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» 16/10/2017 6:10:26 PM Dr Jim Green is, as he says, professionally committed as an anti-nuclear campaigner and ha.....
» 28/09/2017 9:25:00 AM It seems to me that making one's living as a 'children's rights' academic addles the brain.....
» 19/09/2017 7:54:30 AM Every time one group is shut up, another group gets a free gift; they are relieved of a bu.....
» 6/09/2017 9:17:01 AM Jim Green is a long-time professional anti-nuclear lobbyist. He has zero credibility in th.....
» 21/07/2017 9:20:08 AM Well that's not much help. So the Constitution is old, in some places irrelevant, and hard.....
» 18/07/2017 1:50:00 PM Being lazy I'll just paste my (unpublished) letter on the topic expressing much the same s.....
» 23/06/2017 2:36:17 PM Luciferase misinterpreted my mention of nuclear. I was referring to the fact that nuclear .....
» 22/06/2017 4:10:09 PM The most interesting part of this article is that it comes from someone who was involved i.....
» 8/05/2017 9:08:10 AM "How do we best respond to such profound threats to our health and land from fracking.....
» 3/05/2017 3:17:06 PM I'm not a royalist by sentiment but have no quibble with the current arrangement where a p.....
» 4/04/2017 10:31:09 AM I'm not too worried that battlelines regarding 18C have formed. Instead of minority groups.....
» 23/03/2017 8:34:52 AM I agree totally that 'racist!' is an offensive race-based insult that ought to be punishab.....
» 16/03/2017 11:14:07 AM $60-90 billion for storage and wind farms? The GDP of South Australia is $97 billion. Elec.....
» 27/02/2017 8:20:23 AM I am an ‘accidental biophysical economist’ (being neither a biophysicist nor an economist).....
» 17/02/2017 1:08:57 PM It’s a terrible shame that Alan Moran, who really understands energy and economics, bases .....
» 9/02/2017 12:20:59 PM I have already commented in The Australian but here it is again: Wishful thinking about re.....
» 5/01/2017 11:26:02 AM While I agree with the broad thrust of David Leyonhjelm’s argument I think it has the same.....
» 20/12/2016 11:08:41 AM I'll leave it to others to argue the ACF's position on climate change. Far more interestin.....
» 12/12/2016 8:34:34 AM There is only one issue at stake here - why on earth does the Conservation Council of WA t.....
» 29/11/2016 8:19:30 AM Ye gods! I didn’t think such distorted views of the world still existed. “The most promine.....
» 17/11/2016 7:50:23 AM Agree with every word! I would just add one point. I would happily give up some of my own .....
» 31/10/2016 8:52:39 AM While I am happy to agree with the exhortation to do-gooders to stop exaggerating the soci.....
» 18/10/2016 5:54:10 PM Craig, I think you need to be careful in making such comparisons. They often do not compar.....
» 18/10/2016 4:46:06 PM Mark, even if the States don’t provide direct subsidies, the Commonwealth via the RET does.....
» 18/10/2016 8:11:29 AM How could any electricity or energy policy be contrary to an energy law? Easy. Just make e.....
» 11/10/2016 12:02:17 PM As a scientist I thought I might learn something from Jardine's post. It soon became clear.....
» 11/10/2016 7:32:25 AM An excellent case for nuclear power......
» 30/08/2016 9:05:43 AM Maybe I’m thick but I find it difficult to distil a clear message here. Let me try to make.....
» 23/08/2016 9:09:13 AM What could the NFCRC have concluded that would have influenced Noel Wauchope’s views on nu.....
» 18/08/2016 1:38:25 PM It’s good to see how many climate scientists read OLO. I am not one of those and shall lea.....
» 18/08/2016 9:33:52 AM I think Jennifer goes too far. Of the three ‘misleading’ claims of which she accuses Brian.....
» 16/08/2016 9:05:25 AM I for one am happy with the moral principle that prevention of harm to others should guide.....
» 8/08/2016 12:50:00 PM ...cheap as chips, water molecule cracking technology? The only thing right about Alan B's.....
