Ian Plimer

Ian Rutherford Plimer (born April 12, 1946 ) is an Australian geologist , mining entrepreneur and climate change denier .

Live and act

Plimer grew up in Sydney and studied mining at the University of New South Wales with a bachelor's degree in 1968 and a PhD in geology from Macquarie University in 1976 (The pipe deposits of tungsten-molybdenum-bismuth in eastern Australia). From 1968 to 1973 he was a tutor at Macquarie University and then to 1979 a lecturer in geology at the University of New South Wales. He then went to the North Broken Hill Ltd. mining company as chief geologist. In 1982 he became Senior Lecturer in Economic Geology at the University of New England and in 1984 Professor of Geology at the University of Newcastle . From 1991 he was professor at the University of Melbourne , from 2005 as professor emeritus.

He was the director of a number of mining companies in Australia.

Climate change denial

See also : Denial of man-made global warming

He rejects the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions for climate protection and criticizes in particular the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He considers the carbon dioxide emissions from volcanoes (especially submarine volcanoes) to be much more significant than the increase caused by humans, contrary to the state of the art, according to which human CO ₂ emissions are about a factor of 100 higher than volcanic ones. Plimer generally considers extreme climate changes to be normal and inevitable. He also considers other influences, such as that of the sun, to be underestimated.

In 2009, ahead of Parliament's decision on the Australian emissions trading system, he published his hypotheses on global warming in the book Heaven and Earth: Global Warming - the missing science , which became a bestseller. The book met with widespread rejection in scientific circles. Kurt Lambeck , then President of the Australian Science Academy , said the book was not a scientific work. Various scientists criticized, among other things, a poor understanding of the climate system, missing and misrepresented sources, contradicting hypotheses and technical errors. In politics and the media it evoked a broad and divided international response. Of 216 newspaper and online articles published between April and June 2009, 56% were positive about the book, particularly the News Corporation media were benevolent; A positive echo often gave conspiracy-theoretical echoes from Plimer's book. He also publishes a number of opinion articles in various newspapers. As of December 2019, the Climate Feedback website, which scientists use to assess the credibility of media articles with a climate reference, lists four Plimer articles that were fact checked there. All four articles received a rating of -2 (very untrustworthy) on a scale from +2 to −2.

Memberships

He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering , the Australian Institute of Geoscientists and the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and an Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of London . Plimer is a member of the Royal Society of South Australia , the Royal Society of New South Wales and the Royal Society of Victoria . He is editor of the Encyclopedia of Geology with Richard Selley and Robin Cocks . He is affiliated with the conservative Australian think tank Institute of Public Affairs . He is also a member of the advisory boards of various climate change denial organizations such as the Global Warming Policy Foundation or the Australian Galileo Movement , whose aim was to abolish the CO ₂ tax in Australia. At times he was also a member of the advisory board of the German climate denial organization EIKE .

Others

Plimer is also known in Australia as a critic of creationism , about which he published the book Telling Lies for God: Reason vs Creationism (1994).

In 1998 he received the Leopold von Buch plaque , in 2004 the Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales and in 2001 the Australian Centennary Medal. In 1995 and 2002 he won the Eureka Prize.

Fonts

• A short history of planet earth, ABC Books 2001

Web links

• Biography at the Institute of Public Affairs
• Dossier at Desmog. Retrieved December 26, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Executive Profile: Ian Rutherford Plimer B.Sc. (Hons), Ph.D., FTSE, FGS, FAusIMM. In: bloomberg.com. Retrieved September 26, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Volcanic Versus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide . In: American Geophysical Union (Ed.): EOS, Transactions . tape 92 , no. June 24 , 2011, doi : 10.1029 / eost2011EO24 .
3. ↑ According to estimates z. B. the US Geological Survey, human emissions of carbon dioxide are 130 times higher than those from volcanoes
4. ↑ Ian Enting: Rogues or respectable? How climate change skeptics spread doubt and denial. In: The Conversation . June 23, 2011, accessed on September 25, 2016 : "Kurt Lambeck, President of the Academy of Science at the time, put it aptly when he stated that Heaven + Earth is not a work of science." 
5. ↑ Elaine McKewon: Duelling realities: Conspiracy theories vs climate science in regional newspaper coverage of Ian Plimer's book, Heaven and Earth . In: Rural Society . tape 21 , no. 2 , 2012, p. 99-115 .
6. ^ Stephan Lewandowsky, John Cook and Elisabeth Lloyd: The 'Alice in Wonderland' mechanics of the rejection of (climate) science: simulating coherence by conspiracism . In: Synthesis . September 16, 2016, doi : 10.1007 / s11229-016-1198-6 .
7. ^ Buettner, Angi: Climate change in the media: Climate denial, Ian Plimer, and the staging of public debate . In: New Zealand Journal of Media Studies . tape 12 , no. 1 , 2010 ( academia.edu [PDF]).
8. ^ Reviews of articles by: Ian Plimer . Climate feedback. Retrieved December 26, 2019.
9. ^ Douglas Fischer: "Galileo Movement" Fuels Climate Change Divide in Australia. In: Scientific American. August 16, 2011, accessed September 25, 2016 .