Each weekend the Sydney Morning Herald’s News Review poses a question and  invites answers from four people, most recently they asked a climate sceptic to take part.

The new Fair Work arrangements are not only based on a totally false rationale. They are also an unwarranted infringement of personal freedom.

Crisis, crisis, crisis - almost everywhere we turn there is said to be a crisis. But does this mean we are seriously threatened by some event that we cannot avoid and, if so, what is the extent of damage that might occur to our lives?

Shadow Treasurer Hockey was reported last week as identifying possible cuts in Federal government spending of $50-70 billion over the next four years.

The most disturbing aspect relates to the apparent absence of  any common sense at the political level and the apparent inability to recognise the seriousness of the critiques by people who are not driving a political agenda.

The meaninglessness of the economic modelling, and the failure to recognise the now widespread scepticism with the science, offer another example of this government’s failure and inability to change when the circumstances obviously require that.

The Steffen report provides no sound basis for Australia to adopt a carbon tax or any other measures to reduce emissions.

With the continuing shift in Australian opinion polls on the attitude to the causes of warming, it is now becoming conceivable that Abbott might even dare to describe global warming science as a scam.

I was waiting to hear the sceptical view, which I assumed would indicate that historical evidence suggests that the extreme weather events are neither unusual nor more frequent. But in vain: no other view was canvassed by Lateline. The ABC was happy.