A contrast - do we believe what we read, or what we can see and feel?

Storms of unprecedented intensity charge down Australia’s east coast and another of similar capacity forms off the Western Australian coast, while a story in the U.S. magazine Forbes argues the President’s claims about climate change are based on fallacies.

So where does that leave us. Do we listen to magazine contributor, Peter Ferrara, or accept what we can see and feel?

Ferrara, unquestionably an agent of the climate change skeptics and as that promotes arguments long disproved by science, writes that “global temperature record has been flat lining for 16 years now”.

Ferrara turns to “The Global Warming Policy Foundation” to gives his story credence, but it is worth noting that two of the 24-strong Academic Advisory Council, are Australians, Professor Bob Carter and Professor Ian Pilmer, whose credibility has been seriously questioned and called into doubt by the hierarchy of climate science.

When wondering why a newspaper, magazine, institution or individual takes a skeptical position about climate change, the simple advice is “follow the money”.

Forbes magazine, whose motto is ”The capitalist tool”, reports on related subjects such as technology, communications, science, and law, and is known for pandering to the interests of America’s richest from which the greatest climate change skeptics emerge.

Ferrara’s story: “As The Economy Recesses, Obama's Global Warming Delusions Are Truly Cruel” is an illustration of skepticism at work."