Abbott wins | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

It was Abbott’s stroke of genius to have asked the party room immediately after his win to have a secret ballot on whether or not to pass Rudd’s tax. It’s given him a tremendous mandate, and settled those media claims that the party was keen on the wretched tax on everything.

Meet [Fraudster] Al Gore at Copenhagen, for $1,209 - Washington Times

"Tickets are available in different price ranges for the event. If you want it all, you can purchase a VIP ticket, where you get a chance to shake hands with Al Gore, get a copy of Our Choice and have your picture taken with him. The VIP event costs DKK 5,999 and includes drinks and a light snack."

Wait, what? How much is that in American dollars? The currency conversion says it all, too: 5,999 Danish kroners is equivalent to $1,209.

Ask Not For Whom The Tree Rings... - Mark Steyn - The Corner on National Review Online

...it rings for thee. These are interesting times for those right-of-center leaders who've got with the climate-panic program in the way Republican "reformers" often recommend.

Finding plots between the lines -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY:2918:

Forget the debate over whether human activity is to blame for the planet's apparently well-documented warming. We're back to square one, arguing, from the Internet to Congress, over whether the planet is warming at all.

But there's a new twist: Those who don't believe global warming is real now say the scientific community engaged in a deliberate fraud.

Impact of [Massive Climate Fraud] on the AMS Statement on Climate Change

For climate change research, the body of research in the literature is very large and the dependence on any one set of research results to the comprehensive understanding of the climate system is very, very small. Even if some of the charges of improper behavior in this particular case turn out to be true — which is not yet clearly the case — the impact on the science of climate change would be very limited.