As the Labor government contemplates interventions in the energy market of a damaging kind, it would be nice if facts took centre stage -- that cyclones have trended down since 1970-71 or that drought and monster floods are and have always been Australia's lot. What’s hard about conceding those facts? They undermine the narrative and that cannot be permitted

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Heard about one third of Pakistan being under water? Then you may have been listening to the ABC's version, which blithely passed on the news that it is all the fault of climate change. It isn't and, just by the way, floods never came anywhere near that reported coverage

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If you take the IPCC and its oh-so-settled scientists at their word there is little chance the world can reach zero emissions by whatever the latest, constantly advancing deadline happens to be. So why aren't Chris Bowen et al building dams and generally preparing for the climate cataclysm they swear is ordained. Perhaps they don't believe it themselves

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There is no climate crisis but a crisis in public policy. This has already cost taxpayers and consumers hundreds of billions of dollars and that bill keeps rising -- good for the rent-seekers gaming the system, but a curse on the rest of us right now and, unless this madness is stopped, a catastrophe for generations of Australians to come

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With more than 30,000 delegates attending COP27's 'watershed moment', the gathering will be full of sound and fury, dire warnings, purveyors of dodgy carbon credits (including the UN’s own carbon offset platform), utopian fantasists and the usual crowd of jeremiahs, politicians and self-interested bureaucrats preaching 'climate chaos'

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Remember Climategate? Grant-snafflers caught red-handed altering data, scheming to suppress other scientists' views and refusing to share the numbers and methods behind their findings. Well a BBC telemovie has not merely exonerated the scammers, it has re-cast them as brave and principled defenders of all that is good and noble

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For governments to legislate taxes and punitive measures aimed at reducing cattle stocks, as New Zealand and other nations are now doing, defies science, logic and garden variety good sense. Based on the errant 'evidence' and PR offensives of third-rate hackademics, the push to cull cows is yet further confirmation the world has gone quite mad

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If your model's initial assumptions are incorrect, how can you rely on it to make any prediction worth the effort of consulting? Not that peddling shoddy science bothers the swollen ranks of climateers. And why should they fret? Climate fear is a growth industry, meaning careers will advance so long as their rubbish in/garbage out findings are questioned

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A retracted paper requiring four years to correct, a fervent belief that capitalism is Gaia's sworn enemy, a bristling indignance that climate realists are still allowed to argue their case and a tactician's grasp of mass media's powers of persuasion -- just add grants, lots of grants, and what you get is climate scientist and scary-book author Joelle Gergis

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The 59-page UNHRC Committee’s Decision condemning Australia for taking inadequate care in protecting Torres Strait Islanders from climate change is a fascinating document. Here for all to see are the tricks of the climateers' trade: the turgid rhetoric, quasi-legal tone, dodgy conclusions, circular arguments and, laid bare, the green bullies' agenda and tactics

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