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=<div>Nigel LawsonLord Christopher MoncktonJames DelingpoleChristopher BookerBjørn LomborgProfessor Ian PlimerSenator James InhofeBenny Peiser<a href="http:" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.campaigncc.org/climate_change/sceptics/hall_of_shame</a>Bjørn Lomborg is a Danish author with a background in politics and game theory. He became internationally known for his best-selling and controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist, although he has been described as <a cke_saved_href="http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=773" href="http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=773" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"neither sceptical nor an environmentalist"</a>.While Lomborg does not deny that climate change is happen, he seeks to minimise its importance. He argues that action should not be taken to reduce emissions as other problems are more important, and technology will naturally emerge that will solve climate change.<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Scientific American</a> concluded that “in its purpose of describing the real state of the world, the book [The Skeptical Environmentalist] is a failure.” A review in Nature compared it to “bad term papers,” and called it heavily reliant on secondary sources and “at times…fictional.”Lomborg went on to gather a panel of economists and ask them to consider the costs and benefits of dealing with various world problems. They concluded that dealing with malaria ranked higher than controlling carbon emissions. In 2007, Lomborg published the book "Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming" which has also been criticised for <a href="http://www.lomborg-errors.dk/error_catalogue.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">an abundance of factual errors</a> and misleading arguments.Lomborg's professed concern for the welfare of the developing world and acceptance of (some) climate science has allowed him to present himself as the 'reasonable middle ground', and neutralise some criticism. However John Mashey <a cke_saved_href="http://thingsbreak.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/lomborg-long-game/" href="https://thingsbreak.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/lomborg-long-game/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">argues</a> persuasively that when Lomborg says that malaria prevention is more important than climate change, malaria prevention is a red herring.  The real message is "Don't do anything to prevent climate change."His claims scrutinised: Biologist Kåre Fog has compiled a <a cke_saved_href="http://www.lomborg-errors.dk/" href="http://www.lomborg-errors.dk/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">website</a> listing the errors in Lomborg's books. <a cke_saved_href="http://thingsbreak.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/willful-idocy/" href="https://thingsbreak.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/willful-idocy/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Detailed analysis</a> of a Lomborg piece <a cke_saved_href="http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/lomborg30/English" href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-green-inquisition" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"The Green Inquisition"</a>. Additionally, Jim Norton has compiled a list of links to <a cke_saved_href="http://info-pollution.com/lomborg.htm" href="http://info-pollution.com/lomborg.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">further information</a>.UPDATE AUGUST 2010: Lomborg has publicly announced that the world should spend $100 billion per year on tackling climate change, calling it a "a challenge humanity must confront" (detailed article <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/aug/30/bjorn-lomborg-climate-change-u-turn" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">here</a>). However, whether Lomborg really is serious about climate change or if this announcement is just self-promotion to publicise his book remains to be seen.
 <a id="plimer" name="plimer" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /><a id="plimer" name="plimer" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Professor Ian Plimer</a><a id="plimer" name="plimer" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
</a><a id="plimer" name="plimer" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Australian geologist Professor Ian Plimer is the director of three Australian mining companies – listed by </a><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ian_Plimer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">www.sourcewatch.org</a> as Ivanhoe Mines, CBH Resources and Kefi Minerals – and a prominent climate-change denier in Australia and globally. With these lucrative interests, it is unsurprising that his 2009 book “Heaven and Earth” has been labeled the “denier’s bible”. Guardian journalist George Monbiot, in a highly publicized <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBQCsMJm3Zg" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">debate</a> with Plimer, described the book as “filled with fabrication after fabrication, simple untruths, repeated again and again”.Reputable sources say that Plimer’s science is<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/aug/05/climate-change-scepticism" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> highly controversial or simply untrue</a>. A representative example of this is his claim in Heaven and Earth that volcanoes emit more carbon than humans. Volcanologist Dr Terence Gerlach of the U.S. Geological Survey countered this, saying that 130 times more CO2 is produced by man than by volcanoes, including underground volcanoes, which is Dr Plimer’s standard riposte. Outside of climate change, in <a href="https://fora.tv/library-takedown/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">this video</a> (at 01h24min55secs) we see Plimer claiming that the evidence for a global flood around 7400 years ago, around the time of Noah, is “set in stone”, a point which is otherwise universally accepted by geologists as indefensible.Plimer likens “environmentalism” to religion, particularly biblical narratives of the apocalypse. Roger Jones of Climate Scientists Australia – a group of senior scientists promoting science-based climate politics – has said Plimer is an “egotistic charlatan and a fraud”.The geologist is part of various global networks with climate change denial agendas: <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_of_Public_Affairs" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Institute of Public Affairs</a>, an Australian conservative think tank linked to the Liberal Party of Australia, who called the IPCC report “alarmist”; the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Natural_Resources_Stewardship_Project" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Natural Resources Stewardship Project</a>, a Canadian anti-Kyoto advocacy group; and the UK <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Global Warming Policy Foundation</a>, founded by Nigel Lawson.His claims scrutinised: Ian Enting wrote a lengthy document detailing the inaccuracies in Plimer's book Heaven and Earth, which you can download <a href="http://www.complex.org.au/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=91" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">here</a>.Additionally, you can watch a TV debate between Plimer and George Monbiot on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch_videos?more_url=&video_ids=VBQCsMJm3Zg%2CG7y6xJbcW4A%2CSPdhUdF6SJ4&type=3" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">YouTube</a>.=
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t two members of <a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/nigel-lawson">Lord Lawson</a>’s climate change science denying <a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/global-warming-policy-foundation">Global Warming Policy Foundation</a> (GWPF) did when they bet Chris Hope, a Cambridge University researcher, that 2015 wouldn’t be the hottest year ever recorded.

