Wednesday, 10 March, 2010
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Doomed Planet

“Today’s debate about global warming is essentially a debate about freedom. The environmentalists would like to mastermind each and every possible (and impossible) aspect of our lives.”

Vaclav Klaus
Blue Planet in Green Shackles

Melbourne's nuclear non-debate

by Tom Quirk

March 8, 2010

The best response came from Dr James Hansen who quietly said that more people had been killed by ice flying off wind turbine blades than from nuclear accidents.

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Green loans "hijacked"

March 5, 2010

“The $175 million green loans scheme was "hijacked" by opportunists, overseas call centres and companies that specialised in making homes environmentally friendly, leading to a raft of dubious assessments.”

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Where to from here?

by Marc Hendrickx

March 4, 2010

The role of the scientist in this debate, is as it has been: to continue to diligently report the facts, test the theories, to be honest, to be skeptical, to avoid hyperbole, to properly outline the errors and uncertainties, to avoid activism.

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ABC's iron curtain descends

by Michael Connor

March 4, 2010

The ABC has again banned climate sceptics from taking part in public debate. This time the victim of censorship by The Drum is Marc Hendrickx.

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Lysenkoism and James Hansen

by Bob Carter

March 3, 2010

Hansenist climate alarmism has also damaged the standing of many leading science journals and science organizations, which have replaced their formerly careful editorial and organizational balance with environmental alarmism and naked global warming advocacy.

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ABC gags Bob Carter

by Michael Connor

March 3, 2010

After inviting professor Bob Carter to contribute to an online debate The Drum has backed down and rejected his essay - a criticism of visiting climate alarmist James Hansen.

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Sceptics in from the cold?

February 28, 2010

UPDATE: A story that changed completely when the ABC's The Drum rejected essays it had commissioned.

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The case for carbon dioxide

by Tom Quirk

February 28, 2010

Putting the climate debate into perspective. The release of carbon dioxide will not cause dangerous global warming. An ETS would impose a severe cost penalty for agriculture and for the economy overall is not required.

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Emission Reduction for Dummies

by Paul Williams

February 22, 2010

Kevin Rudd has called climate change the greatest moral challenge of our time, and he has made no apology for that. Tony Abbott is more succinct, he calls it “crap”.

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Monckton on the IPCC

by Tom Minchin

February 22, 2010

Lord Monckton interviewed by Tom Minchin: “The IPCC should be disbanded. It is corrupt from top to bottom, its pseudo-science has been exposed for the scam it is.”

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Assault on reason

February 21, 2010

The Age: “Australia green groups have called a strategy meeting to devise ways to hit back at the climate sceptics movement, amid fears they are losing the PR war.”

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Climate - everyone is wrong

by Robert Ellison

February 15, 2010

The weight of evidence is such that modellers are frantically revising their strategies. They are asking for an international climate computing centre and $5 billion (for 2000 times more computing power) to solve this new problem in climate forecasting.

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Bolt on the Monckton debate

February 14, 2010

“This is how debate should be, and just to read even Lambert’s admittedly partisan account is to see how much faster we are likely to arrive at truths, or at least save ourselves from error, if we promote debate and insist it be held in good faith.” 

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The Orwell scenario

by John Izzard

February 14, 2010

Most sceptics find appalling the Orwellian Animal Farm structure that represents the way global warming theorists and the IPCC have actively gone about promoting their theory.

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Climategate in the Twilight Zone

February 11, 2010

John Quiggin: ‘All the same elements were there – supposedly disinterested citizen researchers who were in fact paid rightwing operatives, misuse of accountability procedures, and exceptional gullibility on the part of the “sceptical” mass audience.’

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"Unscientific behaviour"

February 10, 2010

Watching the UK Guardian catch up with the blog world is a lot of fun. Here’s a new treat.

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Remember this? December 2009

February 10, 2010

Mike Carlton on climate sceptics: “These people are not merely deluded. They are downright dangerous.” 

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Monckton at the ABC

February 8, 2010

Jon Faine, ABC Melbourne radio announcer, had Lord Christopher Monckton on his show to debate Rupert Posner. This is what happened.

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Monckton in Melbourne - report

by Tom Quirk

February 3, 2010

Monckton's time was cut short by the insistence of The Age newspaper environmental writer on a one on one interview. The article that followed in The Age on Tuesday said next to nothing about the arguments raised and the tone of the article could best be described as “atmospheric”!

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Monckton in Melbourne - photos

February 2, 2010

Lord Monckton lectured yesterday in packed to the rafters venues in Melbourne. The photos tell the story.

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The Guardian (!!) on Climategate

February 2, 2010

Guardian headlines:“Leaked climate change emails scientist ‘hid’ data flaws. Exclusive: Key study by East Anglia professor Phil Jones was based on suspect figures.”

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The IPCC's flawed data

by Des Moore

January 31, 2010

A major new analysis by two Australian scientists shows that the temperature data published by the IPCC and other organisations has been manipulated to give the appearance of a warming trend - but not one that has actually occurred. This analysis has major international implications in regard to the policies to be adopted by countries on emissions reductions.

