Alex Reichmuth, Die Weltwoche, 22 July 2010: In November 2009, just days before the big climate summit in Copenhagen, thousands of internal e-mails from leading climate researchers at the University of East Anglia were made public. In the e-mails, the researchers at the university's Climatic Research Unit discussed how to manipulate data series. They discussed with colleagues from other research centres how to sideline critics of mainstream climate science. And they requested each other to delete scientific data in order to protect the scientific information from the clutches of their critics. The affair - soon referred to as "Climategate" - was explosive because the IPCC, in its reports, had again and again relied substantially on the research conducted at CRU - for example, in reconstructing the climate of the last thousand years with the help of so-called proxy data, such as tree rings or ice cores. In addition, CRU researchers also play a leading role in determining the global temperatures today.

Federated Farmers Media Release 28 July 2010

I have pasted an article that to me succinctly sums up the whole crazy
debate on global warming.It is quite long (as i don`t think you can use
links on this serve) but well worth a read.The article also goes into how
even though Richard Lindzen of MIT was brought into the UN`s IPCC for his
expertise,as he did not follow the ''plan'' he was vilified and hounded.This
is not how science is supposed to work..people like Lindzen publish papers
and people are free to criticize methodology,conclusions etc but as like
when Alan says that Lindzen ''has extreme right wing views'' that is
smearing the man instead of critiquing his work.
 

To read Nick Smith's letter click here

Dear Robyn,

National's failure to recognise the anger generated by the ETS will lose them the next election - but it's their choice.  As a supporter of this government I have my ears open to voters feelings on this matter, as should you after Dr Smith nearly faced a lynching party recently.  The feeling is very strongly against the ETS and it's from our supporters, especially farmers.

21 July 2010

The Carbon Sense Coalition today called for an end to the massive subsidies distorting all energy markets in the name of global warming.