INCONVENIENT NONSENSE INFILTRATES THE CLASSROOM

Professor Bob Carter, writes in The Australian on the proposal to include the film, An Inconvenient Truth into Australian school curriculum.

"In 2006, former US vice-president Al Gore made a movie and companion book about global warming called An Inconvenient Truth. Gore undertook many speaking tours to publicise his film, and his PowerPoint slide show has been shown by thousands of his acolytes spreading a relentless message of warming alarmism across the globe.

But while audiences reacted positively and emotionally to the film's message - which was that human carbon dioxide emissions are causing dangerous global warming - some independent scientists pointed out that An Inconvenient Truth represented well-made propaganda for the warming cause and presented an unreliable, biased account of climate science."

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SLANDER ON THE ABC SCIENCE SHOW

Host of the ABC Science Show, Robyn Williams further undermines the integrity of the Science Show with a poor quality interview with Public Relations man Bob Ward from the London School of Economics, who for some reason feels qualified to adjudicate on the qualifications of climate scientists.  Ward attacks Professor Bob Carter's contribution to the debate on climate change without substantiating his accusations during the interview and Williams does not ask him to do so!

ABC News Watch posted this summary

Dr Jennifer Marohasy commented on her blog site

TOP SCIENCE BODY COOLS ON GLOBAL WARMING

Graham Lloyd and Matthew Franklin report in The Australian on how the Royal Society has retreated from the definitive language on the certainties of climate science after pressure from its own members who said the society had gone too far with previous statements.  Indeed.

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SETTLE THE SCIENCE - HAVE A ROYAL COMMISSION

Continuing calls by the ACSC and others for a royal commission to examine all of the issues relating to climata data collection, independence of institutions providing climate advice and Australian government reliance on political summaries of the IPCC have been endorsed by the view put forward by Dr Dennis Jensen, MP for Tangney in an article at Quadrant Online.

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CLIMATE: THE COUNTER CONSENSUS

Michael Duffy from ABC Counterpoint interviews Professor Bob Carter about the need for a national climate policy to adapt to climatic changes, which is discussed in his new book Clmate: the counter consensus

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AUSTRALIAN CLIMATE POLL, 60% PASSIONATE BUT HALF IN THE DARK

Joanne Nova at her website has analysed the recent ACSC poll and made some observations.

"It’s quicksand out there in voter-world. Half the population is no longer sold on the emissions trading scheme, but the other half is unaware of what is unfolding."

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