The central hypothesis of global warming fails the test, Prof. Bob Carter says | Australian Conservative

Program presenter Andrew Bolt said the station had invited climate commissioners Tim Flannery and Professor Will Steffen, Climate Change Minister Greg Combet and Prime Minister Julia Gillard to come on to the show to defend the report but all had refused.

Commenting on the reluctance of climate change alarmists to debate the science, Prof. Carter said, “There have been one or two public debates in New York and London and what happens whenever they’ve made the slip of agreeing to a public debate is they lose.”

Blanchett 'morally vain'

"$53 million Hollywood superstar tells Aussie families to pay up", the Sydney Sunday Telegraph blared on its front page, referring to how much Blanchett is worth.

"Cate Blanchett has proved she is just another morally vain Hollywood star trying to justify her great good fortune by preaching to the rest of us about climate change," the paper said in a comment piece.

The Australian Family Association claimed she was out of touch.

"It's nice to have a multi-millionaire who won't be impacted by it telling you how great it is. It's easy for her to advocate it, she's one of the people who can afford to pay it," the association said, according to the newspaper.
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Earlier this month, a national poll by The Australian newspaper showed 60 percent of voters were now opposed to a carbon tax. Only 30 percent of voters supported the plan and 10 percent were undecided.

Global warming splits the Christie administration | NJ.com

Supporting the view that global warming is a man-made occurrence was Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Robert Martin. On the other side was Lee Solomon, the president of the Board of Public Utilities.

Multiple sources tell The Auditor that behind closed doors, Solomon wasn’t shy about his skepticism over global warming.

Solomon’s office claimed he has never said he disagrees with the science supporting global warming arguments.