I think you'll find that Australian bi.....
» 25/02/2010 1:08:45 PM There is nothing really to object to in Campbell's article. Sure the world's poor are poor.....
» 18/02/2010 5:05:31 PM I'm with Leigh. The article may make sense to the author but the rest of us are puzzled. D.....
» 14/10/2009 5:01:48 PM Bugsy - sorry but you missed the point on DDT. As is clear from my own article its not bei.....
» 14/10/2009 12:40:45 PM Kenny - 'most still think the world is only 6,000 years old '.. like many attempts at crit.....
» 7/10/2009 10:32:00 AM As a working journalist who has spent more years than he really cares to remember in newsr.....
» 30/09/2009 1:30:19 PM The real surprise in this business about climate change supposedly helping spread certain .....
» 29/09/2009 5:09:17 PM Bugsy - it was a surprise to me you can get malaria above the artic circle but apparently .....
» 29/09/2009 2:13:51 PM Eclipse Now - sorry I didn't realise you were serious about those questions. NASA showing .....
» 29/09/2009 11:09:27 AM The author can be excused from some of the references to climate change - even scientists .....
» 28/09/2009 5:12:01 PM Emissions in China are indeed everything, and getting any agreement out of the Chinese tha.....
» 28/09/2009 5:03:42 PM Eclipse Now and Bugsy - And how many times have I pointed out that the few years after 199.....
» 28/09/2009 11:46:37 AM So we should stop eating? Take another look at the topsoil loss stats you quote.. its all .....
» 28/09/2009 11:38:31 AM To round up many of the posts are way off the mark of the original article but, to repeat,.....
» 25/09/2009 5:17:56 PM anthonykn and Kenny - The thrust of the article is simply to point out that global warmers.....
» 25/09/2009 2:08:54 PM Q&A - I'm quite impressed that you must have bought the paper in the journal Science to wh.....
» 23/09/2009 5:18:10 PM No, no! The price spike of a while back does not count as disruption .. economists are sti.....
» 23/09/2009 12:47:21 PM the fact that the theatre was empty and the film playing in only thre theatres is itself a.....
» 22/09/2009 11:46:39 AM the author of this long, wandering article seems to be against increases in interest rates.....
» 21/09/2009 5:13:31 PM I checked a couple of the links. The 'report after report' showing that more jobs will be .....
» 21/09/2009 4:58:02 PM Okay, I'll add another spoiler. Adding large numbers of intermittent power sources won't a.....
» 21/09/2009 11:58:23 AM To criticise such a fluffy, well-meaning article would seem brutal. Why rob the author of .....
» 18/09/2009 4:12:12 PM Not doing enough for renewables!! The Government has mandated 20 per cent of our electrici.....
» 17/09/2009 2:00:12 PM Dawson has at least the right aim in getting a balanced view on climate change into the pu.....
» 16/09/2009 6:06:48 PM Geoff Davies - actually the case for global warming is not based on physics at all but dep.....
» 16/09/2009 11:31:41 AM James - you worry far too much about the criticisms. In this area name calling and bitter .....
» 15/09/2009 5:37:36 PM Eclipse Now - nope, sorry the finds are extremely signifcant and you've missed the point e.....
» 15/09/2009 11:20:26 AM Mike Pope's article is the latest in a series about peak oil but his timing is way off. In.....
» 14/09/2009 1:43:31 PM What about the the enormous oil discoveries recently announced by both Shell and the Brazi.....
» 11/09/2009 2:16:21 PM Lyn Allison should look at the figures she quotes in her own article as they substantially.....
» 11/09/2009 1:56:43 PM Cheryl - sorry but PeterA has a point... to build something decent would require a very su.....
» 10/09/2009 12:01:50 PM Nice idea but the devil is in the detail. First off the power station in space concept wou.....
» 10/09/2009 11:37:43 AM KTranter - that is not exactly a constructive comment but I'm not suggesting for a moment .....
» 4/09/2009 2:20:59 PM Andrew - some hard examples of what you meant would have been useful but you basically mis.....
» 3/09/2009 5:49:57 PM sillyfilly, are you seriously still trying to defend Michael Mann's hocky stick graph? But.....
» 3/09/2009 11:57:47 AM I fully agree that the climate realists lost the PR battle some time back and a need to re.....
