You know you are being effective when people complain about you. The letter in the Sept. 8 issue of Oil & Gas Journal, though, followed an established formula, starting with an impugned association with the coal industry (OGJ, Sept. 8, 2008, p. 12).
A point by point refutation would be tedious, but I am compelled to say that neither I nor the Lavoisier Society has any association with or funding from the coal industry. I left the coal industry in 1980 to join the oil industry. Right now I am the very happy operator of oil exploration permits totaling 8.6 million acres of Palaeozoic intracratonic rift sediments in the Canning basin of northwestern Australia.
The oil industry in this country embraced global warming as a way of selling more natural gas to the power industry, displacing coal. That supping with the devil, though, has resulted in serious blowback, as the Australian government has undertaken to introduce carbon taxes which will severely impinge the LNG industry here.
At the same time, there is strong government support in Australia for expansion of the export coal industry, so that other countries can increase their carbon dioxide emissions.
A peer-reviewed paper of mine predicting a 2° C. decline in temperature next decade has been accepted for publication in January in a UK scientific journal. Previous papers of mine on the subject of climate are available on the Lavoisier website: “The Past and Future of Climate,” “Failure to Warm,” and “Solar Cycle 24: Implications for the United States.” The web locations are:
- http://www.lavoisier.com.au/articles/greenhouse-science/solar-cycles/Archibald2007.pdf
http://www.lavoisier.com.au/articles/greenhouse-science/solar-cycles/ArchibaldLavoisierAGM.pdf
http://www.lavoisier.com.au/articles/greenhouse-science/solar-cycles/ArchibaldMarch2008.pdf
David Archibald
Perth
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