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Germaine Greer axed? … Epstein writing a book on Prisoner X … who has banned lollies at work? …

The joint State of the Climate report should have us all alarmed.

The CSIRO is crying foul over a front page article in The Australian last week which “misinterpreted” a report on rising sea levels and claimed the national research body’s model for global warming was “already dead in the water as having no sound basis in probability”.

Greenpeace’s destruction of a GM wheat trial was less about denialism about GM as the disastrous economic potential of contamination.

The CSIRO and Geoscience Australia have rejected conflict of interest concerns over their $6,000 sponsorship of a conference addressed by notorious climate change denier, the Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Christopher Monckton.

Crikey reads have their say.

The CSIRO has released a statistical analysis of the reality surrounding large parts of the Home Insulation Program, providing yet more proof that the media’s reaction was hysterically innacurate, writes Possum Comitatus.

The more absurd elements of climate denialism normally hide out of public sight. But not Senator Julian McGauran.

Three years ago, the CSIRO found itself in hot water for gagging scientists from commenting on climate change. Today, it looks like the organisation may still be trying to censor scientists’ public comments.

After copping flak for its previous meat-heavy diets, the CSIRO is now trying to please greenies and vegos as well with a confused new set of dietary recommendations that will probably annoy everybody.

The high salary earners of the public sector are streets ahead of the best paid politicians, write Bernard Keane and Crikey intern Emily Finlay.

In the first of a two-part series, Bernard Keane looks at just how little has changed — and how much has been spent — in the fight to save the Murray-Darling Basin.

A panel of Crikey experts deconstruct the mining industry’s job data manipulation for Australia’s emissions trading scheme.

A British Government advisor is predicting a global catastrophe by 2030 over diminishing food, water and energy supplies. What will you tell your children if he’s correct? asks Martin Flanagan.

CSIRO: a once great institution … Costello shows his merits … Browsing the Jacko collection

GM food … World Youth Day … the Murray Darling … GM Food … global warming …

A CSIRO scientist’s campaign to sway chefs from an anti-GM food stance has hit hurdles, writes Katherine Wilson.

Deputy Chief of CSIRO Plant Industry, TJ Higgins, has written to more than 50 chefs asking (or should that be lobbying) them not to boycott GM products. Katherine Wilson explains.

The CSIRO is part of this morning’s announcement of a “fantastic plastic” material that could make desalination much less destructive. Science has a way of overtaking extreme green causes and neutralising them, writes Ben Sandilands.