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Discovering Maurice Strong

by John Izzard

January 31, 2010

The man who managed to get the climate industry to where it is today is a mild mannered character by the name of Maurice Strong. The whole climate change business, and it is a business, started with Mr Strong.

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Monckton wins debate

January 29, 2010

“Lord Christopher Monckton, imperious and articulate, won yesterday's climate change debate in straight sets.”

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1400 hear Monckton

January 28, 2010

The Australian Climate Science Coalition reports that on the first day of his Australian tour Lord Monckton spoke to 1400 people at two Sydney functions.

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Climategate on Kindle

January 27, 2010

Only published in the US last week the very first book on the Climategate scandal is now available in Australia on Amazon’s Kindle.

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Monckton in Australia

by Des Moore

January 24, 2010

The Australian has performed best in giving space to sceptics and dissenters but has stuck to the save the planet line in its editorials, some say because Rupert Murdoch said so publicly. Yet in a personal communication with Murdoch he indicated his scepticism to me.

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A simple calculation

by Tom Quirk

January 24, 2010

A doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is always claimed to be where we are heading. Lord Kelvin, in 1895, calculated that so much coal was being burnt that all the free oxygen in the atmosphere would be gone in some three hundred years. This calculation caused some distress at the time.

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Demanding the truth

by John Izzard

January 24, 2010

The scientists, and the politicians and media types, who have totally embraced the dogma of human-induced climate change, have gambled heavily with their reputations. They have nowhere to run.

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The rise of eco-extremism

by Merv Bendle

January 24, 2010

It is a great tragedy that the vital debate about environmental issues should have been so effectively hijacked by the radical left and ideologues channeling the latest version of the irrationalism and totalitarianism that deformed the 20th century.

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Climategate reviewed

January 22, 2010

“The Climategate files opened up what was happening behind the scenes, and it turned out there was no paranoid fantasy: they really were out to get you.”

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Rudd science based on a lie

by Sinclair Davidson

January 20, 2010

Sinclair Davidson reveals that both the Rudd government’s White Paper into the CPRS and the Garnaut Report used the false Himalayan glacier story.

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Open letter on climate change

by Val Majkus

January 19, 2010

Lawyer Val Majkus has written to Australian MPs asking for a royal commission into man-made climate change claims and protesting that information on a government website "is misleading and deceptive and displays a lack of due diligence by the Government in the wake of Climategate."

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Scandal between the covers

January 19, 2010

It’s out. The first book on the Climategate scandal: “For those who have heard that the emails were taken out of context - we provide that context and show it is worse when context is provided.”

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Abbott's 'Green Army'

by Merv Bendle

January 17, 2010

Tony Abbott’s initiative promises not only to produce practical benefits for the environment, but also provides an opportunity to reassert the conservative heritage of environmental thought, while challenging the hegemony of the left-green statist ideology.

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Ecology and compulsion

by Justin Jefferson

January 10, 2010

Even assuming that ecological viability itself were in issue, it is still entirely unjustified and unjustifiable to jump to a conclusion that government is able to centrally plan the ecology and the economy, by bureaucratic command-and-control.

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Monckton luncheon

January 8, 2010

Lord Christopher Monckton will present a luncheon lecture in Melbourne on February 1: “Apocalypse? NO! ‘Global Warming’ is not a Global Crisis”.

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Garrett performance falls flat

by Stephen Murphy

January 6, 2010

The environment minister should stick to saving whales and doing what he does best - gyrating wildly across a stage whilst making bold political statements that he will never be held accountable for.

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The King Has Got No Clothes

by Dennis Boothby

January 5, 2010

Dennis Boothby rocks away the climate blues.

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The Pachauri affair

by John Izzard

January 5, 2010

Largely ignored in the local Australian media was an extraordinary story published in London’s Daily Telegraph two weeks ago which accused the Chairman of the International Panel on Climate Change, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, ‘of making a fortune from his links with “carbon trading” companies.’

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Kevin's Copenhagen Carol

by "William York"

January 4, 2010

On the last day of Copenhagen my Minister said to me “The Departmental Secretary is out of his tree”.

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Climate crisis or energy crisis?

by Barry Brill

January 4, 2010

New tariffs are now prohibited by the WTO, and both the CAP and VAT are unpopular with voters. Enter “Climate Change” - and an indirect tariff via a carbon tax, an ETS.

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Seeking untainted science

by Peter Smith

December 26, 2009

The opinion of economists on the science is superfluous to their role and simply gets in the way of informed debate.

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Indignant bears protest

December 24, 2009

“The ABC [state controlled media] acknowledges that polar bears are not necessarily driven towards cannibalism because of climate change; this claim should have been attributed to conservationists.”

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Why Barry Jones is wrong

by Bob Carter

December 21, 2009

In so far as bias can be detected in press coverage of global warming it operates in favour of the alarmist message, which is, of course, no surprise to those familiar with the ways of the media.

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Politics of green unreality

by Merv Bendle

December 21, 2009

In Sydney, Greenpeace (who are apparently completely above the law) once again assaulted the Opera House to unfurl a banner demanding a ‘climate treaty now’, as if such a predictable and platitudinous stunt contributed anything meaningful.

