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The Asylum Atop Their Ivory Tower
All right, all right! I’ve been wrong all along. My bad. Sorry. Get over it. Don’t beat a dead horse.
I’ve long suggested that Melbourne University in Premier Dan Andrews’ People’s Republic of Victoria[1] is the epicentre of Green-Left climate idiocy. I’ve suggested the affliction peaked at the university’s jellified brain with an Honorary Doctor of Laws to doom-crying shameless huckster Al Gore, probably a captain’s pick by then-vice-chancellor Glyn Davis, whose personal carbon footprint was embigged by his $1.6m salary package, three times that of the Prime Minister. The Melbourne University’s green affliction meanders down to its Sustainable Society Institute, representing the haemorrhoid on the Carlton campus corpus. For example, the Institute seed-funded a green symposium last July featuring an imported NZ authority on “tree-humping”.
Part 2: The Most Disgusting Climate Cult of All
The Institute’s Dr Sam Alexander co-authored a book with Extinction Rebellion…
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
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3 mins
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13 mins
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Jul 31 2024
15 mins