» 8/08/2016 11:27:31 AM Of course. It's a law of economics. It's like gravity and thermodynamics in physics. If no.....
» 8/08/2016 9:27:38 AM The various reactions to a falling oil price surely reflect the different time horizons of.....
» 24/06/2016 3:30:34 PM “Converting electricity supply to renewable sources is therefore an essential first step t.....
» 24/06/2016 2:07:48 PM Roses 1, I need to correct you again. That's 12.9% of electrical energy, not ‘energy’, tha.....
» 24/06/2016 9:33:49 AM Roses 1, it is true that the article under-quoted the contribution to Germany’s electricit.....
» 23/06/2016 2:02:02 PM In response to the comments of Aidan and others, I think the ground rules of such debates .....
» 23/06/2016 10:15:01 AM It is good that a prominent public figure has weighed in on this crucial topic. However I .....
» 14/06/2016 9:32:20 AM The last sentence is the key to the problem (or, as even scientists say today, ‘issue’, wh.....
» 10/06/2016 5:43:55 PM While I agree with pretty much everything Don says, the reality is that around half the Au.....
» 26/05/2016 8:53:51 AM So that’s the water story. But we can only watch with trepidation as the next instalment o.....
» 2/05/2016 8:44:10 AM The writer is an anti-nuclear political campaigner. Can anyone take these objections serio.....
» 28/04/2016 8:51:17 AM Anyone who has done Economics 101 will already know what Joe Branigan says. Anyone who has.....
» 29/03/2016 12:04:43 PM Peter, I used to be rather dismissive of ‘learning rates’ when engineers quoted them to of.....
» 29/03/2016 8:54:35 AM Kieran Lark’s sentiments might be right (indeed, I think they are) but the pathway he trav.....
» 15/03/2016 12:28:22 PM It’s simplistic to say that Australia is a dry continent so more water research is needed......
» 10/02/2016 11:35:15 AM Managing a research organisation is all about setting priorities. An easily understood way.....
» 14/01/2016 1:42:29 PM Of course we should try to save energy personally, but the normal motivation of thrift and.....
» 8/12/2015 8:58:50 AM McGarvie has confused the science with the alarmism. On every matter of wide public and po.....
» 1/12/2015 7:28:34 AM The Aussie census is "the essential reference point for demographers, economists, res.....
» 24/11/2015 11:12:30 AM imacentristmoderate, I don't think you understood what I said. You suggest that all proble.....
» 24/11/2015 9:01:36 AM Nice sentiments, but as the writer says their success depends on everyone agreeing. I have.....
» 23/11/2015 11:47:36 AM I am happy with most of the first half of this contribution but see the second part as lar.....
» 14/10/2015 11:08:52 AM How many times does one have to say the obvious? If 'they' knew how to cut emissions enoug.....
» 30/09/2015 11:30:07 AM Of course the climate debate is political! And it's precisely because the protagonists hav.....
» 25/09/2015 9:24:08 AM “Over the next 3-5 years this is likely to result in development of batteries which have g.....
» 16/09/2015 8:56:46 AM Simply grabbing hold of Ockham's Razor would have made short work of dismissing the claim .....
» 14/09/2015 12:18:23 PM It seems plain to me that ending domestic violence simply with the kind of loud urging tha.....
» 1/09/2015 3:09:08 PM I have a special interest in this posting, being a long-term critical analyst of hydrogen .....
» 28/08/2015 12:52:40 PM This piece and associated set of comments shows yet again the “yes they can/no they can’t”.....
» 29/07/2015 1:48:22 PM Of course Gary Johns is correct as far as he goes in arguing why renewables can’t replace .....
» 9/07/2015 1:31:18 PM I am pleased to see that Mark Lawson is tackling the toughest and most critical issue in t.....
» 16/06/2015 9:16:36 AM I happen to be one of those scientists who are predisposed to accepting the historically r.....
» 15/06/2015 8:31:22 AM OK, the statistics don't lie. Indeed, they are consistent with everyday observation. Essen.....
