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Australia's New Prime Minister Wants To Immediately Dismantle His Country's Fight Against Climate Change - Business Insider

In his acceptance speech just a few moments ago, he named scrapping Australia's carbon tax as the very first thing he hopes to accomplish in the next three years.

Gently Educating a Liberal Friend About the Climate Over Beers | Somewhat Reasonable

He pontificated about the devastating effects of Hurricane Sandy, the tragic loss of life from the Oklahoma tornadoes this past spring, and the dwindling level of Arctic sea ice. This all derived, in his view, from man-made climate change.

Global cooling: Arctic ice caps grows by 60% against global warming predictions | Mail Online

Almost a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than in 2012
BBC reported in 2007 global warming would leave Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013
Publication of UN climate change report suggesting global warming caused by humans pushed back to later this month
...US climate expert Professor Judith Curry said last night: ‘In fact, the uncertainty is getting bigger. It’s now clear the models are way too sensitive to carbon dioxide. I cannot see any basis for the IPCC increasing its confidence level.’
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Professor Anastasios Tsonis, of the University of Wisconsin, was one of the first to investigate the ocean cycles. He said: ‘We are already in a cooling trend, which I think will continue for the next 15 years at least. There is no doubt the warming of the 1980s and 1990s has stopped.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » Fairfax media trumpets very marginal claim by the BoM that winter 2013 across Victoria made a record for warm mean temperatures

I wonder how much attention Fairfax media gave the fact that in 2011 autumn in the Northern Territory saw a record cool anomaly – the NT making up 17.5% of Australia, not 2.95%. And the record being much more standout than the 2013 Victoria winter record.