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» 22/01/2011 3:30:20 PM Readers of OLO opposing emissions reductions and believing it's mostly inappropriate green.....
» 22/01/2011 7:02:53 AM The world's biggest miners and exporters of coal have nothing to do with rising emissions?.....
» 21/01/2011 5:01:32 PM To quote the head of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research's Climate Analysis Se.....
» 17/01/2011 4:31:05 PM Bill, the point to mitigation is avoiding the escalating costs and potential failures of a.....
» 17/01/2011 11:43:54 AM Bill, I think the author's anti-green religious fervor is obvious. As for climate change -.....
» 17/01/2011 8:53:14 AM At the heart of serious opposition to dams are the people expected to pack up and move to .....
» 16/01/2011 8:59:19 AM Leo, you are too willing to do just what I said - repeat the soundbite and leave out the r.....
» 12/01/2011 8:23:33 PM Leo, lets look at the depths the opponents of climate science stoop to - Phil Jones was a.....
» 11/01/2011 7:32:26 PM Less bluntly than before, the author and the Australian Environment Foundation are engaged.....
» 10/01/2011 1:22:55 PM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 8/01/2011 11:41:13 AM The mainstream energy sector from top to bottom, government and private, lives in a whole .....
» 6/01/2011 6:52:08 AM Raycom - people who seriously embrace and promote energy frugality get accused of wanting .....
» 5/01/2011 4:23:36 PM Michael, this all sounds like urging Australia to do the least it can get away with rather.....
» 5/01/2011 7:36:17 AM Katy it's about science and your attempt to make it about political inclinations is way of.....
» 31/12/2010 8:25:39 AM Anyone who, knowing that temperature rise leads to CO2 level rise, thinks this is cause to.....
» 29/12/2010 12:20:05 PM Alex, you criticise attempts at solutions but offer none. It's clear to me that you see no.....
» 24/12/2010 11:44:15 AM "Why should people worry about a theoretical doomsday scenario in 100 years’ time...?.....
» 17/12/2010 9:35:21 AM Yeah, the clear felled disaster zones are just in my imagination and the biodiversity of w.....
» 16/12/2010 4:32:16 PM So radical conservationists give environmentalism a bad name and clear felling woodchipper.....
» 12/12/2010 2:43:07 PM I don't think Cardinal Pell is a good example of religion as the foundation for better hum.....
» 8/12/2010 4:12:18 PM Hasbeen, you appear to think that one set of tree ring proxies for temperature in one regi.....
» 6/12/2010 5:52:52 PM This article is nothing new from someone from the Institute of Public Affairs - criticise .....
» 6/12/2010 12:03:55 PM William, you say - "We do know that the IPCC models purposely incorporate positive f.....
» 1/12/2010 7:37:34 PM Leo, why should I need to provide evidence or proof to you? It would be a futile endeavor .....
» 29/11/2010 2:42:04 PM Alice, surely you could have seen and clicked on the sidebar links to longer term data. I .....
» 28/11/2010 4:27:59 PM Cliff, I'm less than impressed by this article. When a few keystrokes and mouseclicks can .....
» 22/11/2010 11:31:57 PM Yabby, month to month or year to year variability - and the difficulties in accurate predi.....
» 22/11/2010 10:55:03 PM I'm using this site to express my opinions - which are in accord with the science from the.....
» 20/11/2010 1:46:06 PM The policies of the world's biggest exporter of coal is irrelevant to climate change? We c.....
» 20/11/2010 1:37:35 PM Less of a silver lining than a way to maintain some viability a bit longer. If the predict.....
» 20/11/2010 7:48:03 AM Oh Leo, try the US National Academy of Sciences - a more careful and conservative - and co.....
» 20/11/2010 7:19:43 AM Does anyone expect the Coalition to have a genuine commitment to emissions reduction? Abbo.....
» 19/11/2010 3:53:18 PM Clownfish - haven't seen either. Try CSIRO, BoM, NOAA, NASA or US National Academy of Scie.....
» 19/11/2010 7:06:45 AM Ah, have matters of science settled by lawyers! Actually this just comes across as more pr.....
» 17/11/2010 2:20:08 PM The problems that will come with failure to cut back GHG emissions have more than enough m.....
» 12/11/2010 3:10:49 PM What an appalling mish-mash of misinformation this article is. Just another deluded voice .....
» 12/11/2010 2:56:12 PM The popularity of ignorant self-interest triumphs over policy based on the best available .....
