Ian Plimer

Ian Rutherford Plimer ( born April 12, 1946) is an Australian geoscientists, mining entrepreneur and climate skeptics.

Plimer grew up in Sydney and studied mining engineering at the University of New South Wales with a Bachelor 's degree in 1968 and in 1976 his PhD at Macquarie University in Geology (The pipe deposits of tungsten - molybdenum - bismuth in eastern Australia). 1968 to 1973 he was tutor at Macquarie University and then to 1979 Lecturer in Geology at the University of New South Wales. After that he went as chief geologist for the mining company North Broken Hill Ltd.. In 1982 he became Senior Lecturer in Economic Geology at the University of New England and in 1984 professor of geology at the University of Newcastle. From 1991 he was professor at the University of Melbourne, starting in 2005 as Professor Emeritus.

He was director of a number of mining companies in Australia. Plimer is also a critic of a policy of curbing greenhouse gases emerged, especially of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC ). He holds the carbon dioxide emissions by volcanoes (especially undersea volcanoes ) contrary to the opinion of the majority of scientists for much more important than human-induced increase, and principally extreme climate changes for normal and inevitable. He also holds other influences such as the sun for underestimated, shown in his book Heaven and Earth: Global Warming -the missing science of 2009, which became a bestseller.

Plimer is known in Australia as a critic of creationism, which he the book Telling Lies for God: Reason vs Creationism published (1994).

He 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 and Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of London. Plimer is a member of the Royal Society of South Australia, the Royal Society of New South Wales and the Royal Society of Victoria. It is connected with the conservative Australian think tank Institute of Public Affairs.

In 1998 he received the Leopold von Buch- badge, 2004, the Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales and the 2001 Australian Centennary Medal. 1995 and 2002 he won the Eureka Prize.

With Richard Selley and Robin Cocks, he is editor of the Encyclopedia of Geology.

Writings

• A short history of planet earth, ABC Books 2001