ClimateGate

• Climategate reveals “a level of scientific chicanery of the most appalling kind”

  A former New Zealand journalist has posted a 4600-word analysis of the ClimateGate emails. The mainstream news media has so far barely gone beyond giving those who wrote them, and their supporters, time and space to deny their undeniable contents.

• ClimateGate and the “Green Dragon”

  With the ClimateGate revelations of flimsy “science” behind the man-made global warming theory, the role of the religious left in promoting this fraudulent scheme now deserves serious media scrutiny, writes Cliff Kincaid, editor of the Washington-based AIM Report.

• How to manufacture a climate consensus

  Patrick Michaels, formerly professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, claims in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal that the Climategate emails have destroyed the credibility of refereed scientific literature.

• Climategate: lawyers move in

  Despite the best efforts of the Obama administration, most of the world’s other governments (save the plucky Canucks), the United Nations and the Mainstream Media (MSM) to sweep…

The Abbott Ascendancy

• Tony Abbott: Australia Day has many meanings

  Tony Abbott’s 22 January address to the Victorian Australia Day Council.

• Tony Abbott says an election on Rudd’s ETS will be a tax election

  “A political party that’s frightened of an election is a political party that’s doomed to stay in opposition,” Tony Abbott told the NSW Liberal Party’s Millennium Forum in a keynote speech today.

• A lesson for conservatives in recent events

  The recent grass roots revolt against Malcolm Turnbull’s decision to pass Labor’s CPRS bill should send a message to conservatives: stay involved and take control, Peter Coleman argues In an opinion piece in the Weekend Australian today.

• A new beginning in conservative politics

  Tony Abbott brings a new combative leadership style to the Liberal Party and has announced a new front bench line-up. With typical Abbott frankness, he accepted that if he wins the next election he would be regarded as a political genius but failure would see him eventually become ‘political road kill’, writes Senator Cory Bernardi.

ABC Monitor

• Earthquake politics a question of faith

  A global warming philosophy is an extremely mystical one, because it asks us to reject science, or rather, demands, we embrace a pro-prophecy culture. And at the ABC there are those who truly believe, writes Ben-Peter Terpstra.

• The social awakening of Ray Martin

  Before my time, Ray Martin was a groovy ABC worker with short shorts and long socks. According to his bizarre autobiography, though, it looks like Lego man joined the leftwing march a little late, writes Ben-Peter Terpstra.