BP, ConocoPhillips show opinions vary on climate change

Erosion of the scientific case for urgent action, spun out of the scandal-ridden Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, must have influenced their decisions.

As IPCC lapses come to light, alarm over climate change increasingly seems driven by the political usurpation of science.

Now the lone remaining oil company in UNCAP is Shell, whose executives have been heard to describe climate-change science as “settled.”

That banality comes from the chapter of popular mythology entitled, “Oil Companies All Think Alike on Climate Change.”

As credibility of the IPCC, the supposed science settler, melts away, it’s a proposition worth reconsideration of the type BP and ConocoPhillips gave UNCAP membership.

Climate-Change Fervor Cools Amid Disputed Science, Defections - BusinessWeek

Advocates for climate-change legislation say a single snowy winter doesn’t disprove the long-term trend toward warming and may even bolster the argument that weather patterns are growing more extreme.

“Climate change doesn’t mean just global warming, it means climate disruption,” [former Senator Tim Wirth, a Colorado Democrat who heads the UN Foundation, a Washington-based philanthropy backed by billionaire Ted Turner] said.

ABC The Drum Unleashed - The great debate

But if there must be a debate why don't we try to have a proper one right now, right here in Australia, on national television, and get it over and done with? Why doesn't Tony Jones moderate a Q&A discussion between the heretics, on the one hand, and the modern day orthodox theologians on the other?