» 4/06/2015 10:43:38 AM The author would be wise not to fall into the trap generally inhabited by climate alarmist.....
» 21/05/2015 9:38:26 AM Michael Potter tries hard, as have many other commentators, to defend the idea of an iron .....
» 20/04/2015 9:15:46 AM Very creative and entertaining. Lest Ian’s great sense of humour, and mockery of the Green.....
» 16/04/2015 2:12:36 PM Come on Evaggelos, cheer up. Things could be worse, a lot worse. You could have lived back.....
» 30/03/2015 9:55:53 AM A Volvo spokesperson was quoted as follows in relation to driverless cars appearing any ti.....
» 23/03/2015 9:44:47 AM Why make this simple topic so complicated? To some minds (like mine) the supernatural bein.....
» 2/03/2015 8:25:43 AM This is truly a bizarre topic. Is there a real debate? Is there anyone in favour of domest.....
» 27/02/2015 9:32:25 AM "I don't see anything wrong with this", says the author of this piece. Well neit.....
» 17/02/2015 12:22:15 PM How wonderful to see a sacred cow swallowed whole and spat out in front of my eyes! And by.....
» 12/02/2015 9:51:37 AM I totally agree that the political debate is superficial and lacking in any real attempt t.....
» 30/01/2015 10:28:33 AM I doubt whether there is any point responding to Jay of Melbourne and the so-called lack o.....
» 23/01/2015 1:26:02 PM Much of the ground has already been covered, so I’ll try to offer something constructive a.....
» 7/01/2015 11:26:39 AM Viv Forbes is seriously confused. He allows himself to be side-tracked by inventing his ow.....
» 8/12/2014 12:37:44 PM The impact on energy investors is just one aspect of the fall in oil price and its effect .....
» 20/11/2014 8:42:57 AM I guess I don't have the benefit of having my views defined and fixed by my job. Mia is a .....
» 3/11/2014 12:28:28 PM I'm sure Bill Kinimonth knows what he is talking about but it seems from Don's summary tha.....
» 29/10/2014 8:37:16 AM The great shame about Mark's argument, basically that anything Australia can do would be f.....
» 21/10/2014 5:24:22 PM Attitudes to the future of fossil fuels, and hence to proposals to replace them promptly, .....
» 12/08/2014 12:56:57 PM "How should Australia manage radioactive waste? The short answer is that there is no .....
» 30/07/2014 9:23:07 AM I agree that there is a lack of rational debate about immigration policy. But the policy b.....
» 29/07/2014 1:06:50 PM Thu-Trang Tran is a refugee. So am I. Why has she written this piece? Apparently because s.....
» 21/07/2014 1:57:56 PM Noel Preston wants to provide a moral, ethical and compassionate case for the action plan .....
» 16/06/2014 11:26:04 AM The calculation is just arithmetic. Find out what the whole shebang costs and convert to p.....
» 26/05/2014 9:28:44 AM Doubtless, many millions of men and women feel resentment and frustration daily as a resul.....
» 7/05/2014 2:29:35 PM Of course it doesn't matter who said what in the 18th century or whenever. So what does ma.....
» 4/03/2014 6:27:02 PM Perhaps Leo Lane would like to argue with the American Institute of Physics http://www.aip.....
» 4/03/2014 3:01:40 PM I really don't know why Don Aitkin devotes so much more emphasis on his climate change sce.....
» 15/02/2014 12:16:13 PM In 2010 the four Australian Learned Academies tackled the issue of the peculiarly Australi.....
» 7/02/2014 12:07:05 PM I was there! Well, not exactly at the Ed Sullivan show, but watching TV in rural Illinois......
» 23/01/2014 12:29:58 PM I am happy to agree with Don that “we know much less about all of this than was confidentl.....
» 17/01/2014 8:11:16 AM “….mathematical literacy (at whatever level), which carries with it a sense for logical ri.....
