Australia: Tensions boil over on climate change

Tensions over climate change have boiled over, with an angry Nationals senator berating a senior public servant during a parliamentary hearing.

Senator Ron Boswell, concerned that emissions trading will cost jobs, lashed out at the bureaucrat after he tried to say the cement industry would not be decimated by the scheme.

"You are a bureaucrat that's never been in the market in your life," Senator Boswell barked.

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Many in the environmental profession have come to an epiphany like the one the late Michael Crichton had - that contemporary environmentalism, with its authoritative, unchallengeable proclamations and rigid tenets, is analogous to organized religion. This environmental religion is headed by politicians (or former politicians) as the high priests and an established political cathedral (read Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).

These adored figureheads have selected verses from a collection of scientific data and climate effects to write their global-warming scriptures. Their holy writ includes a reworking of the Book of Revelation with planetary disasters as frightening as those alluded to in the authentic account.