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About Allan Yeomans
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Experience
Author of PRIORITY ONE Together We can Beat Global Warming. Published as paper-back in US and hard-cover in Australia. Agricultural consultant both in Australia and the US. Aviation meteorologist and lecturer.

Organizations
American Association for the Advancement of Science Australian Gliding Association

Publications
Various agricultural magazines and newspapers.

Education/Credentials
No degree, but post graduate work on nuclear physics and early computer designs at Dept of Physics, University of Sydney. Numerous lectures and presentations at colleges both in Australia and the US.

Awards and Honors
Several agricultural design awards at the Australian National Agricultural Field Days. Winner Queensland Gold Coast City 2001 Innovation Design Award

   

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Changes in Earth's Orbit10/6/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: With all of the raw materials that have been taken out of the earth, some for a few hundred ...
  A: No mass is removed from the Earth itself, unless you count sending missions to Mars. Human ...
Hurricanes, Tornados, Typhoons and Burning Oil9/9/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: Why is global warming attributed only to the release of carbon dioxide? Published figures for oil ...
  A: Sorry but the estimates or “published figures” are wrong. Those figures for the heating ...
Totally Solving Climate Change!8/20/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: how do protect our world from global warming? what are the main reasons for pollution in soil,water ...
  A: It's easy. We simply stop using fossil fuel, that’s coal, oil and gas to power our society. That ...
Global Warming, Train or Plane?8/18/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: My question is : What would be the way to travel from southern France to Denmark (around 2500km)the ...
  A: Is heroin better as a tablet or an injection? Either way it’s bad for you, or the planet. The ...
Keeping The Blinkers On For Global Warming8/15/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: Allan, Is there such a group, or a non profit organization, or others, who is allowing the ...
  A: To halt global warming we simply cease mining buried carbon and dumping it in the atmosphere ...
New Fresh Water Availability8/11/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: Is the water system for earth a closed system. Does the same rain fall, gather in rivers, flow to ...
  A: In the time frame of human existence that’s about 100,000 years, yes you are right, the ...
Objects in the sun7/7/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: What is the maximum temperature that the Sun could heat an object on the earth?
  A: As an object exposed to the sun rises in temperature it increases its own radiation heat. In ...
Terra Preta and Landfills.7/6/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: "Due to the increases of the amounts of landfill in our environment, are there something that we ...
  A: Most of the major cities in Europe and the Middle East are built on what amounts to the land ...
Night and Day CO2 Levels6/24/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: . Why are CO2 levels in the atmosphere higher during the day than during the night?
  A: Tropical rainforests during the day absorb atmospheric CO2 and emit oxygen. During the night ...
Carbon Credits and Rickshaws6/13/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: i would like to know about carbon credits,specifically: 1.what are carbon credits? 2.how are they ...
  A: Carbon credits are currently being traded at between one dollar US and two dollars US per ton ...
Impacts of Global Warming6/12/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: what impact does global warming have on humans, wildlife, and the environment? give at least two ...
  A: The major effect of global warming is that it alters the temperature gradients in the ...
Predicting Sea Levels5/24/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: Can you tell me please the estimated number of people who will be displaced as a result of rising ...
  A: There will be millions. Just how many is anybody’s guess. The numbers are always minimized ...
Ice and Earth's Rotation5/19/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: how will the ice melt affect the rotation of the earth arctic ice weight on top of world ...
  A: Imagine the world as a spinning steel ball eight inches in diameter. One thousandths of an inch ...
Sea Levels or Weather, Worst?5/14/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: Sir, The temperature is increasing every year, What is the average temperature that can melt all ...
  A: Some ice formations are thousands of feet thick. They won’t vanish even in a thousand year. ...
Are Hybrid Cars Useful4/28/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: I just wanted to know a little about global warming and the basic facts. thank you for your time.
  A: A small quantity of greenhouse gases in the air traps some sunlight energy in the lower levels ...
Foggy Breath4/27/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: since the smoking ban came into force,ive been having to spend quite a bit of time outside,,i ...
  A: This is not a global warming issue and I personally am all about ending global warming. See my ...
Speed Limits and Global Warming4/23/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: Someone told me that lowering the speed limit to 55 m.p.h. like they did in the seventies (in the ...
  A: Ending global warming means switching to biofuels. And ending global warming and halting climate ...
Interglacial Periods and Global Warming4/6/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: The earth has experienced global warming in the past, when humans were not on the earth. What caused ...