» 8/11/2010 9:23:12 PM So we need to look to source science to determine the validity of various arguments on imp.....
» 5/11/2010 8:52:51 AM Horus, very sordid ... except that if you looked at All the IPCC said about glaciers the c.....
» 2/11/2010 9:04:14 PM The Himalaya glaciers error should be seen in context - it was an error not the deliberate.....
» 31/10/2010 10:09:12 AM I don't agree that any one policy action will be sufficient; it will take a mix of actions.....
» 31/10/2010 8:16:12 AM Ultimately it's overall emissions and the resultant concentrations of GHG's that matter. S.....
» 27/10/2010 4:32:26 PM The article a load of codswallop - whilst there are reasons to look carefully at the effec.....
» 26/10/2010 3:03:40 PM Mark, as long as you have no interest in real policies to reduce emissions - you've consis.....
» 18/10/2010 8:32:08 AM I think the author is overly optimistic; CCS will never be cheap enough even if a few luck.....
» 15/10/2010 3:53:02 PM The most important point here is that ice loss from Antarctica and Greenland are accelerat.....
» 14/10/2010 2:04:43 PM Amicus, I knes that satellite data shows increasing loss from ice-sheets and didn't follow.....
» 14/10/2010 6:46:21 AM Amicus - my mistake - ice loss isn't from direct overall warming - it's melting at it's ma.....
» 13/10/2010 8:17:12 AM Mark, when you forecast - or imply likelihood of - much reduced emissions through to 2100 .....
» 13/10/2010 7:37:09 AM JonJ, ice sheets and sea ice aren't the same. Is this an attempt to shift ground to where .....
» 12/10/2010 8:07:50 PM This article isn't about opening closed minds it's about closing open minds; right when sa.....
» 11/10/2010 9:13:06 PM Mark, I don't think I've mistaken your point at all; it's everything about climate and cli.....
» 11/10/2010 12:38:36 PM Mark, you dodge the short as well as longer term influences on emission rates in order to .....
» 9/10/2010 11:33:41 AM Mark Lawson fails to explore why short term variations to the strong continuing CO2 rise i.....
» 7/10/2010 4:15:58 PM Clear evidence that ice sheet loss has been accelerating and the response from Curmudgeon .....
» 29/09/2010 4:14:51 PM Unlike many of the commenters here I think the science is sound, something they could find.....
» 17/09/2010 11:37:49 AM Leo, the science is only in serious doubt if you avoid information that comes from institu.....
» 15/09/2010 8:20:15 PM Perhaps the real point is that greater efficiency by itself will lead to greater consumpti.....
» 20/08/2010 10:07:16 AM I find some of the widely varied 'Christian' positions to be bizarre in the extreme. Why w.....
» 18/08/2010 5:34:40 PM It's deeply disappointing that mainstream politics has completely failed on this issue and.....
» 13/08/2010 12:48:50 PM In case anyone thinks the link I provided above represents a 'treehuggers' distorted versi.....
» 13/08/2010 11:36:55 AM I think it's way past time to make a decision on this -like a decade past time. Like with .....
» 13/08/2010 10:25:47 AM The irony of those conducting wars that have cost enormous loss of civilian life - and who.....
» 3/08/2010 1:19:27 PM The main opposition to any price on carbon is based on denial of science; ie that there wi.....
» 2/08/2010 11:43:33 AM Geoff, I have to agree; we have prospective Prime Ministers who are suited to running the .....
» 23/07/2010 10:19:15 AM The body of scientific knowledge is both pinnacle of human achievement and foundation of p.....
» 21/07/2010 12:36:48 PM Ramya, please do keep yourself well informed on this. Not with the selected bits that are .....
» 20/07/2010 4:12:14 PM Ramya, I think you are right; we need a Prime Minister who faces this issue head on, with .....
» 20/07/2010 2:11:48 PM The Minerals council has been fairly forward about their views on fossil fuels; we can loo.....
» 6/07/2010 12:20:37 PM Protagoras, there does seem to be a significant divide between academic programs aimed at .....
» 5/07/2010 10:04:56 AM The problem is as real and as huge as climate science has been saying and yes, it's not ha.....
» 4/07/2010 9:11:15 AM Protagoras - I noticed Lawson failed to more than glimse (then look away) into the funding.....
» 2/07/2010 11:09:28 AM More denialist drivel from someone who's written lots of it. Enough said......
» 2/06/2010 8:51:38 AM If climate change had any influence on how dry or how hot it was then it influenced how se.....