» 2/09/2009 11:41:12 AM Andy, as is widely acknowledged the GFC was brought on mostly by the failure of the Americ.....
» 1/09/2009 5:12:11 PM rubyappeal, none of that gets Hagen out of obeying the basic rules of presenting a case, w.....
» 1/09/2009 2:17:29 PM Stephen - okay, I'll be the difficult one. When writing something like this in an effort t.....
» 31/08/2009 12:17:48 PM Assuming that the world does become significantly warmer than it does now, won't this ince.....
» 27/08/2009 2:37:00 PM The author of the article is quite right to say that large amounts of renewable energy may.....
» 27/08/2009 12:34:37 PM The author is quite right to suggest that carbon trading schemes will do very little to li.....
» 26/08/2009 12:05:47 PM Loath as I am to become involved in this cozy discussion, sorry Fickle P but your posts ma.....
» 25/08/2009 11:24:59 AM The author's suggestions have some interest but as policy they are both unworkable and unn.....
» 21/08/2009 11:55:34 AM The article fails on a number of points. Firstly, the author is surprised that the Alcatra.....
» 19/08/2009 5:26:24 PM Matt Andrews From an article in Time, July 21 2009 which is a fair summary of the debate t.....
» 19/08/2009 12:51:22 PM Matt Andrews accuses the author of many errors but mentions only one - that cosmic rays ha.....
» 18/08/2009 11:42:04 AM An ETS will achieve nothing in the way of reducing emissions. It may stem the rate of incr.....
» 17/08/2009 6:04:09 PM Sancho - I don't know where you got the idea that anti-AGWers also believe in intelligent .....
» 17/08/2009 12:38:58 PM I would go much further than the author in condemning many scientists for refusing to spea.....
» 14/08/2009 11:56:34 AM The problem with Caldicott's reasoning, even if we take the facts cited in the article at .....
» 14/08/2009 11:39:53 AM Divergence and others - sorry but you've completely missed the point on the economic argum.....
» 13/08/2009 3:06:34 PM Prof Ridd - few points to make. The easiest argument to wave away is the economic one. The.....
» 13/08/2009 2:42:26 PM Okay, I get that the author is against HR, and I'm not against anyone against HR although .....
» 12/08/2009 1:49:30 PM Steven - actually your list of demands is (mostly) in place already, although not quite in.....
» 11/08/2009 2:10:16 PM All true but if the author has any solution he is keeping it to himself. Of course the fin.....
» 10/08/2009 11:54:32 AM Cliff Wirth Cliff - you should look at your own links. I glanced at the first two. I could.....
» 7/08/2009 11:31:32 AM Has this author been asleep for the past few decades? One of the major trends in Australia.....
» 5/08/2009 6:04:09 PM To blame the problems with geothermal energy on the lack of drilling rigs is just wrong.. .....
» 5/08/2009 11:20:39 AM Other posts notes that the author is optimistic about geothermal. He is also very optimist.....
» 4/08/2009 12:39:18 PM Online Opinion prints far too much of this sort of thing but it is always fun to point out.....
» 3/08/2009 6:20:11 PM Peter A. - sorry but nope to all of those concerns. To forecast an end to energy reserves .....
» 3/08/2009 11:41:25 AM The article is good in one sense in that it is a roundabout acknowledgement of the major l.....
» 31/07/2009 11:23:35 AM Quite right - the problem is the US regulatory system, and Australians are in a position t.....
» 29/07/2009 11:51:05 AM Here, here - the economic case for limiting emissions, even assuming that the climate mode.....
» 29/07/2009 11:28:47 AM The other commentators should look to their own biases. Simply because the site occasional.....
» 27/07/2009 5:53:06 PM As has already been pointed out, the state has vast reserves of LNG. Therefore to be conce.....
» 27/07/2009 11:58:53 AM Surprisingly I agree with all the other commentators to date, even including Taswegian. Th.....
» 24/07/2009 5:04:11 PM Although a matter for a full risk analysis by someone with all the stats, imunisation agai.....
» 23/07/2009 4:07:08 PM Although the author is undoubtably better qualified than several others I have seen commen.....
» 22/07/2009 2:05:27 PM This article is at least one step up from the usual activist rantings in that it admits of.....
» 21/07/2009 12:11:50 PM This article is basically a call to arms on aid that really says nothing. A piece of propo.....
