Ian Plimer



















Ian Plimer
Born
(1946-02-12) 12 February 1946 (age 73)
ResidenceAustralia
NationalityAustralian
Alma mater
University of New South Wales, Macquarie University
Awards
Eureka Prize (1995, 2002), Centenary Medal (2003), Clarke Medal (2004)
Scientific career
Fields
Earth Science, Geology, Mining Engineering
Institutions
University of New England, University of Newcastle, University of Melbourne, University of Adelaide
Thesis
The pipe deposits of tungsten-molybdenum-bismuth in eastern Australia (1973)

Ian Rutherford Plimer (born 12 February 1946) is an Australian geologist, professor emeritus of earth sciences at the University of Melbourne,[1] previously a professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide,[2] and the director of multiple mineral exploration and mining companies.[3] He has published many scientific papers, six books and is one of the co-editors of Encyclopedia of Geology.[4][5] He has been a critic of both creationism and the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change.




Contents





  • 1 Early life and education


  • 2 Career

    • 2.1 Business career



  • 3 Views on climate change

    • 3.1 Volcanoes and CO2


    • 3.2 Heaven and Earth


    • 3.3 Copenhagen Climate Challenge


    • 3.4 El Niño, earthquakes and sea levels


    • 3.5 Political influence



  • 4 Critic of creationism

    • 4.1 Book: Telling Lies for God


    • 4.2 Court case



  • 5 Awards


  • 6 Bibliography


  • 7 References


  • 8 External links




Early life and education


Ian Plimer grew up in Sydney and attended Normanhurst Boys High School.[6] He earned a B.Sc. (Hons) in mining engineering at the University of New South Wales in 1968,[6] and a Ph.D. in Geology at Macquarie University[7] in 1976.[8] His doctoral thesis (from 1973) was titled, The pipe deposits of tungsten-molybdenum-bismuth in eastern Australia.[8]



Career


Ian Plimer started as a tutor and senior tutor in earth
sciences at Macquarie University from 1968 to 1973.[9][10] After finishing his Ph.D., he became a lecturer in geology at the W.S. and L.B. Robinson University College of the University of New South Wales at Broken Hill from 1974 to 1979.[9][10] Plimer then went to work for North Broken Hill Ltd. between 1979 and 1982, becoming chief research geologist.[6][9][10] Due to his publication of a number of academic papers, he was offered a job as senior lecturer in economic geology at the University of New England in 1982.[6][9][10] After two years, he left to become a professor and head of geology at the University of Newcastle through 1991.[3][6] Plimer later served as professor and head of geology of the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne from 1991 to 2005.[3][6] He was conferred as professor emeritus of earth sciences at the University of Melbourne in 2005,[2] and was a professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide.[1][3][11]


He is a member of the academic advisory council for the Global Warming Policy Foundation,[12] a member of Australians for Northern Development & Economic Vision (ANDEV),[13] and was an allied expert for the Natural Resources Stewardship Project.[14]


Plimer 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;[7] an honorary fellow of the Geological Society of London;[7][15] a member of the Geological Society of Australia, the Royal Society of South Australia, the Royal Society of New South Wales and the Royal Society of Victoria.[7]



Business career


Plimer is the former non-executive director of CBH Resources Limited from 1998 to 2010, former non-executive director of Angel Mining plc from 2003 to 2005, former director of Kimberley Metals Limited from 2008 to 2009, former director of KBL Mining Limited from 2008 to 2009 and former director of Ormil Energy Limited from 2010 to 2011.[3][16]


He is currently the non-executive deputy chairman of KEFI Minerals since 2006,[17] independent non-executive director of Ivanhoe Australia Limited since 2007,[18] chairman of TNT Mines Limited since 2010,[11][19] non-executive director of Niuminco Group Limited (formerly DSF International Holdings Limited) since 2011,[20][21] and non-executive director of Silver City Minerals Limited since 2011.[3][16][22][23][24] Plimer was appointed director of Roy Hill Holdings and Queensland Coal Investments in 2012.[25]


According to a columnist in The Age, Plimer earned over $400,000 (AUD) from several of these companies, and he has mining shares and options worth hundreds of thousands of Australian dollars.[26] Plimer has stated that his business interests do not affect the independence of his beliefs.[22] He has also warned that the proposed Australian carbon-trading scheme could decimate the Australian mining industry.[6][27]



Views on climate change



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Carbon dioxide has an effect on the atmosphere and it has an effect for the first 50 parts per million and once it's done its job then it's finished and you can double it and quadruple it and it has no effect because we've seen that in the geological past, and we've seen it in times gone by when the carbon dioxide content was 100 times the current content. We didn't have runaway global warming, we actually had glaciation, so there's immediately a disconnect. So carbon dioxide is absolutely vital for living on earth; it's plant food, all of life lives off carbon dioxide. To demonise it shows that you don't understand school child science.

