Whales and their songlines, the emotional buoyancy of totemic turtles, sacred trees' right to be eaten by bugs presumably no less sacred -- no, we're not talking about recently discovered chapters from Through the Looking-Glass. From the High Court to state governments' eradicators of noxious pests, utter nonsense makes its voice heard

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Actually, that's what the latest prize for dark green journalism should be called to honour the memory of the 20th century's greatest peddler of twisted reporting, in his case dispatches to the New York Times about the wonderful place that was Stalin's Russia. Today his heirs continue to be garlanded for no less spurious stories about 'the climate crisis', most recently at Their ABC

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Few images are more effective in opening wallets than pictures of distressed koalas, whose sad state the accompanying ad copy inevitably insists is due to logging of old growth forests. Like just about everything the greenies assert when out for cash, it simply isn't true. What science rather than spin tells us is that the Great Koala National Park will fail the very creatures its spruikers insist they are defending

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Intelligence, competence, managerial aplomb -- they are the traditional qualities expected in senior public servants and agency chiefs. But these days there's the additional requirement that those who aspire to fly high demonstrate their faith in the creed of catastrophic climate change. Having never before touched on global warming, the new RBA chief has now ticked that box

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The region's Transition Plan makes 52 recommendations for a 'sustainable' shift to 'new industries' but fails to specify where the anticipated jobs will come from or what they will be. As an example of addled policy, consider this: while well-paid jobs in forestry, mining and energy are being deliberately trashed, just $700,000 is budgeted to find something to will replace them

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Contain government spending, reduce taxes and winnow red and green tape. If governments fail to implement any of these three key measures of basic competence then productivity will suffer. If they have the nous to stick with the formula, productivity will soar. Everything else is disastrously delusional, Chris Bowen's mania for renewables and all things green being Exhibit A

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Four physicists produce a paper that sees no evidence purported global warming is prompting larger and more frequent 'extreme climate events'. It's not what the high priests of the catastropharian creed want to hear, nor anyone else to read. So what do they do? Why, what they always do -- lean on a spineless and self-interested publisher until the paper is made to disappear

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As newly deplatformed Nobel physicist and climate sceptic John Clauser puts it, the modern world is beset with irrational souls who put their faith in modern myths and slick marketing. Explain that net zero is impossible. Explain that wind, solar and batteries cannot replace a coal power station. Marshall the data all you like, but it will be to no avail. The inmates are running the show

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No obstacle is a problem -- other than free speech, that is -- for the great minds charting our greener-than-green future. They are dead keen on electric vehicles and not worried in the least about where the power to charge those batteries will be found. And that's just one of the many otherworldly fantasies endorsed and extolled by the Academy's scientists-cum-politicians

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The chap running the IPCC for most of this century, much honoured by our universities' big-wigs, was a Harvey Weinstein-style brute who did to honest science what he tried to do with pretty much every and any fetching female underling who crossed his path. So congrats to UNSW for reviewing if Rajendra Pachauri should be posthumously stripped of his honorary doctorate

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