Climate scepticism grows among Tories | Politics | The Observer

Most Conservative MPs, including at least six members of the shadow cabinet, are sceptical about their party's continued focus on climate change policies, it has been claimed.

The recent furore around "Climategate" has hardened the views of Tory MPs, many of whom were already unconvinced by the scientific consensus, and has led to increasing calls for the issue to be pushed down the priority list.

Tim Montgomerie, founder and editor of the ConservativeHome website, said climate change had the potential to be as divisive for the party as Europe once was. "You have got 80% or 90% of the party just not signed up to this. No one minded at the beginning, but people are starting to realise this could be quite expensive, so opinion is hardening."

The storm over climate change: Goldstein | Lorrie Goldstein | Columnists | Comment | Toronto Sun

...there’s a growing public perception the IPCC has abandoned its proper role as a dispassionate presenter of scientific research to policy makers, to become just another environmental group preaching warmist hysteria.
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Why have Canadian media largely ignored this growing controversy? Perhaps the best answer is embarrassment. Having shilled for warmist hysteria for so long, having dismissed any questioning of man-made climate change orthodoxy as equivalent to Holocaust denial, they don’t know how to climb down, or cope with the tidal wave (pardon the pun) of controversy now hitting climate science all over the world.

Thus they remain paralyzed, desperately, frantically, pretending no controversy exists.

Except it does. And it’s growing.

McEntee: Is global warming a plot? Mm, nah - Salt Lake Tribune

The show really got started when [Rep. Mike Noel] took the microphone, saying that more Utahns than not doubt that global warming is real and that the "media" takes a "one-sided slant."

Express your doubts, he said, and "you'll be attacked personally, you'll be maligned personally. It's happened to me."

But Noel really got heated when Joe Andrade, a professor of bioengineering at the University of Utah, calmly said that he worried that passage of the resolution would slow down the movement to find new, clean energy sources such as nuclear, solar and wind.

Noel asked Andrade: "Are you stating on record that CO2 is a pollutant?

Andrade: "I'm saying that CO2 has a unique molecular structure which absorbs infrared radiation, and that that is in part responsible for the effects you're concerned with, Rep. Gibson is concerned with...."

Noel: "I want to get this on the record: Are you saying we have to rid the planet of carbon dioxide?"

Andrade: "Of course not!"

Noel: "It's not a pollutant, then it's not going to kill you. It's not going to kill plants. Is that correct? I have a degree too, Professor."

Phony Climate Change Agenda Used In Australia to Force Expensive Home Inspections

All Australian homes will have to undergo a mandatory energy-efficiency assessment – costing up to $1500 per property – before they can be sold or rented under new laws to tackle carbon emissions.