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How Kevin saved Christmas

by "William York"

December 21, 2009

A central issue for the debate was whether to limit temperature rises to 1.5 or 2 degrees centigrade. The former apparently insured the survival of the Pacific island states while the latter would do them and some of Bangladesh irreparable damage.

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Peter Spencer

by Justin Jefferson

December 21, 2009

Peter Spencer is demanding the Australian government pay fair compensation to him and all Australian property-holders whose property rights were taken without compensation pursuant to the Kyoto Protocol.

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Muddle in the middle

by Barry Brill

December 21, 2009

Pity the politician in 2010. Climate change policies pose an unknown, but potentially strong, temptation to cross party lines.

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COP15: Day 12

by Tim Wilson

December 19, 2009

Obama’s short speech to the conference plenary was probably the most insulting and patronising speech delivered by a US President in a long time.

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COP15: Day 11

by Tim Wilson

December 18, 2009

It’s hard to stand between developing country governments and a pot of gold especially when the obligations that come with it will fall onto their successors.

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COP15: Day 10

by Tim Wilson

December 17, 2009

Government indifference to serious emissions reduction is driven by political greed because they don’t want to be exposed to the voter policy backlash from actually cutting emissions.

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COP15: Day 9

by Tim Wilson

December 16, 2009

NGOs don’t actually like being called NGOs. They prefer being referred to as “civil society”.

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COP15: Day 8

by Tim Wilson

December 15, 2009

Rumours around the conference are that a group of NGOs will try and storm the conference centre to try and get access to political leaders.

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Scam of the century

by Bob Carter

December 14, 2009

The Climategate files have demonstrated the scientific malfeasance of an influential and internationally well networked segment of the climate research community.

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Brave New Green World

by Merv Bendle

December 14, 2009

As the Copenhagen conference unfolds it is possible to detect the outlines of the grim future dystopia that will emerge if the stealthy and remorseless proponents of global eco-fascism are allowed to remake our world in their image.

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Give us honesty

by Dennis Jensen

December 14, 2009

Leaked emails and computer code reveal manipulation of data to serve political ends, attempted perversion of the peer review process, collusion, destruction of data and worse.

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The Climate Games - 2009

by John Izzard

December 14, 2009

Gold, Silver and Bronze medals are falling out of the sky in the first week of the Climate Games in Copenhagen.

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COP15: Day 7

by Tim Wilson

December 14, 2009

Considering the religious fervour that many climate evangelists bring to the issue Sunday is, appropriately, an official day of rest.

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The real Copenhagen conference

by Ian Plimer

December 14, 2009

I attended the Copenhagen Climate Challenge Conference. It was about the science of climate. Speakers were scientists, lawyers and environmentalists.

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COP15: Day 6

by Tim Wilson

December 13, 2009

What was surprising was that the topic of the leaked emails and documents that has prompted ‘Climategate’ didn’t come up in the questions and answers section.

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COP15: Day 5

by Tim Wilson

December 12, 2009

To make themselves feel important most delegates at international negotiating conferences always talk in acronyms, but at Copenhagen they’re in overdrive.

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COP15: Day 4

by Tim Wilson

December 11, 2009

Like the debate about climate change in Australia, symbolism over substance is triumphing in Copenhagen and the pledge to make the conference carbon neutral is looking decidedly hard to deliver.

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COP 15: Day 3

by Tim Wilson

December 10, 2009

The Australian government alone has more than one hundred registered delegates.

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ABC misses Climategate, finds Lesotho

by Peter Smith

December 10, 2009

The credibility of this segment of so-called news was zero to any intelligent person; even, I would hope, to those wedded to the conventional wisdom of man-made global warming.

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COP15 and Climategate

by Christopher Essex

December 9, 2009

Is any one actually in favour of pollution? Are people really organized and paid to encourage more pollution? Does this make any sense at all?

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COP15: Day 2

by Tim Wilson

December 9, 2009

The best entertainment was at a side-event with a speaker who dared decry the NGO group think that prevails over the conference.

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COP15 Opening Ceremony

by Tim Wilson

December 8, 2009

Anyone sceptical of the UN system or the science of climate change never made it into the opening ceremony under the gaze of the world’s media. Instead their voices were sent to the other end of the conference centre out of sight, and out of mind.

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Undoing knotted minds

by Peter Smith

December 7, 2009

Suppose a conventional wisdom is substantially astray from the truth (the way the world really is) and its impact is adverse. Never mind how it started, the important question is when and under what circumstances will it go away. 

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Sceptics in Wonderland

by Christopher Essex

December 7, 2009

A milestone in this mess can be said to be when John Houghton of the IPCC said it was the IPCC’s job to “orchestrate” the views of science. Everything that has happened flows as an inevitable consequence of that. 

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DIY ocean heating

by Mark Imisides

December 7, 2009

Why on earth do we attribute any heating of the oceans to carbon dioxide, when there is a far more obvious culprit, and when such a straightforward examination of the thermodynamics render it impossible.

