News Update Archive

Miranda Devine in the Sydney Morning Herald writes about the address that Professor Bob Carter will give at the AEF Annual Conference in Canberra on October 11th. This will be one of three presentations on climate science at the conference.  Read what she had to say: Act hastily, roo the scare tactics.

Also see Bob Carter's article, "Knock knock: Where is the evidence for dangerous human-caused global warming?" in Economic Analysis and Policy.

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"If everyone switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half." - Nina V. Fedoroff .  According to the New York Times, Ms Fedoroff is an Advocate for Science because of her views that science supports the introduction of GM foods.  Read the interview here.

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Green Threat to Reason is an article on Andrew Bolt’s Herald Sun blog about AEF member Professor Ian Plimer’s recent speech in Brisbane about the new religion of environmentalism.  It can be viewed here

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"If everyone switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half." - Nina V. Fedoroff .  According to the New York Times, Ms Fedoroff is an Advocate for Science because of her views that science supports the introduction of GM foods.  Read the interview here.

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The 2008 Conference was filled with informative presentations on contemporary issues. For an update on the conference, look here.

The 2009 Conference will be held in Perth during September.

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Here is a paper with some interesting things to say on why people adopt and hold on to wrong ideas.
 
'Ignorance is Contagious, the importance of critical thinking in environmental management', presented by Dr Ian Woodward at a recent Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand seminar in Tasmania.

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Mark Poynter writes at On Line Opinion on the reasons behind the rise of blog sites and community dissatisfaction over the media coverage of environmental issues, in particular the Rivers and Red Gum Environment Alliance campaign to see the introduction of community friendly public land classifications.  Read the article here

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AEF director Jennifer Marohasy had a feature article published by the Weekend Australian on August 23rd presenting some facts on salinity levels, rainfall and temperature.  The article dispels many of the popular myths that abound on these subjects.  To see the graphs which support the article go to Case of the warm and fuzzy.