» 15/01/2014 10:56:44 AM OK, I admit I’m biased; whenever I see the words ‘racism’, ‘diversity’ and ‘sustainability.....
» 23/11/2013 7:55:04 AM Youthful idealism (I hope my assumption regarding Darcy's age/student/youth delegate statu.....
» 21/11/2013 12:51:33 PM I obviously did not make myself clear enough but there are too many misunderstandings of w.....
» 15/11/2013 8:12:00 AM I too am an old white man. Well, ‘elderly’, as they say in polite society. Like Colin Tatz.....
» 13/11/2013 2:41:16 PM This is such a jumble of thoughts that it’s hard to say much about it. The fundamental que.....
» 27/09/2013 9:03:53 AM Don, what is the takeaway message from all of these salvos? Is it simply that we should al.....
» 25/09/2013 6:24:17 PM I have complete faith that ultimately the science will be sorted out by the normal process.....
» 19/09/2013 9:15:14 AM I couldn’t agree more. And I speak with a background of 15 years in managing R&D in a stat.....
» 2/09/2013 12:14:13 PM The argument here rests on a non sequitur. One can fully understand the consequences of th.....
» 9/08/2013 9:12:50 AM The concept of ‘social licence’ is fashionable but nebulous. Let’s try to pin it down. “I .....
» 23/07/2013 9:27:52 AM The key point Geoff Carmody makes is that the problem is global and needs a global solutio.....
» 9/07/2013 9:43:50 AM There are clearly some very basic and emotive issues involved in this debate. At one extre.....
» 27/06/2013 3:10:02 PM MWPOYNTER seems to know what he/she is talking about in regard to the forest products indu.....
» 14/06/2013 8:46:40 AM It is sad that some quite innocent people will lose money that they imagined was safe. But.....
» 29/05/2013 9:14:31 AM This is an important subject. It is perhaps a pity that Malcolm King's credible critique o.....
» 17/05/2013 12:52:35 PM Hasbeen, our chemistries are probably quite similar, but I am happy to admit that you're a.....
» 17/05/2013 10:01:49 AM It’s a pity that Don’s thesis is tainted by his climate change scepticism because one coul.....
» 8/05/2013 4:02:31 PM 21 comments by 3.40 pm shows how excited folk get about their favorite sources of heat and.....
» 28/02/2013 12:40:01 PM The author puts forward a perfectly sound case. But it presents only half the argument. On.....
» 7/02/2013 3:01:45 PM Thank you Curmudgeon. On the connection between cost and energy, we know that there is a t.....
» 7/02/2013 9:05:28 AM This piece offers some interesting commentary on the social impact of green building stand.....
» 16/01/2013 10:51:23 AM The only issue for me here is whether (1) to swot up on the theory that plant stomata prov.....
» 15/01/2013 7:55:12 AM Though they may be familiar to many, it is good to see in this review a restatement of sim.....
» 21/12/2012 2:27:46 PM The unwritten premise behind this kind of scrutiny of global student ‘performance’ compari.....
» 17/12/2012 8:21:18 AM Geoff omitted to mention the impact of energy costs. It’s a matter of simple arithmetic to.....
» 9/12/2012 8:46:50 AM It has taken me two days to get over the depression that hit me upon reading Don Aitkin’s .....
» 18/09/2012 9:14:38 AM The piece provokes two reactions. Surprise, in that I find myself in sympathy with Ben Ros.....
» 13/09/2012 8:44:31 AM Er, I thought everyone knew all that already. Generations were given labels by marketers. .....
» 3/09/2012 9:21:36 AM I’m not sure that Geoff Carmody has pinpointed the key issues in carbon pricing policy. Li.....
» 24/08/2012 9:31:17 AM Yes, 'sustainability' is a mad ostensibly altruistic fantasy aimed at future generations. .....
» 20/08/2012 11:02:16 AM Whatever one says will never be enough to dissuade the purveyors of this kind of recycled .....
» 6/07/2012 9:19:54 AM The aluminium industry is a great case study for the political issues around reducing emis.....
