Winter [fossil-fueled] travel splurge | Herald Sun

RUDD Government ministers spent almost $1.8 million travelling the world last winter, but did not release the details until Tuesday night as the Budget was being delivered.
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Topping the spending list was [Environmental Minister Peter] Garrett, whose 11-day trip to Chile and the US cost taxpayers $226,010.

Starin: The politics of science : Columnists : Boulder Daily Camera

Just as an imminent ice age was assured in the 1970s, global warming may one day be regarded as more junk science. This would be a shame if it resulted in a further delay of our necessary transition off fossil fuels to more clean and efficient means of energy conversion. One thing I teach my children is to think for themselves and not to assume something is correct, just because of popular opinion or perceived consensus. The process of impartiality as well as a willingness to consider dissent must be adhered to in the scientific method or we might lose something much greater in the end: objectivity and independent thought.