Respected academic questions global warming quasi-religion ...

"Counter measures such as carbon trading ... likely to be unnecessary, expensive and futile without stronger evidence of a crisis."

"Attempts to set carbon-use levels in Europe, to be emulated by Australia, have been laughable because of absurd errors involved in allocating quotas and the potential for fraud."

"Democratic governments facing elections are sensitive to popular movements that could have an electoral effect. I am sure that it was this electoral perception that caused the Howard government at the end to move significantly towards Kyoto and indicate a preparedness to go down the Kyoto path, as indeed the Labor Party had done earlier, and Kevin Rudd did as soon as he was elected."

See - Academic cool on warming.