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

Jean-Pascal van Ypersele reckons global warming will kill Prince William, and that is only one of his many unhinged prophecies. A man who strikes many as an all-round cad and thoroughly deplorable fellow, he trades in schemes and slurs to silence sceptics. Oh, and one other thing: He aims to head the IPCC

How could any sane person possibly dispute that the world is heading for a full-blown climate catastrophe? Deeply troubled by that question, professional warmists are launching a "massive online course" to help the faithful understand the diseased minds of those who beg to differ

Citing authorities as reliable as Australia's very Clive Hamilton, a US author bares the depression and shocking psychological impacts afflicting climate activists whose warnings of imminent catastrophe go unheeded. For alarmists, blue is the new green

They have built careers, lined pockets and plundered the public purse on the strength of prophecies that have failed conspicuously to match real world trends. Worse, they have suborned and debased science. It's time those who insist consensus trumps evidence were made to answer for their damage

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

The US and Australia have charted different paths to achieve their common goal of reducing greenhouse emissions. While each makes a fine platform for green rhetoric and electoral posturing, neither course acknowledges the inescapable truth that the developing world couldn't care less about CO2

America's Democrats, and one well-heeled 'carbon capitalist' in particular, received a monumental thrashing in the US midterm elections, despite a lavishly financed ad campaign of eco-alarmist propaganda. It seems voters are nowhere near so dopey as their betters imagined

Ever wonder how, year after year, the Bureau of Meteorology can insist Australia is being baked by ever-rising temperatures? So does Nationals MP George Christensen, who lays out in the simplest possible terms the case for an independent and immediate investigation

The Climate Council, where Tim Flannery hangs his hat these days, has issued a "research paper" that insists we can limit bushfires by banning coal mines and slashing CO2 emissions. Well they would say that. After battling greens and distant bureaucrats, a veteran firefighter knows better

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

The rent-seekers, opportunists, third-rate academics, carbon-market scam artists and peddlers of catastrophic prophecy can see the alarmist bubble deflating, so they're trying harder than ever to sustain the scare. Problem is, Mother Nature isn't cooperating

True, Abbott & Co., have repealed the Carbon Tax, but that gain for common sense is small potatoes in comparison with the ongoing indulgence of rent-seekers' rorts and carbon-phobic hysterics' prophesies of climate doom

The co-founder of Greenpeace left his Melbourne audience in no doubt that the so-called 'environmental organisation' is a not only an enemy of progress, it regards the waste of human life as collateral damage in its crusade to hector, harass and hobble all who oppose its ambitions