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In the first of a series of five articles Clive Hamilton tracks the progress of climate denialism in Australia.

EVER since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report on the impacts of climate change was discovered to contain a major error - that the Himalayan glaciers will be largely gone by 2035 - there has been a media feeding frenzy to find other mistakes.

It is open season on climate scientists, but such hand-wringing has allowed the creeping rehabilitation of climate scepticism.

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, a constitutional monarchy, is an independent sovereign state, tucked between Belgium, France and Germany. The country is 84 km long and 52 km wide, encompassing an area of 2586 square kilometres with a population of 493 500 (official estimate Jan 1, 2009) .

We now take you live to a storm within the ranks of America's weathercasters.It is a quiet controversy about global warming.

Yvo de Boer, the Dutch bureaucrat who led the international climate change negotiations over four tumultuous years, is resigning his post as of July 1.

More arrows are being hurled at the inquiry into the ‘climate-gate’ emails.

Amid the thousands of stolen emails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, posted on websites late last year, a telling exchange among the scientists has been largely overlooked.

In the past few weeks, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has received a vast amount of advice on how it should be reformed, ranging from minor structural tinkering to immediate self-immolation.

I predicted that a new public accountability narrative about climate scientists had been locked in by the "ClimateGate" controversy and that each successive event such as the dispute over the Himalayan glacier data would be re-interpreted and amplified through this lens.