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Expect Scepticism Over Gas Industry-Funded Research
A LEADING United States university has decided to pull the plug on a research institute focussing on energy from gas after questions were raised over its ties to the industry. Bloomberg reports that...
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Murdering a scientific paper on sea-level rise – the Graham Lloyd way
UNRAVELLING the causes of rising sea-levels across the globe is a little like one of those Agatha Christie TV murder whodunnits that you might have sat through while your Sunday lunch disappated...
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Senate inquiry looks at Australia’s extreme weather and asks if we’re ready
This is a longer version of a story which appeared yesterday in Crikey. CLIMATE change adaptation has always been seen as the science of preparation – a pre-emptive strike to protect humans and...
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The Australian admits it misinterpreted research on sea level rise linked to...
A FEW days ago The Australian newspaper ran a story on its front page with the headline “Sea rise ‘not linked to warming’” which was supposedly based on the findings of research published in a...
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Give us a break on the climate science denial
Flooding in Bundaberg, January 2013. Credit Instagram/ABC News “GIVE me a break,” said the premier of the Australian state of New South Wales Barry O’Farrell when asked if recent devastating floods...
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Andrew Bolt is still on the fringes, whether he stands with Lord Monckton or not
Lord Monckton at the launch of Rise Up Australia. Credit: ABC footage A FEW weeks ago I wrote a story for DeSmogBlog looking at how Lord Christopher Monckton – a poster child of the climate science...
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Carbon bombs scrubbing Australia’s emissions cut
I’VE got a blog post up at The Guardian having a look at Australia’s current and future arsenal of “carbon bombs” – those massive multi-billion dollar projects to extract and mainly export fossil...
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Climate change, the New World Order and spam-weary journalists
BEN CUBBY, the environment editor at the Sydney Morning Herald, admits he has an unusual problem – “how does one critically analyse a pile of horse shit?” The horse excretion in question is a report –...
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Greg Hunt’s unusually cool US winter that wasn’t
OPPOSITION spokesperson on climate change Greg Hunt has been quoted across the news wires today as saying that while Australia has experienced its hottest summer on record, it’s been unusually cold...
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Climate Scientists Pursued By Sceptics Through Courts Of Law And Public Opinion
THE climate science denial industry doesn’t like Penn State University’s Professor Michael Mann very much. Mann is the scientist behind the famous “hockey stick” graph that first appeared in the...
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Australia’s new energy minister Gary Gray – a brief climate history
Resources and Energy Minister Gary Gray on ABC’s Lateline AUSTRALIA has a new energy and resources minister in the form of Gary Gray, who was elected to the Federal Parliament in 2007 after six years...
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The Australian publishes James Delingpole’s call for climate “alarmists” to...
James Delingpole I IMAGINE only a small percentage of people reading this have had any journalism training, but don’t let that stop you from pondering the following ethical question. If you read a...
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The Australian Brings You The Climate Science Denial News From Five Years Ago
“EXPERTS warn of a coming ice age” declared the headline in a story which appeared in last week’s The Australian newspaper. In reality, the headline should have read something like this “One solar...
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New blog Planet Oz gets a slot on The Guardian
YOU might have seen or even read already that I’ve got a new blogging gig with The Guardian. As you can see it features a lovely little banner and a picture of me which, I’m being told repeatedly,...
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Heartland Institute climate sceptic author has “no status” with Australian...
Bob Carter, formerly an adjunct professor at James Cook University, appearing on Andrew Bolt’s Channel Ten television show The Heartland Institute, a climate science denying fossil fuel-funded free...
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Obama’s rhetoric says we should see climate action as the ethical choice
US President Barack Obama’s rhetoric on climate change and the need to act is increasingly smouthered in ethics with a nod to the moral pressure of securing a liveable world for future generations....
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The undiscerning climate bookshelf
Climate sceptic book Taxing Air coming to an undiscerning book store near you SHELVES in popular book stores can be undiscerning little buggers, as can the book stores themselves. For example, I...
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Questionnaire for wannabe science minister Dennis Jensen – which of these...
DENNIS Jensen, recently re-elected Liberal member for Tangney, wants to be Australia’s new science minister, telling Fairfax Media that he has some “unique attributes” that he can bring to the new but...
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Top physicist accuses The Australian newspaper of misrepresenting his climate...
Professor Richard Muller – fair to say he’s not happy with a recent column in The Australian that misrepresented his views on climate chnage IN a column this week in The Australian, writer Gary Johns...
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Tim Minchin on climate change denial and Tony Abbott
COMEDIAN, musician, performer, atheist and other labels Tim Minchin was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Western Australia a few days back. In his address to the...
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