Robert Phillips is a Canberra author who balances his writing between fiction and non-fiction. He has written science fiction plays and novels, including Canberraesque and 2100, science fiction and fantasy short stories, and comedy sketches for theatre. On the non-fiction side, he has written historical articles and aviation technical papers, and articles on writing. His major non-fiction work is A Risky Life, which looks at the risks to which we are all exposed from conception to grave.
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James Lawson, a business entrepreneur from our times, has grown up with the belief that the main purpose of life is monetary gain. He only accepts that climate change is real when he realises he can capitalise on it.
Struck down by a near-fatal brain tumour, he is put into hibernation until a treatment can be found for…
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Greenhouse gas emissions Glass half empty or half full? The expressions ‘glass half full’ and ‘glass half empty’ are used to describe optimists, who rejoice that the glass is still half-full, and pessimists, who lament that the glass is already half empty. But in dealing with…
December 29, 2025 | BY Robert Phillips
SPONCH. We’re all made of SPONCH. Every living thing is made of Sulphur, Phosphorus, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Carbon and Hydrogen. Along time ago, these six elements got together in Darwin’s heated swimming pool and had a big party. Maybe there was alcohol involved. Anyway, they all got drunk and, with carbon being the promiscuous element that it is…
August 18, 2025 | BY Robert Phillips
CLIMATE CHANGE SCEPTICISM Global dimming vs warming The famous Swedish scientist Svente Arrhenius warned about the potential dangers of global warming as far back as 1896, when he confirmed that carbon dioxide absorbs heat. But it was thought at the time that the effects would be too small to be significant, and in any case, the oceans were likely to…
February 9, 2023 | BY Robert Phillips
"Robert Phillips is a Canberra author who balances his writing between fiction and non-fiction."