“You win some, you lose some,” <a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/benny-peiser">Benny Peiser</a>, director of the GWPF, <a target="blank" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/climatechange-bets-idUSL8N1541LL">told Reuters</a>, adding that the pace of warming “is not something that people… need to be greatly concerned about”.

But new data released this week by meteorologists in the UK and US proved the GWPF wrong as <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-noaa-analyses-reveal-record-shattering-global-warm-temperatures-in-2015">2015 saw “record-shattering” global temperatures</a>.

Climate Bet

Five years ago British engineer Alan Rudge and Australian geologist Ian Plimer – both members of the GWPF academic advisory council – bet Hope £1,000 each that the Earth would be cooling by now, not warming.
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</div><div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ph.D. Macquarie University (specializing in “tungsten-molybdenum-bismuth deposits”). <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[1]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">B.Sc.(Hons) University of New South Wales.</li></ul>Source: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[2]</a><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300;"> Background</h2>Ian Plimer is a<a href="http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/ian.plimer" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> professor of Mining Geology</a> at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, and Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne.Plimer has two climate science denial books. The first, which has been referred to as the “denier's bible,” was Heaven and Earth. The second, published in late 2011, was called How To Get Expelled From School: A guide to climate change for pupils, parents and punters.Plimer has been a director of numerous mining companies including Ivanhoe Australia, a subsidiary of Bob Friedland's Ivanhoe Mines, CBH Resources, Kefi Minerals, Silver City Minerals, Ormil Energy Ltd, TNT Mines, Niuminco Group and Lakes Oil.Plimer was <a href="http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/local-business/rinehart-appoints-plimer-to-board-roles/story-e6frg2s3-1226259721980" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">appointed</a> to the boards of Roy Hill Holdings and Queensland Coal Investments by mining magnate and climate skeptic promoter <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gina_Rinehart" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Gina Rinehart</a> on January 25, 2012. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[3]</a>As non-executive Director and Deputy Chairman of Kefi, he owns 3.6 million shares which would be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in today's market. In an article titled “Why I'd put global warming on ice,” Plimer claims that his commercial interest in mining “does not colour his arguments, which he says are based on pure science” and “does not affect the independence of his beliefs.”<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> [4]</a><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300;">Stance on Climate Change</h2>According to a presentation by Plimer with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Friends_of_Science" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Friends of Science</a>:<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> [5]</a>”- [The] Earth['s climate] always changes - Climate change is normal - Climate change occurred well before humans were on Earth - The rate of climate change today is no different from thousands, millions or billions of years ago - >80% [of the] time, Earth has been warmer and wetter than at present - Ice is rare - Just because [climate] change occurs in our lifetime does not mean that we humans are driving the change”<h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300;">Key Quotes</h2><blockquote style="margin: 15px 30px; padding: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); background: rgb(238, 238, 238);">“Climate has always changed. It always has and always will. Sea level has always changed. Ice sheets come and go. Life always changes. Extinctions of life are normal. Planet Earth is dynamic and evolving. Climate changes are cyclical and random. Through the eyes of a geologist, I would be really concerned if there were no change to Earth over time. In the light of large rapid natural climate changes, just how much do humans really change climate?” “There is no problem with global warming. It stopped in 1998. The last two years of global cooling have erased nearly thirty years of temperature increase.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[6]</a></blockquote><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300;">Key Deeds</h2>May 30, 2014Plimer publishes, “<a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6PQGI4NDY" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Not For Greens: He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon</a>,” through Connor Court Publishing. A summary on the publisher's website, describes the book as follows:“The processes required to make a humble stainless steel teaspoon are remarkably complicated and every stage involves risk, coal, energy, capital, international trade and finance. Stainless steel cutlery has taken thousands of years of experimentation and knowledge to evolve and the end result is that we can eat without killing ourselves with bacteria. We are in the best times to have ever lived on planet Earth and the future will only be better. All this we take for granted.Greens may have started as genuine environmentalists. Much of the green movement has now morphed into an unelected extremist political pressure group accountable to no one. Greens create problems, many of which are concocted, and provide no solutions because of a lack of basic knowledge. This book examines green policies in the light of established knowledge and shows that they are unrealistic.Policies by greens adopted by supine governments have resulted in rising costs, increased taxes, political instability, energy poverty, decreased longevity and environmental degradation and they don’t achieve their ideological aims. Wind, solar and biomass energy emit more carbon dioxide than they save and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions does nothing to change climate and only empties the pocket. No stainless steel teaspoon could be made using green “alternative energy”.This book argues that unless the greens live sustainably in caves in the forest and use no trappings of the modern world, then they should be regarded as hypocrites and treated with the disdain they deserve.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s38" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[38]</a>December 12, 2011 Plimer published the “anti-warmist manual,” <a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/how-to-get-expelled-from-school-a-guide-to-climate-change-for-pupils-parents-and-punters.do" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">How to Get Expelled From School: A guide to climate change for pupils, parents and punters</a>, which was reviewed by numerous sources and found to be scientifically inaccurate, containing flawed or undocumented diagrams, and sloppily edited.<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s7" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> [7]</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[8]</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[9]</a>The book has been <a href="http://www.news.com.au/national/climate-sceptic-targets-teachers/story-e6frfkw0-1226220417543" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">billed</a> as the “anti-warmist manual for the younger reader”<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> [10]</a> and was launched by free-market think tank <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tags/institute-of-public-affairs" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Institute of Public Affairs</a>. Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard launched the book in Sydney.The Australian Government responded with<a href="http://www.climatechange.gov.au/en/climate-change/understanding-climate-change/_{/media/climate-change/prof-plimer-101-questions-response-pdf.pdf}" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> “Accurate Answers to Professor Plimer’s 101 Climate Change Science Questions” (PDF)</a>, saying the questions posed in Plimer's book are “misleading and are based on inaccurate or selective interpretation of the science.”The Government report was created to “provide clear and accurate answers to Professor Plimer's questions. The answers are based on up-to-date peer reviewed science, and have been reviewed by a number of Australian climate scientists.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s11" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[11]</a>July 2011Plimer spoke at a private luncheon hosted by billionnaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart.