Bravo, climate scientist Prof Christopher de Freitas

As a witness for appellant Roch Sullivan, climate scientist Prof Christopher de Freitas was questioned on his evidence, which had been contested in the evidence of other climate witnesses called in the hearing.

Prof Freitas, of the University of Auckland, said there was no evidence to suggest carbon dioxide was the major driver of climate change.

"Climate is not responding to greenhouse gases in the way we thought it might. If increasing carbon dioxide is in fact increasing climate change, its impact is smaller than natural variation.

"People are being misled by people making money out of this," Prof de Freitas said.

He said mild warming of the climate was beneficial, especially in a country such as New Zealand, which had a prominent agricultural industry.

Too Fawning Even for WaPo - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Well, I thought to myself, it’s possible the Senate GOP still doesn’t get why they have a very small and dwindling following with the public, and that they still believe, after everything that has happened, that it is more important to be nice to people steamrolling you than to stand athwart and yell stop!

Here Comes Al Gore, Our Global Warming Groundhog « FOX Forum « FOXNews.com

Gore’s appearance in the dead of bone-chilling winter is almost five years to the day since he came out of hibernation in New York and called President Bush a “moral coward” for his climate change policies. That very day the mercury in Central Park registered the coldest day the Big Apple had seen in 47 years!