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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
Seven Deadly Climate Sins of Omission
In a world obsessed with sins of emission, there is deafening silence about the flipside of climate Hell: the sins of omission (SOO), especially in the renewable energy space.
Governments, agencies, researchers and other groups insist we are in an existential “climate emergency”: carbon dioxide and other emissions must be reduced to get to “net zero” by no later than 2050. Yet none are able to predict precisely what impact the so-called “energy transition” and “race to decarbonise” will have, if any, on weather or climate anywhere in this, or any other, year. Nebulous warnings that life on planet Earth will get worse if there is any delay is mere speculation.
SOO One: Climate and weather are not, nor ever likely to be, under human control. As for carbon dioxide, the alleged villain driving all undesirable change, it is a harmless gas we all exhale, not a “pollutant”.
Yet on Planet Hyperbole there are ever more strident assertions about future temperature and…
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
