Turning sceptical?
The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age are to the global warming religion what L Ron Hubbard is to scientology, so to see even a few shards of agnosticism creeping in is fairly surprising, and encouraging:
The claims made about the science have been rash, asserting dogmatic certainty about human-induced warming when the reality is that the overall picture is quite unclear. This has now backfired, with the IPCC admitting mistakes in its 2007 report, and the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, which the IPCC has drawn heavily upon, shown to have been, at the least, devious in the results it has made public.
There may be some link between the rashness of the global warming campaign and the haplessness of the politics that has followed. The best current bet is that, after Copenhagen, emission controls is dead as a serious international issue. And further, only some environmental disaster that can be convincingly linked to climate change will rekindle it. The ”sceptics” have won the politics.
The clumsy politics is international and local. An emissions trading scheme, as proposed by the Australian Government, is very bad policy. It is a form of taxation on carbon under another name. To tax carbon will lead to thousands of pages of regulation – a godsend to bureaucracy, but paralysing for initiative and industry.
Read it here.
Australian Climate Madness 
The fact that Fairfax has printed this piece from John Carroll may be the first breech of the dam wall. The beneficiaries of this scam are screaming like stuck pigs. The zealots will of course point out that Prof. Carroll is not a “climate scientist”, has not published in peer review literature, etc. etc.
Yes, it’s very significant that the major dailies are introducing some “flat earth, denialist cranks” to their pages. I think they see the writing well and truly on the wall. The green/left scare camapign initiated by Al Gore has failed spectacularly, and they know it.
Have a look at the level of debate here in NZ. The greens are throwing in the towel…
http://mickysmuses.blogspot.com/2010/01/white-flag-is-waving.html