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Climategate Pty Ltd

by John Muscat

December 2, 2009

What should we make of the near-unanimity of opinion among a cohort of scientists in such a complex and dynamic field?

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Peer review locks gate

by David Archibald

November 30, 2009

As the Climategate emails show, the warmers captured the whole system – all the journals, all their editors and the journals’ boards.

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Climategate at the Movies

November 30, 2009

A selection of videos about climate change and Climategate. Bring your own popcorn.

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Watch on the Left

by J.F. Beck

November 30, 2009

Wikileaks justified the publication of Sarah Palin's stolen emails as in the public interest. There was no outcry from the Left condemning the theft of the emails or questioning the possibly unethical publishing of personal material.

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John L. Daly

by John Izzard

November 30, 2009

Yesterday I visited John L. Daly’s tiny office where he lived on the outskirts of Launceston. It is about the size of two telephone boxes.

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Once upon a Climategate

by Patrick McCauley

November 30, 2009

In order to distract the people from massive government debt and invasion, the Prime Minister had the public servants construct a carbon horse.

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Kiwi Climategate

by John McLean

November 30, 2009

Last Wednesday the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition released a document showing that New Zealand’s average temperature had not risen by as much as its National Institute for Water and Atmosphere claims.

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A crime against humanity

by Walter Starck

November 30, 2009

That the utter disregard for truth exhibited in the CRU emails can be either invisible or insignificant to AGW defenders is indicative of the vast chasm between their faith and the open rational empirical world of real science. 

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Climategate: Shutting out dissent

by John McLean

November 24, 2009

Science is supposedly open with data, methods, conclusions and hypotheses all made available to other scientists so that they might confirm the processing and then apply further tests to the hypotheses. The CRU emails reveal the antithesis of this.

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Ending Climatemania

by Bryan Leyland

November 23, 2009

Recent statements from leading politicians concentrate on suppressing debate and ridiculing sceptics of dangerous global warming. Yet anyone who studies the evidence will realize that the science is most uncertain. Objective, unimpassioned debate is desperately needed. 

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Klive's Kampf

by Merv Bendle

November 23, 2009

Clive Hamilton has now compared climate change skeptics to Holocaust deniers, and predicted that the effects of climate change would be a hundred or even two hundred times worse than the Nazi Holocaust.

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Flawed research revealed

November 23, 2009

“A key concern is that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - which advises governments around the world - has used the Murray Darling Basin and incorrect science as an example of CO2 induced climate change.”

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When are we going to wake up?

by Walter Starck

November 23, 2009

Threats to the environment and the climate change “crisis” are hypothetical arguments presided over by people who have never built, grown, manufactured or produced anything and whose practical ability is challenged by changing a light bulb.

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After Versailles - The Copenhagen Treaty

by Peter Smith

November 15, 2009

No-one in those days, or up until recently, would have thought there might come a day when the debt of war would be replaced by the debt of climate ‘warming’, for which reparations were demanded.

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Why Monbiot ran

by John Izzard

November 15, 2009

Initially, George Monbiot agreed to debate Ian Plimer, but someone reasoned that it was a high-risk venture - a debate between a froth and bubble, blog-obsessed journalist and a leading academic with impeccable credentials in earth sciences.

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Australia: State of Intolerance

by Merv Bendle

November 15, 2009

Do we have the politicians with the courage required to put the brakes on this increasingly menacing process, or will the future of Australia be sacrificed on the altar of the eco-apocalypse? 

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Debate me, Prime Minister

by Dennis Jensen

November 12, 2009

I will debate Kevin Rudd on the science of climate change anywhere, anytime. I am very confident that he will be too cowardly to accept the challenge, far easier to resort to invective.

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The Monbiot Affair

November 12, 2009

Ian Plimer and George Monbiot were to meet in London to debate climate change on 12 November. Monbiot chickened out. Here are two emails they exchanged.

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Rudd contra science

by Tim Curtin

November 10, 2009

The Prime Minister’s speech to the Lowy Institute appears to have been drafted by one of Australia’s many climate change bloggers. It certainly marks a new low in the standard of political debate.

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CIA on climate change

November 9, 2009

The CIA goes as far as to suggest that the new global patterns considered likely to last at least 40 years and possibly centuries, could cause political and economic upheaval “beyond comprehension”.

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Labor and the ETS

by John Muscat

November 9, 2009

The National President of the CFMEU, a union covering 13,000 coal miners, recently described the term “green jobs” as “dopey”.

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Eco-Fascism & Clive Hamilton

by Merv Bendle

November 9, 2009

Because the Greens portray themselves as “progressive” in their political ideology and programme, questions about the “natural fit” between radical environmentalism and fascism have not been frequently asked.

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ETS or another GST?

by Tom Quirk

November 9, 2009

The description of the impact of the CPRS with its ETS has been an artful exercise in misleading and deceptive presentation. It is another GST dressed up as a tax on carbon dioxide.

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COP 15 - Copenhagen Treaty

November 3, 2009

The famous COP 15 or Copenhagen Treaty, which few politicians seem to have read, is here. 

