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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
Fridays on Premier Palaszczuk’s Mind
Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland’s Labor Premier, has Fridays on her mind. Suddenly “fed up” with her government’s Adani approval process, she has promised a decision “within weeks” on the two issues that have held up the venture for many months. Two deadlines were announced last week: Friday, May 31, for the allegedly endangered black-throated finch, and Friday, June 14, for the proposed groundwater management plan.
Another fascinating Friday is looming as well, this one at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, where the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) has invited climate catastrophist Albert Arnold Gore Jr to speak on Climate Change and Economics. The Premier’s deadlines straddle that June 7 event.
To approve a coal mine while the King of Alarmism is in Brisbane surely would be lèse-majesté of a high order, akin to waving a lump at a crowd of unhappy zero-carbon fanatics or at the opposition during question time. That sort of…
Academics and others who dare to question the majority view are brutally told the science has been settled. Many such dissenters from catastrophist orthodoxy have lost their jobs, been denied promotion, or subjected to constant harassment and ridicule. This not the way science should be done
Aug 25 2024
3 mins
There's a veritable industry of academics raising alarm about how global warming and a polluted, dying planet will leave humanity and the animal kingdom in such a state that cannibalism will be a matter of survival. I'll spurn schoolyard puns and cheap gags except for one, and that by way of good advice: don't give them a big hand
Aug 09 2024
13 mins
I thought initially that this topic was a bit of fun. But it turns out that entomophagy, as the eating of insects is called, is an essential component of the Western lemmings' race to net-zero. Need it be said that one of the biggest and most enthusiastic lemmings is our very own climate crazies at the CSIRO?
Jul 31 2024
15 mins
