Global Climate Change Action

Article (1) 4 Corners - ABC

"Having found out what I’ve found out, I find it impossible to continue with a clear conscience without speaking out" - whistleblower interviewed by Four Corners.

Are Australians getting the whole truth on global warming?

Not according to evidence given to Four Corners, which returns with disturbing allegations about the power wielded by industry lobbyists, the self-proclaimed greenhouse "mafia".

Story: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2006/s1566257.htm
Transcript: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2006/s1566257.htm

Article (2) Green Left Online:
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/729/37802

Exposing the 'greenhouse mafia'

Zane Alcorn, Melbourne
26 October 2007

Guy Pearse — the speechwriter for the federal Coalition environment minister from 1997 to 2000 who blew the whistle last year on the Howard government’s use of Australia’s biggest polluters to write its greenhouse gas emissions policy — visited Melbourne on October 24 as part of an east-coast speaking tour.

Pearse introduced himself by saying that he was still a member of the Liberal Party. He said that from around 1990 until John Hewson’s failed “Fightback” election campaign in 1993, official Liberal policy was for a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2000.

He recalled how, while working for the Liberal Party, he “ignored pennies dropping” as he became aware of the systematic deception of the public on climate change by the Howard government’s public relations machine. This was when he decided to blow the whistle.

Pearse was interviewed by the ABC TV’s Four Corners program on “The Greenhouse Mafia”, aired in February 2006. After this, he said that the Liberals quietly turned their back on him.

read more @ Green Left Online:
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/729/37802