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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
Oddly, Turnbull Is Right
Okay, I have to admit that the words ‘Turnbull is right’ are ones I do not normally write. Usually I disagree with Mr. Turnbull. I think he’s wrong on the question of a republic. He seems too Keynesian for my liking. I don’t trust him on the boats. And I didn’t like his support for an ETS when Opposition leader.
But let’s be clear. When Mr. Turnbull says there is ‘no such thing as a cost-free way of reducing carbon emissions’ he’s right. That’s the whole point of all these government-mandated schemes. The idea is to lower our usage of carbon dioxide-producing energy inputs by making them more expensive — sticks and carrots to change behaviour.
So Turnbull is also correct when he goes on to say, ‘Whether it’s a regulation, whether it’s a renewable energy target, whether it’s an ETS or whether it’s a carbon tax – a fixed price – all of those can be seen to be a cost on the business of generating energy therefore a cost on…
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
