Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is trying to turn the tables on the opposition

The opposition under new leader Tony Abbott has labelled the scheme "a great big new tax", claiming it will cost average households more than $1,000 a year in higher energy and food costs.

The prime minister upped the ante on Sunday by claiming the coalition's climate change policy - to be released before parliament sits on Tuesday - will be "one huge mega tax".

Power Line - Policy-Driven Deception

The Science & Public Policy Institute has published an important paper on the manipulations to which surface temperature records have been subjected in order to promote the global warming dogma. It's called Surface Temperature Records: Policy Driven Deception? You should download and read it all

Barrasso slams SEC on climate risk disclosure - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

“It’s not a good use of their time and resources. Once again the Administration is taking its eye off the ball,” he said on Fox News, according to a copy of his remarks circulated by his office.

“We ought to be talking about jobs, the economy and national security. The Securities and Exchange Commission is supposed to protect investors. They’re the people that completely missed Bernie Madoff,” added Barrasso, a leading Senate opponent of climate rules and legislation.

Quadrant Online - The IPCC's flawed data

Now, however, we have a major new analysis by two Australian scientists showing that the temperature data published by the IPCC and other organisations has been manipulated to give the appearance of a warming trend - but not one that has actually occurred. In essence this analysis severely, probably fatally, damages the basis on which the IPCC and its supporters rely for their call for government intervention to reduce emissions. Needless to say, this has major international implications in regard to the policies to be adopted by countries on emissions reductions.

This analysis, undertaken by William Kininmonth (former Deputy Head of the Bureau of Meteorology and head of that body’s Climate Centre) - and physicist Dr Tom Quirk, shows that temperatures published for both Australia and the world by the IPCC, whose main source has been the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University, derive from an averaging over ten years intervals. As shown below in graphed form, this method of presentation gives the appearance of a steady upward trend. However, the presentation of temperatures based on annual averages by Messrs Kininmonth and Quirk give no such appearance and highlight the irregularities.

Roger L. Simon » Climategate: Al Gore and the politicization of science

One of the most disturbing outgrowths of the global warming controversy over the last twenty or so years has been the increased politicization of science. Of course, this is far from the first time this has occurred, but it may be one of the most important, because we are at a particularly fragile moment in the global economy. Indeed, had it not been for the release of the Climategate emails and documents in November, the recent Copenhagen conference might have succeeded in reallocating billions, even trillions, of dollars, possibly leading to a form of global bankruptcy. Less than two months later, with the so-called science now unraveling on an almost daily basis, the whole thing seems close to insane. How could we have done it?