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From a perspective of some eighty years it is possible to misunderstand or underestimate the intensity of the fears—but also the hopes and aspirations—of the British people as they faced up to another colossal existential challenge, less than a full generation after what, it was now suddenly clear, had only been the first world war.
Sep 10 2024
11 mins
The Republican presidential contender is an acquired taste. Given the alternative, it's a taste persnickety conservatives should make the effort to acquire
Sep 09 2024
4 mins
The Grim Prospect of a Net-Zero World
‘Man must dig or die’ was a motif of Lang Hancock, a visionary Australian pioneer, pastoralist, prospector, pilot, producer, philosopher and philanthropist. His daughter, Gina Rinehart, blessed with every one of those attributes, has gone so much further than even her father could have envisaged, after she recovered the wreckage of the family companies incurred during Hancock’s somewhat reckless final years. The human factor is as important as science in accessing and utilising virtually infinite resources available in a minerals-and-energy-rich planet.
Every Australian owes a debt of gratitude for the work of Lang Hancock and Gina Rinehart, especially in developing the iron ore industry in north-west Australia and the resultant wealth that has flowed through the entire economy. It could have been more, but political opportunists thwarted their prodigious efforts to open up new areas rich in minerals and energy, particularly the Galilee Basin in central Queensland.
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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
13 mins
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
15 mins
