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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
Academy of Science Backs a Nuclear Future
Federal opposition leader Peter Dutton has backing from an authoritative quarter for his sought-after nuclear power route to net-zero. The Australian Academy of Science, despite its green-Left credentials, strongly supports nuclear, especially Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), as a cost-effective and reliable option. Its parliamentary submission in January last year reaffirmed support for nuclear detailed in a more elaborate Academy submission in late 2019. I can’t imagine nuclear power fundamentals have changed much in the past 18 months.
The Academy warned even back in 2019 that Australia’s rising emissions were jeopardising the 2030 emissions target. “Given the overwhelming need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power generation, nuclear power plants offer an option … for a low carbon future,” wrote the then-Academy President John Shine AC FRS. “The current prohibition unnecessarily restricts Australia’s energy mix options.”
In reality, Australia’s entire multi-billion…
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
