Allegations that some of Britain’s leading climate researchers at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU), University of East Anglia, engaged in scientific fraud to promote the climate change cause, have rocked the scientific world and cast a pall over the Copenhagen climate change conference. CRU has been one of the leading scientific bodies supporting the Intergovernmental…
Tony Abbott was elected Liberal leader to defeat the Rudd Government’s disastrous carbon tax legislation; but to succeed he will need to define a vision for Australia which distinguishes the Liberals from the Labor Party. It was clear that if Malcolm Turnbull had remained leader, he would have divided the party irretrievably on the issue…
Three months ago, the US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, wrote a 66-page report on the current political and military situation in the country, and what needed to be done to win the eight-year war. He highlighted the political and military weakness of the Afghan Government, and said that only a major increase in…
For years, we have been told that the Copenhagen climate change summit is the last chance to save the world. Stavros Dimas, environment commissioner for the European Union (EU), said last February, “It is now 12 years since Kyoto was created. This makes Copenhagen the world’s last chance to stop climate change before it passes…