* Use your head
* Be an adult
* Do something positive and productive
* Get some balls
* If you need more rules, be patient and persistent
* Don’t have too many rules
Now some answers to other questions you may have before participating.
What is this? This is the web log, or “blog” of William Thiel of An Meá, specifically in relation to climate change. It is being initiated and will be maintained by our company specifically for the purpose of allowing me, the primary author, to provide facts, comments and answer questions on issues of environmental engineering, specifically as they relate to the debate about climate change and what we can (and can’t) do to in order to combat the issue, based on our acceptance that it is a problem to our ecosystem.
Who is Willam Thiel (Sgt Hulka) and why would I care what he thinks? I am a professional chemical and environmental engineer (MIEAust, CPEng in Australia, and registered PE in the USA) with more than 20 years of experience internationally. My profile can be viewed at http://www.anmea.com/aboutus/index.cfm?NavigationID=33, and my full CV is available upon request to info@anmea.com. I have been working on emissions inventories, polluting process optimisation, emissions reduction technologies, etc. for my entire career and have been involved in the discussion on the subject of climate change with government and industry since 1999. So, while my opinion is not necessarily worth anything to you, I have some paper that says I know some stuff and I have been involved in the nuts and bolts of the related subject matter since I started working in my profession.
How does the blog work? I will endeavour to provide some currently relevant facts or comments in relation to climate change at least once a week. I will also answer questions posed on the blog where a question is not posed anonymously. I will at all times make every attempt to identify and differentiate facts (which will referenced, or identified in a manner that can be independently verified) from opinion, (that will be identified as such, or proceeded with words such as “I think”. I try to be concise, but this isn’t meant to be a tweet, so you should try to stick with me as I make a point. I will also attempt to avoid playing the man instead of playing the ball and dropping f-bombs regularly, but can’t make any absolute promises on the latter points, as long as idiots such as Senator Steve Fielding exist and are given significant media attention that demand very strongly worded responses not currently provided to them.