Doomed Planet
“Today’s debate about global warming is essentially a debate about freedom. The environmentalists would like to mastermind each and every possible (and impossible) aspect of our lives.”
Vaclav Klaus
Blue Planet in Green Shackles
Warmist gasbags' noxious emissions
January 14, 2013
If catastropharian scientists' dire pronouncements about flatulence threatening the planet are to be believed -- and they are not, by the way -- then a national scheme must be launched to curtail and contain flatulence, both bovine and human
Read more...Green philosophy burns bright once again
January 12, 2013
If you have been smelling smoke in the air, perhaps even fleeing your home ahead of bushfires, avoid the very many press reports blaming the latest summer fire on "carbon pollution". Instead, rent Stork and see the real reason why our future is in flames
Read more...For climateers, it's always the Silly Season
January 10, 2013
Nuts are always on the menu when warmists draft the bill of fare, and this year's Christmas menu of catastropharian predictions and pronouncements has proven to be no exception
Read more...The damage green policies do
January 9, 2013
Green NGOs want everyone to believe their the protests, boycotts and fund-raising defend the planet and its glorious diversity. Indonesia's orangutans would tell you different
Read more...The usual suspects
January 9, 2013
It is only a draft copy of the IPCC's next report and a leaked one at that, but the names of the Australasian section's authors are unlikely to be revised. That's the thing about making a career in warmism -- it's good, solid, dependable work
Read more...Wind power by the numbers
December 21, 2012
Wind power is helping to save us all from the carbon curse, green evangelists never tire of insisting. What they don't understand is where electrical power comes from and how it is generated
Read more...Pharisees and pieties at the ABC
December 20, 2012
Thank heavens we are not as other national broadcasters, proclaims Aunty, pointing a righteous finger at the BBC's now-exposed conspiracy to gag climate-change sceptics. Really?
Read more...Government by NGO
December 18, 2012
They are unelected, unaccountable and untaxed, yet their influence and manipulations are forever nudging Australia and its economy closer to a grim reckoning with reality. When they have done their worst, we had better be ready and prepared to pick up the pieces
Read more...Old Man Murray
December 17, 2012
An ode the river whose greatest threat is those who proclaim themselves its saviours
Read more...Doha-ha-ha-ha-ha
December 11, 2012
The UN's latest scare-a-thon has drawn mercifully to a close, but not before pushing the boundaries of institutionalised idiocy. Apart from the usual dire predictions of the world's imminent peril, here is what the delegates achieved
Read more...Lend me your ears, children
December 5, 2012
Young people are amongst the most ardent advocates of warmism. If only they would listen to an older, wiser head, the bills they will face in their mature years might not be half so large
Read more...A fanatic with an ABC microphone
November 27, 2012
Did you know those who dispute the warmists' dubious climate "science" are the moral equals of pederasts? If that comes as news, you must not have heard Robyn Williams moronic posturing on Radio National's The Science Show
Read more...Ruining the environment to save it
November 26, 2012
From logging to fishing and the Murray, Environment Minister Tony Burke's record is unblemished. When presented with the obvious consequences of ill-informed and emotional green campaigns, he consigns logic and real-world consequences to the re-cycle bin
Read more...In for their COP -- Part III
November 23, 2012
Intoxicated by self-importance, the Doha delegates will talk climate change until those methane-exuding cows come home. Not a word of it will make a scrap of difference to the weather
Read more...In for their COP -- Part II
November 21, 2012
Uncertainty has never bothered the climateers converging on Doha for the latest attempt to engineer massive transfers of global wealth. The science is dubious, but the apostles of climate change have never doubted their goals or how to achieve them
Read more...Climateers in for their COP -- Part I
November 20, 2012
Their "evidence" is more dubious than ever, the grasping lust for other people's money more naked. But give the catastropharians credit for trying. As the warmist bandwagon rolls into Qatar, their claims of imminent disaster will be deafening
Read more...The fine art of scaring children
November 20, 2012
Ballarat boasts a charming art gallery, but do be careful about taking impressionable children on a visit. Thanks to the climate-change cult, even the most innocuous pictures are now nightmare exhibits of the parched world to come
Read more...Speak loudly and carry a busted hockey stick
November 19, 2012
The so-called settled science of predicting future temperatures is rooted in absurd generalisations, unrepresentative sampling, trick graphs and statistical sleights of hand. The louder they shout, the more apparent their bogus discipline's flaws follies
Read more...Land of the Long White Hockey Stick?
November 16, 2012
New Zealand's premier science museum is taking a serious look at the validity of Michael Mann's infamous graph. What the curators decide could figure in Mann's defamation case against Mark Steyn and other critics
Read more...Nobel winners here, there, everywhere!
November 12, 2012
So you want a Nobel Prize? No worries! Just make like Australia's leading warmists and claim one. And don't worry about awkward questions. The ABC only investigates climate sceptics
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