<a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/29/sceptics-on-the-menu-at-rineharts-big-luncheon-bash/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Crikey reported</a> that in the audience were several high-powered politicians and diplomats, including Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett, the state's environment minister Bill Marmion, former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and Chinese Ambassador Chen Yuming. Rinehart described Plimer as “one of the leading sources of reasoned and factual information in Australia on global warming and climate change”.May, 2010Plimer was a speaker at the Heartland Institute's 2010 International Conference on Climate Change. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[12]</a>DeSmogBlog found that the sponsors for Heartland's 2009 International Conference on Climate Change had collectively received over <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institutes-2009-climate-conference-new-york-funding-history-sponsors" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">$47 million</a> from oil companies and right-wing foundations.2009Plimer Published Heaven and Earth in 2009. The book asserts that the temperature changes we have observed in the 20th century are within the “normal range of variability,” that significant global warming is not happening and that there is negligible human impact on warming.His book was received critically, having been <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009/04/the_science_is_missing_from_ia.php" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">debunked</a> numerous times by scientists.<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s13" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[13]</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s14" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[14]</a>Some critics have even <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009/10/plimer_the_plagiarist.php" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">accused Plimer of plagiarism</a>.<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s15" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> [15]</a>In his review of Heaven and Earth for The Australian, astronomer <a href="http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/_mcba/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Michael Ashley</a> wrote:<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s16" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[16]</a>“Plimer probably didn't expect an astronomer to review his book. I couldn't help noticing on page 120 an almost word-for-word reproduction of the abstract from a well-known loony paper…[that] argues that the sun isn't composed of 98 per cent hydrogen and helium, as astronomers have confirmed through a century of observation and theory, but is instead similar in composition to a meteorite. “It is hard to understate the depth of scientific ignorance that the inclusion of this information demonstrates. It is comparable to a biologist claiming that plants obtain energy from magnetism rather than photosynthesis.”The Guardian's George Monbiot criticized Plimer's book, saying “Since its publication in Australia it has been ridiculed for a hilarious series of schoolboy errors, and its fudging and manipulation of the data.” Plimer responded by challenging Monbiot to a public debate. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s17" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[17]</a> Monbiot then challenged Plimer to give a set of “precise and specific responses” to his critics' points. Plimer rejected this challenge.<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s18" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> [18]</a>Monbiot called Plimer “a grandstander, who wants nothing more than to make as much noise as possible in the hope that it will drown out the precise refutations published by his book's reviewers.” Plimer subsequently reversed his earlier refusal, saying he would answer the questions in return for a live debate. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s19" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[19]</a>Instead of answering the questions that Monbiot posed, Plimer responded with his own set of questions. No official debate was actually held.<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s20" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> [20]  </a> The two did debate, however, on ABC's Lateline in December, 2009. Monbiot concluded that Plimer had “used evasion and distraction when faced with straight questions,” and that the overall view was that “Plimer had been soundly thrashed.”<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s21" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> [21]</a>December, 2009 During the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15), Plimer spoke at a rival conference in Copenhagen called the Copenhagen Climate Challenge, which was organized by the climate change skeptic group <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Committee_for_a_Constructive_Tomorrow" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)</a>. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s22" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[22]</a>Among Plimer's arguments at the conference is how carbon dioxide is “not a pollutant, it is plant food.” See footage of Plimer <a href="http://blogs.crikey.com.au/rooted/2009/12/10/climate-change-skeptics-stage-rebel-copenhagen-conference/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CrikeyBlogs+%28Crikey+Blogs%29" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">here</a>. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s23" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[23]</a>While the UN's conference attracted 33,200, the skeptics attracted only 60 people. “They’ve got us outnumbered, but we've got them outgunned, and that’s with the truth,” Plimer said at the conclusion.<h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300;"> Affiliations</h2><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Natural_Resources_Stewardship_Project" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP) </a>— Past “Allied Expert.” The NRSPis now defunct. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s24" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[24]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_of_Public_Affairs" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) </a>— Former “Associate.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s25" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[25]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) </a>— Member, ”<a href="http://www.thegwpf.org/who-we-are/academic-advisory-council.html?start=10" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Academic Advisory Council</a>.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s26" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[26]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">The Heartland Institute </a>— “<a href="http://heartland.org/ian-plimer" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Expert.</a>” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s27" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[27]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Australian_Climate_Science_Coalition" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Australian Climate Science Coalition (ACSC)</a> — Member, “<a href="http://www.auscsc.org.au/about_us.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Scientific Advisory Panel</a>.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s28" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[28]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Roy Hill Holdings — Director, <a href="http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/local-business/rinehart-appoints-plimer-to-board-roles/story-e6frg2s3-1226259721980" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">appointed in January, 2012</a>. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[3]</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s29" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[29]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Queensland Coal Investments — Director, <a href="http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/local-business/rinehart-appoints-plimer-to-board-roles/story-e6frg2s3-1226259721980" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">appointed in January, 2012</a>. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[3]</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s29" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[29]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ivanhoe Australia — <a href="http://www.ivanhoeaustralia.com/s/Board_of_Directors.asp" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Director</a> (since 2007). <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s30" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[30]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Silver City Minerals Limited — Non-executive director. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s31" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[31]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">CBH Resources Ltd —<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090301180427/http://www.cbhresources.com.au/company-profile/company-directors.htm" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> Director</a>, 1998 - 2010. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s32" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[32]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ormil Energy Ltd — Non-Executive Director. Also holds 2,500,000 opions and indirectly holds 2,000,000 shares. