Doomed Planet

Here today, drowned tomorrow

by Tony Thomas

August 29, 2012

Measured sea-level rises have failed to match catastropharians’ dire projections, but that isn’t crimping climate bureaucrats’ plans. A $10 billion seawall across Port Phillip, anyone? 

A bumper week for climateers

by Bob Carter

August 28, 2012

We have just seen two more reports about global warming from government agencies – and two more lost opportunities to detail a sensible climate policy

Catastropharians give a hoot

by Michael Kile

August 27, 2012

After touching down at the UWA, New York University warmist and globe-girdling alarmist Professor Dale Jamieson treated local doomsayers to an exhibition of selective memory

Catastropharians give a hoot

August 27, 2012

A corker of a plan

by Ron Pike

August 20, 2012

If bureaucrats marketed wine as they do water, this lover of the grape figures his glass and pockets would both be empty

Queen of Climate Consensus,

by Michael Kile

August 13, 2012

How did a US geologist working with Western Mining Corporation in South Australia transform herself into a credible climate change alarmist in less than a decade? 

How to Think Seriously About the Planet

by Roger Scruton

August 11, 2012

Important new book by Roger Scruton.

Sea levels ignore government forecasts

by Tony Thomas

August 10, 2012

A new study says sea levels rises haven’t accelerated in the past 20 years, they’ve decelerated. Therefore those IPCC and other alarmist sea projections are most unlikely to be fulfilled.

The Climate of Opinion

by Steven Kates

August 9, 2012

Robert Manne knows no more about climate science than I do.

The Smithsonian makes an exhibition of itself

by Tony Thomas

July 30, 2012

I was one of Smithsonian’s 7 million annual visitors.Little did I expect to find there errors, exaggerations, green propaganda, apparent lame comedy and games for kids that include nuclear warfare between hypothetical countries.

Climate Commission in Melbourne

by Tom Quirk

July 27, 2012

Storey Hall was an appropriate place for over three hundred people to face six Climate Commissioners as it has the look and feel of a space that was shifted from Luna Park.

Praise be! The Climate Commission in Melbourne

by John McLean

July 27, 2012

Melbourne was treated to Brother Tim's Travelling Salvation Show, aka the Climate Commissioners, calling on the faithful to force carbon sinners to repent.

Donna Laframboise in Australia

by Philippa Martyr

July 17, 2012

Laframboise represents a long and noble tradition of investigative journalism. Long may she prosper - and what a timely reminder of all the good reasons to attack the Finkelstein project here.

Pointless Carbon Tax

by Cliff Ollier

July 10, 2012

Currently the world is in the grip of one those phenomena known as the Madness of Crowds.

Black (Carbon Dioxide) Sunday

by Michael Kile

July 2, 2012

Inspired by Alfred Tennyson and a Lady.

Bad policy, bad outcomes

by Debbie Buller

June 29, 2012

The Murray Darling Basin Authority has proposed extraordinary reductions to water allocations, and presented an incomplete and distorted picture of the impacts of such reductions.

UNESCO, butt out!

by Walter Starck

June 22, 2012

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee is only another pack of overpaid bureaucrats jetting around the world enjoying themselves on expense accounts Craig Thomson might envy.

Combet's hot spot

by Michael Kile

June 20, 2012

The audience applauded Greg Combet with such vigour it was as if they were about to be compensated with a bunch of free carbon credits, despite having the world’s largest per capita carbon footprint.

'Grrrreat Flannery' poem

by Michael Kile

June 5, 2012

Michael Kile has written a poem (with apologies to ‘Banjo’ P) honouring the great man who will fix the climate with his two dollar pliers, Tim Flannery.

Warm is dumb

by James Delingpole

June 1, 2012

Official: the more scientifically illiterate you are, the more you believe in 'climate change'.