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Batten down the hatches, get out your thermal underwear and dust off the snow chains for the car. Al Gore is visiting Australia next week, and will no doubt bring the infamous "Gore Effect" with him. The Goracle will be here to launch a new organisation, Safe Climate Australia, founded by "concerned scientists and business and community leaders." The article, in The Sunday Age, says that one of the group's founding members, Ian Dunlop, said that "Safe Climate Australia was not a new advocacy group, rather an apolitical organisation that wanted to produce a practical plan."

"The problem is that the scientific debate and the political debate are like two ships passing in the night, there's no connection between them," Mr Dunlop said.

So true, so very true. But unfortunately not in the way you mean.

Read it here.