Evidence-Based Questions on Global Warming

My correspondent Mary in Australia has forwarded me an article on global warming from Australia. It is by Janet Albrechtson, of The Australian. It references the underground success of writers questioning the dodgy science and consensus-based financial nexus behind the hypothesis that is soaking up billions of pounds of money globally. Specifically, it mentions the controversy over a new book by Professor Ian Plimer that does what scientists should be doing, and questions the whole notion of why any scientist accepts the idea of consensus as being capable of guiding anything. The global-warming cultists seem to hate the book, which is selling out fast.

The article is going straight up here; here's the link. Have a read.

Albrechtson's analysis chimes with something I agreed with in salon.com yesterday. It depicted Barack Obama as an 'urbanite-in-chief'. Globalisation, amongst other things, ran alongside tremendous urbanisation across the world. Cities are run by necessary hypocrisy, and machines, and a sort of consumerist righteousness that tends towards professional consensus. I think that's what President Obama and the bankers here and those I've known from the new economic areas of the east seem to embody. We're turning the earth into Rome before the fall.

Ah well, pass the grapes and peel me an anchovy--and many thanks to Mary in Oz

UPDATE: I've been to Dr Albrechtsen's biography page on The Australian. It describes her thus;

She is roundly disliked by judicial activists, the human rights industry, old-style feminists and assorted rent-seekers.

And she is good looking too.

UPDATE TWO : Nicolas Sarkozy's Prime Minister seems to be thinking of appointing Claude Allegre, a sensible enemy of climate alarmism, as a senior minister of science. Tres bon...here is Victor Laszlo drowing out some earlier riparian environmentalists from the Rhine, with the aid of a couple of others, of course. I've put it up just for fun, y'understand.