Due to the success of Connor Court Publishing in the past few years, the number of submissions from people wanting to have their manuscript published by Connor Court has escalated. According to Connor Court's publisher, Anthony Cappello: "we want to encourage people to submit their manuscript, but we are overwhelmed by the number of submissions." In order to streamline the operation and to make sure people submitting manuscripts do get a proper look in, some guidelines have now been posted on the webpage. According to Anthony Cappello "if we think there is a market, we will give it a go, and we are game enough to publish first-time authors" but he also added "we can't publish everything, and we don't have the time nor the resources. But also we want to maintain a standard".
The guidelines are found on the Connor Court website or by clicking here.
- Maria Giordano
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Dinner with Ian Plimer and Mark Lawson
Dinner in Melbourne with Ian Plimer and Mark Lawson
$70.00
DINNER WITH IAN PLIMER AND MARK LAWSON on
CLIMATE CHANGE LUNACY
Ian Plimer, author of Heaven and Earth.
Mark Lawson, writer for the Australian Financial Review and author of Climate Change Lunacy.
At the Portland Hotel, 127 Russell St, Melbourne.
$70 includes a two course dinner and drinks!
16th August at 6.30pm
Numbers are limited, so book early.
Click here to book online
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Climate Change Lunacy is Coming
A GUIDE TO CLIMATE WARMING LUNACY – BAD FORECASTING, TERRIBLE SOLUTIONS
As the major political parties shape up for an historic election, a new book to be published by Connor Court shows that the greenhouse policy initiatives to be debated in election are a waste of money, whether the science is right or not.
The book by Mark Lawson, a senior journalist on the Australian Financial Review and former science writer, takes a layperson’s tour through the science. But it also looks at the economic costs and benefits of cutting emissions, as well as the proposals for carbon trading schemes, international efforts to limit emissions and alternative energy projects.
The book’s conclusion from this tour is that efforts to cut emissions are a waste of time and money. The economic case for cutting emissions relies on morals, not on economics, and the major proposed means of cutting emissions, carbon trading and wind energy, have never been shown to be effective. To top it all off, an enforceable international agreement with strict limits on emissions is nothing more than a green fantasy. If any of the dire temperature projections issued by the IPCC are to be taken seriously then mitigation – preparing for rising seas and higher temperatures – is the only solution. For their own reasons the government and the green movement has never shown any interest in that approach.
But can we rely on the temperature projections? As the book also shows, despite many public statements by distinguished scientists, those much vaunted projections are a commercial forecasting exercise, not a scientific one at all. As a starting point the projections of the amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere involves economics just as much as science, and there is evidence that those projections have been badly mishandled.
The main result of the global warming debate is to divert attention from the real climate issues, such as problems with land use and over fishing.
Book Release date: July 26th
As the major political parties shape up for an historic election, a new book to be published by Connor Court shows that the greenhouse policy initiatives to be debated in election are a waste of money, whether the science is right or not.
The book by Mark Lawson, a senior journalist on the Australian Financial Review and former science writer, takes a layperson’s tour through the science. But it also looks at the economic costs and benefits of cutting emissions, as well as the proposals for carbon trading schemes, international efforts to limit emissions and alternative energy projects.
The book’s conclusion from this tour is that efforts to cut emissions are a waste of time and money. The economic case for cutting emissions relies on morals, not on economics, and the major proposed means of cutting emissions, carbon trading and wind energy, have never been shown to be effective. To top it all off, an enforceable international agreement with strict limits on emissions is nothing more than a green fantasy. If any of the dire temperature projections issued by the IPCC are to be taken seriously then mitigation – preparing for rising seas and higher temperatures – is the only solution. For their own reasons the government and the green movement has never shown any interest in that approach.
But can we rely on the temperature projections? As the book also shows, despite many public statements by distinguished scientists, those much vaunted projections are a commercial forecasting exercise, not a scientific one at all. As a starting point the projections of the amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere involves economics just as much as science, and there is evidence that those projections have been badly mishandled.
The main result of the global warming debate is to divert attention from the real climate issues, such as problems with land use and over fishing.
Book Release date: July 26th
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