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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
Proud as Punch to be Hawking Hokum
It’s not true that the University of Tasmania (UTAS) has been treating Tasmanian primary-school kids like lab-rats. Lab work is tightly regulated and I’m sure vice-chancellor Rufus Black would crack down hard on any staffers vivisecting local kids.
The only truth in the lab-rat claim is that UTAS has been feeding the Apple Isle’s primary schoolers with apocalyptic scaremongering about global warming, and then checking the kids’ trauma level. If it’s off the scale, UTAS gives kids helpful hints on how to cope, and directs their panic-stricken families to the loopy counsellors at Psychology for a Safe Climate. This is all documented in UTAS’s Curious Climate Schools exercise. It’s a follow-on to a similar experiment on Tasmanian adults called Curious Climate. That one was run in conjunction with Their ABC.
The kids’ social experiment has been run by a seven-woman UTAS collective with about 30 primary and mid-level schools, 1000 kids and 57 UTAS “experts”…
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