» 20/05/2010 9:39:29 AM This is just one more look at the comparative energy costs that fails - deliberately I pre.....
» 15/05/2010 9:30:11 AM Rudd should have hit the fossil fuel miners specifically with a carbon tax at the minehead.....
» 12/05/2010 9:56:40 AM Tony, I have to pretty much agree. I never thought Rudd was ever serious, pretty much from.....
» 21/04/2010 1:47:42 PM I wouldn't be surprised if there's some criticism of how FOI's got handled but no surprise.....
» 17/04/2010 8:55:23 AM Ted and Michael: your article is dangerously irresponsible drivel with no redeeming featur.....
» 12/04/2010 1:21:25 PM Nuclear needs to be part of the solution. There are real concerns - proliferation and safe.....
» 11/04/2010 11:17:11 AM So people who actually study things like sea level rise and try and tease out it's true co.....
» 11/04/2010 10:26:25 AM Raycom - No evidence? What complete rubbish - from the emission and absorbtion characteris.....
» 7/04/2010 4:11:30 PM I'm more concerned that those who develop policy have a greater degree of trust in the sci.....
» 1/04/2010 5:26:56 PM I think the author is just peddling more climate science denial. Doubt, denial and delay a.....
» 28/03/2010 11:51:05 AM Sorry, deniers, I think it's you guys sucked in by people saying what you want to hear and.....
» 27/03/2010 10:26:23 AM Science good enough to convince National Academies of Sciences isn't enough to convince am.....
» 26/03/2010 5:33:38 PM Absolute certainty may be lacking within honest science but within dishonest denialism the.....
» 21/03/2010 7:44:44 PM Maybe my comment above that Plimer and Carter wouldn't know a scientific argument if it bi.....
» 20/03/2010 8:12:28 PM I think Carol Johnson is wrong; this is not a failure of the Greens but the utter failure .....
» 2/03/2010 4:13:21 PM The responses to this article show how popular the idea that all the people who study clim.....
» 18/02/2010 1:54:52 PM I notice that a scientist's honesty - a period of 15 years not being long enough to get a .....
» 18/02/2010 1:53:39 PM Are we supposed to take Hasbeen or Arjay seriously? All the thermometer and satellite data.....
» 17/02/2010 4:35:35 PM So in the 2800 page AR4 document one or perhaps two mistakes have been found. I'm underwhe.....
» 16/02/2010 7:39:05 PM I meant to add that, when it comes to something that will impact us over decades and centu.....
» 16/02/2010 7:25:48 PM This is an issue that won't be going away; the apparent shift in public priorities is like.....
» 13/02/2010 9:38:41 AM Hasbeen, I'll continue to take my climate science from the scientists and institutions tha.....
» 13/02/2010 9:00:18 AM In my previous comment I meant levels of CO2 not seen for 500,000 years, but the point's t.....
» 12/02/2010 10:43:22 AM A timely article. I find the unstated appeals to prejudices and fears disturbing and it's .....
» 12/02/2010 10:32:54 AM It's disappointing that an associate professor of anything could write such drivel. The im.....
» 10/02/2010 7:21:26 PM Shann, you have a simplistic and misleading take on CO2 vs water in the atmosphere which i.....
» 3/02/2010 11:35:54 AM I thought Labor's approach was to make the right sounding noises, pretend Carbon Capture a.....
» 2/02/2010 9:33:09 PM Chris, I'm not sure we can afford another decade or two of indecision of how to get effect.....
» 1/02/2010 4:33:45 PM The author paints a bleak picture where Australia and the world fail utterly to deal with .....
» 29/01/2010 2:11:53 PM Hasbeen - you referring to the changes to Darwin temps that occurred when the site moved a.....
» 28/01/2010 1:53:45 PM This issue won't go away because the planet keeps getting warmer. The institutions that st.....
» 24/01/2010 9:54:59 PM Thanks for the article Mike. Not that you will convince those that will accept any argumen.....
» 20/01/2010 9:26:12 PM Whilst I suspect the Author is largely right that we are going to fail to take effective a.....
» 12/01/2010 6:42:35 AM Almost everything Christopher Monckton says about climate and climate science is wrong. Mo.....
» 10/01/2010 2:50:08 PM Copenhagen 'failed' because so many wanted to do more about climate change, not less. One .....
» 10/01/2010 2:27:28 PM Plimer won't sue because he'd lose. I can't believe this mining company director and autho.....
