Professor Ian Plimer
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So we know that from chemistry.
We know it from looking at our soft drinks.
We know it from the ice cores.
That's an absolutely, totally different story to what we're told, simply because it doesn't follow the popular paradigm.
Well, science works like that.
I mentioned Broken Hill earlier.
I had published probably 60 or 80 papers on Broken Hill.
There was a new mineral found some 15 years ago by some scientists at Broken Hill.
They named it after me because of my work on Broken Hill.
And I am the authority on Broken Hill, and I've published a sequence of papers.
And then when I went back and looked at the data and looked at new data, I thought, wait a minute, I don't think I'm right here.
And so I went back and spent years to go back and look at this data and get new data.
And I published a paper criticising all of my earlier work, saying I was wrong, that this is a better interpretation.
Now, that's the way science works.
You might come to a conclusion, but it's only tentative.
And with more data, more thinking, more calculation, you'll come to a different answer.
Now, Bill Gates is clearly thinking that economically that this is nonsense with the amount of energy that he needs for AI.
But many scientists are doing this in their life.
When they get a little bit on in life, they will change their views on many things.
It's based on thinking and it's based on new data, or it might be based on the fact that they're no longer employed by an institute.