As all who browsed the infamous Climategate emails will know, the men and women of science can go to almost any lengths to suppress, harass, slander and deride those whose theories are at odds with their own. Well guess what? It's not just climateers who are at home in the gutter

The service was conducted by the high priests of alarmism, with politicians pledging their love for rent-seeking renewables promoters as a media choir sang of the wonders to come. Yes, we've seen wonders aplenty -- obscene power prices, economic hobbles and the further corruption of science

Groupthink among climate scientists --  ‘the science is settled’ brigade -- has constrained public debate, which was  entirely to be expected. You see, believers are predominantly devoted to promoting 'solutions' and that, rather than open-minded inquiry, is the warmists' objective

The PM has won a party room victory and must now run his NEG through the grinding mill of Bill Shorten's opposition and the premiers, most of them fearful of offending greenists and apt to act accordingly. Liberals who backed him won't find too many volunteers to hand out their how-to-votes

As in Orwell’s fictional Oceania, our very own Ministry of Power has its own 'facts', all parroted by a political class that would never dream of milking consumers to line the pockets of mates. Banish that thought and all others, fellow citizens! Our betters are better because they know what's best

Warmists' predictions of climate doom haven't come to pass or anything like it, but give them credit for agility and perseverance in always concocting a fresh scare. The latest meme to keep grants flowing and careers on track: the purported mass die-off of species large and small

Yes, the Book of Revelation says there are only four, but the New Testament wasn't written in a Swedish sauna by the man who would go on to create and head the IPCC. Actually, we're not sure it happened quite this way, but so much of the warmist creed is so thoroughly screwy it just might

Scott Morrison has yet to utter a peep about the national broadcaster and its need for sweeping reform. His silence is especially curious, given that he must surely grasp the warmist propagandists suckling on the taxpayer teat will be among the loudest defenders of current climate-policy madness

When the promotional materials for a geography teachers' conference crows of being graced by guest speakers such as Tim Flannery, Bob Brown and the ABC's snotty green shill Jon Faine, it's a lesson in classroom bias. Alas, it's no sort of way to educate young minds

With The Lodge flushed there is a possibility of post-Turnbullian sanity, with the first priority being to re-evaluate Australia's commitment to the Paris Agreement. As a nation, we are pauperising ourselves in a cause demonstrably false and easily discerned as such

While the Liberal party room was discussing the so-called National Energy Guarantee, Malcolm Turnbull's operatives were briefing reporters against the man he knifed. Conservatives will take today's events as confirmation that a party standing for nothing will fall for anything

For argument's sake, accept that global warming is more than fanciful algorithms and careerism. Now wonder how Australia will ever make its 2030 targets, given the energy sector represents only about a quarter of our emissions. Conclusion: there's far more ruinous stupidity yet to be revealed

Advance publicity asserted Josh Frydenberg, minister for obscenely expensive power and keeping it that way, would be a force  in Canberra, it being alleged by admirers that he is smart and very much his own man. Alas, as a round of correspondence established, it's just not true

While whales might appreciate the ban on single-use grocery bags, supermarket chains have greater reason to rejoice. Not only will they shed the cost of catering to their customers' convenience, they can posture beneath a halo of conspicuous virtue. Alas, an unmentioned aspect of their gains is an increased risk of bacterial infections

PM Scott Morrison's split-brained endorsement of the Paris accords on one hand and his pledge to lower electricity prices on the other  does more than enshrine cognitive dissonance as official policy. It also validates Labor's pledge to do an even better job of stuffing the economy

By any reasonable standard of environmental accounting, Snowy 2.0 is even more foolish than the prime minister whose brainstorm it was. Not only will it do nothing to lower electricity prices, the likelihood is that it will boost the emissions it is intended to reduce

Regulated prices, a royal commission, pumping water uphill, more wind -- as politicians count numbers and the Prime Minister's fate hangs in the balance, all these alleged 'solutions' and more are being tossed about by people who, quite frankly, should know the one-word solution: competition

With climateers now saying the fabled two-degree warming limit won't be enough after all, a decent PM might react thus: 'As the science is settled, we're redirecting all those climate dollars to fixing the grid because, if it's going to get hot, we'll need cheap, reliable power and lots of air conditioning'

Visit Colesworths and you'll be denied a plastic bag, which is good for the chains' bottom lines and, allegedly, the health of our long-suffering planet. The move was driven in large part by NGOs' propaganda, a grossly misleading example of which has just been broadcast all over the world

From last night's address: 'A government that can build Snowy 2.0, to provide high-cost firming capacity, but can’t or won’t build Hazelwood 2.0 to provide low-cost baseload power for the next half century -- and keep the market honest -- has a consistency deficit'