Anyhow.... There's a good article on the The Punch about this book.
How Plimer’s climate change book might just work Climate change sceptics shouldn’t have to resort to juvenile ‘Gotcha’ tactics to get attention. But Professor Ian Plimer just did. And his target? Schoolteachers. Nice.
I mentioned Garnaut. You remember him? The ECONOMIST who tried to pass himself of as a climate change "expert". The one who led the governments "Climate Change Review" An ECONOMIST
A clutch of recent studies reinforces evidence that people are causing climate change and suggests debate should now move on to a more precise understanding of its impact on humans.
The reports, published in various journals in recent weeks, add new detail to the theory of climate change and by implication cast contrarians in a more desperate light.
To be clear: there's nothing wrong with doubting climate change; but doubts based on ignorance, a political bias or fossil fuel lobbying don't help.
The basics, well known, are that rising greenhouse gas emissions are almost certainly responsible for raising global average surface temperatures (by about 0.17 degrees Celsius a decade from 1980-2010), in turn leading to sea level rise (of about 2.3 millimetres a year from 2005-2010) and probably causing more frequent bouts of extreme heatwaves and possibly more erratic rainfall.
Vast uncertainties remain about the risk of runaway warming, and the urgency: for example, about what level of greenhouse gas emissions will cause how much sea level rise this century.
The latest studies suggest firmer evidence for a human finger print, for example showing that pollution is largely responsible for a slow cycle in sea surface temperatures in the last century.
Recent studies also cast more light on trends, for example showing that the world has seen hotter years since 1998 (previously held by some as a record); and presenting firmer forecasts for 2050.
And others show lessons from the end of the last Ice Age: for example that rises in carbon dioxide preceded (and, by implication, caused) warming; and that sea levels at one point were rising by several metres a century.
None of these are individually particular clinchers - the problem was already clear - but collectively they pin down uncertainty seized on by sceptics.
Climate science was under a cloud after a "climategate" scandal of scientists' emails leaked in 2009 was used by sceptics to suggest that they had deliberately manipulated data - allegations rejected by several public enquiries.
And a major U.N. panel report made a couple of factual errors, most notably saying that all Himalayan glaciers may melt by 2035, which seemed a typographical error meant to read 2350.
In retrospect, it's incredible that these cast doubt on the scientific theory.
The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a disaster.
For over 150 million years CO2 levels have been declining and average global temperatures have recently plunged leaving both dangerously low. The environment hasn't had been in such bad shape since the end of the Carboniferous period around 300 million years ago.
With the next ice age imminent we must do all we can to increase CO2 levels and save our world. Please, please help - burn everything you can: oil, wood, coal even houses. If you know anyone who has more than one house start with that, they don't need it.
It's a video for people who don't understand numbers and further have no hope of understanding relative contributions.
Take the similar poor analogy below that equates GDP and wealth.
"China has a huge GDP so therefore Chinese are all rich. Australia has a small GDP therefore Australians are all poor."
In modern times most lay people spend a lot of time focussing on money so they know the above statement is complete bollocks as it has no reference to the relative number of people vs the size of the economy. BUT present this evidence to a 6 year old and they could agree. Present it to a class of 6 year old and they will be your champions. Present it to a nation of 6 year old and tell them you can make them as rich as the Chinese and they will vote for you.
Yes, I am being generous to the average Australian by equating their knowledge of C02 to that of a 6 year old about economics. It is clear that a 6 year old knows a LOT more about economics than the average Australian voter knows about CO2.
The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a disaster.
For over 150 million years CO2 levels have been declining and average global temperatures have recently plunged leaving both dangerously low. The environment hasn't had been in such bad shape since the end of the Carboniferous period around 300 million years ago.
With the next ice age imminent we must do all we can to increase CO2 levels and save our world. Please, please help - burn everything you can: oil, wood, coal even houses. If you know anyone who has more than one house start with that, they don't need it.
That chart shows current average global temperature as being the equal lowest it's been for the last 600 million years. Where are the ice ages?
EXTREME weather events in 2009 and March this year provided the people of NSW with an indication of what the state is increasingly likely to face as the climate changes, a report by the federal government's Climate Commission says.
The year 2009 was the hottest year on record in NSW and a rise in the number of similar heatwave events is predicted. The number of days reaching more than 35 degrees in Sydney is expected to triple by 2070.
Climate change ''cannot be ruled out'' as a factor in recent heavy rainfalls, such as the flash flooding in Sydney on March 8, the wettest March day for more than 25 years, the report says.
The state, on average, is expected to become drier, increasing the risk of longer, harsher droughts and of bushfires, but the intensity of downpours could also increase in a hotter climate, due to warmer ocean temperatures.
The report, The Critical Decade, NSW Climate Impacts and Opportunities, is released today. At a public forum at Parramatta Town Hall tomorrow night the public can question members of the commission, which is an independent panel of climate scientists and policy and business leaders.
The chief commissioner, Tim Flannery, said NSW was highly vulnerable to climate change.
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