6 June 2008: 'The Chilling Costs of Climate Catastrophism'
by
Ray Evans. First Published in Quadrant,
June 2008. Available as PDF
only. Please click here. [220k].6 June 2008: 'The Chilling Costs of Climate Catastrophism'
by
Ray Evans. First Published in Quadrant,
June 2008. Available as PDF
only. Please click here. [220k].
30 May 2008: 'Letter to The Australian' by Garth
Paltridge. Available
as HTML. Please click here.
9 April 2008: 'A Cool Look at Global Warming' by Don
Aitkin. Available as PDF
only. Please click here. [260k].
March 2008: 'The Mad Rush to Decarbonise: Ross Garnaut's Unmeetable Challenge' by Ray Evans. First Published in Quadrant, March 2008. Available as PDF only. Please click here. [480k].
24 March 2008: 'Letter to The Australian' by Tim Curtin. The unedited version. Available as HTML. Please click here.
9 March 2008: 'Letter to a Colleague' by Walter Cohn. 'The laws of thermodynamics have not changed...' Available as HTML. Please click here.
March 2008: 'Solar Cycle 24: Implications for the United States' by David Archibald. Available as PDF only. Please click here. [680k].
29 February 2008: 'Garnaut, the Greens, and the browning of Australia and the World' by Tim Curtin. Available as PDF only. Please click here. [600k].
31 January 2008: 'Submission to the Garnaut Enquiry' by Peter Walsh, President of The Lavoisier Group. Available as HTML. Please click here.
7 January 2008: 'Submission to the Garnaut Climate Change Review', a submission by the Lavoisier Group. Please click here for the Submission [700k PDF]. Please click the following links for: Appendix A, [1Mb PDF] Appendix B [30k PDF] and Appendix C [170k PDF] to the Submission. [Please note: original Appendix A was the wrong document. The correct document is now in place.]
11 December 2007: 'Stop Climate Change' by Ian Plimer. Available as HTML. Please click here.
10 December 2007: 'Rhodes Fairbridge and the idea that the solar system regulates the Earth's climate' by Richard Mackey. Rhodes Fairbridge was a Western Australian scientist who achieved international fame and who died in Long Island NY on 8 November 2006 at the age of 92. He was a pioneer in the study of planetary influences on solar orbital perturbations and the consequent impact on the Earth's climate. This enthralling paper by Richard Mackey summarises the contribution which Fairbridge made to our understanding of these matters. Reproduced with permission. Available as PDF only. Please click here. [220k].
29 November 2007: 'Carbon Emissions Don't Cause Global Warming' by David Evans. Available as PDF only. Please click here. [230k].
28 November 2007: President's Report to the Lavoisier Group's Annual General Meeting by Peter Walsh. Available as HTML. Please click here.
2 November 2007: 'The Greenland-Antarctica Melting Problem Does Not Exist' by Cliff Ollier. Available as PDF only. Please click here. [170k].
21 October 2007: 'The Australian Temperature Anomaly, 1910 - 2000' by Tom Quirk. Available as PDF only. Please click here. [300k].
October 2007: 'Failure to Warm' by David Archibald. An Occasional Address to The Lavoisier Group AGM. Available as PDF only. Please click here. [550k].
10 October 2007: 'Review of Nils-Axel Mörner's The Greatest Lie Ever Told' by Cliff Ollier. Available as HTML. Please click here.
24 August 2007: 'China Temperature Data Now Tainted', by Douglas Keenan. Allegations of fraud bring into serious doubt an important data set on which the IPCC has relied. For details, please click here.
July 2007: Presentations to The Lavoisier Group's 2007 Workshop: 'Rehabilitating Carbon Dioxide' held in Melbourne on 29-30 June 2007. For a progressively updated listing of papers and presentations, please click here.
1 June 2007: Reflections on the Global Warming Debate by Ray Evans. [A revised version of an address delivered at the ACT Caucus Room, Wellington, NZ on 26 April 2007]. Available as PDF only. Please click here. [340k]
1 June 2007: An Exchange of Letters between two Australian engineers (IEAust National President Rolfe Hartley and E.C. 'George' Fox). Available as PDF only. Please click here. [190k]
4 May 2007: Why I Bet against Global Warming by Dr David Evans. Available as HTML. Please click here.
1 May 2007: Climate Change: A View from the Other Side of the Equator by Will Alexander. (Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil and Biosystems Engineering, University of Pretoria.) Available as PDF only. Please click here [20k].