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The Eco-Apocalypse Craze

by Merv Bendle

November 2, 2009

It is a measure of the corruption of science amidst the moral panic of global warming that Lovelock’s ‘Gaia Hypothesis’ has now been elevated to the status of a scientific theory.

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Controlfreakonomics!

by John Izzard

November 2, 2009

Will the Copenhagen Treaty be debated and voted on by the Australian Parliament? - or will it be simply be another one of those international treaties simply signed by the Prime Minister. Another one of our “international obligations”!

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Plea for tolerance

by Kieren Koala

October 27, 2009

Quadrant Online has received a passionate plea for tolerance - emailed from a gum tree somewhere in Higgins.

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The Kevinator

by "William York"

October 26, 2009

A cunning plan to bring water to Lake Eyre, rain to south east Australia and prosperity to the Murray Darling Basin. 

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The science of deceit

by Bob Carter

October 26, 2009

Though no scientist doubts that humans influence climate at local level - causing both warmings and coolings - no definitive evidence has yet been discovered that a human influence is measurable, let alone dangerous, at global level.

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Left's War on Science

by J.F. Beck

October 19, 2009

The Left should call a halt to their ongoing war on DDT and thereby on science; the collateral damage – mostly third-world children, pregnant women and the old, claimed by malaria – is unacceptable.

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The way ahead

by Bob Carter

October 19, 2009

All Australian politicians have now for some years lived in terror of a global-warming-brainwashed electorate, and of the strong Green intimidation that continues to be exercised against all voters. 

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The wisdom of skepticism

by Merv Bendle

October 12, 2009

Why should the people of the world, whose lives will be utterly transformed by the draconian actions proposed by the global warming fanatics, meekly accept their fate?

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Special Offer!!

October 12, 2009

Buy Not Evil Just Wrong and receive a 10% discount!!

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Not Evil Just Wrong reviewed

by Bob Carter

October 12, 2009

The film is not so much about the science of climate change as it is about explaining the sociology and politics of what is now perhaps the world’s greatest-ever scare campaign.

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Debating global warming

by Tom Quirk

October 5, 2009

The advocates for what turned out to be markedly opposing views were Des Moore, the former Deputy Secretary of the Federal Treasury and Harry Clarke, Professor of Economics at La Trobe University.

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Rachel Carson

by J.F. Beck

October 5, 2009

Rachel Carson’s magnum opus Silent Spring made her famous and a darling of the left. In making her case against DDT Carson constructs not a sturdy cornerstone of scientific truth but rather an elaborate tissue of exaggerations and lies.

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Dear Malcolm

by Bob Carter

October 2, 2009

A proper hazard reduction and adaptation policy to deal with known future climatic threats is a very different matter to the political question implicit in today’s headlines.

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Not Evil Just Wrong

by Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer

September 27, 2009

On October 18 our documentary, Not Evil Just Wrong, will premiere in homes and campuses across Australia and around the world.

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Media ecoevangelists

by Bob Carter

September 27, 2009

By what authority does the ABC allow ecoevangelists to grandstand their relentless and extreme views at public expense – effectively providing their organisations with continuous free advertising at the taxpayers’ expense?
 

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Think globally, destroy locally

by Bob Carter

September 21, 2009

As the temperature trend for ten years now has been one of cooling, since the unusually warm El Nino year of 1998, this requires a precautionary response to cooling rather than warming.

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The eve of destruction: Take 2

by "William York"

September 14, 2009

The atmosphere is not for turnin’
Temperatures rise and people are burnin’
too much fuel but they ain’t learnin’
the earth’s on edge of over turning’
And we are just its overburden. 

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The Garnaut Cult

by Tom Quirk

September 9, 2009

More and more questions are being asked about the scientific foundations of the ETS by highly qualified scientists and others. Yet these doubts are simply being disregarded. This is a high risk path with no apparent ability to back-down if the entire edifice is built on sand.

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Global science or global panic?

by Des Moore

September 7, 2009

My assessment is not based primarily on scientific analysis but on many years in Treasury and outside of analysing proposals for government intervention to solve perceived “crises”. Much analysis of the present proposal requires little more than common sense.

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A policy to hurt Australia

by Cory Bernardi

August 31, 2009

To pass this Bill, or any incarnation of it ahead of the Copenhagen talks, is sheer folly. To do so, when Labor’s scheme is not even scheduled to commence until 2011, would suggest that politics and politicians have taken leave of their senses.

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Creating catastrophe

by Ian Plimer

August 24, 2009

It is claimed that there is a scientific consensus about human-induced climate change. Consensus is a process of politics not science. There is certainly no scientific consensus about human-induced climate change and the loudest voice does not win scientific discussions. Science is married to evidence, no matter how uncomfortable.  

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Accomplices in deceit

by Hugh Morgan

August 24, 2009

In my view what is important about The Climate Caper is that it is an insider’s account of how Australia’s scientific institutions were suborned into being accomplices to a religious crusade and, how, in accepting the bribes that were offered, they have seriously compromised their integrity.

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The costs of power

by Tom Quirk

August 24, 2009

The terrible conclusion to be drawn from all this is that while we are exporting expensive energy to Japan, China, India and our other customers we will set about destroying a competitive advantage of cheap power while literally tilting at windmills!