» 27/06/2012 11:24:19 AM Thanks Roses 1 for defining precisely what the issue is. It's all about faith and hope in .....
» 27/06/2012 9:19:46 AM James Wight is a student so he can be excused for his idealism. When I was a student there.....
» 15/06/2012 9:46:04 AM I have this weird new feeling. I agree with everything in an OLO piece! Except maybe for t.....
» 12/06/2012 9:48:34 AM ‘Propagandists’. ‘Acolyte’. This nurse lays out her position at the outset. She doesn’t li.....
» 4/06/2012 9:16:12 AM Can you run that past me again? A bunch of psychologists, lawyers et al have discovered th.....
» 15/05/2012 11:55:01 AM Apologies Michael. One of my mottos is 'never assume'. But I did, without imagining that '.....
» 15/05/2012 9:36:21 AM I like to think that I’m a pretty dab hand at the English language too. I have written muc.....
» 11/05/2012 8:09:16 AM The problem revolves around that weasel word "affordable". Housing in desirable .....
» 29/03/2012 8:14:55 AM In the same vein as Taswegian, let me add that Ben Courtice fails to address the key issue.....
» 26/03/2012 11:14:39 AM Michael Kile falls into the same trap is the climate change believers; he is much too cert.....
» 8/03/2012 9:22:16 AM One does not need to be a climate sceptic to agree vigorously with Anthony Cox. I happen t.....
» 9/02/2012 8:24:43 AM Good try, but I see no hope that the ideological divide on private vs. public schools can .....
» 3/02/2012 6:46:51 PM Sorry Curmudgeon, but it is you who have the wrong end of the stick. ExternE most certainl.....
» 3/02/2012 1:29:22 PM Curmudgeon is correct to say that there is no economic analysis specifically to justify Au.....
» 3/02/2012 12:09:04 PM While the key comment in this piece – "government (should) ensure that medium- and lo.....
» 16/01/2012 9:06:59 AM Peter Hume is right. I cannot add to his helpful rerun of economic history (though some 55.....
» 12/01/2012 7:27:23 AM The idea that poor people are excluded from the club of environmentalists who are able to .....
» 13/12/2011 9:58:59 AM Tom Quirk's article should be the introductory operating manual for those unfortunates tas.....
» 6/12/2011 7:54:59 AM I love Australia too and I happen to agree with the thrust of this piece. But it doesn't a.....
» 29/11/2011 8:02:36 AM Nice try Sophie, but "small island mentality, compassionless politics and aversion to.....
» 24/11/2011 8:41:07 AM The thinking on such matters can be greatly simplified with the premise that energy consum.....
» 4/08/2011 4:09:10 PM It’s a pity that this article seems to conflate climate scepticism with a sceptical concer.....
» 1/08/2011 10:37:13 AM Martin Nicholson’s sober piece prompts a general question about emerging technologies, and.....
» 26/07/2011 9:55:42 AM This is pure rhetoric, based largely on the mindless use of simplistic pejorative terms. I.....
» 25/07/2011 10:11:38 AM The sentiments in Saul Eslake’s piece are sound but, as befits the thinking of an economis.....
» 19/07/2011 10:11:49 AM Leaving aside the small matter of David Leigh completely failing to address his title topi.....
» 15/07/2011 9:12:06 AM Oh, to be young and idealistic, and not an old cynic like me! Heather Bruer's heart is in .....
» 14/07/2011 2:36:10 PM What does the greenhouse effect have to do with the 'Socialist Left' of Labor or of any ot.....
» 11/07/2011 9:26:06 AM There are many sensible things in this piece but its final conclusion, that equitable educ.....
» 7/07/2011 2:02:24 PM Let me confess at the outset that I am a scientist, not an economist. But I might know mor.....
» 4/07/2011 12:00:47 PM So, there are for points to contend with: Scientists have been wrong in the past so they .....
» 28/06/2011 9:50:50 AM Now back to the topic at hand. Measures to reduce carbon emissions are all about economics.....
» 14/06/2011 12:02:37 PM I think one can agonise too much about the detailed meaning and statistical analysis of th.....