29 April 2007: How Big Can Global Carbon Markets Get? by Des Moore. A Paper presented at APEC Annual Conference of APEC Centres, 'Driving Growth - APEC's Destiny', Melbourne, 18-20 April 2007. Available as PDF only. Please click here [420k].
29 April 2007: A Dangerous Climate: Human-caused global warming---the need for re-assessment by Professor Bob Carter. Available as PDF only. Please click here [330k].
26 March 2007: Clean coal is all hot air by Dr Alex Robson. (First published in the Courier-Mail on 26 March 2007). Available as HTML. Please click here.
26 March 2007: Remarks at the launch of NINE FACTS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE at Parliament House, Canberra, 28 February 2007 by Dr Dennis Jensen MP. Available as HTML. Please click here.
15 March 2007: Glaciers and Ice-Sheets by Professor Cliff Ollier. Available as HTML. Please click here.
14 March 2007: 'Scary Passion', a review of Tim Flannery's The Weather Makers by Vincent Gray. Available as HTML. Please click here.
4 March 2007: Nine Facts about Climate Change by Ray Evans. [HTML version] In response to a number of requests, we now have an HTML version of the paper on the Website. The paper is still available as a PDF (please click here [1.5Mb]).
28 February 2007:
Comments at Launch of NINE
FACTS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE at Parliament
House, Canberra, 28 February 2007 by Sir Arvi Parbo,
AC. Available as PDF only. Please click here
[130k].
28 February 2007: Remarks at the launch of NINE FACTS ABOUT
CLIMATE CHANGE at Parliament House, Canberra, 28
February 2007 by Ray Evans. Available as PDF only.
Please click here
[120k].
8 February 2007:
The IPCC and AR4 by
Ray Evans. A critical assessment of the shortcomings of
the Policy Makers' Summary to the Fourth Assessment Report. First
published by On line Opinion on 8 February 2007. Available
as PDF only. Please click here [20k].
13 December 2006:
Human-caused Global Warming
by Professor Bob Carter. A submission to a recent US Senate
hearing, replete with figures and extensive hyperlinks. Available
as PDF only. Please click here [1.2Mb]. Also available, a
shorter but related paper, Public Misperceptions
of Human-Caused Climate Change: The Role of the Media.
Available as PDF only. Please click here [900k].
17 November 2006:
Nine Facts about Climate Change
by Ray Evans. This document comprises the complete and
footnoted version of the pamphlet of the same title which was
released in mid-November 2006. It responds to the hysteria and
superstition in Australia, supported by the current severe drought,
which the media encouraged following the Stern Report issued in
London and former US VP Al Gore's repeated visits to Australia.
Available as PDF only. Please click here [1.5Mb].
7 November 2006: An Analysis of European Vineyard Data, by Douglas Keenan. Available as HTML. Please click here.
16 October 2006: Hurricanes and Climate Change: Assessing the Linkages Following the 2006 Season, by Professor William M. Gray. For an introduction and download, please click here.
10 October 2006: University of Tasmania Debate: "that global warming is the biggest threat humankind faces in the 21st Century", contribution by William Kininmonth (speaking in the negative). Available as HTML. Please click here.
18 July 2006: Panel of Eminent Statisticians Nails the Hockey Stick. A panel of eminent statisticians in the US, headed by Dr Edward Wegman of George Mason University, has published a damning critique of the notorious "Hockey Stick" global climate reconstruction due to Michael Mann et al. Among other findings, the statisticians concluded that the oft-touted claim---that the decade of the 1990s was the hottest decade of the millennium and that 1998 was the hottest year of the millennium---'cannot be supported by his [Mann's] analysis'. For a two-page fact sheet of the Panel's findings, please click here. [90k PDF] For the Panels' full report, please click here. [1.2Mb PDF] For an interesting opinion piece published in Canada's National Post by two long-standing critics of Mann's methodology, please click here.
25 June 2006: Legislation Will Not Mitigate Climate Change: A response to Alan Dupont of the Lowy Institute, by William Kininmonth. Available as HTML. Please click here.
