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By Piers Akerman –, Monday, December, 10, 2012, (3:52am)

THE latest climate conference in Doha has produced more hot air but nothing of substance.

Naturally, Australia’s hot air specialists, Climate Minister Greg Combet and Trade Minister Craig Emerson, are out-producing all others with their claims of some sort of a victory.

Australia had signed up to the outcome of the talks – before they had even begun.

That’s how craven Labor now is to the Greens and the latte-lapping members of its inner-city branches.

Show Labor a United Nations protocol, no matter how loopy, and the nation will have signed up before anyone has had a chance to read the large headline, let alone the fine print.

Naturally, Emerson says Australia has done “the right thing” by industry as well as the planet in recommitting to a second period of the Kyoto Protocol.

He says Australian businesses can now participate in global emissions trading markets and access lowest cost abatement measures.

Will someone tell this clown that the price of carbon is in the basement and that the markets have collapsed.

No mention was made of the decision by the major developing polluters China and India, along with the United States, which refused to have anything to do with this UN scam.

Those who signed along with Australia include the West’s economic basket case, the European Union, and a lot of Third World nations looking as always for a free meal.

In the real world, the weak case for dangerous man-made global warming has become even weaker with the failure of the planet to heat over the past 16 years though carbon dioxide emissions reached record levels.

The International Science Coalition, a grouping of scientists not affiliated with green organisations and not reliant on the UN for handouts, has noted that even a prominent climate scientist close to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Dr Mike Hulme, has admitted that ‘only a few dozen experts in the specific field of detection and attribution studies’ reached the IPCC “consensus” about human influence on the climate, not thousands as is commonly implied by the panel .

The ICSC Chief Science advisor, Professor Bob Carter, from Queensland’s James Cook University, said: “So the famed IPCC consensus about humans causing dangerous climate change is based upon the opinion of fewer expert scientists than have now written to the Secretary General challenging it.”

“That 134 experts now advise that ‘current scientific knowledge does not substantiate’ alarm over global warming surely requires that the media and the public reassess the IPCC’s popular but scientifically misguided belief.”

The climate scare has always been based on alarmists using flawed computer modelling.

Time after time, the global warmists’ predictions are shown to be false, their predictions hopelessly wrong, as in the case of the Australian government’s chief climate alarmist Tim Flannery.

The expensive exercise in Doha is nothing more than an extravagant extension of the usual nonsense, accompanied by more of the same apocalyptic scare-mongering that these frauds find necessary to generate whenever their agenda is exposed.