“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
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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...December 13, 2011
Putting the carbon into Christmas with a traditional carol.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...December 9, 2011
Free copies of Ian Plimer's new book, How to Get Expelled From School, for teachers and librarians.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.”
Read more...November 24, 2011
The global financial plunge has highlighted the folly of any nation taking action which harms its own comparative economic advantage.
Read more...November 23, 2011
More leaked climate emails. Anthony Watts says, “They’re real and they’re spectacular!”
Read more...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.
Read more...November 6, 2011
Is an error in The Delinquent Teenager a mistake by the author, or the IPCC?
Read more...October 31, 2011
Donna Laframboise is a Canadian investigative journalist and feminist. She smelt a rat about the IPCC two years ago. The more she investigated, the greater the stench.
Read more...October 28, 2011
My suspicions have been deepened over the years by the climate movement’s totalitarian approach to opposing views, their demonizing of successful opponents and their opposition to the publication of opposing views even in scientific journals.
Read more...October 25, 2011
Matt and Janet Thompson have a YouTube channel with videos taken at Perth’s Election Now rally.
Read more...October 24, 2011
Connor Court publishers have announced the forthcoming publication of a new book by Ian Plimer: How to get Expelled from School.
Read more...October 14, 2011
The “environmental” flows down the Snowy River are a totally irrational and wasteful course of action.
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