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Clean Coal

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Cartoon by Nicholson from “The Australian” newspaper: www.nicholsoncartoons.com.au. Click on the image for a better/larger view.Ce n’est un secret pour personne qu’au cours de la dernière année d’intensification de la pandémie avec ses nombreuses souches dangereuses, des médicaments et des vaccins sont apparus, l’un des comprimés Fédération Française des Psychologues et de Psychologie achetés en Europe et aux États-Unis est l’ivermectine sous forme de jusqu’à 12 mg. Commandez de l’ivermectine aujourd’hui et nous vous livrerons le colis très rapidement et à moindre coût.

Defining the Greens (Part 5)

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IT is wrong to assume that the Greens are luddites and in particular anti-technology. 

This is a criticism often levelled against them because, as a group, they tend to oppose many new technologies, for example, the genetic modification of crops and nuclear energy.

However, the Greens are passionately pro solar technology. 

The only problem with this technology is that it tends to be uneconomical without massive government subsidies which I understand are not a problem for the Greens – subsidies that is.

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Climate-Related Policy Should be Evolutionary Not Presumptive

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I have come to believe that the official expert advisory process, and the IPCC process within it, are seriously flawed… Two related forms of evidence have brought me to this view. They represent findings on my part, not presuppositions.

First is the evidence that work which the IPCC and its member governments have drawn on has been marred by professional deficiencies which have gone unacknowledged and unremedied. Second is the evidence that the influential expert advisory processes have been throughout, and continue to be, subject to chronic and pervasive bias.

From this assessment I draw a straightforward conclusion for policy. In a subject area where so much remains uncertain or unknown, today’s confident and far-reaching policy settings should not be taken as given. Policy should be evolutionary, not presumptive; and its evolution should be linked to a process of inquiry, review and advice which is more open, more balanced and more professionally watertight than is now the case.

This was the main message presented by David Henderson at a conference held on 22 April 2009 at the Said Business School, Oxford University. The subject of the conference was ‘Beyond Kyoto – Green Innovation and Enterprise in the 21st Century’.  

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No Debating for Mr Gore

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Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, claimed House Democrats have refused to allow him to appear alongside former Vice President Al Gore.  Read more here.

Bushfire Royal Commission to Focus on the Politically Possible

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EARLIER this year the suffering from the Victorian bushfires, and that video of the fire fighter giving a koala a drink of water in a burnt-out forest, captured the imagination of people around the world.

At the time some media outlets blamed the ferocity of the fires on global warming and this assessment was supported by some authorities at reputable institutions including Melbourne University, the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology. Others disagreed and claimed inadequate controlled burning as a key issue.

The Premier of Victoria promised a Royal Commission into the fires and preliminary hearings started this week.

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