Bob Carter and John Spooner's new book, Taxing Air, dismantles the climate-change con, one myth at a time. It's a perfect gift for the friend who still believes the planet's climate is out to get us

A question about the Renewable Energy Target's future drew a less-than-definite response from Joe Hockey, who seemed to suggest it would be scaled back rather than eliminated. Does he really believe waste and pointless expense are acceptable so long as they come in smaller packages?

From logging to fishing and the Murray, Environment Minister Tony Burke's record is unblemished. When presented with the obvious consequences of ill-informed and emotional green campaigns, he consigns logic and real-world consequences to the re-cycle bin

How did we get to this, where a false premise based on junk science, is accepted as the starting point for major water reform?

The composition of the carbon tax package is a clear demonstration that the Greens political agenda is driving change, based on ideology rather than science or evidence. 

The attitude within government and the bureaucracy to wind farm complaints has been characterised succinctly, with adversely affected persons within rural communities explicitly referred to as political “road kill”.

The premise underpinning the pursuit of renewable energy through wind power, at any cost, needs urgent review before we move from the current 266 turbines in Victoria to the planned total of 1228, as well as massive planned expansion in South Australia and NSW.