Ockham's Razor - 13 March 2011 - Climate science and public debate

[Audio] Ian Enting is a Professorial Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems at the University of Melbourne. Both sides of the public debate over global warming effectively claim conspiracies and self-styled skeptics propose that the world's climate scientists are driven by a mix of motives. So, what are the central issues in this debates?

Australia - Interview on 2CC with Mark Parton

JULIA GILLARD AUDIO: "There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead."

PARTON: Thanks Julia. So, so that's what she said. So if it's such an important issue and there's so much courage being displayed, let's just go to the people next time round and say ‘here's the deal, this is what we're going to do, what do you think?'

Garnaut says [junk] science on climate change is stronger - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The Federal Government's key climate adviser says the scientific case for climate change has been strengthened.

Challenges of climate change - Times Union

A 2009 Northrop Grumman report found that "future rise in sea-level is uncertain only in magnitude," imperiling the company's "several multibillion dollar national assets" on American coasts.