Just don't tell me the debate's over…
Just listening to ABC Sydney 702 and there is talk of a leadership spill on the instigation of Wilson Tuckey… more to follow.
Apparently it was raised, but didn’t happen…
Andrew Robb’s change of position has sent shockwaves through the partyroom, however.
Still no news @ 7pm. Out of contact intermittently from now until 9.30.
The well-known alarmist journalist on the post-CRU world:
Read full article here (quote is in the comments). (h/t Andrew Bolt)
Many people have commented that this is just a sick joke from Monbiot… I’m starting to think they might be right…
Listen here (didn’t catch the start – apologies).
Kevin Rudd, Penny Wong Press Conference
Key points of deal:
More to come…
Viscount Monckton
Writing at Pajamas Media, Viscount Christopher Monckton pulls no punches (read it all, Malcolm Turnbull):
This is what they did — these climate “scientists” on whose unsupported word the world’s classe politique proposes to set up an unelected global government this December in Copenhagen, with vast and unprecedented powers to control all formerly free markets, to tax wealthy nations and all of their financial transactions, to regulate the economic and environmental affairs of all nations, and to confiscate and extinguish all patent and intellectual property rights.
The tiny, close-knit clique of climate scientists who invented and now drive the “global warming” fraud — for fraud is what we now know it to be — tampered with temperature data so assiduously that, on the recent admission of one of them, land temperatures since 1980 have risen twice as fast as ocean temperatures. One of the thousands of emails recently circulated by a whistleblower at the University of East Anglia, where one of the world’s four global-temperature datasets is compiled, reveals that data were altered so as to prevent a recent decline in temperature from showing in the record. In fact, there has been no statistically significant “global warming” for 15 years — and there has been rapid and significant cooling for nine years.
Worse, these arrogant fraudsters — for fraudsters are what we now know them to be — have refused, for years and years and years, to reveal their data and their computer program listings. Now we know why: As a revealing 15,000-line document from the computer division at the Climate Research Unit shows, the programs and data are a hopeless, tangled mess. In effect, the global temperature trends have simply been made up. Unfortunately, the British researchers have been acting closely in league with their U.S. counterparts who compile the other terrestrial temperature dataset — the GISS/NCDC dataset. That dataset too contains numerous biases intended artificially to inflate the natural warming of the 20th century.
Finally, these huckstering snake-oil salesmen and “global warming” profiteers — for that is what they are — have written to each other encouraging the destruction of data that had been lawfully requested under the Freedom of Information Act in the UK by scientists who wanted to check whether their global temperature record had been properly compiled. And that procurement of data destruction, as they are about to find out to their cost, is a criminal offense. They are not merely bad scientists — they are crooks. And crooks who have perpetrated their crimes at the expense of British and U.S. taxpayers.
I am angry, and so should you be.
Read it all. (h/t Climate Depot)
The ABC finally, finally, acknowledges the CRU leaks with a slot on Lateline (hosted by arch ABC alarmist Tony Jones). And whilst they do interview Andrew Bolt, they wheel out Andy Pitman, another hysterical alarmist, to pooh-pooh everything in the material (even the threats to destroy data, which Pitman excuses as reasonable behaviour when confidentiality agreements are in place – utter nonsense of course). And the presenter of the segment is none other than the author of the dire ABC Copenhagen Blog, Margot O’Neill, so of course, she gives the last word to Pitman.
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UPDATE: The ABC then goes overboard and give an entire article to Australian Alarmist of the Year Tim Flannery, to flannel his way out of the fix the warmists are in:
Climate change sceptics are hailing the emails as proof the research data has been skewed and suppressed.
But Dr Flannery says the scientific community knows enough to say greenhouse gases cause global warming, and that humans are responsible.
“The thing is we deal with an incomplete understanding of the way the Earth’s system works, we know enough to say as the IPCC said that greenhouse gases cause warming,” he said.
“They are 90 per cent-plus sure that it’s caused by humans, we can go that far.
“In the last few years, where there hasn’t been a continuation of that warming trend, we don’t understand all of the factors that creates Earth’s climate, so there are some things we don’t understand, that’s what the scientists were emailing about.”
Admitting you don’t know everything there is to know about the climate? That must hurt.
Read it here.
Nick Minchin
I really hope that Liberal MPs and Senators read The Australian this morning, because it may be the last chance for them to realise the scale of (or even become aware of) the WarmerGate scandal. Nick Minchin comments on the emails:
Opposition Senate leader and Australia’s unofficial chief climate change sceptic Nick Minchin says the email scandal has strengthened a point he has long made.