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s33" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[33]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Kefi Minerals — Non-Executive Deputy Chairman. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s34" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[34]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">TNT Mines Ltd — Chairman, Board of Directors.  <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[1]</a></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300;"> Publications</h2>According to a search of 22,000 academic journals, Plimer has published more than 40 research articles in peer-reviewed journals, mainly on the subject of ore deposits.<h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300;"> Resources</h2><ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s1" id="s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.tntmines.com.au/corporate-directors.php" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Board of Directors</a>,” TNT Mines Limited. Accessed January, 2012.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s2" id="s2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090709075523/http://www.ecms.adelaide.edu.au/civeng/staff/iplimer01.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Ian Plimer</a>,” Profile at the School of Civil, Environmental & Mining Engineering at the University of Adelaide. Archived July 9, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s3" id="s3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Andrew Burrell. “</a><a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/carbon-plan/gina-brings-climate-sceptic-on-board/story-fn99tjf2-1226260017472" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Gina brings climate sceptic on board</a>,” The Australian, February 2, 2012.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s4" id="s4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Penelope Debelle. “</a><a href="http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/why-id-put-global-warming-on-ice/story-e6frebt3-1225718191684" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Why I'd put global warming on ice</a>,” The Advertiser, May 28, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s5" id="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ian Plimer. “Human-induced global warming: Why I am sceptical” (</a><a href="http://friendsofginandtonic.org/assets/Plimer%2020110516.pdf" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">PDF</a>), Friends of Science, Calgary, May 16, 2011. Retreived February 2, 2012, from friendsofginandtonic.org.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s6" id="s6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.ipa.org.au/publications/1709/the-natural-history-of-climate-change" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">The natural history of climate change</a>,” IPA Review Article. Accessed February 2, 2012.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s7" id="s7" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.aussmc.org/2011/12/rapid-reaction-ian-plimer-launches-new-book-on-climate-change-%E2%80%93-experts-respond/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">RAPID REACTION: Ian Plimer launches new book on climate change – experts respond</a>,” The Australian Science Media Center, December 9, 2011.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s8" id="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lexi Metherell. “</a><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-13/howard-lends-support-to-anti-climate-change-book/3727650" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Howard launches 'anti-warmist manual' for kids</a>,” ABC News, December 13, 2011.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s9" id="s9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I.G. Enting. “Comments on 'How to Get Expelled from School' by Ian Plimer” (</a><a href="http://www.aussmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/plimer-book-comment-ian-enting.pdf" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">PDF</a>). Retrieved February, 2012, from the Australian Science Media Centre.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s10" id="s10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Clare Peddie. “</a><a href="http://www.news.com.au/national/climate-sceptic-targets-teachers/story-e6frfkw0-1226220417543#ixzz1ulhDAQAO" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">'How to get expelled': Climate sceptic recruits kids</a>,” news.com.au, December 13, 2011.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s11" id="s11" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.climatechange.gov.au/sites/climatechange/files/documents/03_2013/prof-plimer-answers.pdf" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">“Accurate Answers to Professor Plimer's 101 Climate Change Science Questions,” (PDF)</a>, Australian Government Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s12" id="s12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“4th International Conference on Climate Change” (</a><a href="http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/LGOULD/Heartland%20Fourth%20International%20Conf_FullConferenceProgram.pdf" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">PDF</a>), The Heartland Institute. Retrieved February 2, 2012, from University of Hartford web server.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s13" id="s13" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009/04/the_science_is_missing_from_ia.php" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">The science is missing from Ian Plimer's 'Heaven and Earth'</a>,” Deltoid, April 23, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s14" id="s14" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">John Cook. “</a><a href="http://skepticalscience.com/Plimer-vs-Plimer-one-man-contradiction.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Plimer vs Plimer: a one man contradiction</a>,” Skeptical Science, December 9, 2011.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s15" id="s15" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tim Lambert. “</a><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009/10/plimer_the_plagiarist.php" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Plimer the plagiarist</a>,” Deltoid, October 25, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s16" id="s16" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Michael Ashely. “</a><a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/ian-plimer-heaven-and-earth/story-e6frg8no-1225710387147" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">No science in Plimer's primer</a>,” The Australian, May 9, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s17" id="s17" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">George Monbiot. “</a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/jul/09/george-monbiot-ian-plimer" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Spectator recycles climate rubbish published by sceptic</a>,” The Guardian, July 5, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s18" id="s18" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">George Monbiot. “</a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/aug/05/climate-change-scepticism" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Let battle commence! Climate change denialist ready for the fight</a>,”The Guardian, August 6, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s19" id="s19" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">George Monbiot. “</a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/aug/03/ian-plimer-climate-change-denial" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Why can't the champion of climate change denial face the music?</a>,”The Guardian, August 3, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s20" id="s20" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">George Monbiot. “</a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/aug/12/climate-change-climate-change-scepticism" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Plimer resorts to attack as the best form of defence</a>,” The Guardian, August 12, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s21" id="s21" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">George Monbiot. “</a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/dec/16/ian-plimer-versus-george-monbiot" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Ian Plimer's volcano claims vaporise under questioning on Australian TV</a>,” The Guardian, December, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s22" id="s22" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Giles Parkinson. “</a><a href="http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/COPENHAGEN-CALLING-Bolstering-Barack-pd20091209-YJR3A?OpenDocument&src=sph" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">COPENHAGEN CALLING: Bolstering Barack</a>,” Business Spectator, December 9, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s23" id="s23" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Matthew Knott. “</a><a href="http://blogs.crikey.com.au/rooted/2009/12/10/climate-change-skeptics-stage-rebel-copenhagen-conference/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CrikeyBlogs+%28Crikey+Blogs%29" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Climate Change skeptics stage rebel Copenhagen conference</a>,”Crikey, December 10, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s24" id="s24" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070206072147/http://www.nrsp.com/people.