Climate & Climate Change

There will be a federal election in Australia later this year and the leader of the Labor opposition, Kevin Rudd, has indicated he plans to make climate change a key issue. There has been a big change in public opinion in Australia over the last … [Read more...] about Could ‘Global Warming’ and ‘Tim Flannery’ Cost Kevin Rudd the Election?

In the movie 'An Inconvenient Truth' Al Gore falsely claims that all climate change skeptics are in the pay of big oil. Just last week there were more false claims inparticular claims that the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is recruiting … [Read more...] about What’s Opinion from a Skeptic Worth?

Hi Jennifer, I've only just noticed this week's Jakarta floods. Most of the reportage has concentrated on the immediate disaster and the associated political recriminations, but I see in the Sydney Morning Herald that, "meteorologists have claimed … [Read more...] about Jakarta Floods: A Note from Mitchell Porter

Canadian think-tank The Fraser Institute has just released a 64 page-summary of the the latest United Nation's report on climate change concluding that: • Data collected by weather satellites since 1979 continue to exhibit little evidence of … [Read more...] about Fraser Institute Publishes Independent Review of UN Climate Change Report

ALMOST every day some report or event is claimed as evidence of global warming. Al Gore's recent movie An Inconvenient Truth went so far as to claim that we have a "climate crisis" right now. Do we? It can be hard finding the real facts on climate … [Read more...] about How Much Hot Air?

The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just released a 21 page report summary for policy makers of a report entitled 'Climate Change 2007 - The Physical Science Basis' which will be released later in the year. The report … [Read more...] about Weekend Reading: Climate Change 2007 – The Physical Science Basis