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I was there

by Des Moore

August 24, 2009

I asked David Karoly why he had not replied to my invitation to attend a lecture by a US scientist who described the kind of science he presented as a “scam”. K said he was on leave, to which I responded “you could have replied”.

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Think Green, Vote Liberal

by Des Moore

August 24, 2009

The astonishing bipartisanship on an environmental issue that threatens Australia’s ability to compete internationally has quickly inspired a startling proposal on “how to save” Malcolm Turnbull by “doing a Whitlam”.

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An unsustainable future

by Tom Quirk

August 17, 2009

Following the lead of the British Government with the example of the Tate Modern in the old Battersea Power Station, will we see governments create a string of art galleries and museums in the Latrobe and Hunter Valleys or will some sanity return to the essential provision of electricity?

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Shrinking birds?

by Walter Starck

August 17, 2009

Reports that climate change is causing some kind of far fetched change in something or other are now a daily occurrence in a news media which has abandoned any vestige of due diligence in reporting stories which appear to support the dogma of global warming.

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Carbon dioxide isn't guilty

by Jay Lehr

August 17, 2009

I was asked at a conference in New York last March where public opinion has to be before we can turn government away from climate change. My answer was 70 per cent, and I believe that's the objective.

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ETS Forum - Science bullies

by Joanne Nova

August 12, 2009

There are many silent skeptics. If the ALP or the Coalition offered their members a silent ballot, they might be shocked at how few privately believe the dogma.

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ETS Forum - The Climate Craze

by Walter Starck

August 11, 2009

Even when alarmist evidence is conclusively discredited (e.g. the hockey stick graph), the climate alarmists continue to use it, and to dismiss all conflicting evidence no matter how sound or voluminous it may be. When their own claims fail, they revise the evidence, not their hypothesis.

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ETS Forum - The Great Climate Scam

by Des Moore

August 10, 2009

The IPCC projection of the “very likely” average temperature increase to 2100 has a range of uncertainty that is so wide (50-60 per cent) as to make it meaningless for policy decision-making.

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ETS Forum - ETS are immoral

by Bob Carter

August 8, 2009

Comfortably clad, fed and housed, and egged on to view themselves as original sinners, our chattering classes and their media flag-wavers have proved astonishingly susceptible to ecoevangelistic propaganda about dangerous human-caused climate change.

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ETS Forum - Economic stupicide

by David Evans

August 8, 2009

Air and ocean temperatures have been dropping for the last few years, contradicting the climate model predictions made in 2001 of soaring temperatures. Yet the world won’t listen, and seems determined to commit economic stupicide. How did it come to this?

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ETS Forum - It’s all in the rocks

by Ian Plimer

August 8, 2009

There is no direct, real world evidence for dangerous human-caused warming at all, and that despite the efforts of thousands of scientists and organisations since 1990, and the expenditure of approaching $100 billion, looking for precisely such evidence. Instead, the global warming scare is built entirely around unvalidated computer climate models that are known to be wrong.

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ETS Forum - Get ready for power cuts

by Ray Evans

August 8, 2009

Wind and solar are fantasies in the Green mind. Where they have been seriously tried, as in Spain, the costs have been prodigious and the impacts on employment calamitous.

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ETS Forum - Agriculture is a carbon zero sum game

by Viv Forbes

August 8, 2009

The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (the Australian ETS) cannot have any beneficial effects on climate, but it and its associated policies will certainly increase farm costs, decrease farm employment and reduce food production.

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ETS Forum - It’s the Sun, silly

by David Archibald

August 8, 2009

The government’s intention to introduce an emissions trading system in Australia rests upon their belief that human carbon-dioxide emissions are a cause of dangerous global warming. That belief is incorrect.

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ETS Forum - Why no cost:benefit analysis?

by Alex Robson

August 8, 2009

Australia’s emissions reductions can have no significant impact on global emissions or global climate. Therefore, the incremental benefits to Australia of the Government’s policy are zero.

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ETS Forum - A tax would be better

by James Allan

August 8, 2009

I’m against cap-and-trade and Australia enacting its own such Bill for all of the above reasons, and because I think some people in favour of it are hypocrites. If global warming is such a big risk that it demands action, then it demands a carbon tax and nuclear power.

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ETS Forum - Softly, softly

by Alan Moran

August 8, 2009

By 2020, the need for emissions reduction policies will be clearer, and presumably we will have access to all the technological advances that Treasury claim will be forthcoming by that time. Preparing for action should it be needed, but meanwhile deferring the introduction of a tax that will wreak massive economic damage, could be an ideal solution for Australia to adopt.

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ETS Forum - The models are wrong

by William Kininmonth

August 8, 2009

There is a serious risk that we will end end up with the worst outcomes possible because of the frailties of computer modelling: carbon dioxide will prove to have little impact on climate but implementation of the Rudd government’s cap and trade legislation will seriously raise energy costs and expand unemployment.

