Australian conservatives have shown the way by dumping the party leader who was in favour of massive carbon taxes and replacing him with one who stated last month that AGW is “crap.”
This makes Malcolm Turnbull, the suddenly-ex-leader of Australia’s Liberal party, the first major political victim of the Climategate furore. And his replacement Tony Abbott, [...]
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Climategate claims its first big political scalp
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009Climategate: What would the Gipper do?
Saturday, November 28th, 2009Climategate is a Conservative issue.
Conservatives believe in a small state. The Climategate scientists are part of a global conspiracy to expand it.
Conservatives are pragmatists who believe “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” But Al Gore’s AGW agenda is about spending vasts sums of public money on a problem than doesn’t exist.
Conservatives are empiricists, with [...]
Climategate: five Aussie MPs lead the way by resigning in disgust over carbon tax
Friday, November 27th, 2009Australia is leading the revolt against Al Gore’s great big AGW conspiracy – just as the Aussie geologist and AGW sceptic Professor Ian Plimer predicted it would.
ABC news reports that five frontbenchers from Australia’s opposition Liberal party have resigned their portfolios rather than follow their leader Malcolm Turnbull in voting with Kevin Rudd’s Government on [...]