Story gone cold
The Daily Telegraph has picked up on the fact that this was a non-story all along, designed to distract attention from the real issues at hand :
CLAIMS prominent climate change scientists had recently received death threats have been revealed as an opportunistic ploy, with the Australian National University admitting that they occurred up to five years ago.
Only two of ANU’s climate change scientists allegedly received death threats, the first in a letter posted in 2006-2007 and the other an offhand remark made in person 12 months ago.
Neither was officially reported to ACT Police or Australian Federal Police, despite such crimes carrying a 10-year prison sentence.
The outdated threats raised question marks over the timing of their release to the public, with claims they were aired last week to draw sympathy to scientists and their climate change cause.
The university denied it was creating a ruse, maintaining the initial report, in the Fairfax-owned Canberra Times last week, failed to indicate when the threats were made.Reports also suggested the threats had forced the ANU to lock away its climate change scientists and policy advisers in a high-security complex. The Daily Telegraph has discovered the nine scientists and staff in question were merely given keyless swipe cards – routine security measures taken last year. (source)
Also read Tim Blair on the subject here, where he reveals that the emails quoted in the press yesterday had been kicking around since early 2010. Geez.
UPDATE: Watts Up With That on the Aussie issue here.
Australian Climate Madness 
The layer upon layer of lies & deception over the global warming, climate change, carbon pollution or whatever scam is a direct reflection of this socialist / green government’s desperation to impose a crippling tax on the Australian people.
We now, more than ever, must somehow force an early election!!
One awakes every day to what the Americans refer to as S N A F U.