Allan James Yeomans (3 October 1931 – 15 February 2024) was an Australian agriculturist, design engineer, author, lecturer, and inventor.
He argued that it is possible to bring global warming and climate under control and restore weather systems to normal at negligible cost while simultaneously improving our wealth and standard of living.
Yeomans sold the chisel plough business in 1964 and restrictions were placed on both father and son to prevent their involvement in agricultural machinery for a stipulated period.
[6] In 1980, he purchased a semi-defunct agricultural manufacturing business in central NSW and moved to Forbes, where he met and married his second wife Chris.
[citation needed] The operation was moved to Queensland in 1990 and his company continues to manufacture and further develop this second generation chisel plough.
In 1960, he became a builder and built several hundred houses, along with the first modern major high-rise residential building in Australia, in the early 1960s.
The building is "Colebrook" in Double Bay, Sydney, and has one hundred and eighteen apartments and nineteen stories.
He has logged several thousand hours racing gliders, a sport where he held a senior instructor rating.
Yeomans started compiling information and warning people in talks and lectures about global warming in the mid to late 1980s.
In 1990, he was the only non-American invited to attend, and to participate in, a three-day, twenty-two person "think tank" to define the future of agriculture in the United States.
[11] His concept of the sequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide by the enhancement of soil fertility was, as of 2010, adopted as policy by the Australian Federal Opposition parties.
He criticized what he considered the predilection of the major world environmental movements to species survival, while effectively ignoring meaningful global warming prevention issues.