It’s not as if children leaf through the IPCC's alarmist reports at bedtime, yet they are absorbing the full measure of doom-laden nonsense about a planet racing towards catastrophe. For the Climate Council, psychologists, psychiatrists and teachers, scaring the daylights out of youngsters is a growth industry

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Koalas are cute so fanciful tales of their allegedly imminent extinction work a treat as donation magnets and grant generators, although not for the bush and less favoured species whose survival depends on sensible fire management. While alarums are rung for a species doing just fine, who gives a thought to the truly endangered but far less cuddly broad-headed snake?

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Ignore the latest scare campaign, as always intended to spawn headlines, acclaim and, of course, more grants. The GBR isn't dying or even threatened. Over its vastness, across its wide range of conditions and habitats and amidst an endless diversity of dynamic interactions, there will always be times and places of decline as well as luxuriant beauty and rejuvenating life

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Three professors, each a 'fire expert' of sorts, confirm that wisdom about broken clocks. They are correct in writing that burning 'can actually make forests more flammable'. What they fail to grasp, and perhaps even to recognise, is that hazard-reduction burning comes in different varieties and, guided by theorists and ignited by bureaucrats, we're torturing the bush with the wrong kind of fire

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At the moment, with a global hot war in Ukraine and Europe frantically back-pedalling from its Russia-backed switch to green energy, there are bona fide crises that warrant genuine concern. But down here in Australia's little corner of the world the manipulators of gullible young minds are once again putting schoolkids on the streets in the cause of green rent-seekers' subsidies and profits

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Pestilence is happening across the country in forests sick from a lack of mild burning. At the same time, millions of dollars are being thrown at academics to study ‘diebacks’ that are, of course, supposedly a consequence of anthropogenic climate change. The truth is far more simple: the bush is dying due to neglect and the determined ignorance of its current stewards

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The indefatigable rat-cunning of climate catastropharians is on display in local council chambers across Australia. Unable until recently to extract a net-zero pledge from Canberra, they have focused on city councils where Greens are easier to elect. Then they push their entirely notional 'Emergencies!' using ratepayer resources. Hooray for Port Macquarie and Wagga as outposts of sanity

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Here's an opportunity for Scott Morrison to take the high ground and maybe win the election by making it clear that coal, oil and gas will remain the dominant form of energy in Australia. It's a a matter of national security, he might begin, explaining that wind and solar farms and transmission lines running every which way are the very definition of sitting ducks

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Koalas are famously said to be capable of shutting down one half of their brains to conserve energy, which makes sense given their nutrient-poor diet. Improbably, expensively and needlessly, koala experts and their political patrons appear to have aped this half-witted approach to foil an 'extinction crisis' that is nothing of the sort

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