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I think the irony of this ABC article was lost on the ABC reporter:

Senior Chinese government figures have described the view that climate change is not man-made as an “extreme” stance which is out of step with mainstream thought.

The comments were made during China’s annual sitting of the National People’s Congress.

So a bunch of communist styled authoritative political figures say that denying climate change is a form of extremism. You better toe the line then or off to the gulag for you – extremist!!!

This article is probably an hysterical reaction and ironically, evidence to support an address given by ABC chairman, who this week claimed that the ABC is beset with group think on reporting climate change issues. Thanks ABC.

Australia’s number one megalomaniac politician, Climate Change Minister Senator Wong, is losing the climate change debate and so is resorting to fear to push her brand of socialism:

In her opening address to the National Climate Change Forum in Adelaide yesterday, Senator Wong made some alarming predictions for Australia’s coast. “Not only are our assets and environments at risk, many of our sandy beaches could erode away or recede up to hundreds of metres over the coming century,” she said. “It is possible that with climate change and without large and expensive nourishment programs, Bondi Beach, (Queensland’s) Sunshine Coast and (Victoria’s) Bells Beach may no longer be the beaches we know today.”

It is incredible to believe that Senator Wong actually believes this nonsense. Is she also saying then that Sydney will be under water by the end of the century as well? She is talking about hundreds of metres. Where is all the water going to come from? The South Pole? Well if that’s the case it better start melting some time soon. And where is the scientific consensus that supports her outrageous claim?

Bob Carter, a geologist and environmental scientist with James Cook University in Queensland, said Senator Wong’s comments appeared to be an attempt to panic the public.

Pointing to historical rates of sea level rise of an average 1.6mm per year globally over the past 100 years, Mr Carter said it was reasonable to expect a total rise of 16cm in a century….

Dr Carter said: “Have you noticed Bondi beach being destroyed in the past 100 years by that rise?”

He said that in some areas around the Australian coast, the sea level was actually getting lower.

“In some places, the geological substrata is sinking, which adds to sea-level rise, and in other places it’s rising, which subtracts from sea-level rise,” Dr Carter said.

“So you can’t have a sea-level policy for the whole of the Australian coast — that’s just stupid, and that’s what the states are doing.”

There is no credible science to support her claim. It is simply a brazen attempt by a captain of a sinking pirate ship attempting to salvage what golden ETS booty is left over after Lord Monckton’s devastating tour of the country, Prof. Plimer’s book, the rise of Tony Abbott, Climategate and the recent and continuing implosion of the scandal ridden IPCC.

Apparently Malcolm Turnbull made a speech in Parliament explaining why he was going to cross the floor to vote for Rudd’s ETS. The ABC of course has made a big deal of the speech in a desperate attempt to make their inside man relevant again. I figured I might as well play their game and go into censorship mode and not link to something I ardently disagree with. I understand now why the ABC does it. Makes life easier. Good times.

ABC reporter Chris Uhlmann, who is meant to be one the more balanced ABC journalists, has summed up what he regards as the key issue in the up coming Federal election:

Climate change isn’t the positive it once was for Labor and one in its ranks recently noted that the Prime Minister shouldn’t keep claiming Copenhagen was a success saying, “you should never tell the punters what they know isn’t true”.

All that said, if most of the electorate didn’t want some sort of action on climate change then the Coalition wouldn’t have a policy at all. To eke out a draw in this battle its position has to be defensible and that means people have to see its alternative as credible. So that’s where Labor has launched its attack. In the end, to paraphrase John Howard, it will probably boil down to who you trust to keep carbon emissions low.

Chris Uhlmann, like his ABC colleagues, clearly has not spotted the change in voter sentiment over the past six months on climate change. Or maybe it is just wishful thinking? Less and less people care about the issue. Early in October 2009 the shift in opinion was first indicated by the Lowy poll. It showed that the majority of respondents didn’t rate climate change as a pressing problem – 52 per cent. A move of 20 per cent over the previous poll in 2006. 20 points!!!

Then we have had IPCC scandal after IPCC scandal, the collapse of the Copenhagen Conference, Prof. Plimer’s best selling book Heaven and Earth, the rise of Tony Abbott and now Lord Monckton’s last minute sell out speaking tour of the country. The fact that the ABC has done its best to either ignore or cover-up this change in sentiment provides more evidence of the group think mentality within the organisation and a sneak into how the ABC is going to lobby for the Greens first and ALP second at the next election.