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ETS Forum - Domestic solar power is a con

by Terry Dwyer

August 8, 2009

An emissions trading system, unlike a straight carbon tax, has merit for governments.  For it makes it harder for industry and consumers to see the costs that are being imposed upon them.

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ETS Forum - Green jobs subtract value

by Sinclair Davidson

August 8, 2009

It has quickly become apparent that green jobs will require massive government subsidies to sustain them. They do not create additional value and so cannot become self-sustaining. The biggest question, of course, is to what extent will green jobs crowd out existing jobs? In short what is the opportunity cost of a green job?

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ETS Forum - Great, let’s close the beef industry

by Jennifer Marohasy

August 8, 2009

Ross Garnaut, a key advisor to the government on climate change, suggested in his final report on climate change that the end of the beef industry would be a good thing for the Australian environment and that a switch from beef cattle to kangaroo would have multiple environmental benefits additional to reducing emissions.

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Emissions Trading Scheme Forum - Home page

by Bob Carter

August 8, 2009

The government’s emissions trading legislation is to be considered again by the Senate on 13 August. The vote that Senators deliver then, and again later should the bill be defeated and resubmitted, is the biggest decision that they will make in their political careers. For the passage or not of this bill will determine the fate of the Australian economy, and the standard of living of average Australians, for decades to come.

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ETS Forum - Roll on climate rationalism

by John Izzard

August 8, 2009

If you are going to set up a new cult, which is what the emissions trading bill is all about, you really have to get in quickly and corner all of the best descriptive and emotive words; seize the moral high ground; then get out and kick hell out of any doubters.

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ETS Forum - Global targets won’t work

by Ian Castles

August 8, 2009

There are formidable measurement, verification and enforcement issues that stand in the way of any internationally-agreed scheme of binding emissions reduction targets. In the meantime, Australia should not commit itself to the large costs and inefficiencies of an emissions trading scheme of the kind that is currently before the Parliament.

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ETS Forum - The "Save Our Seats" strategy

by John Hyde

August 8, 2009

By asking three succinct questions regarding climate change, and exposing the Minister’s inability to answer them, Fielding’s actions have given many politicians within all parties cause for pause.

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Answering 3 simple questions

by Willie Soon and David R. Legates

August 3, 2009

The brief answers to Senator Fielding’s questions are: (1) Yes, temperatures did fall after 1998 while carbon dioxide rose; (2) Yes, late 20th century warming was indeed not unusual in either its rate of change or magnitude; and (3) Yes, all IPCC models did project warming through a ten year period when instead cooling occurred.

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Resisting climate hysteria

by Richard S. Lindzen

July 26, 2009

The need to courageously resist hysteria is clear. Wasting resources on symbolically fighting ever present climate change is no substitute for prudence. Nor is the assumption that the earth’s climate reached a point of perfection in the middle of the twentieth century a sign of intelligence.

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The Climate Caper

July 20, 2009

Lord Christopher Monckton: “Dr. Paltridge’s little book will be regarded as one of the few, rare, precious beacons of enlightenment that prevented humanity from wandering through carelessness, ignorance and absent-mindedness into a new Dark Age.” 

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What science-war?

by Bob Carter

July 13, 2009

Given that Australia still has an emissions trading bill on the Senate table, is it not of public interest to know that climate science Minister Penny Wong is acting on the basis of flawed, if not incompetent, science advice?

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Answers on climate change

June 29, 2009

Assessment of Minister Wong’s "Written Reply to Senator Fielding’s Three Questions on Climate Change" by Bob Carter, David Evans, Stewart Franks and William Kininmonth.

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Rudd servants or public servants?

by Des Moore

June 29, 2009

The timing and framing of this first survey of environmental views and behaviour is not inconsistent with the apparently increasing tendency of the public service to serve the interests of the government rather than the wider national interest.

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Major changes in views on the environment

by Des Moore

June 22, 2009

Surveys have obvious implications in terms of the all-important US policy position on global warming. Unfortunately, our major political parties seem way behind the ball game in gauging both community attitudes and the fundamental flaws in the science used in reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Part 4: Is anybody listening yet?

by Bob Carter

June 11, 2009

The greatest Australian special interest of all lies with the average voter upon whom Prime Minister Rudd and Climate Minister Wong plan to impose their unnecessary, ineffectual and swingeingly costly carbon dioxide tax. Are you listening out there, True Blue? 

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Part 3: The NIPCC book launch

by Bob Carter

June 10, 2009

Have you ordered your copies yet, Bob Brown and Christine Milne?

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Part 2: Heartland-3

by Bob Carter

June 9, 2009

This is scarcely a scientific secret, so how come that Ross Garnaut doesn’t seem to know about it?

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Part 1: The Waxman-Markey Bill

by Bob Carter

June 8, 2009

In my judgment, the proposed cap-and-trade system would be a costly policy that would penalize Americans with little effect on global warming. The proposal to give away most of the permits only makes a bad idea worse”. Are you listening, Kevin Rudd?

 

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Ice-sheets and sea level

by Cliff Ollier

May 31, 2009

As the world has been getting cooling since 1998 the global warming alarmists have to scare us with other things. A favourite is rising sea level, allegedly caused by rapid melting of the ice caps of Antarctica and Greenland. 

