The Australian government has produced a draft document by the Department of Climate Change on Australian Climate Change Science – A National Framework. The Carbon Sense Coalition responds:

“The Exposure Draft on Australian Climate Change Science is planned as a justification
for a massive new investment of public funds in a lot of very speculative ventures. It is
produced entirely by the people who are seeking the funds. The authors are anonymous
but obviously have a big vested interest in the result. The guiding principles are taken, not
from science, but from political manifestos.” Continue reading the full document [PDF, 66 KB].

For years David Bellamy was one of the best known faces on TV.

A respected botanist and the author of 35 books, he had presented around 400 programmes over the years and was appreciated by audiences for his boundless enthusiasm.

Yet for more than 10 years he has been out of the limelight, shunned by bosses at the BBC where he made his name, as well as fellow scientists and environmentalists.

His crime? Bellamy says he doesn’t believe in man-made global warming.

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The New Zealand government has set a target of 90% of electricity to be generated by renewable energy by 2050. This submission by a New Zealand Engineer, Bryan Leyland, documents the abysmal performance of wind power projects and  shows there is no chance that this target will be achieved. He also documents the failure of IPCC computer forecasts of global temperature, and the correlation between cosmic rays and temperature. He concludes that the sun drives earth’s climate and National Energy Policy is unnecessary and unachievable. Full submission is here [PDF, 731 KB].