Doomed Planet

Dear Prime Minister

June 23, 2011

Quadrant Online is publishing an Open Report to the Prime Minister by the Fair Farming Group which brings further challenges to the government’s carbon dioxide tax. Will she listen?

What's the great hurry?

by Garth Paltridge

June 19, 2011

If one really believes in doing something expensive about limiting climate change, there is probably no great reason for doing it now. Adaption to climate change in the future will be just as easy (or as difficult) as would be adaption now.

Warmists shun debate

by Michael Connor

June 17, 2011

Quadrant Online published a scientific audit of the Climate Commission report, The Critical Decade, by four scientists. The Conversation (a website funded by the CSIRO) has responded with an attack on the critics by Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg.

Innovation: The Garnaut Cult

by Tom Quirk

June 16, 2011

Professor Garnaut sees a tax on carbon (dioxide) as not sufficient to drive innovation. He wants to encourage companies by luring them with extra rewards. But this looks a bit like the Cargo Cult of New Guinea.

The economics of inundation

by Ted Rule

June 14, 2011

“If you pull your head out of the sand for five minutes and take a look at the prices of beachside suburban properties you’ll see that they haven’t moved down and in some instances have boomed.” This I found profoundly disturbing.

Plotting a course for disaster

by Des Moore

June 12, 2011

The meaninglessness of the economic modelling, and the failure to recognise the now widespread scepticism with the science, offer another example of this government’s failure and inability to change when the circumstances obviously require that.

Climate policy crisis

by Bob Carter

June 12, 2011

Why should we be paying climate obeisance to an unelected, unaccountable (to Australian citizens) branch of the UN? Are our own scientists inadequate? Or is it just that we are simply not grown up enough to manage on our own what is admittedly a highly controversial subject?

Climate shame

by Piers Akerman

June 12, 2011

The question must be asked why the government and its advisers will not address this scholarly analysis. 

Crazy Climate Week

by John Izzard

June 10, 2011

Science stormtroopers are planning to kill off computers, camels and common-sense as they float wind farms above our heads, and promulgate plans to protect the planet from sunshine.

Death threats – “an opportunistic ploy”

June 9, 2011

The Telegraph: “Claims prominent climate change scientists had recently received death threats have been revealed as an opportunistic ploy, with the Australian National University admitting that they occurred up to five years ago.”

The Greens are coming!

June 8, 2011

Finally, a book (to be published in July) which examines Green policies and  their devastating consequences if enacted. Why has it taken so long?

"The evidence is not there"

by John McLean

June 7, 2011

Alan Jones to professor  David Karoly: “It's not there. You, the chapter review editor. It's not there! The evidence is not there.”

Go green, go broke

by Peter Smith

June 3, 2011

Our leaders compliment the Chinese on their emission-saving efforts, while they pump ever increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere and sell us, and everyone else, solar panels and windmill parts made using energy from coal that we supply.

Scare or science?

by Des Moore

May 31, 2011

The Steffen report provides no sound basis for Australia to adopt a carbon tax or any other measures to reduce emissions.

The Critical Decade: Part II

May 30, 2011

The perception of dangerous climate change as a result of burning fossil fuels is based solely on the flawed predictions of rudimentary computer models, and has become grossly exaggerated.

The Critical Decade: Part I

May 30, 2011

The scientific advice contained within The Critical Decade is an inadequate, flawed and misleading basis on which to set national policy.

The Global Climate Standoff

by John Muscat

May 29, 2011

The present state of world climate action is easy to sum up. While everyone pays lip-service to the IPCC’s targets, developing countries won’t go anywhere near them unless developed countries go first, and developed countries won’t go unless developing countries join them.

Water isn't the problem

by Ron Pike

May 27, 2011

Our recent water shortages were all caused by the failure of Governments to build water conservation structures for the last 35 years; not because there was a shortage of water.

The idiocy continues

by Janet Thompson

May 26, 2011

The UN have conducted in-depth scientific studies that show that food production can double in 10 years, but only if governments around the world force farmers to use the UN’s ideas!

States of deceit

by Rudolf Vyborny

May 24, 2011

Life under communism was unbearable for me. I found a new home in Australia where I cherish my freedom. Lately, I am concerned, even alarmed, by similarities between some aspects of life under communism and here.