John Costella offers to run for the Australian Senate in the Climate Sceptics Party | CLIMATEGATE

When boiled down to its overall effects, the Opposition’s climate policy is essentially no different from that currently proposed by the Rudd Government. Australians concerned about the billions of dollars of carbon taxes that both major parties wish to inflict upon them—whether direct or indirect—deserve a genuine choice in the upcoming federal election, not just “more of the same.”

The Climate Sceptics Party is committed to protecting ordinary Australians from rash, alarmist, unwanted policies, relying on scientific objectivity and caution rather than ideological fanaticism, and striving to provide a final “safety switch” on a federal Parliament that is increasingly out of touch with the average Australian.

The Blackboard » How TO Respond to an Invitation to Debate.

The activists are big boys and girls. Michael Tobis claims they are super-mega smart. They have access to email, google groups, blogs, google wave and all the forms of communication available to mothers of nine living in Eagle River. Some even have political power.

How they chose behave when approached by mere voters is up to them.

Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis: Despite cool temperatures, ice extent remains "low"

This was 1.08 million square kilometers (417,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average for January, but 180,000 square kilometers (69,000 square miles) above the record low for the month, which occurred in January 2006.

Pitman: Paid $190,000 a year to throw baseless insults « JoNova

It’s hard to cram more anti-truths into one declaration

Climategate and NASA: ‘New York, We Have a Problem’ - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

The thing about that is, Andy contacted me the morning of the next day after I sent the FOIA, in the later afternoon. Which means NASA actually contacted him about it, oh, immediately.

Panic.