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
The University of Western Australia's Stephan Lewandowsky, scourge of climate sceptics, likened "deniers" to moon-landing conspiracy buffs. Now that his, er, research has been withdrawn, the catastropharian chorus reckons he's the real victim
The American Physical Society has been amongst the loudest alarmist organisations whipping up hysteria about CO2, but a review of its position that included evidence from six experts, including three sceptics, strongly suggests the tide has turned
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
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
The most reprehensible shortcomings often can be found in organisations operating behind a façade of rectitude. The ongoing debasement of scientific research in Australia, particularly in regard to the environment and climate, further demonstrates that denial and the blind eye are part and parcel of this malignancy
They seem so certain when predicting what long-term weather has in store for us, but don't be fooled. Read the fine print in their pronouncements and the truth is revealed: those much-quoted experts admit they don't have a clue
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
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
If you're not a climate scientist this may come as a surprise. It seems the reason searchers haven't been able to locate the wreckage of the Malaysian jetliner has everything to do with mankind's carbon emissions and the way they have tormented the southern oceans. And yes, the experts are serious
Some estimates put the annual cost of carbon abatement at around $15 billion, but no definitive figures have been published. Is it not reasonable for taxpayers to be told in a clear, factual way what benefits they are gaining from the taxes they pay?
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