Harry Clarke

The Pew Climate Centre have shown that over the last year or so a decreased proportion of US citizens believe climate change is a serious public policy issue and a reduced number believe there is solid evidence that anthropogenic warming is occurring.   Climate change delusionists might be credited with inducing these changed opinions but the [...]

While many have devoted time and effort trying to predict what will come out of the Copenhagen meetings I have largely elected to wait-and-see.  Even that is difficult – this article from Bridges I found useful. It is the first in a series and I will update.

Rudd lets the Coalition have it and he is correct. An excellent speech – to the point and accurate – with sound economics – I have a strong intuition about who wrote it.  
It is 20 days until the Senate vote on the CPRS and 31 days to the meetings in Copenhagen.  The deceptions coming from the Liberal and [...]

I have become fascinated by the topic of climate change ‘denialism’ or, to use John Quiggin’s term, ‘delusionism’.  It is an intrinsically interesting development and has deeply troubling implications.  The climate change issue is probably the first time in history that people get to vote on a scientific issue where the science is well-understood and [...]

The Freakonomics boys (Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner) have more nonsense coming out in a new book Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance.  Silly material supporting global cooling, deriding climate change policy, criticising solar energy (some startling bloopers here!)  and some nutty observations on aerosol-based geoengineering – a critique is at Climate Progress which reprints much of Chapter 5 [...]

I debated Des Moore on the issue of Global Warming and Uncertainty: Sensible Policy Responses  at the Victorian Branch of the Economic Society of Australia last Friday.  The powerpoints for my presentation are here.  It was an animated discussed with Des rejecting mainstream climate science and me endorsing it.  Apart from this I also tried to [...]

I got angry about some particular climate delusionist claims that continued to be advanced in the face of persistent rebuttals.  The deceit continued without reference to the  literature that sought to demolish the claims. Criticisms can be rejected with reason but criticisms that go to heart of scientific claims cannot simply be ignored. I prepared this short [...]

Quadrant has outdone itself this time with a forum of views encouraging the Senate over the next week to reject the proposed ETS. It is in the main – not entirely – the same old denialist nonsense – the science is wrong, all due to the sun, the earth is cooling, the earth hasn’t heated [...]

I have read Ian Plimer’s, Heaven and Earth and cannot recommend it on any basis. It is a rant – not a piece of scientific writing.   According to Plimer almost all climate science is wrong and compiled by greenie environmentalists at the IPCC seeking research funds.  The media according to Plimer have collaborated in this conspiracy. [...]

I have just read James Lovelock’s The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning.  It surprised me that Lovelock is so hopelessly pessimistic about the abilities of climate science to forecast climate but still remains a strong proponent of the view that AGW will profoundly alter the way the human race can survive on this [...]

Professor Ian Plimer does indeed have an impressive looking CV in his area of geology and mineralogy.  But looking through it, current to 2007, I could not see a single published article on climate change.  Of course he has a brain – apparently a good one – and the ability to think about areas of his specific [...]