Leave it to climate scientists fools like Chris Tunny, the incompetents at the BOM, the liars from Hadley and the IPCC and the pretenders like professor Tim Fannery.

Yeah sure they are guaranteed to get to the truth.

Not pointless at all Curmudgeon.

There are those that distort and misrepresent the science (e.g. Tony Abbott's 'advisor' Maurice Newman) just as there are those who distort and misrepresent scientists like Professor Chubb.

You seem to agree:

"there are total loonies on the skeptical side as well as on the global warming side."

Dare I "presume" you (and the author of this piece) know who the movers and shakers of the 'Climate Science Coalition' are - here, in New Zealand, or internationally?

oh dear another day at OLO and Don pendling to the Rubes. eh I've got some great young earth creationist lines for you to Don.

ozdoc: "There are those that distort and misrepresent the science (e.g. Tony Abbott's 'advisor' Maurice Newman) just as there are those who distort and misrepresent scientists like Professor Chubb."

Indeed, Maurice Newman mischievously is 'distorting and misrepresenting the science'. He does this merely by pointing out that there is no empirical scientific evidence that anthropogenic CO2 emissions cause dangerous global warming.

Unlike the 'climate science' advice given to Tony Abbott by political colleagues, Greg Hunt, Malcolm Turnbull and Ian MacFarlane who unquestionably believe in AGW, Maurice Newman is acting in the national interest by advising that there is no scientific or economic justification for retaining the Renewable Energy Target nor for spending billions of dollars on supposedly controlling the climate.

Professor Chubb shows that he is better at being an academic than being an applier of the scientific method, as he mistakenly believes that the AGW hypothesis has been substantiated.

Tombee - Leave it to the scientists to sort it out? If you are happy to pay people for fluffing around fine but I am not! I fiercely resent my hard earned being used by people who are paid more than me to just have a good time.
Here is a thought start reducing education spending starting with University and research.In fact all that is needed is to not allow fringe benefits and have them pay tax. That would bring in a lot of money. I am sick of these bludgers, Barnaby was right pay em and they will research it!

Did Professor Chubb post an article on Online opinion? Or somewhere?
I's be a lot more interested in what Australia's Chief Scientist has to say, than in either Don Aitken or Maurice Newman's opinion