UK shows challenges of renewable energy

Dear member,

Without reliable, affordable electricity the world we know today would not exist. For years coal has provided that electricity in Queensland, but over the next 30 years or less that is slated to change with wind and solar being recruited to do the work instead.

But the "energy transition" is a complicated engineering exercise, and no country demonstrates how difficult it can be better than the United Kingdom.

Which is why we would like to invite you as a member of the state parliament to lunch at the Brisbane Club with our guest Dr Benny Peiser, Executive Director and co-founder of the UK's Global Warming Policy Foundation, on Wednesday April 27, 2022.

Benny is conducting a world tour talking about energy issues, and comes to Australia after visiting the USA. He will talk about what Australia can learn from the UK. This is important information for state politicians as electricity tends to be a state responsibility. Click here to book.

The GWPF was co-founded in 2009 by Dr Peiser and Lord Nigel Lawson of Blaby, who was Margaret Thatcher's Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is a climate realist organisation and believes CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and that, all other things being equal, increasing its concentration in the atmosphere will make the earth a little hotter. How hot, and what do to about the greenhouse effect, are entirely different questions, and the science and the policy are far from settled.

Benny is a real Renaissance man, so expect a very deep and interesting address. As an example of his breadth of interests his name is literally written in the sky with a minor planet bearing his name, in honour of his work on "near earth objects and impact hazards". He is a former member of the German Greens and holds a PhD in Cultural Studies for a thesis examining the history, archaeology and natural history of Greek problems at the time of the ancient Olympic Games.

Date: April 27, 12:00 for 12:30 pm
Venue: The Brisbane Club, 241 Adelaide Street, Brisbane 4001
Cost: $165 General ($135 for AIP members); $100 Student; $1,350 tables of 10. Includes drinks and two-course meal.

To book click here.

Look forward to seeing you there.

Regards,

GRAHAM YOUNG
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR