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How to Get Your Child Expelled from School

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Ian Plimer not only finished school, he went on to University, graduated and then worked his way up to the esteemed rank of Professor.

He has been Professor and Head of Geology at the University of Newcastle, is Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne, and currently lectures at the University of Adelaide.   He has already published more than 120 scientific papers on geology and seven books on a range of science related subjects including ‘Telling lies for God’ (Random House) and his best-selling ‘Heaven and Earth’ (Connor Court).   So why such a provocatively entitled eighth book ‘How to Get Expelled from School”.  Because it’s a guide to climate change for pupils, parents and punters’!

Getting expelled from school is not something anyone would wish on their child…  So I’m suggesting you only buy the book if your children have already finished school.

It’s available here:  www.connorcourt.com .

Insightful Ramblings on “The Greenhouse Effect” from Vincent Gray

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I can’t agree with Vincent Gray that the only true climate science is meteorology, but I can agree that meteorology as a climate science is in its infancy.   There is much we don’t understand about convection, evaporation and precipitation.   And interesting, as Gray explains in the following essay, they are all limited in a Greenhouse…

“THE only true climate science is meteorology. It has been built up for some 200 years from a network of local and international observations of every property which can be measured and can influence both local and more general climate behaviour.

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Carbon Tax Legislation: Viv Forbes’ Submission

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THE nineteen bills on “Australia’s Clean Energy Future Legislation” are listed here:

http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jscacefl/bills.htm

Written submissions can be emailed to the Joint Select Committee at:

jscacefl@aph.gov.au

The government’s advice on preparing submissions is here:

http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/documnts/howsub.htm

You have just a few days to do something… submissions close on September 22.  Why the rush?

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Nobel Prizing-Winning Physicist Also Denies AGW

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Yet another much acclaimed and high profile physicist has declared his disgust with all the global warming hype especially as promoted by the American Physical Society (ASP).

Ivan Giaever won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973.   Earlier this year he did not renew his APS membership.  When asked why, he replied by email that he did not agree with the APS’s promotion of global warming as settled science.

He also made comment that for the APS it is OK to discuss whether the mass of a proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence for global warming is incontrovertible.

Source: Climate Depot  http://www.climatedepot.com/a/12797/Exclusive-Nobel-PrizeWinning-Physicist-Who-Endorsed-Obama-Dissents-Resigns-from-American-Physical-Society-Over-Groups-Promotion-of-ManMade-Global-Warming

No Water for Murray River Irrigators: A Note from Debbie Buller

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This year we have record inflows to dams and rivers, a deep snow pack and all environmental assets are totally sodden.  It is inconceivable that farmers on the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers have insufficient access to their irrigation water entitlements. Yet, on the Murray River, allocations are at 15 percent and on the Murrumbidgee, where I farm, they are currently at 57 percent.

On our farm, near Leeton in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, we grow many different cereal crops such as wheat, corn, oats, barley, canola and rice. We also graze sheep. 

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The Other Climate Theory

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IN an address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1900, Lord William Thomson Kelvin said, “There is nothing new to discover in physics now.  All that remains is more and more precise measurements.”

Then along came Albert Einstein.

More recently and closer to home, economist John Quiggin, has claimed, “There is no longer any serious debate among climate scientists about either the reality of global warming or about the fact that it is substantially caused by human activity.”

Then along came Jasper Kirkby.

The research effort lead by Kirkby at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, indicates that galactic cosmic rays can very significantly enhance cloud formation – by up to a factor of ten.

According to global warming theory, cloud formation is in essence a response to temperature change, with temperature change over the last 100 years apparently driven by human activity.

The research effort at CERN could prove global warming theory, and in particular the dependent General Circulation Models, somewhat deficient.  Indeed it is increasingly possible that the small amount of global warming over the last 100 years has all been due to extra-terrestrial galactic activity… or something else entirely.

Read more at ‘The Other Climate Theory:  Al Gore won’t hear it, but heavenly bodies might be driving long-term weather trends.’ By Anne Jolis at The Wall Street Journal Online

Http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904537404576554750502443800.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

And the recent findings by Jasper Kirkby are published as a letter to Nature on August 25, 2011, ‘Role of sulphuric acid, ammonia and galactic cosmic rays in atmospheric aerosol nucleation.’