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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To give them the benefit of the doubt, it might be that Australian academics who have pledged their support for Extinction Rebellion weren't fully aware of the organisation's odious agenda and tactics. Surely they don't support public suicides as protests against capitalism's ravishment of Gaia ... or maybe they do

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Having delved deep into Melbourne University's climate crackpottery my conclusion that no other institution could possibly match it for wild-eyed, froth-flecked alarmist inmates must now be revised. Judging by the profusion of RMIT signatories supporting Extinction Rebellion, Melbourne Uni’s Parkville crew are but sub-tenants in warmism's padded cell

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Those who twigged years ago to the renewables scam will enjoy the new documentary 'Planet of the Humans' because it is that rarest of things to emerge from the Left: an acknowledgement the green agenda isn't worth a pile of minced birds at the foot of a wind turbine. The bigger message, though, is that one way or another, the planet would be better off without us

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When the plague is done vast bail-out debts will remain. Economies will need to be made, and that should mean a close evaluation of the Reef Salvation Industry, whose primary goal is its own lavishly sinecured survival. Muting those who make it their job to tell the world there is nothing to see but bleaching and destruction would give tourism a huge boost

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It's a given the royal commission and state inquiries into the 2019/20 bushfires will be blitzed with submissions nominating climate change as the culprit. Still, some good could come of these exercises if the Commonwealth pays lip service to the alarmists while rewarding the states for better land management. A slim hope, I know, but a hope nevertheless

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The Main Streets of Australia have been transformed into ghost towns by the WuFlu panic-demic as queues of the newly jobless besiege Centrelink, but we can now understand why renewable energy spruikers wear their hearts on their sleeves: it leaves their hands free to draft demands for subsidies and pick the taxpayers' pockets

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