'Let me nip this in the bud, Andrew Bolt': Waleed Aly attacks conservative Channel Ten colleague over claims that 'the planet has stopped warming'

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The mercury may be rising throughout the world... but the relationship between Waleed Aly and his Network Ten colleague Andrew Bolt has taken a frosty turn.  

The Project host spoke mockingly of Bolt on Wednesday evening during a thundering editorial focused on climate change and the Federal government's diesel fuel rebate.

'Let me nip this in the bud, Andrew Bolt, before you launch into your whole 'the planet has stopped warming' line you've been running for the past few years,' Aly said.

The 37-year-old broadcaster then introduced physicist Carl Mears, the scientist responsible for statistics Bolt has previously cited.  

'The Bolt Retort': Waleed Aly has taken aim at his Network Ten colleague Andrew Bolt (the host of a show titled The Bolt Report) 

Aly has urged Australia to take more decisive action on climate change, pointing to the nation's fossil fuel subsidies

'Muslim power couple': Aly, 37 (right) is married to academic Susan Carland (left)

'It's pretty clear that the globe has warmed over the past eighteen years,' Mr Mears said. 'When you do real science you can't just use the data sets that fit your pre-drawn conclusion.'

Aly, clearly amused by Mears's message, then called on Australia's leaders to take further action on climate change by cutting fossil fuel subsidies.

'Right around the world, developed countries are being encouraged to put an end to subsidies for fossil fuels and invest more in renewable energy,' he said.

'We can't go on denying climate change is real and we can't go on finding emotional or even incorrect reasons not to act on it. 

'We stopped subsidising the local car industry when we realised it had no future

'If we don't stop subsidising fossil fuels, then it's us, our children, their children, whose futures will be in doubt.

'Now is not the time for our leaders to just walk away.'

Australia was ranked third-last, before Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan, in the latest Climate Change Performance Index.   

Rock star: Waleed Aly is pictured mid-guitar solo during the Walkley Awards in Melbourne on Thursday evening

'What else could Waleed Aly possibly turn out to be good at?' Aly's journalistic colleagues were pleasantly surprised by the broadcaster, journalist, TV host and lecturer's musical talents

Aly may have become known for his voice-of-reason style TV editorials but in recent days he has also become known his musical talents. 

He shredded a pitch-perfect guitar solo of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb at the Walkley journalism awards in Melbourne on Thursday evening.

His band Robot Child's performance left several prominent names in the Australian media swooning.

'So I'm at a fancy award ceremony and Waleed Aly is playing Pink Floyd covers. Pretty sure I've had this dream before,' tweeted ABC political writer Annabel Crabb.

'What else could Waleed Aly possibly turn out to be good at? I put ten bucks in 'French Polishing'. Any other ideas?'

Fairfax journalist Kate McClymont remarked: 'As if Waleed Aly isn't talented enough he is now on lead guitar rocking Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb at the #walkleys.'

The Chaser comedian Jules Morrow tweeted: 'The walkley for best investigative guitar solo goes to Waleed Aly.'

Aly, a lecturer at Monash University who won a Walkley award himself for commentary in 2014, is perhaps best well known for a video editorial he delivered in the aftermath of the Paris attacks. 

Aly's plea for unity following the Paris terror attacks in November was an internet sensation

Aly and his band are pictured rehearsing for the Melbourne performance

He issued a call for unity in the clip, saying the Islamic State terror group wanted to divide the Muslim and western communities. 

'ISIL is weak. I know it doesn't look like that right now, but it's the truth. They don't want you to know it,' he said, in the clip which clocked up millions of views online. 

'ISIL don't want you to know they would quickly be crushed if they ever faced a proper army on a battlefield'

'They want you to fear them. They want you to get angry. They want all of us to become hostile and here's why - ISIL's strategy is to split the world into two camps. It is that black and white'.

According to a university biography, Aly is also the main songwriter for Robot Child. He played the lead guitar role in a theatrical production of Pink Floyd's album The Wall in 2009.

And, perhaps indicative of his love of academia and music, he has penned a formal analysis of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.   

A father of two, Aly is also one half of what has been dubbed 'Australia's Muslim power couple', with wife Susan Carland a prominent academic. 

Power pair: Aly and Carland are pictured during various social events