Sunday, May 17, 2009
Semester almost over
Uni is getting extremely busy with only 3 weeks until my first exam. I've managed to slip behind a little because of other commitments but i'm sure il get through. And once exams are over i am going to New Zealand to ski Mt Hutt with a few mates. It's only for a week but i can't wait. Back to the study!
Friday, May 1, 2009
New Leader's Conference
On wednesday and Thursday i attended the AusIMM New Leader's Conference in Brisbane. The conference had some pretty interesting speakers, for me especially on the Thursday when David Archibald and M. Roberts both gave presentations disproving global warming as a result of CO2 emissions. According to each of them, temperature in the last decade has actually dropped, and will continue to drop based on a correlation between the Sun's solar cycles and temperature. David Archibald also suggested that the affect of CO2 in the atmosphere and temperature increase has a logarithmic relationship - meaning that even if we were to burn all the fossil fuels available on Earth, only a minuscule temperature increase would result.
Both presentations were quite convincing. I have always been skeptical about global warming and felt as though anything i have ever read on the topic never gives any solid proof of it. However these presentations seemed to give solid proof that in fact the Earth will experience cooling in the near future. The implications of this are pretty scary with the Emissions trading scheme looming - if it came into practice it could potentially unnessarily wipeout a large portion of the coal industry, a significant part of the Australian economy. I am interested to read some more articles about climate change now that i have heard a bit of the other side of the story. I guess i am still sitting on the fence, but i think i have definitely been sauded against the global warming theory.
Aside from that, the conference gave a good insight into what its like to work as a young engineer, and some of the problems and challenges my genreation will face in the future, and would reccomend attendance to anyone next year. Just become a member of AusIMM (it only costs 11 bucks a year for a student) and you should gain some access to things like this.
Have a good one
Both presentations were quite convincing. I have always been skeptical about global warming and felt as though anything i have ever read on the topic never gives any solid proof of it. However these presentations seemed to give solid proof that in fact the Earth will experience cooling in the near future. The implications of this are pretty scary with the Emissions trading scheme looming - if it came into practice it could potentially unnessarily wipeout a large portion of the coal industry, a significant part of the Australian economy. I am interested to read some more articles about climate change now that i have heard a bit of the other side of the story. I guess i am still sitting on the fence, but i think i have definitely been sauded against the global warming theory.
Aside from that, the conference gave a good insight into what its like to work as a young engineer, and some of the problems and challenges my genreation will face in the future, and would reccomend attendance to anyone next year. Just become a member of AusIMM (it only costs 11 bucks a year for a student) and you should gain some access to things like this.
Have a good one
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