Dear Professor Garnaut,

I note that your review has been commissioned to “examine the impacts of climate change on the Australian economy, and recommend medium to long-term policies and policy frameworks to improve the prospects for sustainable prosperity”.

As written, this is a straightforward if challenging task. Unwritten, however, is that the term “climate change” today carries connotations of human causation, thanks mainly to lobby group pressure and media propaganda. This transforms a straightforward task into one of immense complexity, because of the existence of both many unresolved, controversial scientific issues and the fierce environmental politics that becomes involved.
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The Heartland Institute is sponsoring The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in New York, March 2, 2008. There is a brochure here (PDF, 411KB) and more information at the Heartland Web site.

This is our Submission to the Garnaut Climate Change Review, The Sky is Not Falling [PDF, 157KB].

By Peter Wales

When the popular media refer to “Global Warming”, or more recently “Climate Change”, both with Capitals, so You Know How Important It Is, they mean a combination of three related theories. These are:

• The Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate.
• This is happening because of human activity.
• This is a bad thing.

None of these things can be shown to be true.

Read the full article: Profits of Doom – An Alternative View of Global Warming [PDF, 1.2MB]