» 17/07/2009 2:37:28 PM Protagoras. I followed up your first three of the links which you presented as "proof.....
» 17/07/2009 11:47:12 AM Greg - I would never have accused you of being malicious in opposing GM foods, just misgui.....
» 15/07/2009 5:34:34 PM Hear, hear.. this has been gone over so many times in these sessions. To answer one questi.....
» 15/07/2009 1:48:55 PM Agronomist is speaking some sense.. as for being in a pattern of denial as accused by Dive.....
» 14/07/2009 1:29:18 PM Leon - its all true to a certain extent but all pointless. the problem is that Australia's.....
» 14/07/2009 12:03:08 PM Whether you agree with the author on climate change or not - and I most emphatically do no.....
» 14/07/2009 11:46:15 AM Michael Lardelli - go back and look at the CSIRO paper you recommend. In fact, they fudge .....
» 13/07/2009 6:11:26 PM A few points on Lardelli's article. When the peak oil was first forecast some years back -.....
» 10/07/2009 6:06:07 PM Where has this writer been? The major cause of the present crisis was a failure in the Ame.....
» 10/07/2009 3:57:31 PM RObert - a useful point. Makes more sense than the article. Now I was under the distinct i.....
» 10/07/2009 2:44:36 PM Okay, whether you believe in climate change or not - and, sorry but the scientific orthodx.....
» 9/07/2009 11:32:55 AM It is heartening to hear that missile defence systems have improved so dramatically and, y.....
» 3/07/2009 12:21:20 PM Okay, I'll be the token old, grumpy one. Why do we wish to encourage young people to parti.....
» 2/07/2009 12:20:52 PM John - others have dealt with the science, I will weigh in with a few comments on the prec.....
» 1/07/2009 12:28:59 PM The others are quite right to point to the horrific expense of solar energy. The additiona.....
» 19/06/2009 2:21:57 PM Like the author I also wondered where the benefits of the mining boom went. Although there.....
» 19/06/2009 2:01:21 PM The author mentions the calculations of Svante Arrhenius as many have in recent years, but.....
» 18/06/2009 2:40:09 PM Okay, so Tim O'Dwyer liked the book. SF books have never been intended as forecasts but, i.....
» 18/06/2009 11:34:46 AM Riley's article has some entertainment value but the bulk of its philosophical musings may.....
» 17/06/2009 4:56:39 PM Beder has made a career of questioning the motives of those who oppose the current climate.....
» 17/06/2009 11:50:14 AM I have to agree with Leigh, and add that the author of the article should not throw stones.....
» 16/06/2009 2:50:13 PM Bugsy - pardon my forgetfulness in taking so long to reply.. Now you're getting it when yo.....
» 16/06/2009 2:05:08 PM Ray Cleary's article is full of good intentions but in the end I found it empty. The probl.....
» 16/06/2009 1:49:57 PM I would agree with Leigh that this is more about technologists earning money for stuff tha.....
» 15/06/2009 12:42:04 PM Lets look at this statement in the article The impact of the doubling of that labour pool.....
» 12/06/2009 3:50:41 PM Ozandy/Bugsy Ozandy, you seem to think that I'm talking about temperatures in a single loc.....
» 12/06/2009 11:50:07 AM Sure the Global Financial Crisis has knocked consumption on the head for a time. It happen.....
» 11/06/2009 6:23:56 PM Bugsy - thankyou I now get the original point about latent heat and can see that it isn't .....
» 11/06/2009 2:20:58 PM Ozrandy - I regret that I didn't really understand your point about the ice in the glass, .....
» 11/06/2009 11:33:41 AM Ian - as someone who has read Plimer's book (and spoken to the author), and followed the d.....
» 10/06/2009 5:25:28 PM Fractelle - sorry but the 10 years mentioned is crucial, precisely because scientists trie.....
» 10/06/2009 11:27:36 AM Candide - you raise an important issue. I did admit that temperatues have been high, but t.....
» 9/06/2009 5:05:59 PM Julian - here are the temperature results for the last 11 years from the Hadley site. If y.....
» 3/06/2009 11:34:04 AM Sure there is nothing really wrong with having one child in a family. Happens all the time.....
» 2/06/2009 2:38:51 PM Sorry Henry, your arguments do not add up. the problems occured in the American system not.....
