The literary editor of The Australian's weekend Review section is a gifted journalist, but it seems he couldn't grasp a single key element about Al Gore and climate profiteers if a polar bear fell on him. In an effort to foil an otherwise decent newspaper's promotion of piffle, here's a remedial primer

Alan Finkel's otherworldly prognosis is bad enough. But toss in Malcolm Turnbull's advocacy of renewables and then add an imported American chief regulator who would have been happier working for Hillary Clinton and where are you? The simple answer: thoroughly stuffed

Madness prevails. Cheered on by green zealots, governments have accepted a tenuous theory based on black-box models of no proven worth. As carpetbaggers rejoice with charlatans, those who can least afford it are bled dry for what was, until recently, cheap as chips: electricity

Those who have made sound-byte alarmism a career-enhancing skill swear blind that a 'fragile' Reef is on its last legs -- a condition only lots of additional research grants can remedy. They should study Eniwetok Atoll, where the US tested its A-bombs and today's coral couldn't be healthier.

This Saturday in Sydney traffic will be disrupted even more than usual by a gaggle of climateers, fussbudgets and nanny staters strutting their virtuous stuff in support of lots more taxpayer money for fighting climate change, amongst other sacred careerist causes. Here's a guide to the stars of the show

According to the Prime Minister, it will take but a few more billions to perfect carbon-capture technology, protect Gaia and win the approval of those who will never vote Coalition come hell or 'extreme weather' high water. Alan Moran's new book delivers the good kicking such thinking deserves

and they won't be on for much longer, not with a mandated increase in renewable energy's contribution to the national grid slated to increase by fifty per cent in just three short years. If your electricity charges are outrageously high already, just wait until you see the green ink on 2020's bills

Rational analysis offers the hope that warmists and sceptics might find common ground were they to focus on cost-benefit analyses of "solutions" to greenhouse emissions. Nah, who am I kidding? Carpetbaggers living off public subsidies now control the agenda, so no hope there

The methodology of John Cook's infamous paper purporting to demonstrate global warming must be real because almost all scientists believe in it has long since been demolished. But there is another flaw hitherto overlooked: the extent to which humans are thought responsible

The recognition that man's thumb exerts a considerable weight on the current ecological scale is anathema to those who promote the myth of "wilderness", that toxic manifestation of green romanticism. In the 1860s, remarkable Victorian bushman and naturalist Alfred Howitt knew better

There will be plenty of ABC seats and microphones awaiting US astrophysicist, fact-challenged warmist and tireless self-promoter Neil de Grasse Tyson when he tours Australia this year. That's the way it works if you hold little respect for actual science and a lucrative contempt for those who do

Not long before his sudden and premature death, Australian Energy Market Operator chief Matt Zema spoke candidly at a private conference of power-industry executives. The enormous subsidies heaped on renewables, he said, mean one thing and only one thing: "The system must collapse"

We all have them, friends who believe the planet is on a CO2-fuelled collision course with a catastrophe that can only be averted by directing large sums to rent-seeking wind farmers and the like. If you know someone like that, here's a simple, handy guide to the climate scam

They perch and preen atop their grants, sinecures and self-regard, forever predicting planetary doom unless their addled sermons are heeded and the carbon-spewing sins of our modern world are expiated. When your lights next go out, blame them and the politicians on whose teats they suckle

Temperatures refuse to rise, exterminate polar bears, melt the icecaps, engulf coastal cities or make Tim Flannery seem rational. Not that there isn't company in the upper ranks of ratbaggery. Meet Professor Matthew Liao, who yearns to bio-engineer smaller, drug-ready humans

If you go by the mainstream media's lockstep 'coverage' of the US president's first six months, he is no more nor less than a tweeting buffoon. A comforting narrative for cant-addicted newsroom hacks and groupthinkers, it handily avoids any and all mooting of Australia's need to follow his lead

Repeat the US President's words in nasal tones of Strine, substitute Portland in Victoria for Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania and America's billions of dollars to Big Warming for Australia's mere millions, and his observations and sentiments apply every bit as well on this side of the Pacific

Forget North Korea's  threat to make Australia a lake of irradiated glass because such an attack would be as nothing in comparison with the civil war amongst tax-supported catastropharians. What set them off? One side's footnoted paper that renewables can't hold an organic candle to atomic power

The Fairfax columnist has found his readers' bowl and, as with an earlier assurance that being blown up by one of his more ardent co-religionists is a mere "irritation", has filled it with yet another heaped helping of reeking slop. This time it is the future of coal that is blessed with his universal expertise

Once again, as is so often the case, the resolute ignorance of the eco-activist set is on full display among opponents of a plan to expand Townsville's harbour and, with it, the local economy. As usual, neither science nor honesty figures in the campaign