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ETS in the Twilight Zone

by Tom Quirk

May 25, 2009

In the words of Sir Humphrey Appleby, it is a “courageous act” to tax pipelines with such an extraordinary formula. It is more than courageous, it is really stupid.

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Senators against hypocrisy

April 30, 2009

The Invitation to the Brisbane “launches” of Ian Plimer’s Heaven and Earth carries a remarkable statement about two Federal Senators.

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Climate fundamentalism

by Ian Plimer

April 13, 2009

Climate change politics is religious fundamentalism masquerading as science.

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Coming soon: Heaven and Earth

by Ian Plimer

April 6, 2009

At Easter, my book on climate change comes out. I destroy every single argument that has ever been raised about human-induced climate change.

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What happens to Kevin Rudd?

by someone called "Tom"

April 2, 2009

A reader replies to William York. Copy of letter supplied to Quadrant Online courtesy Patrick McCauley.

 

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April 1: Remembrance Day

by "William York"

April 1, 2009

“William York” is a well known contributor to OnlineOpinion. His friend Tom recently received a letter from him.

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The Skeptics Handbook

March 30, 2009

Joanne Nova’s lively The Skeptics Handbook has been published in the US with an astonishing 150,000 copies print run which will be distributed to thousands of politicians, scientists, journalists and teachers. A further  10,000 copies are being published for Australia and New Zealand.

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Vaclav Klaus on Ian Plimer

March 23, 2009

Vaclav Klaus: “The book I wrote two years ago Blue Planet in Green Shackles comes to very similar conclusions but I have to say that if I’d had a chance to read Professor Plimer’s book, my book would have been better.”

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Heartland-2

by Bob Carter

March 23, 2009

The International Conference on Climate Change was held in New York from March 8 to 10, 2009. While the international media ignored the conference Quadrant Online carried exclusive reports by Bob Carter.

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Heartland-2: session three

by Bob Carter

March 11, 2009

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Heartland-2: session two

by Bob Carter

March 10, 2009

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Heartland-2: session one

by Bob Carter

March 9, 2009

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Bob Carter at Heartland-2

by Bob Carter

March 8, 2009

Travellers from around the world are today converging on the Mariott Marquis in Times Square, where the Heartland Institute is hosting its second Manhatten conference on climate change.

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Thank God for Carbon

March 1, 2009

Thank God for Carbon, a new publication by Ray Evans, explores the demonising of carbon by climate change extremists – including the Rudd government.

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Science versus propaganda

by Bob Carter

February 24, 2009

Australia needs adaptive policies to deal with real climate change in place of the government's expensive, inefficient and ineffective plans to “prevent” an entirely hypothetical global warming. Why is it so difficult for our major political parties to discern this obvious truth?

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Green bushfires

by David Packham

February 10, 2009

“It has been a difficult lesson for me to accept that despite the severe damage to our forests and even a fatal fire in our nation's capital, the political decision has been to do nothing that will change the extreme threat to which our forests and rural lands are exposed.”

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Green bushfires - the warning in 2002

February 10, 2009

David Packham in 2002: “For almost three decades State and Commonwealth governments have been warned of the potential of a 1939 repeat fire disaster. Those warnings by fire managers and fire researchers have been ignored, discounted or discredited."

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Thank God for Carbon - book launch

February 2, 2009

Senator Cory Bernardi: "... challenging popular opinion demands courage … And in no sphere is this more apparent than the new religion of climate change where all questions challenging the orthodoxy are treated as heresy and those that dare to raise them are heretics or, worse still, ‘deniers’."

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Prophets of doom, gloom and penance

January 28, 2009

Ian Plimer: A new ignorance fills the yawning spiritual gap in Western society. Climate change politics is religious fundamentalism masquerading as science. Its triumph is computer models unrelated to observations in nature.

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Facts debunk global warming alarmism

by Bob Carter

January 20, 2009

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Beware the Church of Climate Alarm

by Miranda Devine

November 27, 2008

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Illusions of Climate Science

by William Kininmonth

October 1, 2008

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The Abused Science of Climate Change

by Sev Sternhell

September 4, 2008

The extent of anthropogenic global warming caused by carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels is a controversial and politicised issue and there certainly is no scientific consensus.

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Satanic Gas

by Ray Evans

September 3, 2008

Carbon is the sixth element in the periodic table. It is unique among the elements in the vast number and variety of compounds it can form.

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Our New Established Religion

by Ian McFayden

September 2, 2008

Many reasons have been put forward for John Howard’s failure to win the 2007 election—negative reaction to WorkChoices, his refusal to abdicate in favour of Peter Costello, even a sense that he had just been in power too long—but there was another issue which suffused the Opposition campaign and which played a major part in persuading voters: climate change, in particular the recent drought.

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The Chilling Costs of Climate Catastrophism

by Ray Evans

September 1, 2008

Sometime after the Soviet Army had crushed the Dubcek regime in Prague in 1968, our great cold-war warrior, Frank Kopfelmacher, was described by his opponents in condescending and patronising tones as a “threat expert”.

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