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Professor Ian Plimer is Australia’s best-known geologist. He is a professor of earth sciences at the University of Melbourne, and former professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide. A prolific author of books on mining and climate change, he is a prominent critic of human caused global warming theory. He has served as director of multiple mining companies and was awarded the 1995 Eureka Prize for scientific research.
Tomorrow, he is coming on the show to discuss his thoughts on Net Zero, human related climate change and his research on what global temperatures have been like in the last several thousand years.
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Rightly or wrongly there appears to be a substantial consensus in the scientific community that man made CO2 emissions are driving a change in the climate.
What insights are you in possession of which the proponents of climate change have failed to take into account - and why have these insights not gained traction?
Why do the majority of scientists disagree with your point of view? If your point of view is correct, why is it not generally accepted?
What would it take to falsify your position on climate change?
Assuming your understanding of the climate change issue is correct, what needs to happen to bring about a change in the accepted orthodoxy?
What's your stance on Nuclear? Particularly in Australia, we have a massive desert with nothing interesting in the middle. We have a working-class population that is willing to do dirty, dangerous jobs in the middle of nowhere in exchange for good salaries. We have a third of the world's uranium and a large chunk of other materials, too. We have a third of the size of the UK population and more than 10 times the land surface area. And, as Marcia Langston points out, a non-trivial proportion of the mining industry pulls rural Aboriginal peoples out of poverty, and nuclear could do something similar. However, when I lived in Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Peter Dutton seemed to be hated more than Anthony Albanese and Pauline Hanson put together. This is despite the fact that, if we were able to debureaucratise nuclear to the same extent as the South Koreans, we could build a multi-reactor plant for around 5 billion dollars (i.e. about the same as an equally powerful new gas plant) that powers the entire city of Melbourne without any carbon emissions. 4 would be enough to power Melbourne, Sydney, the whole of QLD, the whole of SA, and the whole of WA, essentially making Australia permanently net zero without any of the costs that the current budget has. What is going on?