Much needed due diligence on climate change

Much needed due diligence on climate change (ScienceAlert)

We are, after all, an educated society, and these issues affect every one of us. I would also ask our government do three things:

Develop a professional approach to the preparation and publication of basic observational data about weather and climate; ensure that the funding directed to climate science research be allocated in a disinterested way (that is, without any presupposition that AGW is "settled science"); and wait until there is convincing evidence and argument before it goes ahead with what seem to me to be draconian public policies.

Finally, I would ask that all our governments, as an exercise in much-needed due diligence, look at the existence of the IPCC itself, and ask whether or not it is in Australia's interest to take special notice of its output. For ourselves, if the earth is warming, then we will learn to adapt to that, as human beings have done throughout their history. But it will be important for us to do it rationally.