High and Dry: John Howard, Climate Change and the Selling of Australia's Future is a 2007 book written by Guy Pearse

Guy Pearse

Guy Pearse is an Australian author and a Research Fellow at the at the University of Queensland. His first book titled High & Dry: John Howard, climate change and the selling of Australia's future was published in 2007....

. In the book, Pearse accuses Prime Minister John Howard

John Howard

John Winston Howard AC, SSI, was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He was the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies....

 of "wilful blindness" on the issue of global warming

Global warming

Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...

. According to the book, the Prime Minister and several of his key ministers were "captured by a group of industries and their lobbyists, known as the greenhouse mafia

Greenhouse Mafia

Greenhouse Mafia is allegedly the "in house" name used by Australia’s carbon lobby for itself. It was also the title of a program aired by the ABC on the 13 February 2006 episode of its weekly current affairs program Four Corners....

".

Guy Pearse was a long time member of the Liberal Party

Liberal Party of Australia

The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

 and was speechwriter for Robert Hill, Australia's Environment Minister from 1997-2000.