11 May 2006: Remarks at the launch of Nine Lies, by Ray Evans. (Remarks at the launch of Ray Evan's paper at Parlaiment House, Canberra on 11 May 2006.) Available as PDF only. Please click here [200k]. For the paper itself: Nine Lies About Global Warming, please click here [190k].
11 April 2006: Solar Cycles 24 and 25 and Predicted Climate Response, by David C. Archibald. (First published in Energy and Environment, Volume 17, No. 1, 2006.) Available as PDF only. Please click here [55k].
6 April 2006: Open Kyoto to Debate. (An open letter to Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, from 60 Expert Scientists). Available as HTML. Please click here.
11 March 2006: Comment on Scientific Issues in the Stern Review Papers. A submission by The Lavoisier Group Inc. Available as PDF only. Please click here [180k].
23 February 2006: Nine Lies About Global Warming, by Ray Evans. Available as PDF only. Please click here [190k].
8 November 2005: Letter from Ian Castles to Dr Pachauri concerning A. Barrie Pittock's book Climate Change: Turning Up the Heat. Available as HTML. [Please note: This letter has been lightly edited to remove some transcription and typographical errors.]
The Economics of Climate Change, by the Select Committee on Economic Affairs, House of Lords. Available as PDF only. Please click here [500k]
An Economist's Perspective on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, by Ross McKitrick. Available as PDF only. Please click here [650k]
Michael Crichton on "Global Warming" by John Stone. A review of Michael Crichton's State of Fear. First published in National Observer, April 2005. Available as PDF only. Please click here [30k]
Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change: Is Carbon Dioxide a Problem? by William Kininmonth and George Fox. Available as HTML, please click here: CO2 A Problem?
An Open Letter to the Community from Chris Landsea. [Dr Landsea's explanation for withdrawing from Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.] Available as HTML, please click here: Landsea leaves
The Treatment of Economic Issues by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change by David Henderson. [Due to appear in the Royal Economic Society's Newsletter in January 2005.] Available as HTML, please click here: Henderson: RES Article
Submission to the Australian Senate on the Inquiry into the Kyoto Protocol Ratification Bill 2003 [No. 2], by Bob Foster. [December 2003] Available as PDF only, please click here: Kyoto Ratification Bill [65k]
Kyoto Global Warming Treaty's Impact on Ohio's Coal Dependent Communities, by John R. Christy. [May 2003] Written testimony to the U.S. House Committee on Resources, 13 May 2003. Available as HTML, please click here: Christy testimony
Testimony of Richard S. Lindzen before the US Senate Commerce Committee on 1 May 2001. For a summary (PDF only: 6K), please click here: Lindzen Summary. For the full testimony (PDF only: 200K), please click here: Lindzen Testimony.
(Richard S Lindzen is the Alfred P Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge MA. He is one of the most distinguished scientists in his field, and has been involved in the IPCC processes for several years.)
IPCC's Third Assessment Report: Too Much 'Imagination Block', Bob Foster's 3rd attachment to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties Inquiry into the Kyoto Protocol, April 2001. Available as a PDF only. For details of the document and to download, please click here: Foster 3(2001)
The Kyoto Protocol: Don't Forget the Science: An attachment to a submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties Inquiry into The Kyoto Protocol by RJ Foster. September 2000. Available as a PDF only. For details of the document and to download, please click here: Foster JSCOT Submission
Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties Inquiry into The Kyoto Protocol. The Lavoisier Group, 28 August 2000. Available as a PDF only (200K). To download the submission, please click here: JSCOT Submission
Submission to the Senate References Committee for the Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, re The Renewable Energy (Electricity) Bill, Renewable Energy (Electricity) (Charge) Bill 2000. The Lavoisier Group, 26 July 2000. Available as a PDF only (80K). To download the submission, please click here: Senate Submission 1.
Papers fromThe Lavoisier Group's Conference for 2001 held in Melbourne on 10 and 11 September:
'The Carbon Challenge: should Australia decarbonise?' by Bob Foster is now available at Warwick Hughes' new Global Warming Website: [http://www.warwickhughes.com]. Please click here for an HTML version: Foster paper
'The Failure of the Kyoto Process'
by Aynsley Kellow. Available as HTML, please click here:
Kellow paper
'Australia in the Cross-Hairs', by Ray Evans.
