Ian Plimer [ pictured ] is Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences at The University of Melbourne and Professor of Mining Geology at The University of Adelaide.
Professor Plimer is about to launch his new book
“Emissions Trading – Why Bother?“.
Professor Plimer will be speaking at the launch of the book at the Sydney Mining Club on the 6th of November if any of you are about and would like to attend.
With the Rudd Government due to launch an emissions trading regime in just 14 months time, Professor Ian Plimer will present an array of arguments that contradict the Global Warming science put forward by the IPCC, Professor James Hansen and his global spokesman Al Gore.
Some of those arguments are:
- Planet Earth has form in producing Greenhouse gases – major form – particularly from volcanic eruptions.
- The quantity of solar radiation the Sun gushes at Earth each year also varies dramatically as flares and gravitational orbit wobbles change the amount of heat we intersect.
- There are also concerns that the way we measure temperature is skewed in favour of a warming Earth.
- Against the backdrop of geological time – and our inability to distinguish any anthropogenic affects -
- Not only has the Earth endowed us with great resource wealth but also with detailed tracers of the past. The rate and amount of modern climate change is well within past variability.
- The current rate of sea level rise is low, changing sea levels is normal, sea levels can over geological time change by up to 600 metres.
- The atmospheric CO2 content at present is the lowest for millions of years. CO2 levels have been up to 25 times higher than at present yet, during the history of the planet, CO2 has not created acid oceans.
- Natural processes capture and store CO2. Planet Earth is a warm, wet greenhouse planet that has had ice for only 20% of geological time.
- Extinction of life on Earth is normal and life is most commonly stressed by cold climates.
- Temperature is buffered by the water cycle.
- Supernova eruptions, the Sun, the Earth’s orbit, tectonics and the water cycle are the primary drivers of climate.
- In the past, CO2 changes have followed temperature changes.
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Against the backdrop of these scientific arguments Plimer poses the very sensible question, and one that Agmates has been asking: “Kevin Rudds $5 Billion Mug Punt”
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“Why punt severe impact to Australia’s economy, and most notably the well-being of its buoyant primary producers, by volunteering the nation as a pioneer in the emissions trading concept.”
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The hypothesis that humans change climate is not in accord with history, archaeology, geology, chemistry, physics and astronomy, and is rejected.
Conserving energy might be a jolly good idea he says, but until there is a workable energy policy in Australia, then fundamental errors of policy can only decrease the standard of living and quality of life.
All this and a lot more science to ask in capital letters - “Why bother with Emissions Trading?”
The downside Plimer says is great.
- What is our risk in bankrupting primary industries?
- Will we export the remains of our manufacturing industry offshore?
- How will the increased fuel, food and other costs hit consumers?
- Is it an act of Russian roulette that only the wealthy Australians want to play?
- And lurking beneath the bureaucracy and regulation is there a future of emissions trading scams?
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Can’t wait to read the book. If anyone makes it to the launch please let us know how it goes. Would love to get a hold of the a copy before the launch.
(thanks to Agmates reader Grant)
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