Category Archives: Climate

A Uni Student’s View on Australia’s Proposed Carbon Tax

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Tim Wilms

A lot has been said to defend this tax, one of the reasons I’ve heard is because the youth of Australia want this tax. The people against this tax have been portrayed as a bunch of old people who are only worried about their power bills and don’t care about the future of the planet. We have been told that we should support this tax because it will leave the earth in a better place for future generations. Well I am here today to say I am a young person I am against this tax. This tax will not save the planet and it will hurt the youth of this country the most. Already young people face an uphill battle to make a living for themselves, home ownership is slowly becoming a distant dream, food, fuel, electricity and water are constantly rising and this is all before the carbon tax. This is tax will result in cost of living becoming even more expensive, pushing many Australians to the poverty line and threatens our economic prosperity and therefore our standard of living that we have worked so hard for. Continue reading →

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Public Health and Climate Change

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Michael Keane

Doctors and medical societies often contribute to policy debates. Medicine and science connote objectivity and the public may innocently assume that contributions from the medical profession are merely dispassionate facts which lack political and ideological intrusion. However, the medical profession, like every other human endeavour operates within the realm of the human condition. In this context it is wholly expected that there will be a natural tendency for the opinion and political agendas of doctors to be communicated as if they were based on science and research. Continue reading →

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Increasing Energy Efficiency Leads to More Energy Consumption

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Graeme Klass

A new physics study published in the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics by Jeff Tsao of Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, reaffirms the basic law of economics, the cheaper a good is, the more it is used. They predict that the introduction of solid-state lighting could increase the consumption of light by a factor of ten within two decades: Continue reading →

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2 Plants. 2 CO2 Concentrations. 42 Days.

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Graeme Klass

See the results of a controlled experiment of two plants growing with 450 ppm vs 1270 ppm CO2 concentrations Continue reading →

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Copenhagen Opening Film… All That’s Missing is the Plague

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Graeme Klass

Have a look at the opening film of Copenhagen Climate Summit:

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All the elements for a good old fashioned scare mongerin’:

* Poverty. Check.
* Scared Children. Check.
* Polar bears threatened. Check.
* Floods. Check.
* Drought. Check.
* Earthquake. Check.
* Storms. Check.
* Tornados. Check.
* “Expert” Testimony*. Check.

These people have no shame.

* Includes the renowned scientists, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and UN Chief Ban Ki Moon.

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ClimateGate: CRU Hacked Code Comments

Posted on November 26, 2009 by Graeme Klass

hacked emails and documents from the Hadley Centre, I have written a little program to automatically extract comments from the source code and text from “readme” text files*. This makes it a little easier to search through code comments. Continue reading →

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“Denier!”

Posted on November 12, 2009 by Graeme Klass

Great post from science writer Joanne Nova. Continue reading →

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