When Professor Peter Ridd won his sweeping judgment against James Cook University, the immediate word from the university was that it would further drag out the fight with a costly appeal. Who decides to pursue such bloody minded folly and what are their motives? Rather than re-examine the evidence at great expense, it's the university itself which needs a thorough investigation

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The former Greens leader has seen the light and come out against a new Tasmanian wind farm. If he can see the folly of the immensely expensive and massively unreliable symbols of the renewables rort, surely policymakers can appreciate it too? Alas, that isn't anywhere near happening

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The Federal Water Act of 2007 spawned an unnecessary federal bureaucracy, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority, manned by over 400 inexperienced and water-unaware people implementing only one directive: to return water to 'the environment.' As an example of well-intentioned stupidity it has no equal in the entire history of environmental mismanagement

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I’ve visited some nice universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, Chicago, Bologna and Padua. But maybe tourists should give Melbourne University’s Sustainability Institute a miss -- unless, like visitors to Hogarth's Bedlam, they enjoy observing inmates going about their strange business

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If the global climate is 'destabilised' and consequently ever more 'unpredictable', how can warmist climateers make such confident predictions about which way the mercury is heading? Fear not, you lesser mortals, they claim not only to know all that more but also how to make the planet heel to their commands

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As a teacher, I often come across students and fellow teachers who live in fear of climate change and are determined to see that something be done about it -- although not, I hasten to add, any specific measure that might crimp their enjoyment of energy-intense lifestyles. Here's what I tell them to banish fear of CO2

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They nominate each other for honours and large cash prizes, pocketing obscene sums for telling lesser mortals that, among other sacrifices, they shouldn't use the same jetliners that ferry catastropharians at public expense to doom-laden global warming gab-a-thons. To grasp the sham and scam of climate 'science', just follow the money

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The Queensland Premier, whose government has long stalled and delayed the Adani mine, took note of Labor's dismal performance in her state on May 18 and very quickly announced she was sick and tired of stalls and delays. How will she explain her newfound impatience to the visiting Al Gore?

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The national broadcaster was beside itself with green glee last week while informing listeners that Britain's electricity system had gone eight whole days without burning a single lump of coal. Well, yes, that was true, but so is the UK's reliance on nuclear and gas, which received only the most fleeting of references

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At low levels of penetration, renewables can be a useful addition to a modern electricity system, but never with the 50 per cent quota Bill Shorten has been assuring the electorate is not only doable but cheaper as well. Substitute hard figures and real world considerations for his green nostrums and what you see is a disaster in the making

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