Counterpoint is an Australian weekly radio program, presented by Michael Duffy

Michael Duffy (Australian journalist)

Michael Duffy is an Australian journalist and novelist. Duffy presents ABC Radio National's Counterpoint with Paul Comrie-Thomson, and writes for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun Herald...

 and Paul Comrie-Thomson and broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

 Radio National

Radio National

ABC Radio National is an Australia-wide non-commercial radio network run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.Radio National broadcasts national programming in areas that include news and current affairs, the arts, social issues, science, drama and comedy...

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Programming

Counterpoint has been active in promoting criticism of the scientific consensus on global warming

Scientific opinion on climate change

The predominant scientific opinion on climate change is that the Earth is in an ongoing phase of global warming primarily caused by an enhanced greenhouse effect due to the anthropogenic release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases...

, and has regularly featured guests who adopt a position of climate change skepticism.

Climate change policy critics who have appeared on the program include :
Bob Carter

Robert M. Carter

Robert M. "Bob" Carter is an adjunct research professor in the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University, Queensland, and the University of Adelaide, South Australia. He is a geologist specializing in palaeontology, stratigraphy, marine geology, and environmental science...

, Ian Castles

Ian Castles

Ian Castles, AO OBE was Secretary of the Australian Government Department of Finance , the Australian Statistician , and a Visiting Fellow at the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University, Canberra.Castles was born in Kyneton, Victoria and educated at...

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Ray Evans,
William Kininmonth

William Kininmonth (meteorologist)

William Robert Kininmonth is a retired Australian meteorologist noted for his views as an opponent of anthropogenic global warming theory and for his frequent writings on the topic of climate change.-Education:...

, Jennifer Marohasy

Jennifer Marohasy

Jennifer Marohasy is an Australian biologist, columnist and blogger best known for her work on the Murray River. She was a senior fellow at the free-market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs between 2004 and 2009 and director of the Australian Environment Foundation which she says was...

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David Henderson

David Henderson (economist)

David Henderson is an economist. He was the Head of the Economics and Statistics Department at the OECD in 1984–1992. Before that he worked as an academic economist in Britain, first at Oxford and later at University College London ; as a British civil servant David Henderson (born 1927)...

, Patrick J Michaels

Patrick Michaels

Patrick J. Michaels is an American climatologist. Michaels is a senior research fellow for Research and Economic Development at George Mason University, and a senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute...

, Bjorn Lomborg, Vincent Gray, and Garth Paltridge

Garth Paltridge

Garth William Paltridge, , is a retired Australian atmospheric physicist. He is presently a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University and Emeritus Professor and Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Oceans Studies , University of Tasmania.-Career:Paltridge...

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However programming includes a range of subjects that simply tend towards theories and ideas counter to general popular trends in Australian society. It regularly picks up on threads of conservative sources and material from the United States.