AT an artificial intelligence (AI) conference in New York recently, Sean Gourley explained Wiener’s Law: automation will routinely tidy up ordinary messes but will occasionally create an...
The First Finding handed down by Judge Salvador Vasta in the Peter Ridd court case concerned Bramston reef off Bowen and a photograph taken in 1994 that Terry Hughes from…
Peter Ridd was a professor at James Cook University who dared to question claims that the Great Barrier Reef is facing imminent catastrophe from climate change. Eventually he was sacked…
The Institute of Public Affairs has today welcomed the historic judgement in the case of Peter Ridd vs James Cook University (JCU) with Judge Vasta finding that Peter Ridd was…
“The court hearings of the case of Peter Ridd vs James Cook University (JCU) have now concluded and we await judgment. What the case has identified is a culture of…
EARLY last year a professor of physics at James Cook University was sacked – after a successful career spanning some forty years. Peter Ridd had won many university awards, including…
Momentum continues to build for Australia to exit the Paris Climate Agreement. New economic modelling prepared by Managing Director of BAEconomics and former executive director of the Australian...
This last summer has been hot in south-eastern Australia. But was it the hottest ever? Summer 80 years ago was arguably as hot, if not hotter. Australia’s Environment Minister, Melissa…
A radical 10-year plan which charts the course for a government takeover of the American economy has been proposed by the socialist wing of the Democratic Party in the United…
Recent analysis prepared by Brian Fisher, the former head of the Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics, estimates that Australia’s commitment to meeting the Paris Climate...
Historical Temperature Reconstructions and Estimating the Contribution of the Industrial Revolution to 20th Century Warming 1. Introduction During the 12th Century, the English philosopher...
In the wake of the very high-profile launch of the WWF Save the Reef Campaign in June 2001, there was a flurry of newspaper articles. They uncritically reported the WWF…
