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Contents
Introduction – John Roskam – 1
Climategate
Climategate: A failure of governance – Sinclair Davidson – 4
Climategate’s Australian connection – Alan Moran – 14
The science of climate change
History of global climate change – Ian Plimer – 21
Is carbon dioxide dangerous? – William Kininmonth – 31
Doomed planet – Richard S. Lindzen – 44
Carbon myopia – Willie Soon and David R. Legates – 49
Imprecision, uncertainty and bias in scientific research – Garth W. Paltridge – 56
Carbon mitigation – The crippling costs – Christopher Monckton – 62
The Politics and Economics of Climate Change Policy
The impact of climate change and its policy implications – Richard Tol – 68
Lower emission levels and Australian energy impacts – Alan Moran – 78
What does the government’s CPRS modeling tell us? – Alex Robson – 92
The politics and economics of climate change – Nigel Lawson – 101
Notes – 116
About the authors – 135
