The IPA has been in the news frequently since the 2013 election.
According to the Saturday paper it has been hijacked by radical ideologues. We know that radical ideology is not a good mix with science.

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2016/08/27/former-ipa-head-radicals-hijacked-think-tank/14722200003666?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The+Saturday+Briefing+123&utm_content=The+Saturday+Briefing+123+CID_5552cba2ce698ff0aa0fd6e6f0a4e5a1&utm_source=EDM&utm_term=Mike+Seccombe

Given the tenor and content of many posts here I have assembled some information with references into a pdf file. Some may find it useful, some not.

"Thomas O’Reilly research findings, analysis and opinionated conclusions regarding Jennifer Marohasy, John Abbot and the IPA OLO in general over Climate Science's validity, the disinformation being spread, and the default adhominem attacks against those engaged in this critical aspect of Scientific research.

I only found this place because of Marohasy's article and criticisms of Brian Cox, the BOM, and the whole edifice of Climate Science and that arose out of the Q&A program that hosted Senator-Elect Malcolm Roberts from One Nation and long term member of the science denying Galileo movement.

Since the 18th of August on the Online Forum (OLO) there's been NO reply to questions or requests for data from many posters.

No comments on the evidence presented. So what if it conflict with existing beliefs ... isn't exactly what dialogue on online forums is supposed to be about ... sharing different views and info?

URL http://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPbXkzb1RlVGJaZFU

Topics covered:

Jennifer Marohasy
John Abbot
IPA
Orthodoxy
AGW/CC Science
Conspiracy rubbish
GrahamY
Algae
waterfront properties
JBowyer
Armchair Critic
climate scientists
ideological beliefs
"Dirty" Harry
the BOM
evidence
Auditor-General
weather
forecasting
Climate Modelling Laboratory
John Nicol
GCMs
ANNs
Analysis GHG Effect
ideological vested-interests
political solutions
Central Queensland University
B. Macfie Family Foundation
Doctorates in Paradise
Climate Lab
Tax-Deductible 'charity'
"New Climate" magazine
Stock market trading
Dr George Bryant Macfie?
Medical doctor?
Macfie Energy Pty Ltd
new religion infecting science
Strike Resources
Myth and The Murray group
IPA book
Alan Moran dumped by IPA
George Christensen MP
coal industry
GBR tourism industry
Global Warming had stopped?
temperature variation = natural variability

If have provided some refs for most of the historical details. If you'd like more References/Info let me know.

Enjoy :-)

See this pdf with Youtube vids / websites that relates to the content and context of this JM article, the IPA, and climate science.

See: Thomas O'Reilly Useful Links
http://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPd2prNmVhU3B3bEE

Why is it such a prickly subject?

Remember, Nature bats last! :-)

Climate Feedback is an excellent fairly new website operated by climate scientists and academics to counter and correct misinformation - disinformation in the media and online.

Today’s media climate leads to confusion
With so much information available online, trying to figure out which information is credible — and what is not — is a real challenge. When so much of what we read falls outside of our own expertise, how can we know which headlines and news articles are consistent with science?
http://climatefeedback.org

Addendum from previous comments in pdf about John Abbot and his so-called "Papers" in "scientific journals" as displayed and promoted by Marohasy on her and on their ClimateLab websites.

About Wessex Institute of Technology:

Wessex Institute of Technology is a big Scam and their conferences are ...

..... Wessex Institute is a big money making machine for Mr Brebbia by offering very ...

Dubious conference invitations. Just spam, or do these meetings ...
https://www.researchgate.net/.../Dubious_conference_invitations_Just_spam_or_do_th...

Jul 9, 2013 - These bogus and predatory conference invitations are becoming just ... I'd say that I get such mails for both journals and conferences on a ... may i ask you about the case of Wessex Institute of Technology(WIT)?do you have ...

List of Bogus Journals. Fake Journals. Bogus Science ie Pseudoscience
Wessex Institute of Technology ·

REF:
http://www.google.com.au/#q=%22Wessex+institute%22+journal+bogus%3F&gws_rd=cr

LOL - doesn't surprise me one little bit.

Intelligent and wise people always check the purported 'facts'

It really helps to expose amateurs, sophists, liars, frauds and the lazy.

Allow me to repeat my opening comment about this article by Marohasy:

"Jennifer Marohasy, this 'article' is a very trashy, disjointed, false, fraudulent and manipulative piece of work."

Followed up with:

"Jennifer, your article is an insult to people's intelligence."