Ian Plimer, interviewed on ABNNewswire, June 2009[28]



Plimer accuses the environmental movement of being irrational, and says that the vast bulk of the scientific community, including most major scientific academies, is prejudiced by the prospect of research funding. He characterised the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as: "The IPCC process is related to environmental activism, politics and opportunism" and "the IPCC process is unrelated to science".[29] He is critical of greenhouse gas politics and says that extreme environmental changes are inevitable.[citation needed] Climatologists consider him a skeptic on climate change who misrepresents their data.[30] Other scientists, such as Donald Prothero another geologist, have reviewed similar data to Ian Plimer and have reached different conclusions [31][32]



Volcanoes and CO2


Plimer has said that volcanic eruptions release more carbon dioxide (CO2) than human activity; in particular that submarine volcanoes emit large amounts of CO2 and that the influence of the gases from these volcanoes on the Earth's climate is under-represented in climate models.[33][34][35] The United States Geological Survey has calculated that human emissions of CO2 are about 130 times larger than volcanic emissions, including submarine emissions.[36][37][38] The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) stated that Plimer's claim "has no factual basis."[39] This was confirmed in a 2011 survey published in the Eos journal of the American Geophysical Union, which found that anthropogenic emissions of CO2 are 135 times larger than those from all volcanoes on Earth.[40] A 2015 study from The Earth Institute at Columbia University published in Geophysical Research Letters says activity from undersea volcanoes varies with tide, with greater activity at neap tide, and with more activity in ice ages with their lower sea levels. Dr. Maya Tolstoy, who conducted the study, says this might explain abrupt ends to ice ages.[41]



Heaven and Earth


Main article: "Heaven and Earth"

In 2009, Plimer released Heaven and Earth, a book in which he says that climate models focus too strongly on the effects of carbon dioxide, and do not give the weight he thinks is appropriate to other factors such as solar variation.[42] The aim of the book is to belittle the impact of humans on Earth by clouting all the other science like a blunt instrument, as in Plimer's words "I wanted to kill an ant with a sledgehammer." [43] Critics of the book have accused Plimer of misrepresenting sources,[44] misusing data,[45][46] and engaging in conspiracy theories.[47][48] Some critics have also described the book as unscientific,[49] and said that it contains numerous errors from which Plimer draws false conclusions.[50][51][52][53][54][55][56]



Copenhagen Climate Challenge


During the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15), Plimer spoke at a rival conference in Copenhagen for sceptics, called the Copenhagen Climate Challenge,[57] which was organised by the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow[58][59] and attended by 60 people.[57] According to The Australian newspaper, Plimer was a star attraction of the two-day event.[60] In closing his speech, Plimer stated that "They’ve got us outnumbered, but we’ve got them outgunned, and that’s with the truth."[57]



El Niño, earthquakes and sea levels


Plimer has stated that El Niño is caused by earthquakes and volcanic activity at the mid-ocean ridges and that the melting of polar ice has nothing to do with man-made carbon dioxide.[61] Plimer told Radio Australia that Pacific island nations are seeing changes in relative sea level not because of global warming but quite commonly due to other factors, such as "vibration consolidating the coral island sands", extraction of water, and extraction of sand for road and air strip making.[62]



Political influence


In 2009, Plimer was cited by the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, Tony Abbott,[63] in dismissing the IPCC and its findings:


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I think that in response to the IPCC alarmist — in inverted commas — view, there've been quite a lot of other reputable scientific voices. Now not everyone agrees with Ian Plimer's position, but he is a highly credible scientist and he has written what seems like a very well-argued book refuting most of the claims of the climate catastrophists.


