Victor Davis Hanson on Donald Trump and the New Establishment’s apoplectic derangement: … the real source of Trump derangement syndrome is his desire to wage a multifront pushback — politically, socially, economically and culturally — against what might be called the elite postmodern progressive world … … Trump has so enraged his Democratic adversaries that […]

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Failed libel litigant Michael Mann will soon add his lustre to the University of New South Wales’ climate corps,  where a grand total of 37 professors, associate professors, lecturers, ARC fellows, ARC laureates and post-doctoral researchers evidently aren’t enough to grapple with a problem that doesn’t exist. And soon it will be 38, with Climategate […]

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In New York, where the UN’s climateers are gathering for their latest doomfest, Gaia’s faithful are pleading with pot plants for forgiveness: New York’s non-denominational Union Theological Seminary (UTS) held a ceremony Tuesday where members of the community placed plants in the center of the chapel and confessed their sins to them. “Today in chapel, […]

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Yesterday, Essential Reading highlighted Southern Cross University’s attitude to climate sceptics, which basically amounts to a two-word, er, argument: shut up! This was unfair because, when it comes to discussing why global temperatures have flat-lined for 20 years, why we’re about to see summer blackouts, why small businesses are scourged by soaring power bills and […]

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Back in 2009, Southern Cross University’s Nicole Rogers, a founder of its law school, thought deeply about climate change and what society might be forced to accept as the mercury soars. Her paper, Law and liberty in a time of climate change, came to this conclusion (emphasis added): I have argued that taking effective action […]

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Queensland Times, September 14, 1946 At left, contributor John Mikkelsen reports on the bushfires that have made for tense days and nights near Noosa and south to Dorrigo in NSW — fires the usual suspects were quick to identify as symptoms of catastrophic climate change. “There’s no record of fire dangers that high that early […]

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At First Things, George Weigel on the failure of George Pell’s appeal and what it says about justice in Australia, especially Victoria: … Since the Pell conviction, friends well connected in Australian legal circles have said that the serious legal community in Australia, as distinguished from ideologues, was becoming deeply concerned about the reputation of […]

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Yesterday in Australia, today in America, marked 18 years since Islamic butchers killed 2996 innocent people for a morning’s work. Since then, well … Bali, London 7/7, Paris, Manchester, Nice, Martin Place, Parramatta … the list goes on and on. Yet yesterday, when they read out the names of the Pentagon dead in Washington, one […]

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All aboard the green tax-burning climate express. One of the common gripes of those who would have us believe the world has been placed in mortal peril by CO2 is that the planet-wreckers’ apologists are funded by Big Oil, Big Coal, Big Capitalism and Big Everything Else. It is a myth, of course, a faux […]

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At WUWT, Stanford University’s Pat Frank details the long road to publication of his paper ‘Propagation of Error and the Reliability of Global Air Temperature Projections’ which argues, to make a long paper short, that warmist climate modellers are more notable for the arrogance of their assertive ignorance than accuracy: Climate modelers are evidently not […]

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