ANU climate change expert Professor Will Steffen has responded to Senator Steve Fielding’s climate sceptic claims with an open letter slamming the position advanced by Fielding. Read the full missive here.
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Liberals and Fielding block our right to know
Who purchased access to senior Labor ministers at the ALP national conference? If the Senate would pass pending legislation, we might just find out.
Revealed: Steve Fielding’s ETS amendment proposal
Bernard Keane has obtained a copy of the amendment that Senator Fielding proposes to move in the Senate on the emissions trading scheme.
Fielding: Punching or posturing?
Family First Senator Steve Fielding again explains his decision to “fight” in the Senate on the issue of climate change. He loves that graph — and seems to seriously misunderstand the hypothesis he claims it disproves, says Pure Poison
An Inconvenient Truth remains
Not even Al Gore could convince Senator Fielding about climate change. The Nationals also remain unconvinced on emissions trading, writes Michelle Grattan.
Crikey Says: American sceptics take succour from Steve
Makes you proud, doesn’t it, to read tales of distinguished Australians making a name for themselves abroad. Cue Steven Fielding.
Steve’s not buying man-made global warming
Well you can’t say Crikey didn’t try to sell climate change to Family First Senator Steve Fielding.
Steve Fielding: sorry, I’m just not convinced
Senator Steve Fielding has now released a document — with help from climate-sceptic scientists — stating that “global temperature isn’t rising” and he won’t risk jobs on “unconvincing green science”.
graph pr0n Memo Steve Fielding: here’s an answer to your question
”I need to hear an explanation of why carbon emissions have been going up over the last decade and temperatures haven’t been going up,” asks Senator Steve Fielding. Ian McHugh answers.
Wong’s cynical renewable energy play
The Government is happy to sacrifice its Renewable Energy Target for political expediency.
Fielding hops into bed with climate naysayers
Senator Steve Fielding recently went to the US for a climate change fact-finding mission. But, says Matthew England, he chose a mob famous for thinking that smoking is not a health hazard.
Some notes to assist Fielding’s “exploration”
Andrew Glikson offers Steve Fielding some notes on climate science to speed up his “exploration” into the issue.
Senator Fielding, climate change scepticism and the importance of peer review
Senator Steve Fielding, while denying that he is a climate sceptic, appears to have retreated to first principles on climate change.
Senator Fielding ventures to the climate sceptic heartland
Steve Fielding’s climate change scepticism pilgrimage to Heartland, USA, won’t change the ETS vote.
Crikey Says: Oh Steven! Climate change isn’t about science
The world is way beyond debating the science of climate change as a prerequisite for political action, despite what Senator Fielding thinks. It’s now about insurance.
Turnbull’s ETS deferral is only a distraction
Malcolm Turnbull’s decision on emissions trading is a sort of Frankenstein’s monster, sewn together from bits of National Party hostility, climate scepticism and moderate enthusiasm.
AFR defends the indefensible on bank fees
Australia’s leading banking journalist, the Financial Review’s Andrew Cornell, undertook a valiant, albeit flawed defence of banking exception fees yesterday.
Politicians say the darndest things: Budget 09 in sound bites
Politicians know the power of a snappy sound bite. From “green weeds” to “Groundhog Day”, Budget 09 has given politicians the chance to introduce their latest catch phrases.
Press release of the Budget: Family First’s broken dreams
The best press release of the 2009 federal budget ….
Political snippets: A double dissolution trigger is coming
It has been a while coming but Labor will have its double dissolution trigger soon enough. All in the name of alcopops.
Will those damn alcopops never go away?
The nation’s 15-year-olds have much to answer for.
Kevin Rudd’s mid-air tantrum week
Stephen Conroy obviously the big mover, but still not all that high on the list from his usual subterranean profile.
