Catastropharians love to believe that "deniers" are in the pay of Big Carbon and that is why the planet is almost certainly doomed. Well here's a conspiracy theory so outlandish, so baroque in the details of its intrigue, it might just be enough to win some coverts to the sceptic cause

The innovation that our Prime minister has made is to point out that Parliament is not well matched to the will of the people on contemporary issues. Only an assembly of the people will reflect real community attitudes.

There are Pink Bats, Fabricating the Education Revolution, the Green Car Fund and others. The government is channelling Groucho Marx who said “I have learned from my mistakes. Now I can repeat them perfectly.”

On the last day of Copenhagen my Minister said to me “The Departmental Secretary is out of his tree”.

A central issue for the debate was whether to limit temperature rises to 1.5 or 2 degrees centigrade. The former apparently insured the survival of the Pacific island states while the latter would do them and some of Bangladesh irreparable damage.

A cunning plan to bring water to Lake Eyre, rain to south east Australia and prosperity to the Murray Darling Basin. 

The atmosphere is not for turnin’
Temperatures rise and people are burnin’
too much fuel but they ain’t learnin’
the earth’s on edge of over turning’
And we are just its overburden. 

We celebrate May Day with a custom called the “Cash Splash”. I am not clear when this habit started but do the names of Costello or Swan mean anything to you?

“William York” is a well known contributor to OnlineOpinion. His friend Tom recently received a letter from him.