Australian Climate Madness: More flannel from Flannery

Sounds like Star Trek: "Resistance is futile!" The [Great Barrier Reef] has been in existence for hundreds of thousands of years, and has survived numbers of climate minima and maxima far worse than the conditions we are experiencing now, so why does everyone think that it's suddenly going to disappear? It's pure hysteria. How on earth Flannely could have been voted Australian of the Year is beyond me.

Setback for Hide on climate study bid - New Zealand

ACT leader Rodney Hide has lost his bid to have a committee studying changes to the emissions trading scheme look at whether global warming is taking place.

But he is claiming victory after National agreed that the committee could look at the accuracy of climate change predictions.

Mr Hide, a minister in Prime Minister John Key's Government, said that opened the door to a broader look at the science of global warming.

"I'm very happy with that because that covers the science. What I'm pleased about is that we're going to have the sceptics [submitting], and there are a lot of them.

"The previous government took it that human-induced climate change was a sort of fact. It isn't a fact, it's a theory the evidence doesn't appear to support."