A new Morgan poll has found an increasing number of Australians think concerns over global warming and exaggerated, and an increasing partisan divide on the CPRS legislation. Possum Comitatus crunches the numbers.
Climate change sceptics
Melting glaciers: the canary in the mine shaft of global warming
The career-driven, social agenda-driven scaremongering frenzy of the IPCC over global warming is totally unnecessary when glaciers already tell the tale.
Bolt punches above his weight on climate science
Andrew Bolt is not a statistician, an econometrician, or a climate scientist — but he reckons he “studies” it and that’s apparently enough to make him some self-appointed public expert in the Australian media space. Intelligent conservatives deserve better, says Possum Comitatus.
Video of the Day: Copenhagen’s World of Warmcraft
What’s really happening in Copenhagen? With limos, Lord Monckton, melting icebergs and the ‘science’ of climate sceptics, Jon Stewart’s got the climate change low down.
Data, fiction and politics
Why don’t governments treat climate data the same way they would polling data? asks Possum Comitatus. If politicians’ popularity numbers showed the same clear, long-term trends as global warming figures, you can bet they’d have acted by now.
Ian Plimer: climate change sceptic or misguided idealogue?
If Heaven and Earth author and geologist Ian Plimer were a genuine climate change sceptic, he would be able to engage in actual debate on the issue, says Stephen Keim. Instead, he just comes across a misguided ideologue with little credibility.
The climate sceptic dirty dozen
Mother Jones names and shames the 12 loudest people and organisations spreading misinformation about the science of climate change, from Lord Monckton to ExxonMobil.
Crikey interviews climate sceptic Ian Plimer
The climate change sceptics have been out in force at Copenhagen. Crikey’s man on the ground, Matthew Knott, interviews the star of the sceptic movement, Australian geologist Ian Plimer.
The psychology of climate change scepticism
Why is there such a divide between the broad scientific consensus on climate change and the public’s belief in it? A sociologist explains why people choose to stay in denial.
Save humans first, climate second
Instead of spending trillions of dollars to only slightly curb climate change decades from now, just a fraction of that money could be used to save millions of lives in third world countries right now, says Bjorn Lomborg. What’s our priority: baby polar bears or baby humans?
The Washington Post meets Australia’s climate sceptic farmers
WashPo leaves the bright lights of DC for the Murray River town of Swan Reach in South Australia, where drought-ravaged farmers refuse to buy in to the idea of global warming.
We are all climate sceptics now
In light of the Climategate emails, it’s time for scientists to concede that all scientific theories are open to doubt, and the science of climate change is still uncertain, writes geologist Peter Kelemen.
The other Copenhagen conference: 50 climate change sceptics
With 15,000 scientists, politicians and lobby groups gathered for the Copenhagen climate change conference, just down the road 50 climate sceptic scientists are running their own influential gathering.
The climate sceptic’s guide to Copenhagen
An A-Z guide to the Copenhagen summit and climate debate for those who think the whole thing is just a bunch of hot air. “A is for anthropogenic: a $10 word for ‘man-made’ which global-warmists wield as proof of expertise…”
UN: Tony Abbott will motivate climate sceptics
The chair of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the recent success of climate sceptic Tony Abbott will help fuel other naysayers, comparing him to George W. Bush.
Inside the climate change denial machine
According to a new book, Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming, climate change sceptics are employing the same techniques utilised by Big Tobacco to “cover up” the fact that human activities are warming the planet.
James Murdoch: Let the market forces decide climate change
Rather than the US government regulating climate change, it should just let a free market create strong clean and green energy markets. Business will save us, writes Murdoch heir apparent, James Murdoch.
Hollywood conservatives: Strip Gore of his Oscar
Two conservative members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Hollywood conservatives? Really?) have called for Al Gore to be stripped of his Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth in the wake of the Climategate email saga
Jared Diamond: How big business can save the planet
It’s a misconception that big businesses only care about profits and don’t care about the planet, says Jared Diamond. In fact, companies like Coca-Cola and Chevron have a lot to offer the fight against climate change.
UK Met publish 150 years of climate data to silence sceptics
With the stolen “Climategate” emails igniting anti-climate-change hysteria around the world and Copenhagen about to begin, the British Met Office has announced it will publish 150 years of climate data to prove temperatures have indeed increased.
Abbott’s leadership: a win for climate change sceptics everywhere
Judging from what we’ve seen so far, Tony Abbott’s election campaign will be a negative affair, with him as chief guard dog. But what will he attack? asks Ben Eltham. Climate change?
Monbiot: The CRU email leak is a crisis. Start treating it like one.
Environmentalists are being far too blase about the emails stolen from the University of East Anglia and the ensuing fallout from climate skeptics, says George Monbiot. Calling it a “storm in a tea cup” will not make it go away.
Turnbull has lanced the boil of climate change denialism
Malcolm Turnbull’s stoic courage in Parliament House on Thursday lances the boil of climate change denialism, writes Tony Kevin.
Does Turnbull have what it takes to stare down the skeptics?
The mass resignation of the Liberal party’s climate skeptics was a smart move, but also a weak one. Can Turnbull turn it all around with a strong public stand? asks The Piping Shrike.
Ian Plimer: Carbon dioxide is plant food, not a pollutant
The emails stolen from climate scientists last week proves the science behind climate change is a fraud, says Ian Plimer, and the people who have promoted it should be held accountable for their crimes.
