Those fightingback are trying desperately to dismiss the growing revelations that not only is the science used by the so-called consensus highly (and increasingly) uncertain but so too are the temperatures used as statistical backing for that science.

Of the 30 “best people addressing the climate problem now”, the Alfred Deakin lecturers all appear to be warmists, and include John Brumby and Malcolm Turnbull. Scientists with any knowledge of the global warming debate are in short supply and there are no sceptics.

In a seventy-seven-page judgment on February 15, New South Wales […]

The State of Climate report can only be described as offering a grossly inadequate assessment of both past trends and possible future trends in climate. The many inadequacies offer the Coalition an opportunity to demand an independent inquiry into the science being used to back the dangerous warming thesis.

A major new analysis by two Australian scientists shows that the temperature data published by the IPCC and other organisations has been manipulated to give the appearance of a warming trend - but not one that has actually occurred. This analysis has major international implications in regard to the policies to be adopted by countries on emissions reductions.

The Australian has performed best in giving space to sceptics and dissenters but has stuck to the save the planet line in its editorials, some say because Rupert Murdoch said so publicly. Yet in a personal communication with Murdoch he indicated his scepticism to me.

It is now more than thirteen years since I established […]

It may well be that Rudd regards Turnbull as close to a best friend who needs to be kept as Opposition leader.

The essence of the problem is the lack of any coherent set of policies that might convey what kind of society the Party considers Australians should have and how that might be achieved.