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">NRSP People</a>,” The Natural Resources Stewardship Project. Archived February 6, 2007.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s25" id="s25" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://ipa.org.au/people/ian-plimer" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">People & associates</a>,” Institute of Public Affairs. Accessed January, 2012. Archived by WebCite® at <<a href="http://www.webcitation.org/658snItLT" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://www.webcitation.org/658snItLT</a>>.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s26" id="s26" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.thegwpf.org/who-we-are/academic-advisory-council.html?start=10" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Academic Advisory Council</a>,” The Gobal Warming Policy Foundation. Accessed January, 2012. Archived by WebCite® at <<a href="http://www.webcitation.org/658vkk8Y4" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://www.webcitation.org/658vkk8Y4</a>>.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s27" id="s27" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://heartland.org/ian-plimer" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Heartland Experts: Ian Plimer</a>,” Accessed January, 2012. Archived by WebCite® at <<a href="http://www.webcitation.org/658wnGs7A" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://www.webcitation.org/658wnGs7A</a>>.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s28" id="s28" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.auscsc.org.au/about_us.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">About Us</a>,” Australian Climate Science Coalition. Accessed February, 2012.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s29" id="s29" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nick Evans. “</a><a href="http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/local-business/rinehart-appoints-plimer-to-board-roles/story-e6frg2s3-1226259721980" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Gina Rinehart appoints Prof Ian Plimer to two boards</a>,” PerthNow, February 1, 2012.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s30" id="s30" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.ivanhoeaustralia.com/s/Board_of_Directors.asp" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Board of Directors</a>,” Ivanhoe Australia. Accessed January, 2012.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s31" id="s31" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Mines and Money London: Australia Day Presentation” (</a><a href="http://www.minesandmoney.com/london/pdf/presentations/2011/australia-day/16%20-%20Silver%20City%20mines%20&%20money%20v2.pdf" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">PDF</a>), Mining Journal Investor Seminars, December 5, 2011.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s32" id="s32" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090301180427/http://www.cbhresources.com.au/company-profile/company-directors.htm" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Company Directors</a>,” CBH Resources Limited. Archived March 1, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s33" id="s33" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Ormil-Energy-director-takes-up-rights-AV77N?OpenDocument" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Ormil Energy director takes up rights</a>,” Business Spectator, November 4, 2010.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s34" id="s34" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.kefi-minerals.com/board.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Board of Directors</a>,” Kefi Minerals. Accessed January, 2012.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Plimer" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Ian Plimer</a>,” Wikipedia Entry.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ian_Plimer" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Ian Plimer</a>,” SourceWatch Profile.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1314" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Ian Plimer</a>.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s38" id="s38" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6PQGI4NDY" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Not for Greens: He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon</a>,” Ian Plimer, Connor Court Publishing, May 30, 2014. 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</div><div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ph.D. Macquarie University (specializing in “tungsten-molybdenum-bismuth deposits”). <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[1]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">B.Sc.(Hons) University of New South Wales.</li></ul>Source: <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[2]</a><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300;"> Background</h2>Ian Plimer is a<a href="http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/ian.plimer" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> professor of Mining Geology</a> at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, and Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne.Plimer has two climate science denial books. The first, which has been referred to as the “denier's bible,” was Heaven and Earth. The second, published in late 2011, was called How To Get Expelled From School: A guide to climate change for pupils, parents and punters.Plimer has been a director of numerous mining companies including Ivanhoe Australia, a subsidiary of Bob Friedland's Ivanhoe Mines, CBH Resources, Kefi Minerals, Silver City Minerals, Ormil Energy Ltd, TNT Mines, Niuminco Group and Lakes Oil.Plimer was <a href="http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/local-business/rinehart-appoints-plimer-to-board-roles/story-e6frg2s3-1226259721980" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">appointed</a> to the boards of Roy Hill Holdings and Queensland Coal Investments by mining magnate and climate skeptic promoter <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gina_Rinehart" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Gina Rinehart</a> on January 25, 2012. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[3]</a>As non-executive Director and Deputy Chairman of Kefi, he owns 3.6 million shares which would be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in today's market. In an article titled “Why I'd put global warming on ice,” Plimer claims that his commercial interest in mining “does not colour his arguments, which he says are based on pure science” and “does not affect the independence of his beliefs.”<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> [4]</a><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300;">Stance on Climate Change</h2>According to a presentation by Plimer with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Friends_of_Science" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Friends of Science</a>:<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> [5]</a>”- [The] Earth['s climate] always changes - Climate change is normal - Climate change occurred well before humans were on Earth - The rate of climate change today is no different from thousands, millions or billions of years ago - >80% [of the] time, Earth has been warmer and wetter than at present - Ice is rare - Just because [climate] change occurs in our lifetime does not mean that we humans are driving the change”<h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300;">Key Quotes</h2><blockquote style="margin: 15px 30px; padding: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); background: rgb(238, 238, 238);">“Climate has always changed. It always has and always will. Sea level has always changed. Ice sheets come and go. Life always changes. Extinctions of life are normal. Planet Earth is dynamic and evolving. Climate changes are cyclical and random. Through the eyes of a geologist, I would be really concerned if there were no change to Earth over time. In the light of large rapid natural climate changes, just how much do humans really change climate?” “There is no problem with global warming. It stopped in 1998. The last two years of global cooling have erased nearly thirty years of temperature increase.