Last Monday, Australia’s Independent Climate Change Commission released its first report.

The “Chief Commissioner” is Professor Tim Flannery.

Professor Flannery is described in Wikipedia as a “mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist”.

He is famous for being in favour of shutting down coal-fired power stations for electricity generation.

He was named “Australian of the Year” in 2007.

He is a great favourite of the media.

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With Prof Tim in charge, it seems odd to call the Commission “independent”.

On Monday, he announced that human-induced global warming is “indisputable”.

Well it isn’t.

People do dispute it.

If the Commission was independent, it would have mentioned the evidence that casts doubt on the “greenhouse gases/carbon footprint” orthodoxy . . . .

If independent, there would have been a “minority report” from those Commission members unconvinced that taxing carbon dioxide-producers out of business will make the weather improve.

Was there no Commission member holding such a view?

Was this not so much an independent Commission as a carefully-selected bunch of clones of Brother Flannery?

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Anyway, Prime Minister Julia Gillard is pleased with the Commission for producing a report saying exactly what she wanted them to say.