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

Almost alone among his Coalition colleagues, the Sydney MP has spoken bravely and often of the climate cult and its rent-seeking prime advocates, who may not be able to predict temperatures but can always find their next grants. Alas that his is such a lonely voice

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

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

Write a letter to The Age or SMH expressing doubt about global-warming theories and your missive will very soon meet the sharp end of an editor's spike as a matter of editorial policy. In Geelong, by contrast, a free suburban weekly actually believes in free speech and open debate

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

Taxpayer-funded warmists have no need for sacramental confession to expiate the sins of their wild inaccuracies and habitually incorrect prophecies. As a recent spate of amended theories demonstrates, they just make up new 'facts' and keep those grants rolling in

They have built careers, lined pockets and plundered the public purse on the strength of prophecies that have failed conspicuously to match real world trends. Worse, they have suborned and debased science. It's time those who insist consensus trumps evidence were made to answer for their damage

Don't worry too much over those warmist predictions that millions of species will soon be lost to climate change. Judging by their methods it is the doomsayers who are the real dodos