» 2/06/2009 12:14:27 PM Fossil fuel lobby controlling the debate? Pardon me but where has the author been. The rea.....
» 1/06/2009 2:24:29 PM 'Anti-pops' - good, a catchy name for this form of lunacy, and as the author rightly asser.....
» 1/06/2009 2:12:58 PM There is no chance whatever of any reduction in industrial emissions. As is now clear the .....
» 27/05/2009 11:36:49 AM Divergence - you cannot support the article by citing other articles or whole books based .....
» 26/05/2009 12:13:23 PM David - it is difficult to take your article seriously. The media coverage of swine flu wa.....
» 26/05/2009 12:04:12 PM Sorry people - can't see the problem.. if there is a problem the author has made no useful.....
» 15/05/2009 12:22:55 PM Sorry Dr McMahon your job as a lecturer in sustainable development is not safe yet. Far fr.....
» 15/05/2009 12:04:06 PM Plimer as a geologist is not qualified to speak on Climate Change! Dear, dear! In fact geo.....
» 14/05/2009 11:50:47 AM I agree - the article starts on a premise that is simply not true.. the bulk of the awful .....
» 13/05/2009 11:49:00 AM Systems with parabolic mirror array which heats central tubes containing oil or salts or w.....
» 12/05/2009 12:34:30 PM Sorry Troy, completely unconvincing. Neither graph says anything - let along demonstrate a.....
» 11/05/2009 11:51:02 AM I was under the distinct impression that we were still in the early part of the 21st centu.....
» 8/05/2009 2:53:18 PM Susan - I regret that I did not see the original article but as journalist for 30 years ex.....
» 7/05/2009 1:42:51 PM There is certainly nothing wrong with spending more on research and development, but let u.....
» 7/05/2009 11:34:51 AM Employee-owner businesses where the employees have a stake are nothing new, nor are they i.....
» 7/05/2009 11:20:58 AM Protagoras - I'm glad that you pay attention to what I write but in advancing "proof&.....
» 6/05/2009 11:49:31 AM Agreement - the article is a load of drivel. Temperatures reached a peak around 1998-2000 .....
» 5/05/2009 11:22:24 AM Ther is much to critique in Bowtell's article, but I will confine myself to two points. F.....
» 30/04/2009 5:15:37 PM rstuart - clarification required. Sorry to disappoint you but I'm not acknowledging peak o.....
» 30/04/2009 12:15:33 PM Wing Ah Ling is quite right but picks on just one of the complications affecting supply an.....
» 30/04/2009 11:56:39 AM It is obvious from the article that it is another scare.. the numbers mentioned by the aut.....
» 28/04/2009 12:20:49 PM Mike - few points. First off, as is evident for all but one of the centres that track temp.....
» 16/04/2009 2:19:49 PM A few points to address in the comments but not many. michael_in_adelaide had an interesti.....
» 15/04/2009 11:25:34 AM BOM and CSIRO should be thoroughly reprimanded for making those forecasts.. the IPCC forec.....
» 14/04/2009 6:23:18 PM As Hasbeen has noted the bit about running out of water is just nonsense. Even if one acce.....
» 7/04/2009 11:49:53 AM I found the article a little difficult to follow, but the "racist" incident in D.....
» 6/04/2009 12:49:09 PM It was refreshing to see the article at least cite a different opinion by quoting William .....
» 6/04/2009 12:19:46 PM OLO is to be congratulated for airing a truely diverse range of opinion - or at least suff.....
» 2/04/2009 1:21:05 PM The proposal has some merit but there is, already, a reasonably free market in freight tra.....
» 2/04/2009 10:44:24 AM Oil spills should not occur of course, but the main message in this story is that most of .....
» 31/03/2009 1:13:36 PM Quite so, whether you agree that there is a problem of not, Earth hour was simply a symbol.....
» 26/03/2009 12:50:50 PM examinator - I know about the papers purporting to show warming at the poles and, sorry, m.....
» 25/03/2009 3:54:22 PM Ozandy - I was referring to the records kept by the temperature tracking sites themselves .....
» 25/03/2009 10:50:32 AM The article is fine as far as it goes, but there is still that problem that temperatures h.....
» 19/03/2009 1:18:28 PM For once there is some sort of agreement. All efforts to limit carbon dioxide emissions ar.....
