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'

Rising CO2 levels haven't produced the soaring temperatures warmists so confidently predicted, but not to worry. In their latest grant-snaffling gambit, catastropharian careerists are saying greenhouse gases produce 'extreme weather' even without the missing heat. Yes, really

The anti-nuclear movement spawned today's radical environmentalism. Using the 'front group' tactic beloved of communist agitators, it fed lies to sympathetic reporters and whipped reasonable concerns into hair-trigger sensitivities. Its progeny is your last and ever more outrageous electricity bill

Much to the regret of the warmist establishment, its grant-lapping minions and the rent-seeking camp followers who have made our electricity amongst the world's dearest, witches and heretics are no longer tossed on a pyre. These days, it is reputations and careers that are incinerated

As a young reporter, kangaroo-paw bottle openers set my investigative juices flowing. Where did all those amputated limbs come from? While my efforts produced but few hard facts, I'm guessing they were more valuable than the latest green-inspired documentary listing kangaroos as endangered

Yesterday Quadrant Online took a look at the slick PR moves that earn Tim Flannery & Co's panic factory endless and favourable news coverage. Today, how a lie -- in this case a catastropharian marketing campaign that harms Australia -- goes around the world before the truth gets its pants on

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

Officially, Professor Peter Ridd was axed from James Cook University for allegedly mocking of its reputation as a home to serious scholars and research -- a handy way to avoid addressing his very specific charge that Reef scientists are playing fast and loose with facts

Well-meaning folks will tell you green energy is cheap because wind and sun are free. The next time you hear such tripe, refer your interlocutor to this easy-to-grasp explanation why it isn't. So pithily laid out even a simpleton will understand, it remains beyond the ken of our federal government

This time it is bushfires, the next it will be floods, or drought, or gender-fluid frogs or somesuch. No matter what Gaia comes up with, some or other spigot of snappy sound bytes will point at climate change with one hand while reaching for fresh grants with the other.  Well, they need fret no more

Australian backpackers wore its embroidered likeness on their sleeves, Ayers Rock being a symbol of the nation in which all can rejoice regardless of colour, creed and ethnic heritage. Then a modern, exquisitely sensitive philosophy took charge and Uluru was declared for one race only

A farmer owns a $9 million property until the NSW government, in part at the urging of the Commonwealth, restricts land clearing, after which it is worth $2 million. Unfair? Not according to the Federal Court, which has just told land owner Peter Spencer to drop dead

In a recent annual report the Climate Council crowed about its skill at planting stories in the media and how compliant journalists   have provided "$50 million" worth of free publicity for the catastropharian cause. Those tactics are brazenly laid bare in the Council's latest press release

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

Apparently, if humanity would only listen, the planet could be saved from the ravages of global warming if we were to cultivate seaweed and then consign it to the ocean depths. It's the latest grand scheme from the man who promoted 'hot rocks' salvation

While professed journalists were taking dutiful dictation from local alarmists keen to blame bushfires on global warming, a telling court case has been unfolding in California, where catastropharians set out to sue Big Oil for wrecking the planet. It hasn't gone as planned

There is a perverse reassurance in knowing Australia's media class is not alone in casting every unpleasant or unexpected natural event as yet further 'proof' of Gaia's revenge on our carbon-spewing species. When it comes to global warming, the New York Times is just as silly as Fairfax and the ABC

Comfortably settled climate scientists (room service eases jet lag) jetted into New Zealand last week to discuss how modern life, which  presumably includes air travel, is riling Gaia ever which way. It was there, at this gathering of great minds and grants, that Mr Climategate explained all

Sooner or later the climate scam's meal ticket will be cancelled. Tuvalu will still be getting bigger when that happens and catastropharian moochers will need another faux crisis to unlock the public purse. Meanwhile, if you fancy watching hysteria in a flooding Perspex tank, read on