Howard gags boffins

So, it transpires that the Howard government has been preventing Australia's top research organisation, the CSIRO, from revealing findings which indicate that the global climate is changing. This has been going on for about the last ten years, which it seems may have been the most crucial time for definitive findings about atmospheric warming to influence governmental policy.

What is the point in spending tax dollars to do research on a phenomenon which will affect not only Australians, but the whole world's population, if the results of the investigation are kept a secret? To keep something like this quiet because it may affect foreign investment or trade deals appears to be shortsighted, to say the least. Downright irresponsible would be far more appropriate terminology.