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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
Warmism’s Very Own Titanic
Ships of fools were becoming rare as unicorns, as scarce as a denialist at a Greenpeace rally. But two of them suddenly turned up in our backyard. The first one sighted was the Akademik Shokalskiy. Trapped by pack-ice in Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica, on Christmas day last year, we now know more about the incident courtesy of the blogosphere (here, here and here).
The Russian vessel was hired by a group of Australian scientists for a voyage to commemorate the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911 – 1914. Packaged as a Spirit of Mawson adventure – and keen to reveal the alleged dangers of global warming for the region – it is now being criticised as a pseudo-scientific expedition and a misguided self-aggrandizing PR stunt , forcing expedition leader Professor Chris Turney to defend it.
Attempts by the MSM, especially Their ABC, to spin the incident initially as a misadventure by a bunch of tourists from an unidentified foreign country are unravelling too. A few,…
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
