Fixing the climate so as to fix the bushfire crisis is particularly popular with the authorities. Being able to blame the climate for unstoppable bushfires is, politically speaking, a beautiful strategy: it absolves governments and agencies of accountability. Plus, what empire-building bureaucrat doesn't want a budget boost to buy water bombers in bulk lots?

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According to the IPCC, all 190-odd Paris signatories will need to at least double their current commitments and then actually achieve them. In other words, stopping global warming is a pipe dream, despite the vast sums that effort consumes and which might be better spent on more realistic environmental goals

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The Paris agreement obliges Australia to reduce emissions across the board, with cheap electricity the first casualty of the Gaia worshippers' maniacal irrationality. Soon it will be the turn of the agriculture sector. If you think electricity prices are insane, just wait until you see what happens to the price of food

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The woke and the dumb, the self-interested and the careerists, those who know better but go along -- taken together they form a loose but the powerful alliance that stands athwart attempts to begin the long, slow reversal of climate insanity's grip on public policy

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Like aphids and roses, it is a rare AGM that doesn't attract its plague of nasty enviro-activists determined to hog the microphone, display their virtue and lecture sane shareholders about the wickedness of coal or, well, whatever. There is a way to silence them however...

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The original Children's Crusade, if it actually happened, didn't end well for the pre-pubescent zealots, who are said to have ended up as slaves. Today's kids would know as much if their brainwashers, also known as 'teachers', focused on fact rather than getting them into the streets to demonstrate against nasty weather

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Blaming climate change for the infernos that have left scores dead is not only simplistic, but culpably unhelpful. This is because it distracts attention from what to do right now to ensure the killer bushfires do not happen again next summer

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Australian governments pour billions of dollars into what educrats and tame ministers insist is quality teaching, yet our schools' global ranking keeps slipping. Take a look at what kids are being taught and the fact-free green/left indoctrination explains an awful lot

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Cheerleaders for renewable energy's rent-seekers are an incurious lot. When Beijing claims to be all for solar panels and wind turbines, they stamp their feet and hoot with unquestioning glee. A closer look makes it apparent the Middle Kingdom is playing the West on a break

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No one can tell when the current drought will end, although two centuries of observing Australia's climate suggests that happy day is still a long way off. Such is life on our island continent, but it needn't be that way. There is a coherent, sane approach to water conservation we might try

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