Two weeks ago a deliberative poll held in Canberra persuaded a significant number of participants to soften their attitudes towards muslims – 14 percent, according to Mike Steketee in The Australian. Jennifer Marohasy draws attention to a slightly different deliberation in New York. Two teams debated the topic “Global Warming is not a crisis” and […]

Imagine the outcry if BHP published the executive summary of its results, but kept the accounts under wraps for another couple of months. ASIC and the stock exchange would both issue notices, financial journalists would release thunderbolts from their op-ed columns and the shares would take a tumble, that’s if they weren’t suspended. Well, that’s […]

Nicholas Stern has produced a report Interesting to see the paranoid left fawning over a former head economist of the World Bank. The report attempts to take an economic view of the global warming theory and comes to the conclusion that we need to radically change our ways to avert disaster. I haven’t read the […]

The Greenhouse debate seems to have swung firmly in the favour of the global warming alarmists, even as the science, and the IPCC reports, are tending in the other direction, and as happens when the public relations hacks really get their teeth into something, truth is replaced by half-truth and then plain hyperbole. The master […]

I’ve just seen Al Gore’s movie, “An Inconvenient Truth” and it has all the weight of a CIA dossier on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2003. He must be the only one in the world to think that Tuvalu and Kirribati have sunk into the Pacific Ocean! The whole reeked of either another […]

A friend on the East Coast of the USA complains that An Inconvenient Truth is not playing at any of the local cinemas. That’s about 150 films per day within a 30 km radius of her house. After seeing the SBS program about the Bush admin’s suppression of information about the reality of global warming, […]

In his 2004 Massey Lecture (rebroadcast on Australian radio this summer by the ABC) historian Ronald Wright argues that because we can understand what went wrong in past civilisations we can learn their lessons and not repeat them in the present. In the excerpt I heard he was particularly glowing of the work done on […]

AP6 which just held its meeting in Sydney, is little more than a public relations exercise. Just like Kyoto. The solutions to earth’s problems are intractable. At the moment we are concentrating on moderating energy requirements by trying to limit carbon dioxide emissions per person. This is fraught, because it ultimately will require decreases in […]

I’ve corresponded with Eric Wilson, the marine lawyer referred to in my previous post, and he is happy for me to post the contents of his email to me. It raises its own issues about how the media is dealing with this issue, and by extension, media conduct in general. We refer to what we […]

An article in the New Zealand Herald was brought to my attention by a Greenpeace supporter who claimed: The evidence does not show that Greenpeace is to blame in fact when the evidence was reviewed by a marine law expert from Monash University he said the whalers were to blame. Here’s the article about it: […]