![leopard seal](https://quadrant.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/leopard-seal.jpg)
Warmism’s Seal of Approval
Let’s say you run an eco-tourist operation involved in providing adventure tours in Antarctica. One of your main lines of business might be using your specially equipped yacht ‘Australis’ to host legions of scientists studying the effect of climate change. But getting late in the season, business starts to dry up and expensively fitted out yachts that charter at over $4,000 (poa) per day for a minimum 21-day trip to Antarctica don’t pay for themselves if siting beside the dock in Ushuaia.
So, as an enterprising businessman you come up with a nice little earner. You contact an Australian TV show and suggest that they might like to provide a film crew to accompany a scientific mission to study leopard seals and the effect that climate change is having on them and their food chain. ‘Climate change’ is the clincher, of course, but to put icing on the cake you hype up the leopard seal as one of the top predators in Antarctica – second only to the killer whale — a…
Academics and others who dare to question the majority view are brutally told the science has been settled. Many such dissenters from catastrophist orthodoxy have lost their jobs, been denied promotion, or subjected to constant harassment and ridicule. This not the way science should be done
Aug 25 2024
3 mins
There's a veritable industry of academics raising alarm about how global warming and a polluted, dying planet will leave humanity and the animal kingdom in such a state that cannibalism will be a matter of survival. I'll spurn schoolyard puns and cheap gags except for one, and that by way of good advice: don't give them a big hand
Aug 09 2024
13 mins
I thought initially that this topic was a bit of fun. But it turns out that entomophagy, as the eating of insects is called, is an essential component of the Western lemmings' race to net-zero. Need it be said that one of the biggest and most enthusiastic lemmings is our very own climate crazies at the CSIRO?
Jul 31 2024
15 mins