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Cutting to the Bone? Government budgetary spending on climate change

May 24, 2013 - 11:29 -- Admin

Among Martin Parkinson’s most inglorious forecasts as Treasury Secretary was that there was a global movement towards carbon taxes and other such measures that would rapidly lower carbon emissions.  Only the EU is now following such practices and its measures are being weakened.

Julia's Community Cabinet: Policy Sounding Without Fury

April 20, 2013 - 14:31 -- Admin
There were quite a few surprises at Julia Gillard's Community Cabinet on 17 April 2013, hosted by Norwood Secondary College in Melbourne's eastern suburb of Ringwood. Cabinet members held one-on-one interviews before a public forum that lasted over an hour. The government school is in the Federal seat of Deakin held by Labor's Mike Symons.

Climate Deniers Crank Out Conspiracy Theories

February 7, 2013 - 10:18 -- Admin
Climate denier blogosphere reaction to conspiracy study confirms conspiracy ideationFrom Cindy Baxter, NZ climate action campaigner:Perth - 6 February 2013 -- When Australian climate psychologist Stephan Lewandowsky published a study showing that those who denied scientific propositions such as the link between climate change and human activity

The Australian’s War on Science 81: Matt Ridley’s 20 year old wrong prediction

January 14, 2013 - 03:58 -- Admin

Matt Ridley, in The Globe and Mail, 31 Dec 1993.

Global warming, too, has shot its bolt, now that the scientific consensus has settled down on about a degree of temperature increase over a century-that is, little more than has taken place in the past century.

The Australian’s War on Science 80: The Australian says it’s OK to lie about the science

December 22, 2012 - 03:14 -- Admin
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The Australian is notorious for its attacks on climate science and its hypersensitivity to criticism, so this segment on the Science Show on the psychology of the rejection of climate science where this Maurice Newman opinion piece in the Australian was (correctly)