Jennifer Marohasy

Greetings Everyone,

Below is the details and terms of reference for a Senate inquiry into Bushfires in Australia. This should compliment the gaps that will likely be left in the Royal Commission for the chronic state of the environment due to political nest feathering for green preferances. This green lunicy of using the environment as a political football has now killed people and destroyed large tracts of our environment.

I would urge people to put in a submission, as so far the Federal bushfire enquiry after 2003 was the best.

Regards Ralph Barraclough

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The book entitled ‘Heaven And Earth’ by one of Australia’s foremost Earth scientists and outspoken climate change sceptic, Professor Ian Plimer, is “brilliantly argued”.  At least that’s according to Paul Sheehan writing in the Sydney Morning Herald.   Find out for yourself by attending one of the book launches and getting yourself a copy:

The ADELAIDE book-launch at Parliament House, Adelaide is SOLD OUT!

However, you can come to a ‘Second Launch’

Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 5.30pm

Pagoda Chinese Restaurant

189 Glen Osmond Road, Frewville SA 5063

Supper provided, drinks at bar prices

email – Damian Wyld – thomasmore@chariot.net.au

 IN MELBOURNE – the book launch is SOLD OUT!

However, you can still meet Ian Plimer and have your copy signed
beforehand

6th May, 2009 between 04:30pm – 5:30pm

Location: The Hotel Windsor, 111 Spring Street, Melbourne

UPDATE  MELBOURNE

I was hoping you could make a slight amendment to details about Ian Plimer’s Melbourne book launch on your blog.  Due to demand, we’ve now booked a larger room and we’re able to accommodate more people.

The details are as follows:Date:                            Wednesday 6th May, 2009

Time:                           5:30pm – 6:30pm
Location:                     The Hotel Windsor, 111 Spring Street, Melbourne

RSVP essential:           Bree Ambatzis, 03 9600 4744 or bambatzis@ipa.org.au

IN SYDNEY

Meet Ian Plimer at a book signing -

May12 between 3.30pm  and 4.30pm

Abbey’s Bookshops

131 York Street Sydney

NSW 2000 Australia

IN WAGGA WAGGA

Meet Ian Plimer at a book signing

April 24th, at 11am

Angus and Robertson,

Shop 6, Marketplace,

Wagga Wagga

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UPON returning from an eighteen day cruise Sydney to Perth via the top end people have been asking me what was the highlight.  Well there were many highlights but one very memorable event.  My daughter Jennifer had asked me to send her a card from Broome and while buying one in ‘The Camel Shop’ we decided that the camel ride on Cable Beach at sunset would be ‘something to remember’. It turned out to be ‘something never to forget’.

The tour operator dropped us off at 5 pm with the promise that he would return for a pickup at 7.30 sharp. The ship was scheduled to depart at 8 pm.  “No worries”, we were assured.  “It is a ten minute walk across the sand from the carpark so give yourselves plenty of time”.  Booked for the 6-7 pm ride we were there with plenty to spare, paid for the obligatory photographs, and chatted amiably with the lady from the Broome Camel Shop with whom we had booked. Friends from the ship, replete with our own camera, promised to catch the moment.

Listening avidly to the advice ‘hold tight and lean back’ given those mounting one line of camels we stood patiently as our line returned from the half-hour 5 pm trip to dismount. Time seemed to be getting away but the proprietors assured us we would be back in plenty of time.  So as you do, when you have no choice, you submit to the occasion.  I followed the advice of my son Jim -  ‘Enjoy the moment’.

As mounting began from the back of the line and we were in the lead it was well after six o’clock before we followed the instruction ‘put your left hand on the front of the saddle and with your right hand on the back lift your leg up and over the pommel. I had no idea that the girth of a camel is so wide that it demands a rider to perform the splits and I was still wondering if indeed I could cope when the instruction to ‘hold tight and lean back’ came before I was prepared. No one adjusted my stirrups and with my dangling legs desperately trying to gain leverage for my feet,  I tried to raise my body together with the help of my left hand on the pommel and my right on the back of the saddle, to mitigate the ‘splits’, when a rather gung ho young man of about fourteen quite nonchalantly tossed the lead rope over his arm and we set off.

As the first ‘string’ was a few yards in front, following the water’s edge, we set out to catch up and in fact overtook, riding parallel but higher up on the beach.  At this time a photographer was running beside us taking individual shots while admonishing the young man to slow down ‘It isn’t a race.’

The camel following behind me now decided to come abreast. I chatted to it in my most friendly voice upon which he leant his head into my lap. I scratched it behind the ears but when they lay flat, which normally indicates an animal is cross, I decided to stop.  “Remember they bite and spit” was the advice from my daughter Caroline earlier in reply to my text that I was booked to ride a camel.  Now completely out of my comfort zone I decided reducing the ‘splits’ demanded my whole attention.

It was now nearly 6.45 and being within earshot of the young man I suggested maybe it was time to turn around.  He ignored me but to my relief the photographer took control, gave marching orders to the young man telling him this was the last time he would lead a group. The pace slowed which made riding easier.  We turned for home and fell in behind the other line. I estimated we would be back by 7.15 with every chance of making the deadline.

