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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
The Latrobe Valley’s Doomed Green Dreams
The Latrobe Valley and Gippsland Transition Plan claims to be a road map for the transition to renewable industries, yet it has more potholes than Gippsland roads. The Transition Plan was developed by the Latrobe Valley Authority, a government instrument of only six years standing and without demonstrated long term experience in attracting and bedding down new, large scale and technologically complex industries.
Minister for Regional Development Harriet Shing said “This plan reflects the optimism, achievements and ambitions of the region. It recognises Gippsland’s strengths and opportunities and sets a course for long term prosperity and liability.” This spin sounds great, but what is the reality? Well, according to the same Ms Shing when pressed in parliament, the reality is far less optimistic: “I am under no illusions – none whatsoever,” she responded, “about the difficulty of this task.”1
I challenge the minister to put the regional optimism to the pub test….
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
