[Tchocky]

Gotta love that balanced, journalistic tone. The copious referencing and fact-checking inspires belief.

EDIT - This Dr. Bob Carter chap interests me. At first glance, this piece reads like Noel SHeppard's usual line of gloopy misinformatio. But this guy's a Doctor! Let's find out what we can.

He's a marine geologist. The perfect discpline for a discussion on climate change, I think. He's a member of the Public Affairs Institute, an Australian think tank.
They must be an independent, unbiased group to publish articles of this quality, right? Well....

The IPA has heavily relied on funding from a small number of conservative corporations. Those funders disclosed by the IPA to journalists and media organisations include:

• Major mining companies - BHP-Billiton and Western Mining Corporation;
• Pesticides/Genetically modified organisms: Monsanto; and
• A range of other companies including communications company Telstra, Clough Engineering, Visy, and News Limited;
• Tobacco companies - Philip Morris (Nahan) and British American Tobacco [6]
• Oil and gas companies: Caltex, Esso Australia (a subsidiary of Exxon) and Shell [www.ips.org] and Woodside Petroleum; and fifteen major companies in the electricity industry; (Nahan 2)

Well, that's OK. I'm sure that the fossil fuel guys are giving them money out of the goodness of their hearts. I mean. They've got nothing to gain from reducing our reliance on fossil fuels, nothing at all. God bless our heroic oil companies.

One author of the critique was the retired James Cook University professor Bob Carter. Professor Carter, whose background is in marine geology, appears to have little, if any, standing in the Australian climate science community. He is on the research committee at the Institute of Public Affairs, a think tank that has received funding from oil and tobacco companies, and whose directors sit on the boards of companies in the fossil fuel sector.

I love the internet, so very much. my language might be as bad as Carter's, but here are my sources.

http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?tit...Public_Affairs
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environme...722560417.html