Available as HTML, please
click here: Evans
paper
'Political and Economic Consequences
of the Kyoto Protocol: Post-Bonn Observations', by
Michael Hitchens. Available as HTML,
please click here: Hitchens
paper
For the contents listing of the Lavoisier Group's Conference held in May 2000, please click here: Conference 2000
The Booklaunch of William Kininmonth's Climate Change: A Natural Hazard was held in Melbourne on 22 November 2004.
To read Dr John Zillman's launching speech for Climate Change: A Natural Hazard, please click here
To read the Bill Kininmonth's launching speech for Climate Change: A Natural Hazard, please click here
To order a copy of Climate Change: A Natural Hazard, please click here
Reflections on Energy and Energy Policy by Ray Evans. Originally posted on Online Opinion, 2 August 2004. Available as PDF only. Please click here: Reflections on Energy [50 k]
Press Conference with Presidential Economic Adviser Andrei Illarionov. [On the Results of the Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol Seminar in Moscow, July 2004]. Available as HTML, please click here: Illarionov Press Conference (2)
Greenhouse---The Sceptics Strike Back by Gordon Weiss. Available as PDF only. Please click here: Weiss [335k]
The Kyoto Protocol: A Post-Mortem by S Fred Singer (Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia) from The New Atlantis, Winter 2004, pages 66-73. Available as PDF only. Please click here: Fred Singer Kyoto. [100k]
Obituary:
John Daly
The Impact of the Castles-Henderson Critique
on the IPCC. [March 2004]
A collection of recent articles and reflections on the IPCC by
Ian Castles, with an Introduction by Ray Evans.
Available in both PDF and HTML. Please click here to access either
version.
Press Conference with Presidential Economic Adviser Andrei Illarionov. [Conducted at the Moscow World Climate Change Conference, 3 October 2003]. Text only (no diagrams) available as HTML, please click here: Illarionov Press Conference
Greenhouse Policymakers: You are on Your Own Now, by Bob Foster. [September 2003] Available as HTML, please click here: Bob Foster Policymakers
The Castles-Henderson Critique: The Second Strike, by Ian Castles and David Henderson. [Originally published as 'Economics, Emissions Scenarios and the Work of the IPCC' in Energy and Environment, Volume 14, Number 4.]
Ian Castles AO, formerly the Australian Statistician, and David Henderson CMG, formerly Director of Economic Research at the OECD, have just published their second critique of the SRES (Special Report on Emissions Scenarios) work which is the foundation of the IPCC's global temperature forecasts. It exposes the SRES work as professionally incompetent and raises serious questions concerning the integrity of IPCC processes.
Available as PDF only [65k], please click here: Castles--Henderson Response
Letter to Paul Martin. Available as PDF only [50k], please click here: Paul Martin Letter [Text of a letter by eminent scientists to the Canadian MP widely tipped to be next Prime Minister, about the shortcomings of Kyoto 'science'],
Climate Change Made Easy: It's the Sun, by Bob Foster. [June 2003] Available as HTML, please click here: Bob Foster Sun
An Open Letter to the Prime Minister, by Peter Walsh. [May 2003] Published in The Australian on 30 May 2003. Available as PDF only [90k], please click here: Open Letter
The Kyoto Protocol and the Statistical Problem with CO2 Emissions, by Ray Evans. [April 2003] Available as PDF only [150K], please click here: Ray Evans on Castles and Henderson
IPCC Issues: A Swag of Documents, by Ian
Castles and David Henderson. [February 2003]
Almost all of the protagonists in the global warming debate have
taken the carbon dioxide for granted. The arguments have been
all about the climate models, and whether or not the world (in
particular the troposphere) was really getting warmer as the IPCC
claimed. But when Ian Castles, former Australian Statistician,
looked at the CO2 predictions, he found
something amiss. And so did David Henderson, formerly Head
of the Economics and Statistics Branch of the OECD. If you like
looking for skeletons in cupboards and other mysteries, the following
letters and memoranda will be of absorbing interest. Available
as HTML, please click here: IPPC
Issues
