Climate sense at last…
From The Australian:
Flanked by 17 Coalition supporters, including Deputy Senate leader Eric Abetz, a dozen Liberals and five Nationals MPs, Senator Minchin threw down a challenge to Mr Turnbull, launching a powerful attack on climate change science.
“The Senate overwhelmingly rejected this abomination in August – it should do so again,” Senator Minchin said.
“The Coalition has maintained from day one that this legislation should not be voted upon before we know the outcome of the Copenhagen conference.
“Until we know that other major economies are making firm commitments to enact domestic emissions trading schemes Australia should not act alone.”
Senator Minchin’s supporters also included Victorians Scott Ryan and Mitch Fifield, WA’s Alan Eggleston, Michaela Cash and Mathias Cormann, and SA’s Cory Bernardi, Alan Ferguson, David Bushby and Chris Back.
Senator Cormann told The Australian Online it was a show of support for Senator Minchin.
“It was a show of support for a great leader who gave a great speech,” he said.
“I am saying we should not finalise this until after Copenhagen. Obviously I hope the partyroom will agree to that.”
Senator Minchin said it was pure “vanity” for the Prime Minister to demand the legislation to pass before Copenhagen conference, particularly when the scheme would not start until mid 2011.
“The government’s cynical political agenda is quite naked. It is using the threat of a double dissolution to blackmail the Senate into supporting this radical legislation,” Senator Minchin said.
“It is literally crazy to be committing to an emissions trading scheme before we see the outcome of the discussions at Copenhagen. It is also frankly idiotic for this country to legislate and emissions trading scheme before the US Congress does so.”
His comments follow a warning from WA Liberal MP Denis Jensen that a third of the party – 30 MPs – could cross the floor if Malcolm Turnbull strikes a deal with Labor.
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Australian Climate Madness 
To Senator Nick Minchin
I fully support your stance against this coordinated Left wing madness of AGW nonsense to tax the world to death. The polls are driven by the gullible media who swallow everything dished out by crooked “scientists” ala, CRU data fudgers and destroyers of real hard data. I suggest that in the coming days when interviewed by the media, push the rottenness of the CRU as much as you can. That is your strength, the weapon that would dent the alarmists camp. Drive this CRU issue hard so the media should treat it as front page news. Dont just dwell too much on leadership or ETS, that is all too common. Hit them on the bad science and the rottenness at CRU. PLEASE. Go public on this single issue. To date, the public knows little of this because the media is refusing to acknowledge this as they are drunk with Al Gore’s the Inconvenient Truth trash. Drive home the message that CRU has been feeding fudged science to the IPCC which the UN, Obama and Rudd have swallowed.
Thank you for reading this and for your time.
John Kross
Brisbane