"It is still my hope that the authors of the report will defend their work, as good scientists should."

...and the silence of deafening. I wonder why that might be.?

Come no bigmal, you know damn well.

Much as most of these people know they have to comply with K RUDD's instructions for their report, they don't like actually lying, particularly personally, in public.

The one I know has signed up to do dentistry next year.

bigmal: "...and the silence of deafening. I wonder why that might be.?"

Not quite silent - I think I hear the quiet whisper of climate change deniers' credibility deflating, possibly drowned out by the sound of ice caps and glaciers collapsing, or the clink of fossil fuel industry money that funds the denial 'research'.

Ian Castles write for the Lavoisier group, whose mission to sabotage policies that might fix climate change.

"The sources of funding for the group are not public, but it has links to many groups that have until recently been funded as part of the the Exxon Mobil Climate change denial campaign."
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavoisier_group

That mission has largely failed.

Nobody is their right mind is going to waste their time reading this article that attempts to look like a science paper - written here presumably because there is not even a remote possibility that a climate science journal would accept it.

I"ve never written anything for the Lavoisier Group, Sams. On several occasions I've been glad to agree to requests from that Group (and from other organisations) to publish papers of mine that have been published or presented elsewhere.

Sams comments are typical of the global warming advocates. No rational, scientific arguments just ad hominem attacks. Perhaps he should read Professor P. Stott's article on "Cognitive dissonance" at his "Global Warming Politics" blog.

you gotta be kiddin are'nt you, sams. We already saw this episode last week - the one where you were belted out of the ring and here you go with the same rubbish. (Here's one of your little hints for you: why don't you actually say somethign?) You say "this is a policy discussion, not a science forum." so why dont you? or are you an astroturfer?