ANNABEL CRABB: Mr Gore, we're also having something of a national debate about the connection between climate change and bushfires and the Australian Prime Minister has said in the last couple of hours that bushfires are a function of life in Australia and nothing to do with climate change. What do you make of those remarks? AL GORE: Well, it's not my place to get involved in your politics, but it reminds me of politicians here in the United States who got a lot of support from the tobacco companies and who argued to the public that there was absolutely no connection between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer. And for 40 years the tobacco companies were able to persuade pliant politicians within their grip to tell the public what they wanted them to tell them.

And bushfires can occur naturally, and do, but the science shows clearly that when the temperature goes up and when the vegetation and soils dry out, then wildfires become more pervasive and more dangerous. That's not me saying it, that's what the scientific community says.

And here in the United States, we had an event called Hurricane Sandy that was devastating - US$60 billion in damages and it caused a dramatic change in the message the public was sending to politicians in both parties.

Wind energy, for example, in Australia is now very competitive with electricity-based on coal. And all around the world, electricity from solar energy is becoming competitive with coal-based electricity.

The ABC is getting desperate, now dragging out even Al Gore to try to link the NSW bushfires with global warming. Never mind his dud predictions - like tipping the Arctic to be ice-free this year or world crops to decline . And this fraud obliges, first by falsely accusing Tony Abbott of being corrupt - on the take from Big Oil - for doubting the link that Gore makes:What a filthy smear. If Gore has no evidence of Abbott being on the take from oil companies he should apologise for this defamatory analogy, as should the ABC. But throughout this interview, Gore is not once questioned on his absurd claims:But what the scientific community also says is that the world's atmosphere has not warmed for 15 years. But Gore is not grilled on that, or on his false claim that Hurricane Sandy was linked to global warming:In fact, the IPCC's latest report says there is no evidence global warming has caused more hurricanes: "Current datasets indicate no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century … No robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin .” This claims is pure rubbish, again not questioned by Crabb:What a farce. This is not reporting but misleading. Not informing but propagandising. What chance the ABC's Media Watch covers this?