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[6]</a></blockquote><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300;">Key Deeds</h2>May 30, 2014Plimer publishes, “<a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6PQGI4NDY" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Not For Greens: He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon</a>,” through Connor Court Publishing. A summary on the publisher's website, describes the book as follows:“The processes required to make a humble stainless steel teaspoon are remarkably complicated and every stage involves risk, coal, energy, capital, international trade and finance. Stainless steel cutlery has taken thousands of years of experimentation and knowledge to evolve and the end result is that we can eat without killing ourselves with bacteria. We are in the best times to have ever lived on planet Earth and the future will only be better. All this we take for granted.Greens may have started as genuine environmentalists. Much of the green movement has now morphed into an unelected extremist political pressure group accountable to no one. Greens create problems, many of which are concocted, and provide no solutions because of a lack of basic knowledge. This book examines green policies in the light of established knowledge and shows that they are unrealistic.Policies by greens adopted by supine governments have resulted in rising costs, increased taxes, political instability, energy poverty, decreased longevity and environmental degradation and they don’t achieve their ideological aims. Wind, solar and biomass energy emit more carbon dioxide than they save and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions does nothing to change climate and only empties the pocket. No stainless steel teaspoon could be made using green “alternative energy”.This book argues that unless the greens live sustainably in caves in the forest and use no trappings of the modern world, then they should be regarded as hypocrites and treated with the disdain they deserve.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s38" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[38]</a>December 12, 2011 Plimer published the “anti-warmist manual,” <a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/how-to-get-expelled-from-school-a-guide-to-climate-change-for-pupils-parents-and-punters.do" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">How to Get Expelled From School: A guide to climate change for pupils, parents and punters</a>, which was reviewed by numerous sources and found to be scientifically inaccurate, containing flawed or undocumented diagrams, and sloppily edited.<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s7" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> [7]</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[8]</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[9]</a>The book has been <a href="http://www.news.com.au/national/climate-sceptic-targets-teachers/story-e6frfkw0-1226220417543" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">billed</a> as the “anti-warmist manual for the younger reader”<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> [10]</a> and was launched by free-market think tank <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tags/institute-of-public-affairs" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Institute of Public Affairs</a>. Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard launched the book in Sydney.The Australian Government responded with<a href="http://www.climatechange.gov.au/en/climate-change/understanding-climate-change/_{/media/climate-change/prof-plimer-101-questions-response-pdf.pdf}" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> “Accurate Answers to Professor Plimer’s 101 Climate Change Science Questions” (PDF)</a>, saying the questions posed in Plimer's book are “misleading and are based on inaccurate or selective interpretation of the science.”The Government report was created to “provide clear and accurate answers to Professor Plimer's questions. The answers are based on up-to-date peer reviewed science, and have been reviewed by a number of Australian climate scientists.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s11" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[11]</a>July 2011Plimer spoke at a private luncheon hosted by billionnaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart.<a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/07/29/sceptics-on-the-menu-at-rineharts-big-luncheon-bash/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Crikey reported</a> that in the audience were several high-powered politicians and diplomats, including Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett, the state's environment minister Bill Marmion, former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and Chinese Ambassador Chen Yuming. Rinehart described Plimer as “one of the leading sources of reasoned and factual information in Australia on global warming and climate change”.May, 2010Plimer was a speaker at the Heartland Institute's 2010 International Conference on Climate Change. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[12]</a>DeSmogBlog found that the sponsors for Heartland's 2009 International Conference on Climate Change had collectively received over <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institutes-2009-climate-conference-new-york-funding-history-sponsors" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">$47 million</a> from oil companies and right-wing foundations.2009Plimer Published Heaven and Earth in 2009. The book asserts that the temperature changes we have observed in the 20th century are within the “normal range of variability,” that significant global warming is not happening and that there is negligible human impact on warming.His book was received critically, having been <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009/04/the_science_is_missing_from_ia.php" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">debunked</a> numerous times by scientists.<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s13" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[13]</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s14" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[14]</a>Some critics have even <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009/10/plimer_the_plagiarist.php" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">accused Plimer of plagiarism</a>.<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s15" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> [15]</a>In his review of Heaven and Earth for The Australian, astronomer <a href="http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/_mcba/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Michael Ashley</a> wrote:<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s16" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[16]</a>“Plimer probably didn't expect an astronomer to review his book. I couldn't help noticing on page 120 an almost word-for-word reproduction of the abstract from a well-known loony paper…[that] argues that the sun isn't composed of 98 per cent hydrogen and helium, as astronomers have confirmed through a century of observation and theory, but is instead similar in composition to a meteorite. “It is hard to understate the depth of scientific ignorance that the inclusion of this information demonstrates. It is comparable to a biologist claiming that plants obtain energy from magnetism rather than photosynthesis.”The Guardian's George Monbiot criticized Plimer's book, saying “Since its publication in Australia it has been ridiculed for a hilarious series of schoolboy errors, and its fudging and manipulation of the data.” Plimer responded by challenging Monbiot to a public debate. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s17" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[17]</a> Monbiot then challenged Plimer to give a set of “precise and specific responses” to his critics' points. Plimer rejected this challenge.<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s18" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> [18]</a>Monbiot called Plimer “a grandstander, who wants nothing more than to make as much noise as possible in the hope that it will drown out the precise refutations published by his book's reviewers.” Plimer subsequently reversed his earlier refusal, saying he would answer the questions in return for a live debate. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s19" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[19]</a>Instead of answering the questions that Monbiot posed, Plimer responded with his own set of questions. No official debate was actually held.<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s20" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> [20]  </a> The two did debate, however, on ABC's Lateline in December, 2009. Monbiot concluded that Plimer had “used evasion and distraction when faced with straight questions,” and that the overall view was that “Plimer had been soundly thrashed.”<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s21" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> [21]</a>December, 2009 During the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15), Plimer spoke at a rival conference in Copenhagen called the Copenhagen Climate Challenge, which was organized by the climate change skeptic group <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Committee_for_a_Constructive_Tomorrow" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)</a>. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s22" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[22]</a>Among Plimer's arguments at the conference is how carbon dioxide is “not a pollutant, it is plant food.” See footage of Plimer <a href="http://blogs.crikey.com.au/rooted/2009/12/10/climate-change-skeptics-stage-rebel-copenhagen-conference/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CrikeyBlogs+%28Crikey+Blogs%29" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">here</a>. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s23" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[23]</a>While the UN's conference attracted 33,200, the skeptics attracted only 60 people. “They’ve got us outnumbered, but we've got them outgunned, and that’s with the truth,” Plimer said at the conclusion.