Doomed Planet

The unbearable stench of fishiness

by Michael Kile

May 28, 2012

Tim Flannery predicted a surge in mental illness with rising temperatures, especially in Sydney’s western suburbs.  

The Myth of ‘Acidification’ of Oceans

by Cliff Ollier

May 24, 2012

To demonise CO₂ yet again, a false claim is that human production of CO₂ will cause the oceans to become acid.

Sceptic at the Herald

by Des Moore

May 21, 2012

Each weekend the Sydney Morning Herald’s News Review poses a question and  invites answers from four people, most recently they asked a climate sceptic to take part.

On with the climate play!

by Andrew McIntyre

May 18, 2012

In the current climate in Australia, to say anything that supports a sceptical view on climate change earns you abuse, loathing and the loneliness of the apostate.

Environmentalism and the Decline of the West

by Walter Starck

May 17, 2012

For many urbanites in particular the environment has acquired a romantic, somewhat sacred, status. Though themselves voracious consumers, they are removed from the production that supplies their demands.

Grossly graphic gun-play in Goulburn

by Tony Thomas

May 11, 2012

Our gun-man, “Percy” (not his real name), was among the 2300 subjects painstakingly screened and sampled for this exercise, and Percy made the final cut to isolate 35 sceptics.

Death threat emails?

by Tony Thomas

May 11, 2012

Cleaned of their email clutter these are the released climate threat emails.

'Death threat' fictions

by Tony Thomas

May 7, 2012

A year ago alleged death threats against warmist climatologists at the Australian National University became a media sensation. The story was a mammoth beat-up promulgated and/or swallowed by the science community, which normally prides itself on checking evidence.

Thank God for James Delingpole

by Tim Blair

May 4, 2012

Killing the Earth is blessedly graph-free, as arts graduate Delingpole correctly realises that global warming is overwhelmingly a political issue. And also a rich target for jokes.

Delingpole the Destroyer

by Tony Thomas

April 30, 2012

James Delingpole didn’t talk long at the IPA in Melbourne but he kept us amused, enlightened and sometimes appalled.

Delingpole defeats Faine

April 28, 2012

James Delingpole was interviewed by Lefty Jon Faine. The ABC says the conversation was “feisty” - it was D Day in Melbourne.

Wrong plan, wrong time

by David Archibald

April 27, 2012

Anthony Albanese buried a  report showing that in a world totally dependent on liquid fuels for transport, Australia will soon be only 25 per cent self-sufficient in oil.

Not selling Delingpole

by Christopher Akehurst

April 23, 2012

The assistant didn't exactly reel back in horror but she did shoot me an odd look when I asked for the book, not so much as though she thought I was a crank but as though she thought I might be having her on. Then she composed her face. "No," she said, "we don't stock that."

Delingpole mania hits Perth

by Philippa Martyr

April 18, 2012

James Delingpole began his tour of Australia in Perth last night and when he opened the floor up to questions that we really saw him in his element.

Whither CSIRO?

by Tom Quirk

April 17, 2012

The CSIRO is responding to set of national needs defined by the government of the day – combating climate change and making computer model forecasts of the disasters facing us if we don’t.

Little Green Lies

April 11, 2012

Sometimes people bend the truth because they believe they are protecting others from the harm caused by environmental decay. Others do it for personal gain.

What's wrong with the science?

by Bob Carter, David Evans, Stewart Franks & William Kininmonth

April 5, 2012

Something is very wrong with the way in which scientific policy regarding climate change is being delivered to the Australian government.

Vested interests drive climate change

by Bob Carter, David Evans, Stewart Franks & William Kininmonth

April 4, 2012

All the sources of climate advice are effectively government-based, -involved or -dependent. All have a common vested interest in helping to increase government regulation and expenditure.

Ignoring their own experts

by John McLean

April 2, 2012

The recent climate report from the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO was remarkable more for what it didn't say than for what it did.

Greening science

by Garth Paltridge

March 29, 2012

The issue of climate change is now the classic example of post-normal science, originated and serviced by a research machine funded massively and almost entirely by a government department dedicated to drastic alteration of society in the name of fixing the ‘problem’ of global warming.