It was more than chilly in Antarctica recently, so disconcertingly frigid if you happen to be a professional warmist that hot, fast work was needed to place reports of record low temperatures in the correct context, especially for the mainstream media. Few challenges are beyond the ambitions of those who believe they can control the weather and to this challenge as a chorus they rose

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The fact of the matter is simplicity itself: the longer forest fuels are allowed to accumulate, the bigger and harder to control will be the resulting bushfire. And here's another simple rule: you'll never win a Eureka Prize by detailing a concept so blindingly obvious, not when global warming is both the preferred culprit and scapegoat for the fire bureaucracy's massive failures

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Western civilisation is on course to be drowned by sinister forces -- Marxist greenies, governments, corporates and the media -- while useful idiots in posh inner-city suburbs cheer uneconomic and unproven technologies whose deficiencies they lack the mental wherewithal to understand. Hold on to your hats, and your diesel generator if you have one.

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Before our elected leaders write more cheques to finance the fashionable fantasy that 'green hydrogen' can run your home, power the family car and save the planet from a carbon catastrophe, consider what happens when the gas is burned. The short answer: water vapour. And what do catastropharians label as the world's most abundant greenhouse gas? Yes, water vapour

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Before surrendering to the world's Greta Thunbergs and signing up for the fabled net-zero pathway to carbon-free bliss, a responsible government would want to weigh real world costs against the wealth of cliches about wind and sun 'being free'. Do that, Mr Morrison, and you'll find $6.9 billion per year earmarked for the rent-seeking industry

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The national broadcaster is spruiking 'Fires', its six-part series on 2020's Black Summer, which I will leave to drama critics to evaluate. Episode Three, however, cannot be allowed to pass without comment, as its premise holds that global warming spawned the infernos. Given that serial wrongologist Tim Flannery is treated as a credible authority, no surprise there

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Warmists never hesitate to conscript any and every adverse incident as evidence of 'global warming', 'climate change', the 'climate crisis' or whatever scare term happens to be in vogue. Attributing COVID to nature's interactions with encroaching human populations is the latest example of spinning a truth into a such a blur that the infamous Wuhan lab goes unseen and unmentioned

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When climate paranoia dominates one's every waking and sleeping moment the dilemmas are legion. Should I get a cat only to see it perish on our baking planet? Why are tutor's messages written on ravioli? What is Nicole Kidman typing by a billabong? Welcome to the bizarre mindscape of the ladies from Psychology for a Safe Climate

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NSW Liberals, many reliant on funding from renewable energy interests, are introducing additional subsidies for wind and solar. Victoria's Liberals, similarly influenced by rent-seekers' largesse, seek to go even further into the wild green yonder than Labor. History doesn't speak kindly of parties so bereft of principle they borrow those of their opponents

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There's a perverse pleasure to be taken in the self-inflicted emotional traumas afflicting climate crusaders, who a senior green academic relates are dissolving in tears and hourlong showers after swallowing whole the cult's apocalyptic expectations. After all their hectoring and protests and influence on politicians and power prices, it's nice to know they are just as miserable as they make others

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