<h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300;"> Affiliations</h2><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Natural_Resources_Stewardship_Project" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP) </a>— Past “Allied Expert.” The NRSPis now defunct. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s24" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[24]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_of_Public_Affairs" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) </a>— Former “Associate.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s25" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[25]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) </a>— Member, ”<a href="http://www.thegwpf.org/who-we-are/academic-advisory-council.html?start=10" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Academic Advisory Council</a>.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s26" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[26]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">The Heartland Institute </a>— “<a href="http://heartland.org/ian-plimer" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Expert.</a>” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s27" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[27]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Australian_Climate_Science_Coalition" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Australian Climate Science Coalition (ACSC)</a> — Member, “<a href="http://www.auscsc.org.au/about_us.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Scientific Advisory Panel</a>.” <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s28" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[28]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Roy Hill Holdings — Director, <a href="http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/local-business/rinehart-appoints-plimer-to-board-roles/story-e6frg2s3-1226259721980" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">appointed in January, 2012</a>. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[3]</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s29" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[29]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Queensland Coal Investments — Director, <a href="http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/local-business/rinehart-appoints-plimer-to-board-roles/story-e6frg2s3-1226259721980" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">appointed in January, 2012</a>. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[3]</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s29" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[29]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ivanhoe Australia — <a href="http://www.ivanhoeaustralia.com/s/Board_of_Directors.asp" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Director</a> (since 2007). <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s30" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[30]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Silver City Minerals Limited — Non-executive director. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s31" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[31]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">CBH Resources Ltd —<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090301180427/http://www.cbhresources.com.au/company-profile/company-directors.htm" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;"> Director</a>, 1998 - 2010. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s32" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[32]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ormil Energy Ltd — Non-Executive Director. Also holds 2,500,000 opions and indirectly holds 2,000,000 shares. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s33" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[33]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Kefi Minerals — Non-Executive Deputy Chairman. <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s34" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[34]</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">TNT Mines Ltd — Chairman, Board of Directors.  <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/ian-plimer#s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">[1]</a></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300;"> Publications</h2>According to a search of 22,000 academic journals, Plimer has published more than 40 research articles in peer-reviewed journals, mainly on the subject of ore deposits.<h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; font-weight: 300;"> Resources</h2><ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s1" id="s1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.tntmines.com.au/corporate-directors.php" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Board of Directors</a>,” TNT Mines Limited. Accessed January, 2012.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s2" id="s2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090709075523/http://www.ecms.adelaide.edu.au/civeng/staff/iplimer01.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Ian Plimer</a>,” Profile at the School of Civil, Environmental & Mining Engineering at the University of Adelaide. Archived July 9, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s3" id="s3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Andrew Burrell. “</a><a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/carbon-plan/gina-brings-climate-sceptic-on-board/story-fn99tjf2-1226260017472" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Gina brings climate sceptic on board</a>,” The Australian, February 2, 2012.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s4" id="s4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Penelope Debelle. “</a><a href="http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/why-id-put-global-warming-on-ice/story-e6frebt3-1225718191684" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Why I'd put global warming on ice</a>,” The Advertiser, May 28, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s5" id="s5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ian Plimer. “Human-induced global warming: Why I am sceptical” (</a><a href="http://friendsofginandtonic.org/assets/Plimer%2020110516.pdf" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">PDF</a>), Friends of Science, Calgary, May 16, 2011. Retreived February 2, 2012, from friendsofginandtonic.org.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s6" id="s6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.ipa.org.au/publications/1709/the-natural-history-of-climate-change" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">The natural history of climate change</a>,” IPA Review Article. Accessed February 2, 2012.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s7" id="s7" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.aussmc.org/2011/12/rapid-reaction-ian-plimer-launches-new-book-on-climate-change-%E2%80%93-experts-respond/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">RAPID REACTION: Ian Plimer launches new book on climate change – experts respond</a>,” The Australian Science Media Center, December 9, 2011.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s8" id="s8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lexi Metherell. “</a><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-13/howard-lends-support-to-anti-climate-change-book/3727650" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Howard launches 'anti-warmist manual' for kids</a>,” ABC News, December 13, 2011.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s9" id="s9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I.G. Enting. “Comments on 'How to Get Expelled from School' by Ian Plimer” (</a><a href="http://www.aussmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/plimer-book-comment-ian-enting.pdf" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">PDF</a>). Retrieved February, 2012, from the Australian Science Media Centre.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s10" id="s10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Clare Peddie. “</a><a href="http://www.news.com.au/national/climate-sceptic-targets-teachers/story-e6frfkw0-1226220417543#ixzz1ulhDAQAO" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">'How to get expelled': Climate sceptic recruits kids</a>,” news.com.au, December 13, 2011.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s11" id="s11" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="http://www.climatechange.gov.au/sites/climatechange/files/documents/03_2013/prof-plimer-answers.pdf" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">“Accurate Answers to Professor Plimer's 101 Climate Change Science Questions,” (PDF)</a>, Australian Government Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s12" id="s12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“4th International Conference on Climate Change” (</a><a href="http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/LGOULD/Heartland%20Fourth%20International%20Conf_FullConferenceProgram.pdf" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">PDF</a>), The Heartland Institute. Retrieved February 2, 2012, from University of Hartford web server.