Welcome to the Lavoisier Group Website
You will find here a wide range of papers and the search engine will enable you to look up anything of particular interest.
The topics covered include greenhouse gas theory; solar and planetary influences on the earth's climate; predictions of future climate; the history of climate change; the economics of energy and technology; energy security; the role of the IPCC in promoting global warming hysteria; the response of Australia's governments to the decarbonisation campaigns of the Environmentalist movement and the media.
News
New Publication: Back to the Nineteenth Century
to be launched by Senator Barnaby Joyce on 4 November
In the lead-up to the crucial Senate vote in November, The Lavoisier Group is pleased to announce the publication of its latest contribution, Back to the Nineteenth Century with essays by Ray Evans, Tom Quirk and Alan Moran, together with a foreword by Peter Walsh and an afterword by Ian Callinan. We are delighted to further announce that Senator Barnaby Joyce, Leader of the National Party in the Senate, will officially launch the publication in Melbourne on 4 November.
Further details of the launch are available here. If you would like to attend the launch, please send your details to the Secretary, here. Please note that attendance will be restricted to the first 150 registrants.
Hard copy of Back to the Nineteenth Century available on request;
online version also available
 Back to the Nineteenth Century, comprises three essays by Ray Evans (on the social and economic consequences of the CPRS), Tom Quirk (on the shortcomings of the IPCC science) and Alan Moran (on the economic consequences of the Act, especially for energy), together with a foreword by Peter Walsh.
The publication is available in either of two forms: as hard copy or as an online PDF file. To order a hard copy, please send your details to the Secretary here. Please include your name and postal address and the number of copies you would like to receive. The Lavoisier Group would be grateful to receive donations to cover postage and printing costs.
If preferred, the booklet may also be downloaded as a PDF file. To download it, please click here [2.9 Mb PDF].
Latest PostingsLatest posting: 13 October 2009
Latest additions to the site include our most recent publication, Back to the Nineteenth Century (see above), Des Moore's careful presentation to the Economic Society, outgoing Lavoisier Group President Peter Walsh's report for 2009, David Evans's serve to Penny Wong and her advisers about ocean warming, Sir Arvi Parbo's launching notes for Ian Plimer's Heaven + Earth in Melbourne in May 2009, Ian McClintock's article on why CO2 cannot be the primary cause of global warming, Cliff Ollier on ice shelf break-up and sea levels; Ray Evans's Thank God for Carbon as a PDF file, Ray's remarks at the launch of Thank God for Carbon in Perth in March; Bill Kininmonth's assessment of the weather conditions leading up to and surrounding the recent heatwave and fires in SE Australia; a critique which exposes serious flaws in the handling of scientific issues in the Garnaut Climate Change Review; and Senator Cory Bernardi's launching speech for Thank God for Carbon together with Ray Evans's remarks at the launch.
Lavoisier Conferences/Forums
Our most recent Forum was held in Melbourne in July 2008. Entitled 'The Solar System and Earth's Climate', we are adding presentations from the Forum to our site as they come to hand. Click here for three Forum papers on the life and work of Rhodes Fairbridge. Click here for Ian Wilson's 'Which Came First: The Chicken or the Egg?' [PDF]
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