As we looked into the sunset and the camels formed this famous line at the water’s edge my camel made definite leanings to the left. This meant I had to lean purposely to the right to maintain my balance.  Looking back the gentleman with the lead rope opined that “Sarah doesn’t like getting her feet wet so not to worry.”  “Not to worry”!!  Couldn’t he at least lead the lot back from the edge. Anyway we were facing in the right direction; I was actually on a camel at Cable Beach; there really was a sunset of which I was part; so why not enjoy it.  And I did.

We got back at 7.15 and I counted the minutes as the dismounting began from the back. When it got to me, once again I was completely overtaken by the sudden lurch below but with some help I managed to ease my leg back over the pommel and slip with a thump to the sand.  Aware that John was being helped out of his saddle, and willing my knees to come together, I took off to the tray-back vehicle with the photographs.  It was then I saw John being helped into a 4-wheeldrive which promptly left for the car park.

The first few yards on hard sand were easy but I soon bogged in the heavy dry sand higher up the beach. Remembering that people had been left behind in Darwin an urgency overtook me and I was propelled up the beach, onto the rocks and into the carpark, arriving with minutes to spare.  ‘How did you get back so quickly?” John asked. “I thought you wouldn’t make it and was just preparing to lie down in front of the bus”.

Joan Turnour
Brisbane, Australia

Folks,

Please shake your head with me in wonderment at the continuation of a pernicious technique that was pioneered (I think) by Oxfam last year. Why do we give access to our schools to these people?

 http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Wwf-Canada-970669.html

 http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/14881/

And I suppose that it is just a coincidence that these two ventures should be launched in the same week on opposite sides of the Pacific, with their closing dates timed to ensure press attention in the lead up to Copenhagen.

Meanwhile, you will also doubtless be interested to hear that the summit of Everest is now being affected by global warming, leading to another WWF-led publicity stunt:

 http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200904051451.htm

What does an organisation have to do these days to become banned by the government?

It’s going to be a long six months until Copenhagen.

Cathy

Folks,

Here’s an interesting report from the “pedigree” US Climate Change Science Program (heavily backed by NOAA).

http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap1-3/final-report/

And a news description of it from the good ole’ National Post:

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1453831&p=2

I sort of remembering seeing a brief press release on this in December (when it was issued), but I certainly didn’t understand that it was associated with such bombshells as:

“It’s wrong to blame our warming climate on human pollution alone, says a major analysis by U. S. climate scientists who say North America’s warming and drying trend also has important natural causes.

Natural shifts in ocean currents have caused much of the warming in recent decades, and almost all of the droughts, says the U. S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).”

Cathy

Folks,

The April edition of Quadrant has published a written version of the talk that I gave at the Heartland-2 conference in New York, under the title “A New Policy Direction for Climate Change”. It can be accessed online at:

http://www.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2009/4/a-new-policy-direction-for-climate-change

The same issue also contains an very useful analysis by Tom Quirk of the perils of computer modelling, though I can’t find an electronic copy posted (if anyone finds one, perhaps they could distribute the details).

Lastly, if anyone wants to become depressed then try a browse through some of the 122 and counting submissions to the Australian Senate enquiry into the draft emissions trading legislation, at:

http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/economics_ctte/cprs_09/submissions/sublist.htm

Perhaps it’s just the ones that I’ve picked out to look at, but my God there’s a mountain of self-serving rubbish here. Amongst it, though, there are a few shining lights, including No. 28, from Viv Forbes and the Climate Science Coalition.

Cathy

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LAST year Queensland farmers were informed that the Government had granted Tarong Energy a mineral development licence over the Haystack Road coal deposit on prime agricultural farmland.  The farmers are running a campaign against it.  Here’s the latest update:  

It was pleasing to see the very public commitment on the front page of the Toowoomba Chronicle on Saturday, 7th March, from party leader Lawrence Springborg committing his party, should they win government, to the protection of the iconic farming areas of Haystack Road and Felton, and to the introduction of a planning process to identify and protect other areas of prime farm land in Queensland.  Mr Springborg said, in releasing the policy commitment, that it was not an anti mining policy, and that LNP recognize the need to protect our prime farm land for future generations.  LNP should be congratulated for recognising the importance of this issue. 

A few days earlier, the Queensland Greens had announced that they too would protect areas of prime farm land from unnecessary mining development.  During the following week, a number of notable independent candidates also stated a commitment to this policy. 

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CONNOR Court Publishing is about to release a new book by well known Australian geologist and climate change skeptic, Ian Plimer. 

It is entitled, ‘Heaven and Earth – Global Warming: The Missing Science’ 

According to the pre-release publicity:

THE Earth is an evolving dynamic system. Current changes in climate, sea level and ice are within variability. Atmospheric CO2  is the lowest for 500 million years. Climate has always been driven by the Sun, the Earth’s orbit and plate tectonics and the oceans, atmosphere and life respond. Humans have made their mark on the planet, thrived in warm times and struggled in cool times.

The hypothesis that humans can actually change climate is unsupported by evidence from geology, archaeology, history and astronomy. The hypothesis is rejected.

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