The High Priest was adamant that the portents were beyond dispute: the climate's direction over the 100 years to come had been settled by the auguries of 1000 chickens' entrails. Certain as he was, however, he remained insistent that he and his fellow priests receive grants of many more chickens to advance their sacred science

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What will happen when the Liddell coal-fired power station closes, as planned in three years time? Calculate the amount of installed wind capacity required to replace 1.8 gigawatts when the fleet of wind turbines is operating at at its typical 10 per cent capacity: grid failure, blackouts and pain, lots of pain

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A Royal Commission has been convened, the most recent of many, which will take the usual range of opposing submissions from the academics who insist prophylactic burning is a crime against Nature and those who swear it has been as neglected as it essential. I'm in the latter camp, but I go further: what's needed most of all is genuine, resolute and informed leadership

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While everyone loves koalas, killed in their thousands by the summers' bushfires, few appreciate just why there were so many in the flames' path. Simply put, intense flames prompt the regrowth on which the animals thrive, their populations explode, and then they starve. Sensible fire regimes would end that boom-and-bust cycle, although the 'experts' won't tell you that

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Whatever else he might be, the Labor leader is no simpleton -- he hopes instead that it's voters who are sufficiently dim to buy a green scheme that would see Australia become carbon neutral within 30 years. Run the numbers and he'll achieve his ends: we won't have an economy of any shape or description

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There is a real danger the latest and newly announced bushfires royal commission -- the 58th inquiry to date -- will be overwhelmed by climate change concerns, yet history demonstrates beyond doubt the causes and answers are primarily rooted in human factors that determine the effectiveness of land and fire management

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There really is one aspect of the recent bushfires that is genuinely 'unprecedented', that favourite word of climate alarmists and journalists so eager to be gulled: this year, as much of Australia burned, it became acceptable to use the misery and deaths of fellow Australians to advance a political agenda

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For those who enjoy a bit of look-at-me hysteria, one of warmism's attractions is the near-daily stream of excuses to declare the end is nigh. Just lately it was the widely reported claim -- misreported, actually -- that an Antarctic base was roasted by a "record" Surfers Paradise-style temperature spike. Fact is, it wasn't a record, isn't inside the polar circle and may not even have happened

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The Indian railway engineer, who died on Thursday, was the public face of climate science and richly rewarded as such. He was also a scoundrel, a dirty old man and serial slanderer -- character traits that, when you think about them, made him a natural to helm the global warming con

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The North Pole is melting, likewise Antarctica, as anyone who has endured the daily parade of catastropharian sermons from the ABC and other credulous outlets will have heard. Trouble is, the waxing and waning of ice at the top and bottom of the world is behaving pretty much as it always has

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