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The climate change fight is back in town. Check out the first few paras in this Climate Spectator article...

"Abbott’s Tea Party stirs in Canberra

Giles Parkinson

It’s been fascinating to watch climate change emerge as a political issue again in the US, with President Barack Obama taking pot shots at Republican Tea Party favourite and presidential candidate Rick Perry over his denial of climate science.

“You've got a governor whose state is on fire denying climate change," Obama said this week, reveling in the opportunity of engaging a debate he might actually win. Perry’s camp said the jibe was outrageous. But such was the impact that most US political commentators agreed on one thing: climate change is now back on the political agenda, and will be a key battleground in the 2012 presidentials.

All three Republicans-most likely – Perry, Michelle Bachmann and Mitt Romney – have expressed doubts about the scientific consensus, but Perry has been the most outspoken, accusing scientists of fixing data to help secure funding and seeking to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating emissions. Salon.com noted the irony that for the first time a wildfire erupted within a major city – in the George Bush Park in Houston, the headquarters of the nation’s fossil fuel industry.

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http://www.climatespectator.com.au/commentary/abbott-s-tea-party-stirs-canberra

Its a real shame how the right side of politics (at least in Australia and the US) cannot get their heads around the scientific imperative of climate change. Once everyone realises what is going on it will be a body blow for them from which (hopefully) they will never recover. I have no sympathy for any group that eschews rationalism for some other sort of ideology, whatever it is. Anyway, sorry to get ideological on the ORE thread, but it is relevent...

Back in town!