SENATOR FIELDING DECLARES HE IS A CLIMATE REALIST

Independent Senator Steve Fielding has attended a climate conference in Washington to check out the climate science for himself ahead of the vote on the emissions trading scheme that will arrive in the Senate in a couple of weeks. He shares his views courtesy of ABC Lateline. LINK to video on the conference. LINK to interview with Lateline

PUTTING BATTLERS BEFORE GREENS

KEVIN Rudd's monumental decision to delay the introduction of emissions trading and tweak the invariably fungible target commitments buys some more time to work out where swinging voters might stand on an issue that many see as putting jobs at risk writes political lecturer at Flinders University, Haydon Manning in The Australian. LINK to article

MANKINDS INSIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON CLIMATE

A factual summary by Dr Jay Lehr, Science Director of the Heartland Institute of the compelling evidence that mankind has an insignificant impact on the climate of Planet Earth. Dr Lehr sums up the scientific evidence, then outlines the economic costs and the political consequences of actions currently being contemplated by the US and other Western governments.

He concludes: "The sanest course for us would be to gain what limited perspective we can (remembering the global cooling alarm of a generation ago) and proceed cautiously. We are going through a scare with many causes, and we need to step back from it, take a long second look at the scientific evidence, and not do anything rash." LINK to article.

SHODDY SCIENCE ON ANIMAL EMISSIONS

With government funded reports released today showing that primary producer income will fall between 9 and 15 per cent following the introduction of an emissions trading scheme it is surprising that farm groups have not been more vocal in their oppostiion. Certainly Viv Forbes, chairman of the Carbon Sense Coalition cannot understand why they have not been more vocal.

VITRIOLIC CLIMATE IN ACADEMIC HOTHOUSE

In a wonderful gesture of public spiritedness, seven academics who include three lead authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a former director of the World Climate Research Program wrote to Australian power generating companies on April 29 instructing them to cease and desist creating electricity from coal writes Professor Ian Plimer in The Australian. That would be good. Why didn't someone else think of that. LINK to article

VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR IAN PLIMER

Brian Carlton interviews ACSC science advisor, Professor Ian Plimer on his new book Heaven + Earth: Global Warming, The Missing Science. It is worth a look. Wait for the Pop Quiz. See more here.