Cardinal Pell

The Bureau of Meteorology fights back

tlambert | February 25, 2011

Graham Readfern explains how a thorough demolition of Ian Plimer is now in Hansard: Back in October last year, the Senate's Environment and Communications Legislation Committee agreed to table a letter from Cardinal Pell which quoted heavily from Heaven and Earth to claim there were "good reasons for doubting that carbon dioxide causes warmer temperatures". After an early battle with Senator Ian McDonald, who didn't want to give Dr Ayers time to respond, the bureau's director finally managed to get his frustrations off his chest and onto the Hansard record. Dr Ayers' explained how Cardinal…

Advertisment

Donate

ScienceBlogs is where scientists communicate directly with the public. We are part of Science 2.0, a science education nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please make a tax-deductible donation if you value independent science communication, collaboration, participation, and open access.

You can also shop using Amazon Smile and though you pay nothing more we get a tiny something.

Science 2.0

Science Codex

Glyphosate reduces soil biodiversity and decreases the proportion of native species (French)

The Bureau of Meteorology fights back

Messier Monday: The Whirlpool Galaxy, M51

X-Volcanoes - Bárðarbunga

Comments of the Week #98: from Earth's extinction to chocolate's physics