Any ad campaign to promote the much prophesied 'decarbonised economy' will be a challenge indeed. Instead of the quick, convenient, comfortable and easy ways of modern life, the agency's brief would be to find positives in the slow, inconvenient and uncomfortable. Green lies are nothing new, of course, but this brief would defeat even the most gifted dissembler

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They quiet about it, but many Coalition MPs are on the same page as Craig Kelly in being aware of the economic demise renewable subsidies bring. Yet while they stay silent, NSW Energy Minister Matt Kean launches a report by the left wing Australia Institute calling for more renewables subsidies, which he believes will stop bushfires. Silence gives consent to such insanity

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No matter how much parents love them, children can be intensely and noisily annoying from time to time. Well that irritation factor is about to see a major boost as yet another well-funded effort kicks off to unleash a fresh legion of brainwashed kids on the climate sceptics in their families

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The Australian Energy Market Operator needs a replacement chief now that US import Audrey Zibelman is decamping for a new gig at Google. Applicants will find an engineering background helpful and, if recent hiring history is any guide, being female or identifying as such won't hurt either

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Emission measurement and abatement is a numbers game which, among countries like Australia that take it seriously, progressively focusses economic actions on measures that detract from building wealth. It is to be regretted, especially by future generations, that today's policymakers rate signalling their virtue more highly than the nation's good

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Al Gore is a bad enough climate hustler, but Cool Australia's insidious and habitually untrue scare stories being taught in the overwhelming majority of Australian schools are worse. If Johnny can't read it may well be because his attention has been captured by tall tales of climate refugees, wicked capitalists, the evils of eating meat and imminent planetary doom

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The summer's bushfires might have focused attention on the relationship between fuel loads and fire intensity. But no, precious little of that. Instead, with but a passing nod to fuel-reduction policies, the current royal commission is raving about climate change. Abandon hope, Australia -- we're going to burn all over again

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Poison the wells of truth with years of lies, confected exhibits and biased reporting and the defendant's chance of a fair hearing is erased, as George Pell learnt to his immense cost. Well the Cardinal is far from alone in being railroaded. Climate sceptics and their evidence have been getting the same treatment for decades

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As the chief scientist has confirmed, Australia’s effort to reduce carbon dioxide emissions with wind and solar won't affect global temperatures to any measurable degree. What it does affect is the overhead of every individual householder. On a national basis that amounts to $13 billion per annum flushed down the drain

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If there is anything good to be said for the China virus, it is that it has mercifully nudged advocates of renewable energy out of the spotlight. But make no mistake: they'll be back as COVID-19 fades -- and their advocacy will be no less addled in refusing to acknowledge that there are plenty of days when the wind just won't blow

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