Tombee, you appear to be unaware that there is no scientific backing for the assertion that human emission have any significant effect on climate. The basis of the requirement to reduce human emissions is simple fraud, not science.

The IPCC, when it could not produce any scientific basis for any effect on climate by human activity, simply made the pathetic assertion that it is “94% certain”.

How could you overlook this, Tombee? Of course, if you are aware of any scientific proof of the assertion, please let us know immediately. Otherwise I have at least made you aware that you are supporting a. baseless fraud.

Thanks, Jon J. I thought Flannery and his supporters had formed a separate entity, but he appears to have control of the statutory body.Possibly part of the burnt earth tactics of the harridan, to enable this to happen.

Abbott needs legislation to abolish it, and the bill passed by the Government, has been rejected by the Senate. It will not be considered again for three months.

Unless there is a mechanism to remove him, Flannery will remain until the necessary legislation is passed.

I think TA should use the budget to reduce costs. The caveat being start at the top not with the tea ladies. All PS heads take a 30% cut in salary and make their own super arrangements. We only furnish the required amount.
The public service will say pay peanuts get monkeys but if we did pay peanuts it would at least make us feel better. All the Climate rubbish either goes or the relevant PS heads go. Watch them abandon their religion when they have to pay for it!
The ABC should also have a very large axe taken to them. I say this when I use the ABC virtually exclusively. Again strip the money and watch them all cry, run and get some balance back.

Perhaps Leo Lane would like to argue with the American Institute of Physics http://www.aip.org/history/climate/co2.htm. Anyway, why pick on me? I said nothing that would indicate what I am aware or unaware of. I guess Leo just wants to be sure that everyone knows what he thinks about scientists.

A point of clarification.

The former Climate Commission was set up by Ministerial direction, and was as easily abolished. Its members appealed to the AGW community for financial support, and they have reformed as the 'Climate Council'. That is where Professor Flannery sits.

The Climate Change Authority was established by legislation, and the bill to abolish it has just been rejected by the Senate. Professor Flannery is not a member of the CCA.

Along with the CCA the climate change departments of the BOM and CSIRO should be abolished. The 2014 State of the Climate Report is a disgrace:

http://view.exacttarget.com/?j=fe671670756d047e7d16&m=fef51c747c6401&ls=fdf61170776d077d7d167770&l=ff3416727167&s=fe201c7373660275771c74&jb=ffcf14&ju=fe3016767464017a771577

Antarctic and Greenland land ice is not disappearing at an accelerating rate; the oceans are not warming nor rising at a rate consistent with AGW, if at all.

Even fanatical AGW supporters like Santer, Trenberth, England and Schmidt now concede that global temperatures have paused but are still mind-locked and looking for some other excuse other than the obvious which is they were wrong.

In short any money spent on AGW, renewables and carbon taxes is money wasted.