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

As a young reporter, kangaroo-paw bottle openers set my investigative juices flowing. Where did all those amputated limbs come from? While my efforts produced but few hard facts, I'm guessing they were more valuable than the latest green-inspired documentary listing kangaroos as endangered

Yesterday Quadrant Online took a look at the slick PR moves that earn Tim Flannery & Co's panic factory endless and favourable news coverage. Today, how a lie -- in this case a catastropharian marketing campaign that harms Australia -- goes around the world before the truth gets its pants on

Unpleasant and arrogant they might be, but the Greens keep putting runs to the board, not to mention adding zeroes to the nation's electricity bills. What a crying shame conservatives aren't goading these economic and cultural vandals to the point of emotional overload and beyond

Christmas is upon us and who can blame grant-fed catastropharians for rejoicing? While temperatures have flat-lined for 20 years, they have a new paper to explain "the pause" to the satisfaction of all good warmists everywhere. Time to sing 'The First Nobel' and apply for yet more funding

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

Australian backpackers wore its embroidered likeness on their sleeves, Ayers Rock being a symbol of the nation in which all can rejoice regardless of colour, creed and ethnic heritage. Then a modern, exquisitely sensitive philosophy took charge and Uluru was declared for one race only

A farmer owns a $9 million property until the NSW government, in part at the urging of the Commonwealth, restricts land clearing, after which it is worth $2 million. Unfair? Not according to the Federal Court, which has just told land owner Peter Spencer to drop dead

In a recent annual report the Climate Council crowed about its skill at planting stories in the media and how compliant journalists   have provided "$50 million" worth of free publicity for the catastropharian cause. Those tactics are brazenly laid bare in the Council's latest press release

That catastropharians consider themselves so much brighter and more insightful than the knuckle-dragging rest of us is not news, yet the vaulting arrogance of climate cultists can still surprise. Take the deep-green Forum for the Future, which cheerfully anticipates penal colonies for sceptics

Apart from the ABC's green touts, few see rationality in our for-the-moment PM's compote of half measures intended to 'fix' an addled energy market. Unlikely to pass the Senate, the National Energy Guarantee has made Barnaby Joyce's credibility one of its first casualties

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

Comfortably settled climate scientists (room service eases jet lag) jetted into New Zealand last week to discuss how modern life, which  presumably includes air travel, is riling Gaia ever which way. It was there, at this gathering of great minds and grants, that Mr Climategate explained all

Sooner or later the climate scam's meal ticket will be cancelled. Tuvalu will still be getting bigger when that happens and catastropharian moochers will need another faux crisis to unlock the public purse. Meanwhile, if you fancy watching hysteria in a flooding Perspex tank, read on

Wind, solar and really big batteries aren't cutting it. Were that the case atmospheric CO2 would be shrinking. So lets wallop well-heeled warmists Al Gore, Malcolm Turnbulls and the like with whopping taxes. They can bear the pain better than the poor can afford their green-inflated power bills

You've heard of BitCoin, which few fully understand. Still, the buzz is huge, which means smart operators are hyping all manner of fresh offerings. Given the relationship between catastropharianism and other people's money, the climateers were bound to get in on the act