Madness prevails. Cheered on by green zealots, governments have accepted a tenuous theory based on black-box models of no proven worth. As carpetbaggers rejoice with charlatans, those who can least afford it are bled dry for what was, until recently, cheap as chips: electricity

Those who have made sound-byte alarmism a career-enhancing skill swear blind that a 'fragile' Reef is on its last legs -- a condition only lots of additional research grants can remedy. They should study Eniwetok Atoll, where the US tested its A-bombs and today's coral couldn't be healthier.

This Saturday in Sydney traffic will be disrupted even more than usual by a gaggle of climateers, fussbudgets and nanny staters strutting their virtuous stuff in support of lots more taxpayer money for fighting climate change, amongst other sacred careerist causes. Here's a guide to the stars of the show

According to the Prime Minister, it will take but a few more billions to perfect carbon-capture technology, protect Gaia and win the approval of those who will never vote Coalition come hell or 'extreme weather' high water. Alan Moran's new book delivers the good kicking such thinking deserves

and they won't be on for much longer, not with a mandated increase in renewable energy's contribution to the national grid slated to increase by fifty per cent in just three short years. If your electricity charges are outrageously high already, just wait until you see the green ink on 2020's bills

The first tragedy is that Australians, who not so long ago rejoiced in cheap and reliable electricity, now pay some of the world's highest prices. The second tragedy is that the same green fantasists, ideologues and rent-seekers are bent on making things far, far worse

Even if you subscribe to the careerist encyclicals of warmism's priesthood, only rank gullibility or the pointed blindness favoured by professional politicians could prompt the conclusion that the answer is solar and wind. They aren't -- unless the real goal is to pauper growth and prosperity

The recognition that man's thumb exerts a considerable weight on the current ecological scale is anathema to those who promote the myth of "wilderness", that toxic manifestation of green romanticism. In the 1860s, remarkable Victorian bushman and naturalist Alfred Howitt knew better

There will be plenty of ABC seats and microphones awaiting US astrophysicist, fact-challenged warmist and tireless self-promoter Neil de Grasse Tyson when he tours Australia this year. That's the way it works if you hold little respect for actual science and a lucrative contempt for those who do

Not long before his sudden and premature death, Australian Energy Market Operator chief Matt Zema spoke candidly at a private conference of power-industry executives. The enormous subsidies heaped on renewables, he said, mean one thing and only one thing: "The system must collapse"

We all have them, friends who believe the planet is on a CO2-fuelled collision course with a catastrophe that can only be averted by directing large sums to rent-seeking wind farmers and the like. If you know someone like that, here's a simple, handy guide to the climate scam

They perch and preen atop their grants, sinecures and self-regard, forever predicting planetary doom unless their addled sermons are heeded and the carbon-spewing sins of our modern world are expiated. When your lights next go out, blame them and the politicians on whose teats they suckle

Global temperatures' refusal to rise has obliged warmism's comfortably settled scientists  to once again fiddle the data, something they do always with aplomb and no coherent explanation. Ah, but not so fast! One of the fulcrums on which they spin their latest legerdemain is absolutely worthless

CCS stands for 'carbon capture and storage' but it might just as easily, and more accurately, be taken as representing another aspect of the Climate Change Scam. The green-left detest it as means to keep the coal fires burning. Conservatives have much better reasons to scorn it

Repeat the US President's words in nasal tones of Strine, substitute Portland in Victoria for Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania and America's billions of dollars to Big Warming for Australia's mere millions, and his observations and sentiments apply every bit as well on this side of the Pacific

Forget North Korea's  threat to make Australia a lake of irradiated glass because such an attack would be as nothing in comparison with the civil war amongst tax-supported catastropharians. What set them off? One side's footnoted paper that renewables can't hold an organic candle to atomic power

The Fairfax columnist has found his readers' bowl and, as with an earlier assurance that being blown up by one of his more ardent co-religionists is a mere "irritation", has filled it with yet another heaped helping of reeking slop. This time it is the future of coal that is blessed with his universal expertise

Once again, as is so often the case, the resolute ignorance of the eco-activist set is on full display among opponents of a plan to expand Townsville's harbour and, with it, the local economy. As usual, neither science nor honesty figures in the campaign

The latest Australian Energy Market Operator report on the state's electricity market illustrates much more than the inevitable problems associated with integrating intermittent renewables, it also highlights the assault on logic that is part and parcel of the great green dream

For the past decade legions of the gullible have been signalling their eco-virtue by candles' glow, turning off the lights for 60 minutes as an offering to poor, overheated Gaia. It makes little sense, but promoters are delighted the faithful can still write cheques in the gloom