For those of you who missed out reading it in The Australian, here is the link for the article by Ian Plimer entitled: "Vitriolic climate in academic hothouse".
- Maria Giordano
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
Senator Joyce, Ian Plimer and Senator Boswell
Senator Joyce, Ian Plimer and Senator Boswell at the Brisbane book launch, May 19th.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Some excellent Ian Plimer reviews
Here are some excellent reviews.
1. Simon from the webpage Australian Climate Madness has an excellent reply to a review done on Ian Plimer in The Australian. Click here to read this excellent review.
2. Michael Cook is the editor of Mercatornet: A voice for human dignity. Connor Court Publishing highly recommends this online newsletter. Michael Cook interviewed Ian Plimer - click here to read the interview.
3. Michael Cook has also done an excellent review of Heaven and Earth for Online Opinion. Click here to read this book review.
- Anthony Cappello
1. Simon from the webpage Australian Climate Madness has an excellent reply to a review done on Ian Plimer in The Australian. Click here to read this excellent review.
2. Michael Cook is the editor of Mercatornet: A voice for human dignity. Connor Court Publishing highly recommends this online newsletter. Michael Cook interviewed Ian Plimer - click here to read the interview.
3. Michael Cook has also done an excellent review of Heaven and Earth for Online Opinion. Click here to read this book review.
- Anthony Cappello
The Brisbane Launch of Heaven and Earth
Heaven and Earth – Global Warming The Missing Science by the geologist Professor Ian Plimer was a shock bestseller and reached number one in book sales in Australia and as Brisbane representative of Connor Court Publishing I had the privilege of chairing a lunch time and evening launch of this book in place of its publisher, Anthony Cappello.
Professor Plimer came and spoke brilliantly, taking the audience on a journey through time as he outlined the history of climate change on earth. He was introduced at the lunch time launch by veteran Senator Ron Boswell the man who campaigned against Pauline Hanson and kept her out of the senate. In the evening it was the turn of another well known and outspoken parliamentarian, Senator Barnaby Joyce.
Despite the onset of heavy rain in Brisbane both were well attended at the old time Brisbane Pub the Pineapple Hotel. But it is not surprising because this book has sparked weeks of debate and articles in the pages of our national newspaper The Australian. It has also received praise from one of the nations most widely read columnist, Andrew Bolt.
- Victor Sirl
Professor Plimer came and spoke brilliantly, taking the audience on a journey through time as he outlined the history of climate change on earth. He was introduced at the lunch time launch by veteran Senator Ron Boswell the man who campaigned against Pauline Hanson and kept her out of the senate. In the evening it was the turn of another well known and outspoken parliamentarian, Senator Barnaby Joyce.
Despite the onset of heavy rain in Brisbane both were well attended at the old time Brisbane Pub the Pineapple Hotel. But it is not surprising because this book has sparked weeks of debate and articles in the pages of our national newspaper The Australian. It has also received praise from one of the nations most widely read columnist, Andrew Bolt.
- Victor Sirl
Cardinal Pell on Global Warming
Global Warming Pauses
The tide on climate change is starting to turn. The Australian government is becoming more cautious.
It is rare to read a new book likely to make a huge difference to public opinion. Professor Ian Plimer's 500 page book with 2300 footnotes "Heaven and Earth. Global Warming: The Missing Science" is such a book. 30,000 copies were sold in its first month.
Plimer is not a climate change denier, because history shows the planet is dynamic and the climate is always changing, sometimes drastically.
Ice Ages have come and gone and we don't know why. History has seen glaciers at the equator and at one time Scandinavia was under 5 kilometres of ice. Sea levels have been 130 metres lower than today. Some consolation comes from the fact that ice sheets predominated for only 20 per cent of the earth's history.
Plimer demonstrates that a considerable amount of scientific evidence has been produced to counter the still predominant view that human activity, especially through industry, has polluted the atmosphere with carbon dioxide, which will produce disastrous climate changes including a rise in temperature, a melting of the ice caps and rising sea levels.
Contrary evidence is already changing the debate. Australia, with its tiny economy, is no longer aiming to lead the world. The threat of massive job losses and increasing awareness of new evidence will provoke even greater caution in the future.
Originally we were warned about the "greenhouse effect"; then it was "global warming", followed in turn by "climate change". Now we talk about reducing the "carbon footprint". The light is dawning and 30 per cent of scientists are sceptics or deniers.
Non-scientists should not blindly follow expert opinion and this includes Plimer. To the extent we can, we should examine their evidence. While it is still early days in the debate, Plimer's critics have been heavy with the abuse and short on counter evidence.
We should also look back at history for more accurate information and ignore computer models of the long-term future. Climate models making claims for decades into the future cannot work, because we do not know enough about many factors which influence weather, such as the level of activity of the sun, the earth's orbit and wobbles, the level of cloud cover, volcanoes.
