Greenhouse Mafia

This is part four of Clive Hamilton's searing exposé of climate change deniers published on the ABC website. We also highly recommend parts 1, 2, 3 and 5.

Although sceptics have been gnawing away at the credibility of climate science for years, over the last five months they have made enormous leaps owing to the hacking of emails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and the discovery of a number of alleged mistakes in the benchmark reports of the IPCC.

While the "revelations" have been milked for all they are worth, and a lot more, the science remains rock solid. If instead of cherry-picking two or three that lend themselves to spin, you read the 1000 or so emails that were posted on a Russian server the picture that emerges is one of an enormously dedicated group of men and women doing their best to carry out research of the highest quality.

A KEY Chinese adviser believes the world will forge a new climate change pact at
Copenhagen in part because China is recognising it can lead the world on clean technology.

But Jiang Kejun, who leads a climate change modelling team affiliated with the National
Development and Reform Commission, has some advice for Australia's Climate Change
Minister Penny Wong, who was due to fly into Beijing overnight.