John Bradfield, the man who built the Sydney Harbour Bridge, wanted to turn rivers inland and flood Lake Eyre, believing it would green the surrounding country. We now know that wouldn't work, but a new and revised plan just might -- or so the scheme's latest disciples believe

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Being open-minded and impartial, as his tenure as a judge requires, we can take for granted that Mr Justice Preston read more broadly than the warmist epistles of alarmists and climate careerists cited in his judgment against the Rocky Hill coal mine. Alas, the views of less excitable climate scientists failed to get a mention

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Do Australians want our bushfire and land management planning done by professionals with front-line experience, or by campus intellectuals and ideologists? So far, despite two centuries of lessons in the need to reduce fuel loads, the official and tragic answer has been the latter

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Ten years ago today Victoria burned, an entire town was wiped off the map and 173 people perished. The subsequent Royal Commission established the disaster was the sum of a multitude of sins --not least inadequate fuel reduction that turned the state into a pyre awaiting only a spark. Here is the story of how five men and their esky survived that terrible afternoon

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Last week, NSW's Photios-aligned Arts Minister Don Harwin appointed Tim Flannery to the board of the Australian Museum. Days later, Olympics skier Zali Steggall announced the climate careerist would be aiding her independent bid to oust Tony Abbott from Warringah, a campaign that has already seen ex-Turnbull staffer Alice Thompson join the race. With friends like this, just what sort of a party have the Liberals become?

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The Darling is not being killed by Cubbie Station or any of the other scapegoats favoured by journalists, politicians and the ignorant voices arising from inner-city electorates. No, the answer is more simple than that: it is being killed by the governing class in Canberra and Sydney

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Fixing the climate so as to fix the bushfire crisis is particularly popular with the authorities. Being able to blame the climate for unstoppable bushfires is, politically speaking, a beautiful strategy: it absolves governments and agencies of accountability. Plus, what empire-building bureaucrat doesn't want a budget boost to buy water bombers in bulk lots?

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According to the IPCC, all 190-odd Paris signatories will need to at least double their current commitments and then actually achieve them. In other words, stopping global warming is a pipe dream, despite the vast sums that effort consumes and which might be better spent on more realistic environmental goals

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The Paris agreement obliges Australia to reduce emissions across the board, with cheap electricity the first casualty of the Gaia worshippers' maniacal irrationality. Soon it will be the turn of the agriculture sector. If you think electricity prices are insane, just wait until you see what happens to the price of food

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The woke and the dumb, the self-interested and the careerists, those who know better but go along -- taken together they form a loose but the powerful alliance that stands athwart attempts to begin the long, slow reversal of climate insanity's grip on public policy

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