Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt has got the science on climate change wrong before, but that didn’t stop Lateline from giving him air time on the subject, says Sophie Black.
Climate change sceptics
CRU emails reveal a worrying pattern of bad behaviour
Leaked email exchanges between climate scientists stolen from the University of East Anglia are causing a rather juicy online scandal, writes Sinclair Davidson.
Milne: The Coalition is surrendering its one hope
If the Coalition agrees to the government’s ETS, it surrenders the one issue it can actually fight an election on, says Glenn Milne. There’s still a broad base of voters out there who don’t believe in climate change to be won over.
The hacked emails causing climate sceptic chaos
Hundreds of private emails and documents from climate scientists have been unleashed into the wilds of the internet, and climate sceptics are calling their contents “the greatest scandal in modern science“. Ruth Brown investigates.
CEDA still thinks climate science is up for debate
Why is one of Australia’s premier economic policy bodies, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia, giving a platform to climate denialist William Kininmonth?
You can’t moralise on climate change unless you’re a monk
Hamilton and the rest of the Australian Greens are political opportunists of the first order, but pretend to be above all that by cloaking themselves in the Colors of Giaa, writes Simon Mansfield.
Joyce: Why I’m still voting no on the CPRS
The Nationals’ Barnaby Joyce outlines the reasons he won’t be won over on emissions trading: “the CPRS will change the air we breathe by 0.0000000978 of 1%.”
Apocalypse fatigue: is the public tired of climate change?
Recent polls have found both Americans and Australians are growing less concerned about the threat of global warming. Are people losing faith, or just interest? Is the relentless press coverage of climate change actually damaging the movement?
Either way, Turnbull’s on eggshells
Malcolm Turnbull is caught in a pincer movement between Liberal conservatives and Kevin Rudd — and both appear determined to destroy him.
Australia grows sceptical about global warming
A new Morgan poll has found a growing level of scepticism towards global warming by Australians over the past 12 months, says Possum Comitatus — especially amongst regional and rural voters.
Crabb: Combet turns comedian while the Coalition clowns around
Greg Combet isn’t usually Parliament’s resident comedian, says Annabel Crabb, but he had them rolling in the aisles yesterday. Punchlines are a-dime-a-dozen with the Coalition’s climate sceptics around.
The science of climate change is only a small part of the discussion
Equating climate change doubters and dissenters with mass-murdering war criminals is the mark of a moral dwarf, writes Sinclair Davidson.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The “immigration debate” debate continues
Crikey readers continue to weigh-in on whether the immigration debate should be played out in public, plus the CPRS, climate sceptics, compulsory voting, and more.
Hamilton: Denying the coming climate holocaust
Which is morally worse: Holocaust denial or climate change scepticism? It sounds like a no-brainer, but the real-life consequences of climate sceptics succeeding may far outweigh those of Holocaust denialists.
Mungo MacCallum: Minchin has no excuse for his ignorance
The most depressing statistic of modern times is the one that tells us that well over 50% of adult Americans do not believe in evolution. Or it was — until Nick Minchin came along.
The Australian climate movement needs to take a good, hard look at itself
Following Copenhagen, the Australian climate movement needs to take a hard collective look at itself, with the aim of achieving unity around the crucial goal of reducing Australia’s greenhouse house gas emissions to zero by 2030.
Rundle: Don’t Minchin the heat
Nick Minchin’s remarks that climate change is just another stage in the anti-industrial campaigns of the Left shows what ancient paranoic nonsense the climate change sceptics are working off, says Guy Rundle.
Bolt: Why is Kevin Rudd picking on me?
Last week, Kevin Rudd singled out “Malcolm, Barnaby, Andrew and Janet” as the villainous Gang of Four of the climate change battle. A “despicable lie”, says Andrew Bolt.
Maiden: “Fruit Loop” Minchin and the Coalition’s climate sceptics
Nick Minchin and the rest of the Coalition’s climate-sceptic cabal didn’t just open up to the ABC’s 4 Corners to stick it to Rudd: they genuinely believe climate change is a left-wing conspiracy, writes Samantha Maiden.
The Tea Partiers’ next target: the climate
After kicking up a stink about health-care reform and just in time for Copenhagen, members of America’s Tea Party Movement have zoned in on a new target: Obama’s climate bill.
Climate change: the Coalition’s new Hansonism
There’s a number of similarities between Howard-era Hansonism and climate denialism, but the biggest similarity is that both mean big trouble for the Coalition.
Rudd and the rentseekers: climate for sale
If the Prime Minister is so angry about the efforts of denialists to derail action on climate change, here’s a suggestion: stop giving them taxpayers’ money.
The real costs of Rudd’s CPRS are just starting to surface
The Government’s climate change policy is incoherent and becoming ever more expensive, writes Sinclair Davidson. No amount of name-calling is going to change the fact that this policy is a lemon and needs to be radically reconsidered.
Cage match: Rudd on climate sceptics — a step forward or pure politics?
Rudd’s a speech about climate change sceptics was clever politics, and statesmanlike to boot, writes Tony Kevin. But Tim Hollo doesn’t agree — in fact, he says Rudd might be the worst kind of climate sceptic.
Is Rudd the worst kind of climate skeptic?
Kevin Rudd’s speech to the Lowy Institute last Friday was one of the most extraordinary pieces of rhetorical hypocrisy this country has seen in recent years, says Tim Hollo.
