Genuine science is built on the basis of skeptical inquiry, and people confident in their conclusions welcome independent investigation and confirmation.  But neither of those practices is comforting to the prominent Australian scientists who are telling the nation’s parliament to shut down a proposed inquiry into the evidence for their theory of catastrophic manmade global warming.  The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (The ABC) reports: A group of prominent Australian scientists has warned climate sceptic MPs against wasting time and parliamentary resources on an inquiry into the evidence of human influence on climate change. The scientists have sent a letter to West Australian MPs Dennis Jensen and Chris Back, offering to brief them on the latest science instead. The letter was sent by Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg from the University of Queensland's Global Change Institute and co-signed by 12 others, including Professor Will Steffen from the...(Read Full Post)