Australia’s National Climate Assessment makes for disturbing reading, not just for its apocalyptic forecasts but for its lack of scientific method. Fundamental to such an assessment is acknowledgement of data sets, opinions, and publications which offer evidence contrary to the findings of the Assessment. Additionally, the report finds that US policy actions are expected to have undetectably small direct impacts on the global climate and any effects will emerge only with long delays. While being targeted at the US, the report on global climate obviously has high relevance globally. It horrifies me to discover that Australia’s national climate assessment does not mention the US DOE report or reference its authors, let alone admit existence of scientific controversy.