Thanks very much to Graham and OLO allowing me to express my sincere opinions and share some additional info for readers without any censorship. Much appreciated.

Nothing has motivated me to adjust my opinions, as yet

Thomas O’Reilly, you produce a lot of words, but no substance. You attack an honest and competent scientist, like Jennifer Moahasy, while being a supporter, yourself, of the climate fraud, for which there is no supporting science. You have given no reference to science which shows any measurable human effect on climate.
If you can refer us to any such science, then please do so. If not then you have no basis for support of the assertion that human emissions have any measurable effect on climate.
Because you have no science to support your position, you have no science to refute Jennifer Morahasy, so you employ the fraud-backers approach of a baseless, and dishonest attack on her.
You have no science to support your position, and whatever you have put forward has been based on the false and baseless assumption that any global warming is human caused

@Armchair Critic: "Tell me we mostly all live by the coast; has anyone noticed the location of the sea change in their lifetimes?"

In psychology, Cognitive Dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time. http://skepdic.com/cognitivedissonance.html

Do NOT View Images: http://goo.gl/DoKiiv

Do NOT Read Text: Researchers Call For A National Coastline Observatory in Australia
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/04/23/researchers-call-for-a-national-coastline-observatory-in-austral/

IT’S the Australian dream — a multi-million-dollar beachfront house on a stretch of pristine coastline.
http://www.news.com.au/national/is-the-australian-dream-of-a-beachfront-home-really-worth-it/news-story/37842853b935d2e78faa4d4f7deb2ff2

Coastal engineers waiting for Collaroy residents to have storm-damaged houses cleared
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-16/engineers-waiting-for-collaroy-residents-to-have-houses-cleared/7516184

Beach shacks falling into the sea SA
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-26/point-turton-shacks-storm-damage-ugent-repairs/7788284

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-26/tathra-wharf-insurance-payout-denied/7788162
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-17/storm-hits-perth-with-high-winds-rain/7750806
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-14/storms-steal-a-slice-of-south-east-coastline-and-part-of-jetty/7630370
http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/lifestyle/beaches-and-fishing/gold-coast-at-threat-of-severe-erosion-and-property-damage-research-shows/news-story/46326698783e430830f4e668b0086191

Areas that will be most affected by rising sea levels
http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/maps-show-areas-that-will-be-most-affected-by-rising-sea-levels/news-story/57d33f3fdf52a6baf9491ffcd4f1a570

154 Australian scientists demand climate policy that matches THE Science
“governments worldwide are presiding over a large-scale demise of the planetary ecosystems, which threatens to leave large parts of Earth uninhabitable” and asks for “meaningful reductions” in greenhouse gas emissions and cuts to coal exports.

Coral reefs supported 500 million people worldwide but reefs were “threatened with complete collapse” 25% marine species were at risk, exposing “hundreds of millions of people to decreasing food security and increased poverty”.
http://theconversation.com/154-australian-scientists-demand-climate-policy-that-matches-the-science-64359
and
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2016/aug/25/climate-scientists-write-another-open-letter-warning-of-unfolding-crisis-for-prime-minister-malcolm-turnbull-to-ignore

Look what has been happening lately around Australia's coastline alone.
Queensland, more than nine-tenths of the Great Barrier Reef has just been bleached.
Perhaps a quarter of it has died and likely won't come back.

The Gulf—the worst mass die-off of mangroves ever seen, 10,000 hectares along the coast.

Look off Western Australia—960 square kilometres of kelp forest has just disappeared. More than 33% is now extinct.

And all of this in just the past six months!

To be bluntly colloquial, it's very bloody real, it's right bloody here, right bloody now.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/what-will-it-take-for-us-to-pay-attention-to-climate-change/7749086

Bloody Socialist Leftist Media!

70% of Republican Senators reject the scientific consensus of AGW/CC

Senate Leadership Fund is a Super PAC to maintain Republican majority.

Duke Energy contribution $150,000
Chevron has contributed $2 million.
Petrodome Energy donated $1 million.
Devon Energy donated $750,000.
CEO of Freeport LNG contributed $500,000.
NextEra Energy contributed $250,000.
http://www.facingsouth.org/2016/08/duke-energy-invests-keeping-climate-science-rejecting-us-senate

Thomas O'Reilly Both Flannery and Karoly have beachfront properties and you are telling me (and I presume them, or perhaps they are telling you?) that all this will end in tears.
Need I go on? I mean, really, mate!