» 9/01/2010 12:09:32 PM I'd thought it was obvious long before Copenhagen that Rudd and co weren't serious about c.....
» 7/01/2010 5:49:28 PM I share some of the author's pessimism but seriously doubt his prediction of humanity endi.....
» 7/01/2010 5:22:36 PM Sustainable agricultural practices are essential and every bit helps. However, ultimately .....
» 7/01/2010 5:00:28 PM Another voice calling for Australia to do the least it can get away with rather than the m.....
» 4/01/2010 4:12:04 PM The externalised costs of dirty energy, including the costs of conversion to low-emissions.....
» 3/01/2010 8:31:34 AM Alex, it's all very well to claim that particular solutions are the best or only options b.....
» 1/01/2010 4:55:42 PM A well written article by a working scientist. We need more scientists to get more vocal; .....
» 1/01/2010 4:33:46 PM I have to agree with the author that these kinds of technofixes will encourage the already.....
» 30/12/2009 7:34:48 PM thomasfromtacoma, I'm not sure what your points actually were or even if they were specifi.....
» 29/12/2009 6:17:50 AM Next - I have to agree. What's more dismaying to me than the absolute disbelief of so many.....
» 27/12/2009 9:43:05 PM I admit to not knowing where I stand on this; it might help if there were working thorium .....
» 26/12/2009 3:29:06 PM There's a good chance we will fail to deal with climate change. The mess we'll end up in w.....
» 21/12/2009 8:08:12 AM Ultimately our nation negotiates to get an agreement that does the least we can get away w.....
» 20/12/2009 12:44:24 PM I think the author - executive director of a politically motivated lobby group - is wrong .....
» 14/12/2009 7:17:08 AM I don't believe Plimer represents anything scientific; sciency sounding, yes, and clearly .....
» 13/12/2009 9:17:33 AM Malcolm, the prize for barrenness of modern intellectual thought has to go to this article.....
» 13/12/2009 9:00:20 AM Farida, I just wanted to add that failure of the Wealthy West to act responsibly is the wo.....
» 13/12/2009 7:52:56 AM I suspect Ian Plimer of looking to his own personal climate adaptation plan; getting the w.....
» 12/12/2009 11:49:14 AM Farida, population is a serious issue, increasingly so as the planet's capacity to support.....
» 10/12/2009 7:58:02 AM Having an international meeting to work out what to do about climate change brings the den.....
» 7/12/2009 8:27:36 PM I have to disagree that what we do and don't do makes no difference to the Earth's climate.....
» 6/12/2009 2:17:16 PM Almost everything Ian Read says is wrong and much is deliberately deceptive. I'll go on ta.....
» 26/11/2009 8:40:57 AM Joanne, almost everything you say about climate and climate science is wrong. "Denier.....
» 26/10/2009 4:03:32 PM Politicians, having been elected to positions of great responsibility should not be so irr.....
» 25/10/2009 11:51:33 AM I think the tipping point where we'll see bipartisan action truly intended to reduce emiss.....
» 24/10/2009 1:47:30 PM I think the author is wrong that Australia shouldn't act without a global deal; now or lat.....
» 15/10/2009 7:43:17 AM Joanna, the prospect of a government that willfully ignores scientific advice won't win th.....
» 28/09/2009 6:30:32 PM Mark Lawson is wrong in almost every respect. Enough said......
» 24/09/2009 6:14:42 PM James, if you were informed about climate science at all... As far as I can tell all you k.....
» 22/09/2009 8:20:48 PM James, how can you suggest that climate science hasn't been looking at past natural climat.....
» 20/09/2009 4:38:26 PM James, you think I'm missing the point? I think the relevant point is you deny there's a p.....
» 19/09/2009 8:44:56 AM Hi James, I appreciate your use of a quote from my response to a previous article on OLO; .....
» 13/09/2009 10:14:44 PM It's still cheaper to have solar down on Earth even if we need 4 times as much of it. Now,.....
» 30/08/2009 11:29:42 AM Martin, the glaring absence of consideration of the costs and consequences of failure to l.....
» 22/08/2009 2:58:39 PM The author's opinions may be sincere but they reveal his profound ignorance of the real st.....
» 19/08/2009 10:21:51 PM Sorry but Garth's voice is the voice of the misinformed. Climate change is real already wi.....
» 17/08/2009 9:56:06 PM James, you may feel my criticisms are harsh but this is a very serious issue, one that you.....
