Global warming fear-mongers continue to call for drastic and costly government action to address climate change. The ALS does not deny the concept of human-caused global warming. However, we remain skeptical of the need for drastic government action and are opposed to the ALP/Coalition policy of introducing an emmissions trading system.

Click here to see & hear Lomborg’s speach to the Reason Institute about climate change

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Temperature watch

Below are the annual average tempratures since 1994, taken from John Christy’s Satellite Temperature Records. They are measured as a deviation from an historical average taken in the 1970s, and will be updated semi-regularly.

2009: +0.20 (updated 27 August 2009)
2008: +0.05
2007: +0.28
2006: +0.27
2005: +0.33
2004: +0.20
2003: +0.27
2002: +0.31
2001: +0.20
2000: +0.04
1999: +0.04
1998: +0.51
1997: +0.05
1996: +0.02
1995: +0.11
1994: -0.01

Some previous writing by the ALS and some climate change skeptic links can be found here.