» 10/06/2011 9:16:05 AM It’s easy to agree and disagree with Ted Trainer at the same time. The steady-state or shr.....
» 7/06/2011 12:42:00 PM Try as I might, I find it hard to discern Mark’s key message here. He presents two interes.....
» 6/06/2011 3:50:24 PM Tom Tiddler, this is just silly. I'm not going to discuss combustion, photosynthesis and t.....
» 6/06/2011 2:06:44 PM Tom Tiddler I guess economists and scientists look at graphs differently, and one of them .....
» 6/06/2011 11:24:45 AM Des Moore should have led with his strongest card, the fact that the hands of anyone who r.....
» 1/06/2011 12:20:39 PM Thanks for the helpful prompt Mark, and for at least trying to fill in what Bob Carter lef.....
» 1/06/2011 10:32:22 AM Bob Carter throws plenty of attractive bait for the sceptical reader. His doubts about job.....
» 25/05/2011 7:47:55 AM Sorry to come in again so late, but Roses 1’s comments on aluminium do sound more than a l.....
» 24/05/2011 10:14:17 AM There are pieces of wisdom in both Viv Forbes’ piece and the comments so far. Yes, mining .....
» 20/05/2011 9:35:53 AM Having just read ‘FUTURE BABBLE: Why expert predictions are next to worthless and you can .....
» 19/05/2011 9:20:18 AM There are enough straw men here to fuel a biomass power station. Misotheism (which by the .....
» 17/05/2011 3:31:46 PM Too late, I see that Ben-Peter Terpstra is "an Australian-European satirist". Wh.....
» 17/05/2011 9:42:34 AM ‘All men believe in some higher power’. How does one arrive at such a 'position'? I guess .....
» 12/05/2011 10:11:18 AM Leigh Ewbank’s high falutin rhetoric obscures his real message, which is: “all the technol.....
» 10/05/2011 10:13:36 AM The climate problem is indeed potentially serious. But Joel Dignam’s well meaning efforts .....
» 5/05/2011 1:15:14 PM I don't normally respond to comments on my comments because all opinions all valuable. But.....
» 5/05/2011 10:12:46 AM A nice potted history and many interesting points from a professional meteorologist. There.....
» 2/05/2011 1:11:58 PM Just in case Curmudgeon's comments are seen to be tainted by his well known climate change.....
» 28/04/2011 8:56:56 AM The numbers are not consistent with the facts about the role of energy in creating GDP. En.....
» 13/04/2011 9:16:40 AM "Now the CPI increases. All prices increase due to the tax on emissions embedded in a.....
» 5/04/2011 8:18:34 AM There's no need for Geoff Carmody to be apologetic about possibly misinterpreting Bjorn Lo.....
» 1/04/2011 7:28:14 AM Cameron Leckie is on the right track about the profound impact on our lives of future cons.....
» 31/03/2011 10:30:29 AM Terpstra protests against a carbon tax apparently because he doesn't 'believe' in global w.....
» 25/03/2011 7:32:30 AM I am a scientist. I have to try to order my thoughts carefully before jumping in with a co.....
» 16/03/2011 11:36:54 AM Well, what else would David Noonan say. He is a 'nuclear-free campaigner for the Australia.....
» 3/03/2011 9:19:01 AM The point Geoff Carmody, and others, makes, that any carbon pricing scheme that disadvanta.....
» 4/02/2011 8:59:22 AM Tables like the ones in this article are enlightening because they make the impacts of the.....
» 27/01/2011 8:42:11 AM Unfortunately the use of measures of savings in terms of plane trips, household appliance .....
» 19/01/2011 12:10:33 PM The complexity of this issue and the level of disagreement on the numbers are both well de.....
» 25/11/2010 7:17:21 AM It’s a sign of the times that a self-confessed solar installer and head of the Solar Energ.....
» 18/11/2010 11:06:13 AM There’s no need even to mention climate science in order to demolish Dennis Jensen’s main .....
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