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Ian Pilmer certainly has his hands full, taking to task an extraordinary lineup of the world's...scientists and politicians, all of whom are of the mindset that CO₂ is causing temperatures to rise (gals in bikinis notwithstanding).

Ian's latest "outrage" is an article in today's Telegraph, where he blasts those who are on the Global Warmalist bandwagon...

Climate change 'sceptic' Ian Plimer argues CO2 is not causing global warming
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a natural phenomenon caused by volcanoes and is not responsible for climate change, a scientist has claimed.

Professor Ian Plimer, a geologist from Adelaide University, argues that a recent rise in temperature around the world is caused by solar cycles and other "extra terrestrial" forces.

For this obvious assault on Al Gore's life work, he is lambasted as a lout. Why do so many respected (and well-paid) ScientistS! argue for the direction that politicians bird dog? Ian explains...

Most mainstream scientists agree that the recent warming period was caused by an increase in carbon dioxide since the industrial revolution.

However Prof Plimer said the world has experienced three periods of cooling since 1850 and furthermore carbon dioxide was increasing during many of those cooler periods.

"If we had only had warming, then there would be a connect between co2 and temperature, there is not," he added.

Prof Plimer has come under attack as a "denialist poster boy" whose theories are in danger of stopping the world from tackling the grave dangers of climate change.

But he said the scientists "frightening people witless by following the party line" are motivated by politics and research funding.

"They are taking advantage of the current situation. That is understandable. In previous times people got wonderful research grants in a war against cancer and they achieved a lot of money for that. Now we have a war on climate change and we have a huge number of people out there who have their career staked on it and are beneficiaries of this process."