Oh well, looks like the IPCC is about to fall over.

India has threatened to pull out of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and set up its on climate change body because it “cannot rely” on the group headed by its own Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr R K Pachauri.

Gee, shucks. If India pulls out I doubt the IPCC would be able to continue in its current form. What little credibility it has left would simply vanish, with 17 per cent of the world’s population automatically checking out of the body. I wonder how the ABC would try to spin such an event? Imagine the clamour of scientists in Australia worried about their funding stream for continued doom mongering if they don’t get more funding to study their own doom mongering predictions. Talk about positive feed back loops.

The reason for this threat is that India is none too pleased about the IPCC’s deliberate misrepresentation of the effects of global warming on Himalayan glaciers, claims that benefited funding for the IPCC’s head Dr R K Pachauri, and his research institute.  Add to that the IPCC’s sloppy research covering the Amazon, relationship with the Climagegate scientists, misrepresentation of sea level rises, using non-peer revised material to make shocking headline graping claims for publicity sake and seemingly exaggerating virtually every other climate related issue of note. Seems the manufactured scientific consensus has reached its used by date. Even the Guardian’s prophet of doom George Monbiot is getting worried:

These scandals have done tremendous damage. This is not because they threaten the canon of climate science– that would require similar exposés of tens of thousands of scientific papers – but because they create an atmosphere of opacity and evasion.

The canon of climate science?!? There are not ‘tens of thousands of scientific papers’ supporting the IPCC’s claims about the heating effect of human carbon emissions on global temperatures. Monbiot’s statement is complete bonkers. In order to disprove the IPCC’s claims one only has to show that carbon dioxide will not heat the climate to the extent the IPCC proposes it will. Every other scientific paper written in the name of climate change will fall if the IPCC’s claim about climate sensitivity can be shown to have been exaggerated. Some claim that it already has, in the context of Rudd’s ETS:

…the IPCC’s central estimate of CO2’s warming effect, according to an increasing number of serious papers in the peer-reviewed literature, is a five-fold exaggeration. If those papers are right, after a further decade of incomplete compliance and billions squandered, warming forestalled may prove to be just a thousandth of a degree.

Just been watching the ABC online broadcast of Lord Monckton’s address to the National Press Club, and half way through it, the ABC appears to have pulled the plug. I received the rainbow screen of death and then nothing.  I imagine that the ABC received a few complaints – most likely from ABC staff – so pulled the address. The catalyst may have been when Lord Monckton started criticising the group think mentality of the media.

Turnbull has already declared his hand and will cross the floor to support Rudd’s emissions trading scheme. However, it appears this move may merely isolate Turnbull further from growing public concern about the ETS, according to internal National Party polling:

Sources said the research, first revealed at a meeting of Nationals MPs in Coffs Harbour on Thursday, found 75 per cent of respondents said they would prefer direct action to reduce emissions to Mr Rudd’s market-linked approach.

About 80 per cent of people worried about the impact of the ETS on their job security, while 82 per cent were concerned about its effects on the cost of living.

So opposing the ETS at least gives the Coalition a chance of winning the next election. And to think, Turnbull wanted to support the legislation to avoid making the ETS an election issue. Combined with Climategate, Glaciergate, Amazongate, the complete failure of the Copenhagen Conference and the current tour of Lord Monckton, the worm has definitely turned on the ETS in only a couple of months. Rudd does not even talk about it anymore. Hilarious!

Remember Climategate? Well, it has now been established:

The University of East Anglia breached the Freedom of Information Act by refusing to comply with requests for data concerning claims by its scientists that man-made emissions were causing global warming.

The Information Commissioner’s Office decided that UEA failed in its duties under the Act but said that it could not prosecute those involved because the complaint was made too late, The Times has learnt. The ICO is now seeking to change the law to allow prosecutions if a complaint is made more than six months after a breach.

The flood gates are opening.

A good summation of the key arguments being presented by Lord Monckton on his Australia tour, care of Channel Ten.

From the Financial Post in Canada and the impending doom facing the IPCC:

He joins a growing list of dissenters.