Tuesday 8 Nov 2016 – the seminar video is linked on the right – click on photo of Prof Tim Ball.
For more material – Senator Malcolm Roberts Facebook page also has links to the video of the seminar. Download the very readable landmark 42 page 2.1MB pdf by Senator Roberts – ON CLIMATE, CSIRO LACKS EMPIRICAL PROOF.
Roberts makes many good points, but needs a course in cut-through communication.
He has too many distractions in his paper. Citing Joh Bjelke-Petersen as an inspiration puts off everyone who didn’t like Joh. Starting with all the minutiae of setting up a meeting with CSIRO is irrelevant to the scientific issues. Leaving the Executive Summary till page 9 means most people have shut the document before they have got to the juicy bits. And to really convince anyone he would have to give chapter and verse for controversial factual claims. He also needs to check these claims: for example he says sea levels are rising at 0.3 mm a year when the generally accepted figure is 3mm – see here: sealevel.colorado.edu/.
Overall Roberts is definitely on the right track scientifically, but he needs a good research assistant and publicist.
Thinking about One Nation and the easy votes plus the funding feast tens of thousands of dollars missed out on in Orange
NSW by-elections: Shooters and Fishers Party could take Orange as Nationals face devastating swing
www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-13/nsw-by-election-nationals-face-devastating-swing-in-orange/8020688
Antony Green
www.abc.net.au/news/elections/orange-by-election-2016/results/
First prefs
results.elections.nsw.gov.au/SB1602/Orange/Parliamentary/FirstPreferencesReport.html
One Nation gotta wake up and start acting like a serious political party.
I agree Warwick, an opportunity missed for One Nation in Orange.
The latest Electoral Commission figures have the Shooters and Fishers ahead in Orange with 50.14% of the two-party preferred vote, so they look like they have got it. And the NSW Nats leader seems in danger of being ejected.
The latest in a string of recent defeats around the world for gutless go-along major parties – from Brexit and Trump through our recent Senate election and many others.
The media say this “populism” is terrible and that only “mainstream” politicians should be allowed near the levers of power. But that is not what democracy is about. Much better that outsiders who know something of the real world sharpen their skills and professionalism and kick the machine men out. Otherwise we end up with entrenched interests running the country for mates – from Labor in Australia providing sinecures for union hacks to crooked, pay-for-play Hillary.