One basic claim of Plimer is that an increase of carbon dioxide does not cause temperature rises, but might follow such rises.
What do we make of these facts? The carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues to rise, but the world's temperature has not risen since 1998.
In Roman times and in the Medieval Warming (900 - 1300 A.D.) temperatures were higher than today by five and six degrees Celsius. No industries then!
In different Ice Ages the earth's atmosphere contained five and ten times the amount of carbon dioxide today.
Evidence shows the wheels are falling from the climate catastrophe bandwagon.
- This article appeared in the Daily Telegraph, May 24, 2009
The tide on climate change is starting to turn. The Australian government is becoming more cautious.
It is rare to read a new book likely to make a huge difference to public opinion. Professor Ian Plimer's 500 page book with 2300 footnotes "Heaven and Earth. Global Warming: The Missing Science" is such a book. 30,000 copies were sold in its first month.
Plimer is not a climate change denier, because history shows the planet is dynamic and the climate is always changing, sometimes drastically.
Ice Ages have come and gone and we don't know why. History has seen glaciers at the equator and at one time Scandinavia was under 5 kilometres of ice. Sea levels have been 130 metres lower than today. Some consolation comes from the fact that ice sheets predominated for only 20 per cent of the earth's history.
Plimer demonstrates that a considerable amount of scientific evidence has been produced to counter the still predominant view that human activity, especially through industry, has polluted the atmosphere with carbon dioxide, which will produce disastrous climate changes including a rise in temperature, a melting of the ice caps and rising sea levels.
Contrary evidence is already changing the debate. Australia, with its tiny economy, is no longer aiming to lead the world. The threat of massive job losses and increasing awareness of new evidence will provoke even greater caution in the future.
Originally we were warned about the "greenhouse effect"; then it was "global warming", followed in turn by "climate change". Now we talk about reducing the "carbon footprint". The light is dawning and 30 per cent of scientists are sceptics or deniers.
Non-scientists should not blindly follow expert opinion and this includes Plimer. To the extent we can, we should examine their evidence. While it is still early days in the debate, Plimer's critics have been heavy with the abuse and short on counter evidence.
We should also look back at history for more accurate information and ignore computer models of the long-term future. Climate models making claims for decades into the future cannot work, because we do not know enough about many factors which influence weather, such as the level of activity of the sun, the earth's orbit and wobbles, the level of cloud cover, volcanoes.
One basic claim of Plimer is that an increase of carbon dioxide does not cause temperature rises, but might follow such rises.
What do we make of these facts? The carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continues to rise, but the world's temperature has not risen since 1998.
In Roman times and in the Medieval Warming (900 - 1300 A.D.) temperatures were higher than today by five and six degrees Celsius. No industries then!
In different Ice Ages the earth's atmosphere contained five and ten times the amount of carbon dioxide today.
Evidence shows the wheels are falling from the climate catastrophe bandwagon.
- This article appeared in the Daily Telegraph, May 24, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
Some Ian Plimer facts
Ian Plimer's Heaven and Earth.
1. Nearly sold 30,000 copies since publication on April 16, 2009.
2. Number 1, HEAVEN AND EARTH (Independent)
Neilsen Bookscan May 2, 2009.
3. Rights sold to the UK and USA
4. Anticipated print-run in the USA- 100,000.
5. The Ballan Post-Office has been flat-out with over 2500 parcels sent out from Ballan in April and May.
6. There have been launches in Melbourne – 350 (full house) Adelaide (parliament house) 100 people (full house), Brisbane 120 people at the lunchtime launch, 180 at the evening launch. Sydney 200 people and a sell-out. Maitland 80 people, Hamilton 80 people. There are launches planned in Perth, at the Sydney Institute and in Ballarat.
- Anthony Cappello
Connor Court Expands its Operation
Due to the continuing success of Connor Court Publishing, Anthony Cappello - publisher of Connor Court - has announced the expansion of the Connor Court team.
Anthony Cappello will continue to publish and chair the editorial team, Brigid Cappello will continue with accounts while Jacki Meyer will look after customer service. Michael Casanova has been appointed as sub-editor, while Ian James will look after some aspects of the design work. Victor Sirl will operate as the Brisbane and North Queensland publicist and sales representative. There is hope that a Western Australian representative will be appointed soon.
Connor Court was publishing one title per month, but beginning in the new financial year will publish two titles per month. Connor Court hopes to list its publishing schedule later this month.
- Maria Giordano
Anthony Cappello will continue to publish and chair the editorial team, Brigid Cappello will continue with accounts while Jacki Meyer will look after customer service. Michael Casanova has been appointed as sub-editor, while Ian James will look after some aspects of the design work. Victor Sirl will operate as the Brisbane and North Queensland publicist and sales representative. There is hope that a Western Australian representative will be appointed soon.
Connor Court was publishing one title per month, but beginning in the new financial year will publish two titles per month. Connor Court hopes to list its publishing schedule later this month.
- Maria Giordano
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