Doomed Planet

The fire sale at Fish River

by Michael Kile

May 17, 2013

"Brochuresmanship" is the order of the day whenever warmists are pushing their latest scheme to tame the carbon monster. When a potential investor sought further information on one such scheme -- an entirely reasonable request, given that real money would be involved -- the response was a stonewall

A forest 'peace deal' that may be anything but

by Mark Poynter

May 12, 2013

How much faith can we have in a pact that obliges  angry forest activists to desist from attacking Tasmania’s native-forest timber industry? 

Some Like It To Appear Hot

by By Tom Quirk

May 11, 2013

Among the most potent weapons in the arsenal of warmist advocacy are the various charts purporting to demonstrate ever-rising temperatures. What isn't made anywhere near so clear is the impact of the urban heat-island effect. Melbourne's records provide a good example 

Warmism's bellowing dinosaurs

by John Happs

May 2, 2013

They rant and rave while gorging at the public trough, predicting disasters and catastrophe while jet-setting to whichever five-star resort is hosting the latest doomsayers' convocation. Let their own words condemn them

Sue a warmist

by Walter Starck

April 24, 2013

The left has long made "lawfare" one of its key weapons, deliberately seeking the courts' intervention to silence those of whom it disapproves. Given the travesties of science perpetrated in the name of climate change, isn't it time to give the most dubious practitioners a taste of their own medicine?

More heat than light in the official record

by Tom Quirk

April 23, 2013

Surrounded by traffic and bathed in the heated exhausts of the tens of thousands of cars and trucks passing by it's CBD site, the BoM's hallmark monitoring station on the edge of Melbourne's CBD leaves much to be desired. So does the BoM's computer-driven approach to calculating the site's mean temperature

The 'settled science' and its leaning tower

by Peter Smith

April 18, 2013

Science is about truth while politics is the quest for advantage. When the latter trumps the former what we get is error-prone partisans like, well, Tim Flannery

An open letter to David Attenborough

by John Happs

April 15, 2013

The TV naturalist is an intelligent man, no doubt about it. So why does he persist in parroting easily demolished propaganda about "endangered" polar bears  and the alleged impact of global warming?

Climate queries? Ask a paleontologist

by Des Moore

April 10, 2013

Would you hire a plumber to re-wire your home? If the answer is "yes", then the qualifications, such as they are, of the Climate Change Commission's members will be enough to persuade that the planet really is on its last, overheated legs. The more astute will not be so easily convinced

A believer's faith falters

by Barry Brill

April 8, 2013

Even The Economist, formerly a supporter of measures to control greehouse gases, is losing its faith in the theories that have unwritten the warmist monolith. Let us hope Australia's politicians are attentive subscribers

Death by fire and culpable neglect

by Roger Underwood & Athol Hodgson AM

April 5, 2013

Summer has passed and the immediate threat of massive bushfires with it. But the flames will return, as they always do, and with them the likelihood of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives being lost. The time to act is now, before it is too late

The very model of a modern climate scientist

by John McLean

April 3, 2013

As one of the chief advisers and architects of the Gillard governments, Will Steffen is one of the go-to experts for instant quotes on the planet's imminent peril. You would think he might know the difference between climate and weather

The triumph of the individual over the hive mind

by Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

April 3, 2013

The individual's access to traditional rights and liberties is being eroded where not under direct attack. There are countermeasures, though, and the most potent is a citizen's refusal to be stripped of that which has been so dearly won

Comedy's hot new duo: Manne and Karoly

by Tony Thomas

March 28, 2013

What happens when two seasoned and much-rewarded performers are dragged back to reality by an impudently fact-based question from the audience? Why, climate pros that they are, they stick to the script!

Professor Bolt and the dunce Quiggin

by John Dawson

March 26, 2013

The columnist and Climate Authority panelist have been locked in a long-running dispute about each other's inability to grasp some relatively simple numbers concerning CO2 reductions. If errors were fact an arrogance an asset, Quiggin would have won at a canter

The science is settled: no warming

by Barry Brill

March 26, 2013

The anxiety-industrial complex won't stop pumping out alarms, science's bought-and-paid-for modellers will play with their mainframes as reporters little better than children parrot every unreliable word.  But don't let any of that raise a frown. Global warming has stopped

Earth Hour's dim bulbs

by Christopher Akehurst

March 24, 2013

Fairfax readers and Burchett Hill residents -- one and the same for the most part -- have once again celebrated modern life turning it off at the switch. Here's what the enlightened got up to in the dark

Monckton dates in Victoria

March 23, 2013

Where to catch the man warmists love to hate

The tide ebbs on another climate myth

by John Happs

March 19, 2013

Those "sinking islands" the warmists are always promoting as symptoms of global warming? Well, it turns out some are growing and none are in any more danger of inundation today than they were in less alarmist times

Peers review Oreskes and find her wanting

by Otto Nebbler

March 16, 2013

Lionised on her most recent Australian tour, author and professional climate alarmist Naomi Oreskes impresses her colleagues a good deal less than she does ABC interviewers