“The leaked emails certainly substantiate the point I’ve been making that the scientific debate as to the small degree of global warming in the latter part of the 20th century is far from settled,” he says.
“These emails reveal at least prima facie evidence that supporters of the theory of anthropogenic global warming are going to considerable lengths to doctor evidence and to suppress information and intimidate those who don’t support that theory.”
Minchin says the apparent fraud signifies a “rather disturbing culture, at least in the East Anglia CRU, which is one of most significant in the world in terms of determining outcomes of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change”.
“For those who don’t think the IPCC should be taken as gospel, this does confirm that we shouldn’t be unquestioning of the opinions of the UN commitee.”
Geologist and climate change denier Ian Plimer says he hinted in his recent book Heaven and Earth that there is fraud afoot among climate scientists.
“This substantiates what I hinted at,” Plimer says.
“Here we have the Australian government underpinning the biggest economic decision this country has ever made and it’s all based on fraud.”
And as expected, Penny Wong comes out with a classic example of breathtaking hypocrisy:
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said in the Senate yesterday that the emails amounted to “a free exchange of views on climate change. We on this side are happy to have that debate.”
Priceless.
Read it here.
Are the Senate about to throw us off?
The next 48 hours will determine whether Australia goes over the cliff edge of climate madness, and passes an ETS based on flawed science and the political posturing of the IPCC, and which will do nothing for the climate either locally or globally, but which will do untold damage to our economy, industry and competitiveness, or whether, at the last minute, it steps back from the brink, and comes to its senses, and quietly walks away from the precipice.
If this report in the Herald Sun is to be believed, we’re over the cliff, folks:
AUSTRALIA is on the verge of signing a groundbreaking plan to cut greenhouse gases, with the Government offering last-minute concessions to win Coalition support for its emissions trading scheme.
The Coalition party room must still give the green light to the Bill, to include new compensation for polluters and green bonuses for households.
But sources said the deal was likely to be accepted, despite significant dissent.
The scheme will raise the price of many goods and services but the impact on households will depend on the final detail of the scheme.
A deal would be a win for both Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull. [And a savage blow to the Australian people – Ed]
The PM would get an agreement he could take to the Copenhagen climate change summit, putting Australia in an elite global club of climate change reformers. [Who the hell is this journalist? Makes it sound like something to be proud of – Ed]
The Opposition Leader would have his position in the party strengthened and avoid a double dissolution.
Even strident opponents of the scheme last night said they believed MPs would fall into line behind Mr Turnbull. [God no – this cannot happen – Ed]
“If he pushes hard in favour of it, people – even though they may not actually agree that we should be doing anything – will go along with it because they don’t want to roll the leader,” a senior Liberal said.
Please let this be wrong.
Climate madness in undiluted form.
Read it here.
Lord Lawson
From the UK Telegraph:
Lord Lawson, the former chancellor, has called for an independent inquiry into claims that leading climate change scientists manipulated data to strengthen the case for man-made global warming.
Thousands of emails and documents stolen from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and posted online indicate that researchers massaged figures to mask the fact that world temperatures have been declining in recent years.
This morning Lord Lawson, who has reinvented himself as a prominent climate change sceptic since leaving front line politics, demanded that the apparent deception be fully investigated.
He claimed that the credibility of the university’s world-renowned Climatic Research Unit – and British science – were under threat.
“They should set up a public inquiry under someone who is totally respected and get to the truth,” he told the BBC Radio Four Today programme.
“If there’s an explanation for what’s going on they can make that explanation.”
Read it here.
UPDATE: Also check out Christopher Booker, writing in The Daily Mail here.
Climate alarmism 24/7
Whilst the global media is picking up on the story by the hour, our national broadcaster, the Australian Alarmist Broadcasting Corporation, is still holding out on ClimateGate, refusing steadfastly to publish anything on the story at all!
Why is this? Simple. The ABC made up its mind on climate change years ago (if you doubt that, just take a look here), and whenever something comes along that challenges that mindset, it does the childish “la-la-la-fingers-in-ears-I’m-not-listening” routine. They are however very happy to run these recent stories, however:
And of course, the diabolical Countdown to Copenhagen blog of Margot Moonbat O’Neill.
It would be funny if it weren’t such appalling behaviour for a national broadcaster. Just like the CRU lot censored inconvenient climate data, the ABC censors inconvenient climate news.
Australian Climate Madness 
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