Censorship of scientists cripples Australian climate debate

Radical strategy to save Planet: Put Labor Last

Pro-war Gillard commits to more Afghan war on post-coup day 1 even though the US wants out

The post-Coup Gillard Labor Government claimed that Rudd Labor “had lost its way” but already by Day 1 a pro-war Julia Gillard “has lost her way” big time by committing continued Australian support for the Afghan War when the Obama Administration itself is stating that it wants to start withdrawal in July 2011.

Gas can be dirtier than coal but Government & NGOs falsely assert that gas is clean energy

The Australian Labor Government is utterly incorrect in its repeated assertion that “natural gas is clean energy”.  However this untruth remains formally uncorrected and is now spreading through society, through media and even into the environment movement as outlined below. [1].

The truth is otherwise – natural gas is dirty energy and on combustion is twice as carbon dioxide (CO2) polluting  as brown coal on a weight basis. Further, in Victoria  the carbon pollution currently ranges from 1.2-1.5 tonnes C/MWh for major brown coal  plants and 0.6-0.9 tonnes C/MWh for major gas-fired plants – gas may be “clean-er” on this basis but is certainly not “clean”. [2].  

And then they came for me – why anti-racist Australians must Vote #1 Green and Put Labor Last

Book Review: ‘Australian Sustainable Energy – by the numbers’, by Peter Seligman

Professor Peter Seligman is not alone in estimating that Australia can rapidly and relatively cheaply ($253 billion) achieve 100% sustainable energy.

Correcting the Australian Government – natural gas is NOT “clean energy”

On a weight basis, liquid natural gas is twice as dirty as brown coal, high school chemistry tells us.

The  Australian Labor Government has repeatedly declared that it is instituting an “education revolution”. However a key element of the teaching and learning process called “education” is correct information. I must note my credentials here: this is my 5th decade of teaching science students at a leading Australian university and, unlike most of my Australian academic colleagues, I have a postgraduate qualification in teaching in Higher Education,  in addition to my first degree and PhD.

Top Climate Scientists Opt for Carbon Taxes & Slam ETS

We live in an increasingly dangerous world with the greatest threat coming from man-made global warming. Our societal response to threats such as anthropogenic global warming (AGW) must involve rational risk management. This successively involves (a) getting accurate data, (b) scientific analysis (the critical testing of potentially falsifiable hypotheses) and (c) sensible, informed systemic change to minimise the perceived risk.

Unfortunately human nature inevitably perverts rational risk management with (a) censorship, self-censorship, intimidation and dishonesty, (b) anti-science spin involving the selective use of asserted facts to support a partisan position) and (c) blame and shame politics with minimal systemic change and often discouragement of vitally required reportage (“shooting the messenger”).

Why older people should care about climate change action

It is in older peoples’ best interests to insist on a target of 100% renewable energy by 2020. Here are three major ways inaction on climate change will adversely affect us if we don’t.

Older people are aware of the worsening problem of man-made global warming, otherwise known as anthropogenic global warming (AGW) due to greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. However due to deficiencies in public ethics, societal risk management and public reportage from academics, politicians and journalists, most older people are probably unaware of the acute seriousness of the worsening climate emergency.