Doomed Planet

These breathless reports about the planet never being hotter, take them with a truckload of salt. How can anyone place the slightest credence in claims being advanced by people who fail to grasp, or refuse to grasp, the simple truth about trend lines and temperature

A widely touted report detailing the current death toll from rising temperatures -- which aren't rising at all, just by the way -- is even more dubious than the provenance of the 14-year-old academic guesstimate on which the current alarms are based.

If it is wrong to kill hungry sharks, as they are doing off Western Australia's surf beaches, then logic demands that we also renounce antibiotics and their life-saving benefits in order to respect the rights of lethal bacteria. Silly, you say? Not as silly as those now siding with man-eaters

The warmist establishment has never shied from pocketing other people's money, albeit with assurances that nice hotels and international jaunts are building a better, greener world. More traditional scammers have taken note

They set out to compare Douglas Mawson's century-old observations with their own modern readings, but a stranded band of true-believing, Australian-led warmists has discovered there is still plenty of ice in Antarctica. Also, that embarrassment can be almost as painful as frostbite

They were all there for the Perth Writers' Festival -- Ross Garnaut, Scott Ludlum of the Greens, the ubiquitous David Marr and an audience of fretful warmists fearful of what outrage Denialist In Chief Tony Abbott might perpetrate next. Not to worry, everyone had a lovely time steeped in self-righteous mutual esteem

Catastropharians love to believe that "deniers" are in the pay of Big Carbon and that is why the planet is almost certainly doomed. Well here's a conspiracy theory so outlandish, so baroque in the details of its intrigue, it might just be enough to win some coverts to the sceptic cause

True, your more ardent climate cultists persist in citing every hot day as proof that we're all doomed, but more sober minds have been turning down the rhetoric. They seem to have noticed that both temperatures and public support are on the downslope

Add the innocent moose to global warming's ever-growing ledger of victims and perishing species. Only a mass infusion of research grants can save it

As the pumped-up spectre of climatic catastrophe continues to deflate, Ruper Darwall's new book makes a handy guide to the conceits, careerism, delusions and blatant misrepresentations that debased the good name of science and set the stage for economic ruin

Launch a massive campaign against CO2 and global warming, as John Kerry last week urged Indonesia to do, and you had better be in full command of the facts. As with previous and costly follies, that evidence is lacking

Burnt hands, Schappelle Corby, the ABC's fantasies of RAN torture techniques -- those themes have dominated recent reports from our northern neighbour. Barely mentioned is the uptick in volcanic activity and the possibility, if it doesn't subside, of a smoke-shrouded "year without a summer"

Green power didn't fare to well during south-eastern Australia's recent heatwave. Indeed, its contribution to soaring demand was negligible -- and obscenely expensive to boot

Climate-change alarmists can always be relied upon to provide a little unintentional levity in return for their grants, but the misadventures of the passengers aboard the good-and-stuck ship Akademik Shokalskiy have lifted hilarity to new heights

The further global climate deviates from their dire predictions, the nuttier those wacky warmists get. Three big, green cheers for all the work (and those tax dollars) that have gone into researching feminism's vital role in turning down the thermostat