To give them the benefit of the doubt, it might be that Australian academics who have pledged their support for Extinction Rebellion weren't fully aware of the organisation's odious agenda and tactics. Surely they don't support public suicides as protests against capitalism's ravishment of Gaia ... or maybe they do

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Having delved deep into Melbourne University's climate crackpottery my conclusion that no other institution could possibly match it for wild-eyed, froth-flecked alarmist inmates must now be revised. Judging by the profusion of RMIT signatories supporting Extinction Rebellion, Melbourne Uni’s Parkville crew are but sub-tenants in warmism's padded cell

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Those who twigged years ago to the renewables scam will enjoy the new documentary 'Planet of the Humans' because it is that rarest of things to emerge from the Left: an acknowledgement the green agenda isn't worth a pile of minced birds at the foot of a wind turbine. The bigger message, though, is that one way or another, the planet would be better off without us

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When the plague is done vast bail-out debts will remain. Economies will need to be made, and that should mean a close evaluation of the Reef Salvation Industry, whose primary goal is its own lavishly sinecured survival. Muting those who make it their job to tell the world there is nothing to see but bleaching and destruction would give tourism a huge boost

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It's a given the royal commission and state inquiries into the 2019/20 bushfires will be blitzed with submissions nominating climate change as the culprit. Still, some good could come of these exercises if the Commonwealth pays lip service to the alarmists while rewarding the states for better land management. A slim hope, I know, but a hope nevertheless

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The Main Streets of Australia have been transformed into ghost towns by the WuFlu panic-demic as queues of the newly jobless besiege Centrelink, but we can now understand why renewable energy spruikers wear their hearts on their sleeves: it leaves their hands free to draft demands for subsidies and pick the taxpayers' pockets

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The High Priest was adamant that the portents were beyond dispute: the climate's direction over the 100 years to come had been settled by the auguries of 1000 chickens' entrails. Certain as he was, however, he remained insistent that he and his fellow priests receive grants of many more chickens to advance their sacred science

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What will happen when the Liddell coal-fired power station closes, as planned in three years time? Calculate the amount of installed wind capacity required to replace 1.8 gigawatts when the fleet of wind turbines is operating at at its typical 10 per cent capacity: grid failure, blackouts and pain, lots of pain

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A Royal Commission has been convened, the most recent of many, which will take the usual range of opposing submissions from the academics who insist prophylactic burning is a crime against Nature and those who swear it has been as neglected as it essential. I'm in the latter camp, but I go further: what's needed most of all is genuine, resolute and informed leadership

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While everyone loves koalas, killed in their thousands by the summers' bushfires, few appreciate just why there were so many in the flames' path. Simply put, intense flames prompt the regrowth on which the animals thrive, their populations explode, and then they starve. Sensible fire regimes would end that boom-and-bust cycle, although the 'experts' won't tell you that

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