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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
Lights, Camera … Propaganda
Joe and Jill Public have no idea how deep-state actors and green billionaires are manipulating them about global warming and renewables. For convenience I’ll call the manipulators the Green Blob.
The Blob dominates education, print, radio, and “newsy” TV. The Blob has now set its sights on TV streamers and movies. So far only a barely-noticeable fraction includes “climate” nudges. The Blob’s ambition is to get most or all of screen entertainment pushing the net-zero mantra by around 2030. It will be mostly injected slyly through almost subliminal tweaks of what seems to be straight-forward screen plots and dialogue.
The Blob knows that viewers don’t want to be preached at. So it’s funding clever and dedicated specialist teams to get at the script-writing community. These creatives are pretty green-left-minded anyway but don’t want “climate” turning their drafts into career-tanking flops. The Blob is re-assuring them that climate references are OK and providing templates on how to…
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