  A: The Earth goes through ice ages and interglacial periods about every 100,000 years. This is the ...
Ozone Atmospherics Effects4/2/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: how does ozone affect any ecosystem?
  A: Ozone is three atoms of oxygen combined to form a single molecule. It is moderately unstable ...
CO2 Emissions From Breathing3/27/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: How much CO2 does an average human being produce, in g/km - at rest (g/hour, then) - walking - ...
  A: Everybody will have a different personal production rate of carbon dioxide and it will vary ...
Other Sea Level Effects3/25/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: Not withstanding the melting of 'land based' ice masses raising the global sea level. How have other ...
  A: Those effects, shipping, waste disposal etc. into oceans - the rises would be measured in ...
Pessimism or Hope3/20/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: First and foremost I have read your previous answers and basically I agree with your ideas. Using ...
  A: Pessimism or Hope Promoting disinformation, confusion, doubt and creeping inevitability are the ...
Kuwait and Global Warming2/13/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: what changes in KUWAIT will happen in effect with climate change and global warming? will kuwait ...
  A: Kuwait is in the latitudes where deserts are common. This won’t change. It will stay dry. ...
Global warming1/28/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: Has the large increase in hydrocarbon use since about 1940 increased the slope of the global ...
  A: The global warming and the rate of increase in world temperatures the world is now experiencing ...
Differential sea level rises1/26/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: Instead of the water from melted ice sheets flooding the continants would not the spinning effect of ...
  A: Water levels rises will be almost identical everywhere. The upper mantle of the Earth is ...
Other planet's atmospheres1/19/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: I have recently seen a program on extrasolar worlds that could be completely covered with liquid ...
  A: That had to be a fictional program you saw because the physics it was telling you is just plain ...
world ecosystem collapse1/14/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: i am a student doing a paper on the possible event of total collapse of our ecosystem. I was hoping ...
  A: It is the greatest problem humanity now faces, and it is actually solvable at negligible cost. ...
fish and global warming1/14/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: Are fish effected by Global Warming and Climate Change if so how and why?
  A: Yes fish are effected by global warming. Just about every living thing on the planet is being, or ...
Global Warming1/8/2008Allan Yeomans
  Q: Yeoman, My name is Molly. I'm in 4th grade and I am doing a project on global warming. I have ...
  A: ...It is actually easy to stop global warming. But it can't be done if we insist that the oil ...
Co2 reduction12/30/2007Allan Yeomans
  Q: I have invented a gadget to reduce Co2 emmission. Please give me Contact addresses for getting ...
  A: First call you patent attorney if you gadget to end global warming is as good as you believe. ...
frozen mamoths12/27/2007Allan Yeomans
  Q: how did the mamoths get frozen so quickly, with flowers and food still in their mouths. could it ...
  A: The dinosaurs died out some sixty-five million years ago, probably because of the meteor impact on ...
earth rotation12/24/2007Allan Yeomans
  Q: How heavy is the ice at the poles . when or if it melts how will the weight distrubition affect thr ...
  A: Calculated expected sea level sea level rises resulting from the now constant melting of polar ...
Ozone layer deletion11/28/2007Allan Yeomans
  Q: We are a group of Syrian teachers in World Links organization . We are designing a student ...
  A: My interest is eliminating global warming. I see ozone as a red herring in this effort. The ...
global warming man!!!11/21/2007Allan Yeomans
  Q: HEY WHAT IS GLOBAL WARMING? WHAT ARE PEOPLE DOING TO STOP IT? WHAT WILL IT DO IN THE FUTURE? WILL ...
  A: Your question seems a little frivolous however but I'll do the best I can for you. If you don't ...
Energy and Environment11/20/2007Allan Yeomans
  Q: As Chaiman of an international NGO "SYLVA-WORLD for Development and the Protection of Forests and ...
  A: The concept that the environment should be protected must be an absolute for human survival. ...
global warming in middle east11/14/2007Allan Yeomans
  Q: Did you think that this issue will affect the middle east area in the next 10 years?
  A: Global warming has to end. And ending global warming is easy and economical. Those two things have ...
global warming, 2 opinions?11/13/2007Allan Yeomans
  Q: ive got some friends that say that global warming is an economic conspiracy planted by the ...
  A: It is essential for the fossil fuel interests to cast as much doubt and confusion as possible on ...
Ice, Platonic balance?11/11/2007Allan Yeomans
  Q: can you tell me if the ice of Greenland and that of the Antarctic serve as any kind of platonic ...
  A: The material in tectonic plates is lighter than the underlying magna and so the continents float on, ...
global warming, 2 opinions?11/8/2007Allan Yeomans
  Q: ive got some friends that say that global warming is an economic conspiracy planted by the ...
  A: {Sorry Sarah for the delay in responding. I have been interstate lecturing on these issues} . The ...
Global Warming10/23/2007Allan Yeomans
  Q: Approximately 10 million gallons of oil were lost in Kuwait a day. Most of which was burned off into ...
  A: Ten million gallons a day is peanuts compared to the three billion gallons the world burns in total ...

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