Peddling falsehoods garnered from careerist green academics, rent-seekers and doom-laden hysterics takes a toll on journalists working the climate beat. The poor dears are stressed out, fearful of the dreadful future they predict, and that is to say nothing of the moral dilemma confronting reporters garlanded for eco-doom stories that just a few short years have exposed as the most utter, fact-free tosh

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Bamboozling folk with data or simulations that may, or may not, describe reality can be fun. Astrologers, readers of entrails and other sybills made a lucrative living from it. Likewise today's careerist climate oracles, who long ago conceded the inherent uncertainty of their predictions but still insist neither knowing or understanding the immense intricacies of global weather 'is no longer a responsible justification for delay'

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Climate influencers seem a weird mob at first glance and, upon closer examination, even stranger. Nevertheless, in the grand tradition of the Left, they know how to organise, propagandise and do it mostly with other people's money. How is it that folks with such an addled appreciation of genuine science are so good at the dark arts of political and emotional manipulation?

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While private-sector projects must meet financial hurdles, bringing them home is seldom unattainable. The factory can be built. The mine can be developed. The farm can be established. Pie-in-the-sky, heavily subsidised green schemes are quite different animals. If your soaring power bills leave you with any doubt about the current insanity, then the nuts-and-bolts details of Chris Bowen's green fantasies surely will

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Ever wondered why the most improbable climate scares get reported as gospel? Well, there's a reason -- two, actually. The first has to do with the reigning orthodoxy in mainstream newsrooms, where climate doom is an article of faith. The second is all the money and effort the Climate Council puts into spoon-feeding alarmism to those same true-believer hacks. The spinners are so slick at wholesaling deceit they can't resist boasting about it

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Just imagine what the courts will do when green and/or indigenous litigants, represented by the likes of the well-funded Environmental Defenders Office (EDO), come armed with the amended Safeguard Mechanism Act and its hard cap on emissions. It will be all over, Red Rover. Meanwhile, get acclimatised to the certainty of energy poverty and all the related deprivations to come

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It sounds so simple and oh-so lovely: a world soon to be powered by 'clean, green' renewable technologies. Run the numbers, however, and the gold-plated impracticality of such a vision becomes instantly apparent. What a rational analysis reveals is that, if coal and gas are to be spurned, the only power generation that makes sense is nuclear, small modular reactors in particular

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The alarmists' warnings about long-term climate changes arise from short-term sampling, which understandably produces straight-line projections. Given that 130,000 years is about the typical length of a planetary climate cycle, this approach is akin to examining one frame from a feature movie and presuming to predict the plot, characters, location, climax and box office receipts. Future generations will shake their heads at such arrogant stupidity

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If Russia's tyrant didn't exist the renewables lobby and its mouthpiece politicians would have had to invent him. They're lying when they try to pin the blame for soaring gas and electricity costs on the war in Ukraine. Fact is -- and the numbers leave no doubt -- the hobbles so-called green energy has inflicted on the economy and household budgets are all their own work

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NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has copped wholesale grief for having worn a Nazi uniform 19 years ago at his 21st celebration. If only he were a careerist scaremonger and author of thoroughly discredited papers about the vengeance Gaia is planning, like the professional alarmists at Skeptical Science, a delight in Third Reich drag would have been a big yawn for mainstream media types

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