Despite acknowledged flaws in computer models and global temperatures' prolonged plateau, three august Australian bodies have issued reports insisting that the climate-change "crisis" is real, bad and getting worse. Have they no shame?

While they wait (and wait) for the dams to empty and never fill again, Tim Flannery and his pals at the Climate Council keep gabbling of imminent global disaster. Give 'em credit for tenacity, but what they really deserve is a good spanking for taking indecent liberties with science

Write a letter to The Age or SMH expressing doubt about global-warming theories and your missive will very soon meet the sharp end of an editor's spike as a matter of editorial policy. In Geelong, by contrast, a free suburban weekly actually believes in free speech and open debate

The RET Scheme, a monstrous mis-allocation of resources, continues to make Australia poorer for no good reason.  Those who concocted and voted for it seem determined to hobble the nation's prospects while slipping some $5 billion every year into the pockets of rent-seeking saboteurs

In Part Two of our series on Melbourne University’s Sustainable Society Institute we visit the enchanted isle of Entropia, the eco-aware settlement where bad poets and oboe players celebrate the death of capitalism with lentil casseroles, home-made port, free love and no small amount of green-haloed self-regard

As smoke rolls once again over southeastern Australia, veteran forester Tony Bartlett writes: "...I saw with my own eyes the value of fuel reduction burning in protecting bushland settlements from intense fires. Sadly this is a message still to sink in with many of our bushfire authorities"

Put the ABC business editor, John Hewson, Ross Garnaut and a couple of other coal-phobic gabblers on the same stage and what do you get? Why, that fabled "elephant in the room" -- and a jumbo-size load of alarmist droppings to mark its effect on otherwise intelligent souls

Actually, only five have complained so far, but why not apply warmist statistical methods to allegations of roving hands, lurid texts and an obsession with 'voluptuous breasts' that have seen the world's premier alarmist resign? One possible defence: climate change makes bureaucrats hot to trot

All smart tourists know to guard wallets and money belts from the infamous pickpockets of Paris. Let us hope Tony Abbott is similarly aware of the kleptocrats and con artists who will be eager to relieve Australia of both wealth and security at the upcoming climate conference

It might be possible to view the ever-rising slope of BoM temperature charts and conclude that the world really is melting down, but only if you regard "adjusted" records as more accurate than actual ones. Now, for the first time, independent statisticians will analyse those methods

Anyone can be a prophet of doom: Pick a spot on the globe, any spot, and state with oracular authority that it will suffer most from runaway climate change. Tim Flannery fancied Perth, for example, which has yet to become his predicted ghost town, but he has plenty of company in the dunce's corner

They're big on painting the world a glorious and sustainable green at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, where sundry academics, together with alleged comedian Rod Quantock, preach climate doom while quoting Marx and yearning for the day when Havana sets the standard for urban life

The end of that great Australian institution, the volunteer country fire brigade, is drawing nigh, done in by the ignorance of greens, the ambitions of empire-building desk warriors and layer after counterproductive layer managerialist protocols. Why use a rake when the taxpayers can be billed for a helicopter?

If Utopia last century was populated by Soviet Man, he has been superseded this century by Green Person with eerily similar yearnings – this time for a ‘sustainable’ world free of ‘inequity’. All the developed world needs to do is fill the pockets of the Third's kleptocrats and sustainable joy will reign supreme

They were there at the start, when the study of climate was in its infancy, but today the names of meterologists such as Hubert Lamb are seldom mentioned by those colleagues and their heirs who very quickly grasped that sound science doesn't pay half as well as a good scare story

But then most of us aren't "climate scientists", who have once again granted themselves permission to assemble a cavalcade of conjecture and omission and parade it as "evidence", courtesy of the Australian Academy of Science. They do, however, care deeply about puppies and kittens

Not to long ago, Western Australia was a textbook example of astute fire management. Now, if you wonder why the state is burning once again, look to the green-minded romantics, public service careerists and academics who are wrecking the very forests they profess to love

Australia's Academy of Science is overdue to clarify its position on global warming, but don't expect that much-delayed document to be written in the ink of rational objectivity. Despite doubts creeping into the pronouncements of overseas counterparts, local warmists remain determined to defend the faith

Early explorers were appalled by the arid wasteland that is today the most productive land in the country, thanks to enlightened farming and the astute use of irrigation. If the architects of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan have their way, the likes of Sturt and Oxley might well conclude not much has changed

Ben Chifley launched the Snowy Mountains Scheme, defied the naysayers and did the country an immense good. As our long-term water needs continue to outstrip supply, a bit more of that same bravery and vision would make Australia more secure, prosperous and green as well