Stephen Saunders from The Canberra Times wrote an extensive Panorama review of the book last weekend - see below for details.
Monthly Archive for August, 2009
Heading down to Hobart for a book launch and seminar at CSIRO Marine Lab’s - it’ll be nice to head back since that is where I spent four years in the late 1990’s doing my PhD. For those wanting to come along it’ll start at 6:30pm in the auditorium of the CSIRO Marine Laboratory on Castray Esplanade.
Nice to hear the Premier of NSW, Nathan Rees talk openly about the book yesterday, although I would disagree with his assertion that NSW (and Australia for that matter) is ready, simply because of the squabbling and delay in Canberra from all sides of politics relating to the CPRS legislation. Without a meaningful carbon price BEFORE our competitors, we wont get a head start in attracting the opportunities in the Clean Industrial Revolution.
Latest op-ed on the very real prospect of global carbon tariffs in The Courier Mail today and how Australia’s carbon obesity leaves us with some big future trade exposure - particularly in the wine and car industry. This will happen (global carbon prices, taxes or tariffs) whether you believe the science or not.
I’m still absolutely stunned at the attention climate denialism is getting in the senate and the media. ABC’s lateline recently ran a whole story on Jay Lehr, an old conservative non-climate scientist idealogue trying to drum up support for the flat-earthers in Australia. On Wednesday, when in parliament house, I walked past a presentation where Senator Fielding and other coalition senators and MP’s brought in Professor Bob Carter to demonstrate how every national science academy in the world, the hundreds of climate scientists contributing to the IPCC are all wrong and conspiring to lie to the world! Talk about picking what you want to hear. Then last night on Q&A Tony Jones continually brings up the ‘debate’ in the climate science. Here is a declaration organised by our centre from REAL climate scientists, not the random two or three geologists.
Senators Fielding, Joyce, Minchin et al seem to by buying into the misinformation being told from the likes of Andrew Bolt et al. Just as I have asked whether Andrew Bolt wears sunscreen, I want to explicitly ask Senators Joyce, Fielding and Minchin if they too wear sunscreen?
Senator Fielding, if you really want to understand the climate record since 1998 and how it is exactly what is expected under long-term greenhouse forcing, I have a more detailed discussion at Graham Readfearn’s blog here.
If the Senators want to understand the long term importance of greenhouse gases as opposed to cherry-picking from geologists and non-climate-scientists, please do the calculation I make my 2nd year undergraduate students do here.