Global warming: The Oxburgh Incident and the Italian Job

Would Lord Oxburgh have been appointed to his position as head of the panel investigating Climategate if it had been known that his employer was a subsidiary controlled by an Italian company enmeshed in scandals involving Sicilian waste? Let me hasten to add that I am not making any accusations of either Lord Oxburgh or Falck Renewables, the company he chairs. But was he really the best choice for this inquiry?

Beecher, Flannery and Melbourne’s climate of conformity | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

This is, then, merely a collection of fellow travellers and mainchancers who agree with each other on a colossal scare based on controversial climate models that almost none have studied. And they are brought together not because they have something new to say, but because what they’re guaranteed to say suits the agenda of the Government and its ideological collaborators.

And this, we’re told, is “unparalleled debate”. This will help us to become a “City of Literature”.

Do we laugh or throw up?

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