» 18/03/2009 10:59:17 AM I have no particular objection to the author's suggestion except that it may be far more d.....
» 17/03/2009 10:18:40 AM This article points to some of the enormous difficulties we face in any attempt to limit e.....
» 13/03/2009 4:49:37 PM Geoff - we are hardly going to read the book if the essay doesn't say anything new or diff.....
» 13/03/2009 11:11:39 AM So the author would seriously suggest a one child policy and try to reduce immigration alo.....
» 13/03/2009 10:54:34 AM This article, like others I have read on this theme, is long on generalities and assertion.....
» 12/03/2009 1:31:44 PM Like most articles of its type this one proposes a range of "solutions" to probl.....
» 6/03/2009 11:39:00 AM This article, like a number of others I have read on this issue, has no real substance. If.....
» 5/03/2009 10:32:39 AM The article makes a few useful points, but as has been noted elsewhere the dam building bo.....
» 3/03/2009 12:50:47 PM I found Pope's article underwhelming. He makes forecasts concerning oil prices which I wil.....
» 20/02/2009 1:55:34 PM Ozbib - sorry, I only just looked back at your comment on my commnet.. I was intriged to r.....
» 20/02/2009 1:44:39 PM I have no doubt that the calculations in the article are correct, and that's with a subsid.....
» 19/02/2009 11:43:44 AM Newton ignoring contradictions in this theory? Eh? There was never anything like that for .....
» 18/02/2009 11:15:18 AM In fact, Bulkman, ther is an answer to the question why does life perpectuate itself.. If .....
» 12/02/2009 5:33:17 PM The problem with John Hepburn's article can be found in the word "recorded" as i.....
» 9/02/2009 11:43:42 AM Like CherylL I want to join the growth lobby, but I suspect that it does not exist in the .....
» 4/02/2009 11:12:13 AM I am no admirer of Hansen. Quite the opposite. He is one of these scientists I have spoken.....
» 30/01/2009 11:41:26 AM Graham is spot on with the bit about feedback effects in climate models. The actual direct.....
» 27/01/2009 11:17:58 AM Congratulations Q&A, of all those who posted criticisms (mostly broad-spectrum abuse) of t.....
» 19/01/2009 10:50:18 AM Sure oil's last peak was a high - or at least I won't argue the point - all the peaks I ha.....
» 16/01/2009 4:19:07 PM I thoroughly agree with the inefficient energy use. I'm sure that's right. And we should n.....
» 16/01/2009 11:08:45 AM Come now Philip M there is no need for silly abuse. As for Coorandgreeny .. no, sorry, the.....
» 15/01/2009 3:31:10 PM I don't disagree with any of the analysis and there may be some justification in the compl.....
» 15/01/2009 3:11:57 PM Sorry PhilipM, the calculations on when fossil fuel reserves are likely to run out are alm.....
» 15/10/2008 10:26:16 AM Keith - sorry I wasn't around yesterday.. picking the bottom is real tough. Most pros don'.....
» 10/09/2008 2:02:15 PM Mr Emerson's rather slight contribution to the greenhouse debate emphasises the bizarre na.....
» 4/08/2008 12:47:30 PM Roger - There are quite a few "facts" I would like to counter in your article bu.....
» 15/07/2008 3:17:14 PM Ross Garnaut I have dealt with plenty of scientists, as a journalist, and looked carefully.....
» 4/07/2008 3:31:49 PM The reason that the climate sceptics are still out there, despite the deep disapproval of .....
» 2/07/2008 3:03:26 PM Journalists and/or those who write for online opinion may not be qualified climatologists .....
» 24/06/2008 6:16:36 PM In response to Geoff Post's comments - sorry Geoff, but that business about predicting hur.....
» 28/04/2008 3:57:44 PM The argument is confused. Although high fuel prices are a pain in the short term; they enc.....
» 17/04/2008 2:25:10 PM Cazza and others - again most of the comments miss the point. Climate is changing - it cha.....
» 17/04/2008 11:36:02 AM I have spoken to Barrie Pittock - mind you decades ago when the first started talking abou.....
» 27/08/2007 4:52:46 PM xoddam and others - I think like many others you have become confused over what, exactly, .....
» 27/08/2007 11:23:35 AM Congratulations on an excellent article. Being the skeptic that I am, I am also skeptical .....
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