One doesn’t wish to be cynical, but the bushfires have been a gift to the Marxist fantasists who manipulate the international climate conspiracy for their own ideological ends and the useful idiots who parrot their apocalyptic predictions in the media and elsewhere

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The first instinct is is to laugh at them, tempered perhaps with a dash of sympathy for the needlessly panic-stricken and deranged. But then you notice a common theme in the climateers' screeds: the urgent need to gag and suppress all opinions at odds with their own. Carbon dioxide's effects on the planet are moot, but it certainly elevates the Left's totalitarian instinct

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As Peter Ridd argued and a court found, James Cook University is giving science a bad name. Given the burgeoning scandals surrounding various research projects, the same ones that inspired Ridd to raise his voice in protest, isn't it about time Education Minister Dan Tehan bestirred himself?

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If we see yet another bushfires royal commission, the submissions will include the absurd contentions of academic theoreticians who claim that allowing fuel to accumulate actually makes the bush less likely to burn. Foresters and genuine firefighters would be laughing themselves silly if that notion were not a prescription for larger, deadlier and even more catastrophic conflagrations

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Michael Mann likes to claim his critics are paid liars, but when he tried this on Andrew Bolt and a lawsuit was in offing, he very quickly backed down. Same thing in October, when statistician Steve McIntyre objected to being branded a "denier for hire". Given his record, it should come as no surprise the hockeystick peddler is being feted at an Australian university

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'After a couple of hours I received a report that a large, partly-hollowed stringybark about fifteen metres in from the trail had a fire up its pipe and was cascading sparks and embers across the break. Tony grabbed a chainsaw, told everyone else to get to buggery, then he disappeared into the smoke ...'

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You might be fortunate to live in a municipality with relatively sane councillors, but increasing numbers of Australians are cursed by evangelising eco fanatics keen to stop hazard-reduction burns, celebrate gender fluidity and, above all, stack town halls with fellow extremists. The City of Darebin in Melbourne is a case a study, complete with a how-to handbook

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Lacking shame and ever alert for fresh grant opportunities, the careerists and opportunists of the climate change movement began linking bushfires to global warming at the first whiff of smoke. That was good enough for gullible and/or activist reporters who, were you to quiz them, wouldn't know the Indian Ocean Dipole from a hole in the ground

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For those driven to catastropharian despair by thoughts of what a trace gas is allegedly doing to life on earth, the solution should be obvious: go fill-tilt nuclear. They'll never agree to that, of course, which is why, if alarmists genuinely believe their own nonsense, all those carbonphobic green feet must be held to the fire

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In a better world this is the speech our Prime Minister would have delivered long ago. Yes, it's a fantasy, and no, we'll not hear its like in this government's lifetime. But join me nevertheless in conjuring the scene as a leader lays out a fresh and better path to Australia's future

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