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Louis Hissink

Louis Hissink (MSc, Macquarie University) is a consulting diamond geologist, formerly of John Taylors, Western Mining Corporation Ltd and De Beers. He has worked for other companies but embarrassment precludes their identification.

Louis was recently made Editor of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists Newsletter

Usually found during the winter months somewhere out in the far Kimberley in northern Western Australia living out of a swag with his 4WD motor bike looking for diamond pipes, or more recently in the goldfields of WA.

His free time is spent researching ancient history, writing comments on environmental or mining matters and, as frequently happens, re-installing the operating system on the computer. He is a book worm and writes book reviews for Henry

Request Second Opinion »

Alan Fels, a Portrait in power, by Fred Brenchley

I was given this book as a gift recently and thought it to be another boring bit of self publicit »

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Subject:	Editing
Posted by:	Louis Hissink
Date:	12/17/2003
I criticise myself for bad editing. Baaad boy - but since moving to Openoffice, all sorts of strange things seem to occur with documents.

Al Gore on the environment

I notice Henry comments that the US is starting&n »

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Subject:	Al Gore's Pictures
Posted by:	Louis Hissink
Date:	1/19/2004
Having forced myself last night to watch Gore's Address via the webcast, I have never watched such inaccurate, emotive, false and misleading propaganda. Michael Crichton is dead right - it is a religious belief, and thus unchallengeable. OMG :-(

Subject:	Al Gore
Posted by:	Ghengis Khan
Date:	2/20/2004
Modesty precludes a remark

Mining in crisis

The mining chickens are finally coming home to roost from the laying of dud eggs back in 1990 when t »

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Subject:	Geoligists
Posted by:	Louis Hissink
Date:	2/29/2004
We define a new term - "geoligist", geologist who is employed by Blue Sky Mines NL types, and prone to dodgy ore reserves, over optimistic project evaluations and other nefarious activities often described by Pierpont in his capacity as a director of Blue Sky Mines NL.

Minerals Exploration in Australia – with what geological resources ?

There is some bizarre view that mineral exploration in Australia is picking up. Is it? With »

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Subject:
Posted by:	Nicholas Raffan
Date:	5/26/2004
I wonder why the shortage of geos does not show up in the job adds. There sure is a huge shortage of exp drillers.The world's 2nd largest contactor was only doing 30m/day RC in Erritrea.

Subject:
Posted by:	Louis Hissink
Date:	5/26/2004
Plenty of young geologists, but none want to do field work. De Beers cannot find field geologists, for example, and one young geo I know got a job in Kalgoorlie because no one else wanted to go to Kal. But generally this is the ground noise in the industry.

Climate Science Baloney

The provocative article by Mark L »

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Subject:	Update
Posted by:	Louis Hissink
Date:	5/29/2004
As is always the case, after one writes the article, new data come along to add further weight to the argument - it now seems that our climate changers have been cooking the books since 1938 - read this paper here. The site has a link to the pds document.

Subject:	CO2 levels
Posted by:	Louis Hissink
Date:	6/12/2004
Clearly no one has questioned my figure 0.33% CO2 by volume - actually it is 0.033% CO2 in the earth's atmosphere by volume - which makes the effect even more trivial.

Howard`s energy policy

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Subject:	Russia and Kyoto
Posted by:	Louis Hissink
Date:	6/18/2004
It seems from the lack of reaction that any statement on global warming and signing or not signing Kyoto seems not to affect anyone. This is what I suspected - it has been overplayed so that any comment is now ignored. I wonder if this means that like its predecessor global cooling, it might silently implode? Fingers crossed.

Subject:	Thank you
Posted by:	Sean
Date:	7/18/2006
What a story. We need more of the same. The very existence of civilisation depends upon vastly increasing the numbers of people who think the way you do, Louis. Otherwise, we really are doomed. The way that our society is "thinking" is self-destructive. You've hit a lot of nails on the head.

Epidemiologists and charlatans

The epidemiologists – Have they got the scares for you! By John Brignell, Brignell and Associates »

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Subject:	Error
Posted by:	Louis Hissink
Date:	6/19/2004
The Holocaust was foot and moth disease - so this reviewer obviously must have had a mild case while writing the review. Of course whether foot in mouth or mad cow, the procedures would not have been any different.

The Galloping Gourmet out west.

The yearly ritual of mobilising to the field from Perth to the Kimberley started without a hitch »

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Kununurra via Turkey Creek

Another round of exploration and further travels - and Alarums - there is global warming at EL Qu »

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SMERSH Science watch – week ending 17 October 2004.

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Subject:	CO2
Posted by:	Nicholas Raffan
Date:	10/19/2004
Good on Louis, very informing but perhaps as good geos know, earth solves the CO2 problem (too much of it)rather easily by precipitating limestone. God I love driving my V8.

Weekly Science Roundup 7 November 2004

But first the latest climate scare to be published on 9 November - that "Greenhouse gases have co »

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