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‘History will wipe its feet on Western civilization.’ — Dina […]
Sep 23 2024
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he key to understanding the global political situation at the […]
Sep 22 2024
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Unlike the renewables industry, its green rent-seekers and Chris Bowen, numbers tell the truth
Sep 22 2024
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Green loans “hijacked”
Peter Garrett’s promise in 2007
The reality in 2010
The $175 million green loans scheme was "hijacked" by opportunists, overseas call centres and companies that specialised in making homes environmentally friendly, leading to a raft of dubious assessments.
As the Auditor-General begins a probe into the debacle, the industry association charged by Environment Minister Peter Garrett to accredit the army of green assessors has slammed the scheme as poorly managed and lacking quality checks.
Association of Building Sustainability Assessors chairman Wayne Floyd said tens of thousands of home owners, eligible for the $10,000 interest-free loans, were now likely to miss out on the Rudd government’s new March 22 deadline on the loans.
"The principles behind the scheme were really good, but because of poor management the scheme got out of control," he said yesterday. "Due to a lack of auditing of the process there was a quantity of dubious assessments go through from people who are there to make money and sell products."
Source: The Australian
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
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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
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