Doomed Planet

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Climate Change

by Tom Quirk

February 2, 2012

Did Douglas Adams anticipate Climate Change modelling?

The real threat of climate change

by Walter Starck

January 31, 2012

There is simply too much ego, money, careers, reputations and political commitment now depending upon dangerous anthropogenic climate change for its advocates to even consider that the threat might actually not be so dire.

Sinking, sinking, not

by Tony Thomas

January 30, 2012

Tuvalu and the Maldives would like money from the West as victims of the West's CO2 emissions. However, their purported problems are largely solvable by their own efforts, without the need to lay guilt trips on the developed countries.

Climate correction in NZ

by Tony Thomas

January 19, 2012

A casual visitor to a museum makes a complaint, an official agrees it is valid, and pledges to get to work on a correction. Is life meant to be this easy?

IPCC correction

by Tony Thomas

January 19, 2012

How a Quadrant Online book review led to the IPCC making a correction. Tony Thomas tells the story.

A Tale of Two Disciplines

by Tom Quirk

January 13, 2012

As a demonstration of how to present scientific discovery and understanding, the contrast between the possible discovery of the Higgs particle and climate science progress could not be more different.

Better dead than Green

by Frank Devine

January 12, 2012

I’m inclined to think the Greens could do more damage to the party they help to victory, given the price they will seek if they hold the balance of power through accumulation of Senate seats.

More climate madness

by Walter Starck

January 9, 2012

Governments, the media and a large portion of the intelligentsia have subscribed passionately to an unshakable belief in the certainty of the imagined threat and the urgent necessity to drastically reduce use of the fossil fuels which are essential to our entire modern civilisation.

Plimer at the ABC

December 16, 2011

It was supposed to be about Ian Plimer’s new book but somehow it turned into arguing about the subject matter of his interrogator’s own book, and TV drama series.

Has it worked?

by Ian Mott

December 15, 2011

There is no better time to judge the quality of the outcomes that the Murray Darling Basin Authority claims will be achieved by delivering additional environmental water. 

The Twelve Days of Carbon Christmas

by John Izzard

December 13, 2011

Putting the carbon into Christmas with a traditional carol.

Mute media & climate madness

by Christopher Monckton

December 12, 2011

The contents of this document, turgidly drafted with all the UN’s skill at what the former head of its documentation center used to call “transparent impenetrability”, are not just off the wall – they are lunatic.

A history of scientific alarms

by Kesten Green

December 12, 2011

There is a long and dismal history of alarming forecasts that were literally too bad to be true. But many people believed these predictions that human actions would harm the environment and thereby cause disaster for people.

Free Plimer book

December 9, 2011

Free copies of Ian Plimer's new book, How to Get Expelled From School, for teachers and librarians.

Climate of corruption

by Tony Thomas

December 6, 2011

Large numbers of IPCC Lead Authors, including those connected to half the chapters of the Working Group I report of 2007 and all the chapters of the Working Group II report, are employed by, or advisors to, environmental activist groups, such as Greenpeace.

The politics of water

by Ron Pike

December 5, 2011

Claims that irrigators were responsible for low river flow during the drought were irrationally shouted by environmentalists seemingly oblivious to the fact that most irrigators were not allowed any water during the drought years.

Gillard EXPO-ED!

by Michael Kile

December 1, 2011

“Friends, you here in this room and your colleagues around the nation will be the leaders of that change. So by the middle of this century, we will be a different nation – cleaner, smarter, richer.” 

What is Wrong With the IPCC?

by John Howard

November 24, 2011

The global financial plunge has highlighted the folly of any nation taking action which harms its own comparative economic advantage.

Climategate redux?

November 23, 2011

More leaked climate emails. Anthony Watts says, “They’re real and they’re spectacular!”

Skeptics "BESTed"?

by Tony Thomas

November 8, 2011

The press of late is full of stories that a new scientific study called the “BEST” project has verified that the planet is warming strongly; that the skeptic case is defunct; and that skeptics now have no place to hide.