» 16/08/2009 9:27:01 AM Historian aka James; I think you are a bit thin skinned; after implying that climate scien.....
» 15/08/2009 10:03:04 PM James, You aren't fooling anyone - the article tries to throw doubt on the validity of cli.....
» 15/08/2009 8:23:09 AM Faiburn's wrong that climate science doesn't look at natural chahges to climate. His artic.....
» 13/08/2009 10:36:09 AM I just want to add that switching to gas is a policy that will fail to deliver the reducti.....
» 13/08/2009 10:12:05 AM I can't take Martin Nicholson's article seriously. Of course we can ditch coal, we have to.....
» 4/08/2009 11:43:56 AM Horus, 'clean coal' requires 3 times as much CO2 to be dealt with than coal burned to make.....
» 2/08/2009 10:25:57 AM Horus, I see nothing particularly strange that, at the first attempt to face this issue th.....
» 1/08/2009 9:45:00 PM The argument that the world's biggest coal exporter is a minor player in climate change is.....
» 1/08/2009 8:41:02 PM I'm trying to figure out if Robert Murphy could even take his own arguments seriously! Dam.....
» 28/07/2009 8:44:10 AM I think nuclear weapons proliferation is a greater concern than nuclear waste or reactor s.....
» 24/07/2009 4:07:46 PM "Takup of CO2 by " missing mass" is growing exponentially"?!! "Bi.....
» 17/07/2009 10:25:52 PM Juell Briggs seems to be saying because it sounds expensive we shouldn't make the effort. .....
» 15/07/2009 10:00:16 AM Cooling since 1998? Rubbish. Even taking such an extreme outlier as the start point, (why .....
» 7/07/2009 9:17:10 AM bpors, Carter, like others who advocate a head in sand approach, doesn't do climate scienc.....
» 6/07/2009 10:25:24 AM I am constantly amazed and appalled by the strength of opinion that global warming isn't h.....
» 27/06/2009 10:57:23 AM Sorry, this is just one more voice calling for delay on the transition to a low GHG econom.....
» 22/06/2009 2:44:03 PM Perhaps the question should be why Carter and co-authors Evans, Frank and Kinnimouth want .....
» 22/06/2009 10:44:57 AM Hopefully Sen. Fielding is making some belated efforts to get the minimum of understanding.....
» 17/06/2009 9:23:21 AM Is the lesson to be careful what you wish for because you just might get it? US carmakers .....
» 12/06/2009 9:41:27 PM If Plimer had real contributions to make to understanding climate and the human induced po.....
» 8/06/2009 9:55:40 AM Sorry, I had two OLO articles open at once and misnamed the author of the one I submitted .....
» 8/06/2009 9:46:58 AM Isn't this just one more call to delay serious action? To insist we should be waiting upon.....
» 9/05/2009 8:05:30 AM Col, when multiple independent lines of research reach the same conclusions the science is.....
» 8/05/2009 8:15:42 AM Col, when multiple independent lines of research reach the same conclusion the science isn.....
» 30/04/2009 8:19:49 AM The downs of the up and downs of the Hottest Decade on Record are not evidence the Earth i.....
» 23/04/2009 7:37:31 AM The downs of the ups and downs of the hottest decade since records began are evidence that.....
» 14/04/2009 12:50:09 PM Jbowyer, Nuclear destruction in the 50’s and 60’s– was a very real possibility given the a.....
» 13/04/2009 1:05:18 PM I was going to mention Lutz and the GWBush administration in connection to attempts to cha.....
» 12/04/2009 4:49:04 PM Even if people here have every right to pick and choose what to believe or who to trust on.....
» 16/12/2008 6:49:49 AM I never expected Kyoto to reduce emissions or even stabilise them, but I did expect it to .....
» 15/11/2008 6:58:43 AM Sorry IanC, "... that dissenting from ANY aspect of the wide-ranging orthodoxy can .....
» 14/11/2008 7:07:24 AM Too much of the article is about implying and suggesting: referring to the scientific unde.....
» 12/11/2008 8:29:03 PM Q&A, catastrophic climate change may not occur any time soon but what we do now will contr.....
» 11/11/2008 6:49:07 AM If the consequences of climate change are alarming people should be sounding alarms. You c.....
» 10/11/2008 7:08:58 AM The real orthodoxy here, that relies on unfounded belief and no science, is the belief tha.....
» 9/11/2008 8:49:09 AM This whole article is no more than fluff and puff, unfounded opinion and assertion paradin.....
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