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Answers for Simon Birmingham, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray-Darling Basin
April 19, 2012
Information Letters News

Answers for Simon Birmingham, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray-Darling Basin

LATE last year several of my friends sent off postcards as part of the Australian Environment Foundation’s Rivers Need Estuaries Campaign. You can still send a postcard and sign the petition here: http://listentous.org.au/ There is a choice of message, for example: Dear Senator, Maintaining artificial freshwater lakes using 7.6 kilometres of concrete barrages has: 1. […]

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Academics and Freedom of Speech
September 4, 2009
Letters

Academics and Freedom of Speech

EVERY so often I receive emails suggesting I am morally reprehensible.  Interesting, like the following email, they often follow a function at an Australian university.   Hi there, I attended a very interesting lecture today around Climate change denialism with guest speakers Dr Andrew Glikson of the Planetry Science Institute and Professor Clive Hamilton of the […]

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In Defence of ‘Heaven and Earth’ (Part 2)
June 19, 2009
Letters

In Defence of ‘Heaven and Earth’ (Part 2)

DON Aitkin, a former member of the Australian Science and Technology Council and Foundation Chairman of the Australian Research Council, wrote to Kurt Lambeck, President of the Australian Academy of Sciences, concerning his public criticism of Ian Plimer’s new book Heaven and Earth.  Professor Aitkin waited ten days for a response, and, in its absence, has […]

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Postmodern Physics
May 23, 2009
Letters Opinion

Postmodern Physics

PHYSICS is the science dealing with natural laws and processes and the states and properties of matter and energy including of course the radiative transfer within the atmosphere that underpins the theory of anthropogenic global warming.  There is criticism amongst some physics teachers both in the UK and Australia that the physics curriculum has become corrupted […]

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Warming of North America & People?
December 17, 2008
Letters

Warming of North America & People?

Hello, Even though I reside in upstate New York, I follow (and appreciate) your website and emails, and I was wondering if the community has looked at the final report(s) that are currently being unveiled by NOAA's Climate Change Science Program?  I am particularly interested in opinions on one of the most recent that attributes a significant […]

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Sydney Morning Herald Open to Letters from Skeptics
November 15, 2008
Community Letters

Sydney Morning Herald Open to Letters from Skeptics

Some time ago Art Raiche suggested to me that, “In all honesty, I suspect that it would be easier to hold readings of Dawkin’s “The God Delusion” in Mecca than to get the Sydney Morning Herald to print letters critical of AGW.  At least the response would be more direct.” Today, the Sydney Morning Herald […]

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Bill Kininmonth Requests Explanation of the Greenhouse Effect
September 8, 2008
Letters

Bill Kininmonth Requests Explanation of the Greenhouse Effect

Bill Kininmonth knows a lot about climate science, he is a meteorologist and he was the head of Australia’s National Climate Centre from 1986 to 1998.   He is also a well known global warming skeptic and is particularly critical of the idea that the principles for sustaining the greenhouse effect are well understood.   While this […]

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