Ian R. Plimer (born February 12, 1946), a mining geologist, mining company director and
anthropogenic global warming denier with no evident expertise in climate science, has written the "denier's bible", a book called
Heaven and Earth, which makes mutually-inconsistent claims[SUP]
[2][/SUP] and was panned as being riddled with errors. In 2011 he wrote the "anti-warmist manual"
How to Get Expelled From School: A guide to climate change for pupils, parents and punters, which reviewers found to be full of scientific errors, containing flawed and undocumented diagrams, and sloppily edited.[SUP]
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Anti-science affiliations - IPA, NRSP, GWPF
Plimer is listed as an associate of the
Institute of Public Affairs,[SUP]
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[8][/SUP] a conservative
think tank with close ties to the
Liberal Party of Australia.[SUP]
[9][/SUP] In 2007, Plimer was listed as an "allied expert" for the
Natural Resources Stewardship Project, a Canadian anti-
Kyoto Protocol advocacy group.[SUP]
[10][/SUP] In November 2009, Plimer was named as a member of the academic advisory council for
Nigel Lawson's global warming skeptic group, the
Global Warming Policy Foundation.[SUP]
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Conflicts of interest
Plimer is a director of seven mining companies:
Ivanhoe Australia, a subsidiary of
Bob Friedland's
Ivanhoe Mines,[SUP]
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CBH Resources,[SUP]
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Kefi Minerals,[SUP]
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[14][/SUP] Australia-based coal gas company, Ormil Energy,[SUP]
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Gina Rinehart's Hope Downs iron ore mine.[SUP]
[16][/SUP] He is also a director of Rinehart's
Roy Hill Holdings and
Queensland Coal Investments.
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In 2012, Plimer was appointed to the boards of
Roy Hill Holdings,
Queensland Coal Investments and the new Hope Downs iron ore mine by Australia's richest woman,
Gina Rinehart. Rinehart, like Plimer an AGW denier, is openly contemptuous of any attempts to constrain greenhouse gas emissions.[SUP]
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Makeup of Sun
In his review of
Heaven and Earth for The Australian, astronomer Michael Ashley
[1] wrote:[SUP]
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"Plimer probably didn't expect an astronomer to review his book. I couldn't help noticing on page120 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."
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