The PM has won a party room victory and must now run his NEG through the grinding mill of Bill Shorten's opposition and the premiers, most of them fearful of offending greenists and apt to act accordingly. Liberals who backed him won't find too many volunteers to hand out their how-to-votes

As in Orwell’s fictional Oceania, our very own Ministry of Power has its own 'facts', all parroted by a political class that would never dream of milking consumers to line the pockets of mates. Banish that thought and all others, fellow citizens! Our betters are better because they know what's best

Warmists' predictions of climate doom haven't come to pass or anything like it, but give them credit for agility and perseverance in always concocting a fresh scare. The latest meme to keep grants flowing and careers on track: the purported mass die-off of species large and small

Yes, the Book of Revelation says there are only four, but the New Testament wasn't written in a Swedish sauna by the man who would go on to create and head the IPCC. Actually, we're not sure it happened quite this way, but so much of the warmist creed is so thoroughly screwy it just might

Officially, Professor Peter Ridd was axed from James Cook University for allegedly mocking of its reputation as a home to serious scholars and research -- a handy way to avoid addressing his very specific charge that Reef scientists are playing fast and loose with facts

Well-meaning folks will tell you green energy is cheap because wind and sun are free. The next time you hear such tripe, refer your interlocutor to this easy-to-grasp explanation why it isn't. So pithily laid out even a simpleton will understand, it remains beyond the ken of our federal government

This time it is bushfires, the next it will be floods, or drought, or gender-fluid frogs or somesuch. No matter what Gaia comes up with, some or other spigot of snappy sound bytes will point at climate change with one hand while reaching for fresh grants with the other.  Well, they need fret no more

While the Liberal party room was discussing the so-called National Energy Guarantee, Malcolm Turnbull's operatives were briefing reporters against the man he knifed. Conservatives will take today's events as confirmation that a party standing for nothing will fall for anything

For argument's sake, accept that global warming is more than fanciful algorithms and careerism. Now wonder how Australia will ever make its 2030 targets, given the energy sector represents only about a quarter of our emissions. Conclusion: there's far more ruinous stupidity yet to be revealed

Advance publicity asserted Josh Frydenberg, minister for obscenely expensive power and keeping it that way, would be a force  in Canberra, it being alleged by admirers that he is smart and very much his own man. Alas, as a round of correspondence established, it's just not true

While whales might appreciate the ban on single-use grocery bags, supermarket chains have greater reason to rejoice. Not only will they shed the cost of catering to their customers' convenience, they can posture beneath a halo of conspicuous virtue. Alas, an unmentioned aspect of their gains is an increased risk of bacterial infections

Apparently, if humanity would only listen, the planet could be saved from the ravages of global warming if we were to cultivate seaweed and then consign it to the ocean depths. It's the latest grand scheme from the man who promoted 'hot rocks' salvation

While professed journalists were taking dutiful dictation from local alarmists keen to blame bushfires on global warming, a telling court case has been unfolding in California, where catastropharians set out to sue Big Oil for wrecking the planet. It hasn't gone as planned

There is a perverse reassurance in knowing Australia's media class is not alone in casting every unpleasant or unexpected natural event as yet further 'proof' of Gaia's revenge on our carbon-spewing species. When it comes to global warming, the New York Times is just as silly as Fairfax and the ABC

With climateers now saying the fabled two-degree warming limit won't be enough after all, a decent PM might react thus: 'As the science is settled, we're redirecting all those climate dollars to fixing the grid because, if it's going to get hot, we'll need cheap, reliable power and lots of air conditioning'

Visit Colesworths and you'll be denied a plastic bag, which is good for the chains' bottom lines and, allegedly, the health of our long-suffering planet. The move was driven in large part by NGOs' propaganda, a grossly misleading example of which has just been broadcast all over the world

From last night's address: 'A government that can build Snowy 2.0, to provide high-cost firming capacity, but can’t or won’t build Hazelwood 2.0 to provide low-cost baseload power for the next half century -- and keep the market honest -- has a consistency deficit'

Rising CO2 levels haven't produced the soaring temperatures warmists so confidently predicted, but not to worry. In their latest grant-snaffling gambit, catastropharian careerists are saying greenhouse gases produce 'extreme weather' even without the missing heat. Yes, really

The anti-nuclear movement spawned today's radical environmentalism. Using the 'front group' tactic beloved of communist agitators, it fed lies to sympathetic reporters and whipped reasonable concerns into hair-trigger sensitivities. Its progeny is your last and ever more outrageous electricity bill

Much to the regret of the warmist establishment, its grant-lapping minions and the rent-seeking camp followers who have made our electricity amongst the world's dearest, witches and heretics are no longer tossed on a pyre. These days, it is reputations and careers that are incinerated