Scenes have reportedly turned ugly at a climate conference held at Australian National University yesterday.

Dr Howard Brady, author of Mirrors and Mazes: A guide to the climate debate, tells Chris Smith he couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

“It was incredible. It was as if you were living in an alternate world.

“If you had a contrary view you were going to cop derision.”

He says those who expressed critical views about conventional climate science were met with yelling and threats, with one man snatching a presenter’s notes.

“It was a totally biased conference. I just couldn’t believe it.”

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