Green Protectionism, by Denis Dutton and Wolfgang Kasper. [January 2003] Originally published in Policy (CIS) volume 18, number 4, Summer 2002--03, pages 23--25. Available as PDF only [33K], please click here: Green Protectionism
Are observed changes in the concentration of carbon dioxidein the atmosphere really dangerous?, by CR de Freitas. [November 2002] Available as PDF only [Note: 1.2 Mb], please click here: De Freitas
Climate Change: A Natural Hazard by William Kininmonth [November 2002] Available as PDF only, this complex paper is a veritable Exocet missile aimed at the Kyoto establishment. As the author concludes:
To download the paper [790 K], please click here: Climate Change
CSIRO and the Greenhouse Game: Player Yes, Umpire No, by Bob Foster. [November 2002] Available as HTML, please click here: Foster CSIRO
President's Report, AGM 2002, by Peter Walsh. [10 September 2002] Available as HTML, please click here: President's Report 2002
Media Release [10 September 2002] Available as HTML, please click here: PressRelease September 2002
Good News for Nobel Laureates, by Bob Foster. [September 2002] Available as HTML, please click here: FosterNobel
The Kyoto Protocol and Global Warming, by Dr Sallie Baliunas. The Lavoisier Group's most recent publication on the science, economics and politics of the Kyoto Protocol [16 pages, 6 charts]. Available as PDF only (260K), please click here to download: Baliunas PDF
Goodbye to Life as We Like it When the Greens Get in For Their Chop, by Peter Walsh. [This article was published in The Australian on 6 August 2002]. Available as HTML, please click here: WalshGreens
Carbon Blackmail Doesn't Lead to Greener Future, by Hugh Morgan. [An edited version of this article was published in The Australian on 10 June 2002]. Available as HTML, please click here: MorganKyoto
Enron and the Politics of Influence, by Ray Evans. [A slightly edited version of this article was published in The Australian on 25 January 2002] Available as HTML, please click here: Ray Evans Enron
The Greenhouse-warming Debate is Hotting Up, by Ray Evans. First published in The Canberra Times, 24 January 2002] Available as HTML, please click here: Ray Evans Canberra Times
The Kyoto Protocol: Should Australia Ratify? The Lavoisier Group's no-nonsense guide to the science, economics and politics of the Kyoto Protocol and the reasons why Australia should maintain its own position upon ratification. Available as PDF only (40K), please click here to download: Kyoto pamphlet
The Australian Greenhouse Office's Numbers---What do They Mean? by Hal Clough. Available as HTML, please click here: AGO Numbers paper
Specially commissioned paper by Bob Foster on how the journal Nature has recently got some things badly wrong in the Greenhouse debate. Available as HTML, please click here: Nature paper
An Extract from the Paper 'On Mining
and Minerals'
An Address to the Melbourne Mining Club by Sir
Arvi Parbo, AC, on 9 August
2001. Available in HTML. For a download, please click here: Mining and Minerals
Letter from Prime Minister John Howard to US President George W. Bush. For text, please click here: Howard Letter
Letter from US Senators Chuck Hagel, Larry Craig, Jesse Helms and Pat Roberts to US President George W. Bush, 6 March 2001. For text, please click here: Hagel Letter
Letter in reply from US President George W. Bush, 13 March 2001. For text, please click here: Bush Letter
Greenhouse, Sustainability and Industry:
An Industry View
An Address to the 2000 AATSE Symposium "Sustainable
Australia", by Hugh
Morgan, 21-22 November 2000. Available in either HTML:
HMorganAATSE.html
or as a PDF: HMorganAATSE.pdf
The Kyoto Protocol: Fast Road to Global
Governance
An Address to the Samuel Griffith Society's Sydney
Conference, by Ray Evans,10-12
November 2000. Available in HTML. For a download, please
click here: Fast Road
Moving Beyond Kyoto: A Responsible Approach to Climate ChangeA Speech to the James A. Baker Institute of Public Policy, Rice University, by US Senator Chuck Hagel, 7 September 2000. Now available in HTML. For a download, please click here: Beyond Kyoto
The Temperature Data: Evidence for
What?
For details of this exchange between Ray Evans (Secretary, Lavoisier
Group), David Buckingham, (Executive Director of the Business
Council of Australia), and Graeme Pearman (Chief of Division,
CSIRO Atmospheric Research), please click here: Temperature
Data