— Tony Abbott, The Sydney Morning Herald


By 2011, Abbott had modified his position and stated that climate change is real and humanity makes a contribution to it.[64]


In early 2010, Plimer and Christopher Monckton toured Australia giving lectures on climate change,[65] and Plimer's views came to be associated with Monckton's claim that the international left created the threat of catastrophic global warming. On this association, left-wing columnist Phillip Adams commented: "Praise the lord for Lord Monckton! For Ian Plimer! For [conservative columnist] Andrew Bolt! Not only does this evil axis of scientists tell lies [about the Greenhouse Effect] but they've also doctored the weather to frighten people with huge droughts, cyclones and tsunamis to prove what they now call 'global warming'."[66] Plimer’s book Not for Greens[67] expanded this view, in their review for this book by publishers Connorcourt Publishing state “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.”[68] Climate scientist Ian McHugh has disputed a number of the scientific claims in the book.[69]



Critic of creationism


Plimer is an outspoken critic of creationism and is famous for a 1988 debate with creationist Duane Gish in which he asked his opponent to hold live electrical cables to prove that electromagnetism was 'only a theory'. Gish accused him of being theatrical, abusive and slanderous.[70]


In 1990 Plimer's anti-creationist behaviour were criticised in Creation/Evolution journal,[71] in an article titled "How Not to Argue with Creationists"[72] by skeptic and anti-creationist Jim Lippard for (among other things) including false claims and errors, and "behaving poorly" in the 1988 Gish debate.



Book: Telling Lies for God


In his book Telling Lies for God: Reason vs Creationism (1994), Plimer attacked creationists in Australia, in specific the Queensland-based Creation Science Foundation (now called Creation Ministries International or CMI), saying that claims of a Biblical global flood are untenable.[73] In the book he also criticised aspects of traditional Christian belief and literal interpretations of the Bible, with chapters titled "Scientific Fraud: The Great Flood of Absurdities" and "Disinformation Doublespeak".[70]



Court case


In the late 1990s, Plimer went to court alleging misleading and deceptive advertising under the Trade Practices Act 1974 against Noah's Ark searcher Allen Roberts,[73] arising from Plimer's attacks on Roberts' claims concerning the location of Noah's Ark. Before the trial, Plimer was removed by police from public meetings at which Roberts spoke.[70] The court ruled that Roberts' claims did not constitute trade or commerce, and so were not covered by the act. It found that Roberts had indeed made false and misleading claims on two of 16 instances cited by Plimer, Plimer had failed to show the other 14, and the two were minor enough to not require remedy. Plimer lost the case,[74] and was ordered to pay his own and Roberts' legal costs estimated at over 500,000 Australian dollars.[75][76]



Awards


  • 1994 - Daley Prize, for communication of science, Australian Museum [7]

  • 1994 - Goldfields Prize, for best paper in Institution of Mining and Metallurgy [7]

  • 1995 - Eureka Prize, for promotion of science, Australian Museum [7][77]

  • 1995 - Australian Humanist of the Year, Humanist Society of New South Wales [7][78]

  • 1998 - Leopold-von-Buch-Plakette, German Geological Society [7]

  • 2001 - Centenary Medal, Australian Government [7][79]

  • 2002 - Eureka Prize, for best science book - A Short History of Planet Earth, Australian Museum [7][80]

  • 2004 - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales [7][81]

  • 2005 - Rio Tinto Award, for Mining Excellence [7]

  • 2005 - Sir Willis Connolly Medal, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy [7][82]

  • 2009 - 'Plimerite' a new phosphate mineral named in honor of Plimer for his contributions to the geology of ore deposits, in particular the Broken Hill deposit.[83][84][85]


Bibliography



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    ISBN 0909209065)


  • Telling lies for God - reason vs creationism, Ian Plimer, Random House, Sydney, 1994 (
    ISBN 0-09-182852-X)


  • Minerals and rocks of the Broken Hill, White Cliffs and Tibooburra districts : a guide to the rocks and minerals of the Broken Hill district, Ian Plimer, Peacock Publications, Norwood, S. Aust., 1994 (
    ISBN 0909209731)


  • A journey through stone : the Chillagoe story, the extraordinary history and geology of one of the richest mineral deposits in the world, Ian Plimer, Reed Books, Kew, Vic., 1997 (
    ISBN 0730104990)


  • A short history of planet Earth, Ian Plimer, ABC Books, 2001 (
    ISBN 0-7333-1004-4)


  • Heaven and Earth, Ian Plimer, Quartet Books (1 May 2009 hardcover
    ISBN 978-0-7043-7166-8) and Taylor Trade Publishing, Lanham, MD, (July 2009 Paperback
    ISBN 978-1-58979-472-6)


  • Not for greens: he who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon, Ian Pilmer, Connor Court Pub., Ballarat, Vic., 2014 (
    ISBN 9781925138191)


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External links





  • Ian Plimer interview with Brian Carlton (ABN Newswire, 12 December 2009)


  • Ian Plimer: Man vs Nature - Who emits more CO2? on YouTube (EIKE, 4 December 2010)




Awards
Preceded by
Lesley Joy Rogers

Clarke Medal
2004
Succeeded by
Mark Westoby







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