Remember how the Climate Council was going to work pro bono to counter sceptics, deniers, carbonistas and all the other planet-fouling monsters in the warmists' bestiary of evildoers? It seems volunteer efforts now come with a price tag
After his not-too-demanding stint at Media Watch, the forever-smug Jonathan Holmes has settled into a columnist's gig at Australian journalism's daily travesty. When he insisted man-made climate change must be real because his mates tell him so, a rebuttal was impaled on the editor's spike. Here is the column the Age will not print
Be scared, the experts tell us, be very scared. Well there is certainly cause for concern, but not about those "rising" temperatures, which refuse to confirm researchers' computer models. A far bigger worry is the corruption that has turned 'science' into a synonym for shameless, cynical careerism
Doing science by consensus is not science at all, says the climatologist all the alarmists love to hate. Not that the enmity bothers Judith Curry too much -- and certainly not as much as the debasement of impartial inquiry by which the warmist establishment keeps all those lovely grants coming
The Gospel hot from Hollywood dresses all humanity in the black hat of the ecological destroyer, even to the extent of re-casting the Old Testament's favourite boat-builder as the salvation of Gaia's innocent animals. As for our own species, mass drowning is just what we deserve
When your child is being conditioned to dismiss you as a hopeless crank for doubting the warmist dogma, when art classes produce apocalyptic visions of ecological collapse and lesson plans are inspired by the infallibility of Al Gore, it is a typical day in an Australian classroom
That the alarmists' predictions of soaring temperatures have proven consistently at odds with reality comes as no surprise. What should shock and appall taxpayers underwriting these lab-coated exercises in error is just how grossly out of whack the predictions for Australia have been
Finally, it's dead -- the Carbon Tax, that is
They came, they saw, they concurred -- except they really didn't, not beyond a mutual interest in the bottom line. If two large men represent the best hope for a small planet, as a gullible press gallery urged its readers to believe, poor Gaia really is neck-deep in very hot water
The Rev. John Colenso voiced his doubts about the Old Testament's veracity and soon found himself relentlessly pilloried by the Establishment. More than a century later, noted climatologist Lennart Bengtsson is getting the same treatment for daring to consaider that the warmists' dire "consensus" is gravely flawed
It hardly needs to be said that climate modelling is a far-from-settled science, despite what its practitioners would have us believe. Just how flawed becomes even more apparent when you consider that massive heat sources on the ocean floor have been entirely omitted from the warmists' calculations
Wreathed in self-importance but boasting little grasp of the science, the Australian Psychological Society is no fair-weather friend of the warmist movement. Indeed, its dire prophecies and ill-informed endorsements of the most dubious methods and "evidence" make it a case study in institutional delusion
Get 'em young and fill their heads with warmist propaganda -- that seems to the unofficial motto of Britain's education establishment, which has just been warned by the Home Secretary that peddling propaganda as fact is a punishable offence
Autumn's return has been marked, as usual, by froth-flecked assertions that we have just survived yet another of Gaia's warnings that humanity must abandon its planet-destroying ways. Laughing at hysterics isn't polite, but a sweeping audit of their gold-plated climate racket would definitely be in order
There really is no point in talking evidence with warmists. The smart ones have careers to advance and pockets to line. And the dim ones? They're too thick to hold down any job more demanding than that of an editor at the ABC or Fairfax. So just have a good chuckle, like George Christensen MHR
The warmists have their models, grants and tidings of doom, but the researchers whose tree ring data has best predicted recent temperature trends see the mercury dropping, perhaps by as much as 4 degrees. If they are right, then there is reason to be worried, very worried indeed
Pity the poor curator filling exhibit spaces with displays of global warming's depredations. With all that jetting about the world to co-ordinate the alarmist message, not to mention the torments of expense-account dining and the obligation to sleep in nice hotels, is it any wonder that no one has noticed temperatures stopped rising almost two decades ago
Professor Joseph Reser of the Australian Psychological Association fears that "climate deniers" are hobbling the push to save our poor, sweating planet. He would be better advised to check his "facts", because many aren't merely wrong, they are ludicrously so
What if the planet is actually cooling? Devoted warmists might welcome the idea, perhaps seeing in the falling mercury hope for a better, safer planet. If so, they would be even more deluded than usual, as author David Archibald lays out in his new and deeply disturbing book
Want your, er, highly innovative research to get lots of attention, the sort that keeps those grants coming? You could do worse than start with some kind words from a peer-reviewer whose work is glowingly cited in your own paper. After that, apply for the next batch of grants