Nick Minchin
Yesterday I posted about ABC’s Four Corners programme, and noted that the Opposition is under more scrutiny from the media on the ETS than the government. However, there was an upside to the programme, namely the string of Liberals, including Nick Minchin, leader of the Liberals in the Senate, who came out openly to question the AGW dogma. Here are some of his statements:
“I frankly strongly object to you know, politicians and others trying to terrify 12 year old girls that their planet’s about to melt, you know. I mean really it is appalling some of that sort of behaviour.
“For the extreme left [climate change] provides the opportunity to do what they’ve always wanted to do, to sort of de-industrialise the western world. You know the collapse of communism was a disaster for the left, and the, and really they embraced environmentalism as their new religion.
“I don’t mind being branded a sceptic about the theory that that human emissions and CO2 are the main driver of … global warming. I don’t accept that and I’ve said that publically. I guess if I can say it, I would hope that others would feel free to do so.”
We also heard dissenting views from Dennis Jensen, Cory Bernardi, Tony Abbott and Julian McGauran. The following exchange sums up the Liberals’ dilemma very well:
SARAH FERGUSON (to Dennis Jensen): Does that mean that Malcolm Turnbull is sort of too green for a majority of the party?
DENNIS JENSEN, LIBERAL MP, WA: I think that that would probably be fair to say.
Read the transcript and see the episode here.
Australian Climate Madness 
so – it is MORE LIKELY that Global Warming is actually a green-left conspiracy to destroy industrial capitalism, than that the increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is causing the climate to change? Some conspiracy theory. I wonder how much the wretched communist Rudd and his co-conspirators are paying the CSIRO and all the other climate bodies to mouth support.
Jonathan
More than enough it would appear