You may have observed that, following the publication of my letter on 28 February by The Australian (see below), a Chris Roylance had a letter published the next day suggesting that I had mistakenly relied on “rogue” scientists when disputing the IPCC’s dangerous warming threat. These 16 scientists, who include Australian Bill Kininmonth and other highly qualified experts, have recently published analyses that cast serious doubt on the data and analyses used by the IPCC (and of course accepted by many governments including our own).
In support of his view that the G16 are “rogues”, Roylance referred to the reduction in snow on Mt Everest identified by Aba Sherpa, a Nepali mountaineer (see Roylance letter below). An examination of the internet reveals that, according to BBC News, Sherpa lives in the US and is “very concerned about the degradation he has seen on Himalayan peaks because of global warming and other issues”. On 27 February Sherpa received a certificate from Guinness World Records in recognition of his record 21-time ascent of Everest.
Today The Australian has published a letter by a Grant Gascoigne (unkown to me) supporting my call for an independent review. Doubtless this does not indicate any change in The Australian’s acceptance of “the science”. But slight progress perhaps. It might even publish the latest analysis by the G16, which was published online in the Wall St Journal and which I have circulated.
Des Moore
Climate audit needed
letter by Grant Gascoigne published in The Australian, 29 February 2012
How ironic that Des Moore (Letters 28/2) calls for an “independent review of the science” on climate change on the same day that evidence showing the devastation it is causing in the Himalayas is reported (“ Everest holds more peril as snows vanish”, 28/2).
If he doesn’t understand the overwhelming consensus among climate scientists by now (based on incontrovertible empirical evidence rather than the unsubstantiated opinions of 16 rogue scientists) what would a review confirming the same achieve?
Perhaps it is time for Mr Moore to look to the real world for what is undoubtedly happening.
Chris Roylance, Paddington, Qld
Melting moments
letter by Chris Roylance published in The Australian, 28 February 2012
How ironic that Des Moore (Letters 28/2) calls for an “independent review of the science” on climate change on the same day that evidence showing the devastation it is causing in the Himalayas is reported (“ Everest holds more peril as snows vanish”, 28/2).
If he doesn’t understand the overwhelming consensus among climate scientists by now (based on incontrovertible empirical evidence rather than the unsubstantiated opinions of 16 rogue scientists) what would a review confirming the same achieve?
Perhaps it is time for Mr Moore to look to the real world for what is undoubtedly happening.
Chris Roylance, Paddington, Qld
Reactions to the confirmation of Gillard as PM have included suggestions that some policies might now be modified. So far these suggestions have fallen on deaf ears. In the case of climate change (see my letter below) Gillard has ruled out changes to the carbon tax despite its obvious adverse effects on international competitiveness, which is also being adversely affected by Fair Work Australia. A strategy of more strongly affirming existing policies, as indicated by Gillard, seems unlikely to succeed politically, particularly given the many problems inherent in those policies.
Des Moore
Opportunity on climate
letter by Des Moore published in The Australian, 28 February 2012
The resolution of Canberra leadership crisis provides an opportunity for the Prime Minister to modify policies that have caused problems within the Labor Party and the community.
Most obviously, Australia should cease to play the leadership game on climate change.
The need to wait for major emitters to reach an agreed international program is reinforced by the recent analyses published by 16 highly qualified scientists revealing basic faults in the analyses used in reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
This group of 16 show that projections of temperatures based on IPCC models miss what actually happened by a long way. [They also point out that many times in the past there have been warmer decades than the most recent one. These and other important corrections mean that urgent action to reduce emissions is not required.]
These scientists have established that an independent review is needed of the science. The Gillard government in Canberra should make that number one priority.
Des Moore,
South Yarra, Vic