“Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is a…hypothesis put forward by the warmists. It is up to the warmists to prove that the hypothesis holds in the real world.”

I agree (author here). And they should lead and live by example.

That’s why they’re so in love with censoring people. Of course, if “independent” Tim Flannery of the green Toyota car advertisement is their best salesman, we win.

“The fact that over 30,000 scientists, including 9,000PhD's partitioned the US congress arguing against the belief that CO2 was, or could be responsible for global warming is something that the media assiduously avoids mentioning.”

Author here: I take your main points. If one only watched the ABC one would think that every scientist sings from the same hymn book, when in fact millions of years of preindustrial climate changes prove otherwise. It’s sad that government-first reporters are so committed to supporting Julia that they ignore or attack questioners.

To be fair, I think Julia Gillard has slowed down the introduction of a carbon tax for as long as she possibly could, presumably in the hope that events would kill it off without her having to lead her party in an embarrassing U-turn. It's just unfortunate that she has inherited this increasingly putrescent albatross of a policy. Hopefully it can still be averted without the frightening prospect of handing the reins to Mr Abbott.

Given that there is no compelling scientific evidence that anthropogenic CO2 emissions have caused any measurable global warming, it is disingenuous of the Government, the CSIRO, the BOM, the IPCC and all the other warmists to claim that dangerous AGW is real. The Govt and its advisers are using a false premise to promote the carbon tax .

There is no scientific or economic justification for the Govt to take action to reduce anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Nor is there any international treaty that binds the Govt to take action. Even if there were, the Govt should wait to see what action the USA, China and India would take.

It is grossly negligent of the Govt to propose the carbon tax, which would indirectly assist the installation of high-cost inefficient wind and solar renewable energy, but reduce the productivity of all other industries by raising their costs. By not comprehending this economic dysfunction, Professor Ross Garnaut by advocating a carbon tax is doing the national interest and his profession a GROSS DISSERVICE.

' Tell me not, O infidel, there is no God, no heaven, no hell! Tell me not O infidel, there is no risen Christ!

What intelligence less than God’s could fashion the human body? What motive power is it, if not God, that drives those throbbing engines of the human heart, sending the crimson stream of life bounding through every vein and artery?

Whence and what, if not God, is this mystery we call “mind”? What is it that thinks, and feels, and plans, and acts? O, who can deny the divinity that stirs within us?

'God is everywhere and is in everything. His mystery is in every bud, and blossom, and leaf, and tree; in every rock, and hill, and mountain; in every spring, and rivulet, and river.

The rustle of his wings is in every zephyr; his might is in every tempest. He dwells in the dark pavilion of every storm cloud. The lightning is his messenger, and the thunder is his voice. His awful tread is in every earthquake and on every angry ocean. The heavens above us teem with his myriads of shining witnesses—the universe of solar systems whose wheeling orbs course the crystal dread halls of eternity, the glory and power and dominion of the all-wise, omnipotent, and eternal God' (Srygley 1949).

No wonder the earth worshippers faith looks so pathetically unscientific when comparing it with reality. Man made gw is faith of unbelievable magnitude. Throw out the truth and you are left with laughable pseudo science made of by men with blindfolds trying to impose their pathetically inept moral system on the masses because they have themselves rejected inner transformation possible by the Only Righteous One.

Curmudgeon: You raise a good point. Science is not based on a show of U.N.-endorsed hands but must be tested and exposed to open debate. The greatest scientific breakthroughs were made by men who stood up against the so-called consensuses of their time. Of course the UN is a corrupt body, with a history of appeasing dictatorships and selling scare campaigns. The Met is also captive to groupthink.