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s13" id="s13" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009/04/the_science_is_missing_from_ia.php" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">The science is missing from Ian Plimer's 'Heaven and Earth'</a>,” Deltoid, April 23, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s14" id="s14" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">John Cook. “</a><a href="http://skepticalscience.com/Plimer-vs-Plimer-one-man-contradiction.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Plimer vs Plimer: a one man contradiction</a>,” Skeptical Science, December 9, 2011.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s15" id="s15" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tim Lambert. “</a><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009/10/plimer_the_plagiarist.php" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Plimer the plagiarist</a>,” Deltoid, October 25, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s16" id="s16" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Michael Ashely. “</a><a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/ian-plimer-heaven-and-earth/story-e6frg8no-1225710387147" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">No science in Plimer's primer</a>,” The Australian, May 9, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s17" id="s17" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">George Monbiot. “</a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/jul/09/george-monbiot-ian-plimer" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Spectator recycles climate rubbish published by sceptic</a>,” The Guardian, July 5, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s18" id="s18" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">George Monbiot. “</a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/aug/05/climate-change-scepticism" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Let battle commence! Climate change denialist ready for the fight</a>,”The Guardian, August 6, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s19" id="s19" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">George Monbiot. “</a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/aug/03/ian-plimer-climate-change-denial" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Why can't the champion of climate change denial face the music?</a>,”The Guardian, August 3, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s20" id="s20" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">George Monbiot. “</a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/aug/12/climate-change-climate-change-scepticism" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Plimer resorts to attack as the best form of defence</a>,” The Guardian, August 12, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s21" id="s21" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">George Monbiot. “</a><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/dec/16/ian-plimer-versus-george-monbiot" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Ian Plimer's volcano claims vaporise under questioning on Australian TV</a>,” The Guardian, December, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s22" id="s22" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Giles Parkinson. “</a><a href="http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/COPENHAGEN-CALLING-Bolstering-Barack-pd20091209-YJR3A?OpenDocument&src=sph" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">COPENHAGEN CALLING: Bolstering Barack</a>,” Business Spectator, December 9, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s23" id="s23" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Matthew Knott. “</a><a href="http://blogs.crikey.com.au/rooted/2009/12/10/climate-change-skeptics-stage-rebel-copenhagen-conference/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CrikeyBlogs+%28Crikey+Blogs%29" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Climate Change skeptics stage rebel Copenhagen conference</a>,”Crikey, December 10, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s24" id="s24" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070206072147/http://www.nrsp.com/people.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">NRSP People</a>,” The Natural Resources Stewardship Project. Archived February 6, 2007.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s25" id="s25" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://ipa.org.au/people/ian-plimer" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">People & associates</a>,” Institute of Public Affairs. Accessed January, 2012. Archived by WebCite® at <<a href="http://www.webcitation.org/658snItLT" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://www.webcitation.org/658snItLT</a>>.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s26" id="s26" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.thegwpf.org/who-we-are/academic-advisory-council.html?start=10" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Academic Advisory Council</a>,” The Gobal Warming Policy Foundation. Accessed January, 2012. Archived by WebCite® at <<a href="http://www.webcitation.org/658vkk8Y4" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://www.webcitation.org/658vkk8Y4</a>>.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s27" id="s27" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://heartland.org/ian-plimer" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Heartland Experts: Ian Plimer</a>,” Accessed January, 2012. Archived by WebCite® at <<a href="http://www.webcitation.org/658wnGs7A" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">http://www.webcitation.org/658wnGs7A</a>>.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s28" id="s28" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.auscsc.org.au/about_us.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">About Us</a>,” Australian Climate Science Coalition. Accessed February, 2012.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s29" id="s29" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nick Evans. “</a><a href="http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/local-business/rinehart-appoints-plimer-to-board-roles/story-e6frg2s3-1226259721980" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Gina Rinehart appoints Prof Ian Plimer to two boards</a>,” PerthNow, February 1, 2012.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s30" id="s30" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.ivanhoeaustralia.com/s/Board_of_Directors.asp" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Board of Directors</a>,” Ivanhoe Australia. Accessed January, 2012.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s31" id="s31" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Mines and Money London: Australia Day Presentation” (</a><a href="http://www.minesandmoney.com/london/pdf/presentations/2011/australia-day/16%20-%20Silver%20City%20mines%20&%20money%20v2.pdf" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">PDF</a>), Mining Journal Investor Seminars, December 5, 2011.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s32" id="s32" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090301180427/http://www.cbhresources.com.au/company-profile/company-directors.htm" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Company Directors</a>,” CBH Resources Limited. Archived March 1, 2009.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s33" id="s33" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Ormil-Energy-director-takes-up-rights-AV77N?OpenDocument" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Ormil Energy director takes up rights</a>,” Business Spectator, November 4, 2010.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s34" id="s34" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.kefi-minerals.com/board.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Board of Directors</a>,” Kefi Minerals. Accessed January, 2012.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Plimer" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Ian Plimer</a>,” Wikipedia Entry.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ian_Plimer" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Ian Plimer</a>,” SourceWatch Profile.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=1314" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Ian Plimer</a>.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a name="s38" id="s38" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“</a><a href="http://www.webcitation.org/6PQGI4NDY" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Not for Greens: He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon</a>,” Ian Plimer, Connor Court Publishing, May 30, 2014. Archived May 8, 2014.</li></ol></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-14 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.389999985694885px; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="field-label" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold;">Tags: </div><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tags/institute-of-public-affairs" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">Institute of Public Affairs</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/tags/nrsp" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;">NRSP</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/654" style="margin: 0px; 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