If there is anything good to be said for the China virus, it is that it has mercifully nudged advocates of renewable energy out of the spotlight. But make no mistake: they'll be back as COVID-19 fades -- and their advocacy will be no less addled in refusing to acknowledge that there are plenty of days when the wind just won't blow

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This year's whale migration up the east coast leaves no doubt the species is rebounding at very close to its maximum reproduction rate. Now it's true humpbacks have yet to produce a Shakespeare or Einstein, but we can be certain they're smarter than the alarmists who claim the Reef, their destination, has grown hostile to life, whales included

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Last year, climate alarmists were beside themselves to alert the world that an all-time high temperature was scorching Antarctica. Just lately they've tried the same con with the Arctic, this latest claim no more credible than its predeccessor. It seems the only thing reaching new heights is the climateers' shamelessness

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A recent NSW parliamentary panel concluded koalas are facing extinction, that verdict being the product of green myths, flawed research and political barrow-pushing. The only thing the committee got right was that koalas are in trouble -- in large part due to the catastrophic policies that, sadly, have just been given a further stamp of approval

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Readers of The Australian might have noticed a recent report on the birth of the Blueprint Institute, which proclaims itself dedicated to reviving the economy via "bold ideas, real conversations and evidence-based research". Packed with renewables advocates and Turnbull Liberals, it is no surprise one of its first papers urges greater investment in rent-seeking green rorts

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When it comes to extolling the virtues of wind turbines and solar panels, no snake-oil salesman of old could hold a carbon-neutral candle to the likes of their modern green-lipped urgers at the International Renewable Energy Agency

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Recent rains in the bushfire-prone southeast corner of the country mean we probably won't see more megafires until the next drought dries out the fuel load and the land erupt yet again. As always when there are grants to be snaffled, 'climate change' will be named the culprit. What a pity that funding doesn't go to the study of fire history

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Green activism never rests. While the Wuhan flu has been hogging the headlines, academic ecologists have been beavering away in their quest to shut down what is left of Australia's timber industry. Their tools: absurd claims and spurious 'science' spoon fed to gullible reporters

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Fork out $353,000 and you expect to get something of a value, which is evidently how academia's horn of plenty regards Dr Petra Tschakert's study of climate 'grief and hope' in the Perth suburb of Willagee. As it happens, I grew up there -- and might have saved the good professor, and taxpayers, effort and money respectively

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Having been squeezed by the Wuhan flu from the media's daily roster of dire threats, green-energy touts appear intent on reclaiming headline attention. That's one conclusion to be drawn from the Grattan Institute's addled case for wind, solar and the new fad, hydrogen. The other is that rent-seekers' advocates aren't very good at arithmetic

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