Recent publications
Turning up the heat on climate change alarmists
In February this year, Penny Wong, the then climate change minister said: ‘Globally, 14 of the 15 warmest years on record occurred between 1995 and 2009' and she argued that the Bureau of Meteorology had concluded that ‘2009 was the...
Submission to the Senate Select Committee on the Scrutiny of New Taxes: Minerals Taxes & Carbon Taxes
A letter from Kelvin Thomson MP
A letter from Kelvin Thomson MP on the politics of climate change.
IPA Climate Change Polling
Climate change polling commissioned by the IPA.
An open letter to all parliamentarians
A carbon emissions trading scheme as proposed by the federal government has enormous economic and social consequences. This was acknowledged by Penny Wong, the Minister for Climate Change who last year said that responding to global warming...
ETS backdown welcomed, Climate Change Department should be scrapped
The Institute of Public Affairs has welcomed the Rudd Government's back down on the Emissions Trading Scheme. "The Rudd Government's decision to ‘suspend' the legislation is clearly a prelude to abandoning the proposal", said John Roskam,...
Climate Change: The Facts
Australia needs an honest debate about the facts of climate change. Governments around the world are preparing to dramatically increase taxes, regulate energy supplies and limit individual choices to deal with climate change. But what do we really...
Climategate: What we've learned so far
The exposure of thousands of emails and documents from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia is one of the biggest developments in the climate change debate for the last ten years. The emails-now dubbed...
Costly, ineffectual and protectionist carbon tariffs
Many developed country governments are in the process of negotiating for the introduction of carbon price signals to incentivise business and consumers to reduce their carbon footprint. Individual European countries and the European Union already...
The natural history of climate change
Some of us underpin our environmentalism with political and romantic idealism, others underpin it with emotion, others have a religious view of the environment, some underpin their environmental view with economic pragmatism and many, like me, try...