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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
Ten Big Lies That Fuel Climate Alarmism
This much of the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) crusade is true: The level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere increased from an estimated 280 parts per million (ppm) before the Industrial Revolution, to a recorded 316 ppm in 1958, to 415 ppm in 2020. The average temperature of the earth (as best as it can be measured) has increased since the end of the Little Ice Age by more than a degree Celsius (oC). According to the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), more than half the warming since the Industrial Revolution has been caused by the greenhouse effect of man-made (anthropogenic) CO2. A doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere increases the world’s average temperatures by 1 to 1.2oC. Computer models that calculate hypothetical consequences of this greenhouse effect project additional warming due to feedbacks, but to date these have overestimated the warming, so they have not been validated by empirical data.[1] An energy budget, based on the…
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins
