"If, from now on, dams are built instead of desalination plants — which in recent years have been proved to yield a fraction of the water at a multiple of the cost — then we will be able to tell that sanity has returned to at least one section of the vast area covered by the pretensions of the climatologists"

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In its latest pandering to the inner-city voters it fears will give Greens their first preferences, the Andrews government has announced a 2030 phase-out of all timber-getting in state forests. And it won't stop there, with further dangerous and counterproductive restrictions on use and access in the pipeline

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When Melbourne University's Sustainable Society Institute's hosted Extinction Rebellion's pests and sundry other catastropharian crackpots, I thought it worth popping along to observe the hysterics at close quarters. They didn't disappoint

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Summer is coming and, unless we're very lucky, blackouts too, which is only to be expected in light -- or lack of it -- of the greater demand for electricity from a diminished base-load generating capacity. How bad could it get? If my experience in the benighted hellhole of Dubai is any guide, very bad indeed

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To mark the tenth anniversary of the Climategate papers being posted on the internet, and the subsequent whitewashings of the various correspondents' candid and damning admissions, Quadrant Online's Michael Kile sought the insights of eminent philosopher of science Jerome Ravetz

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Not everyone will concur that all water licenses presently held by the Commonwealth and speculators should be sold only to active irrigators, as this open letter to the PM suggests. But there can be no disagreement that the current management of the Murray-Darling is a dreadful mess. Here is one man's vision of how it might be set right

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On November 17, a full ten years will have passed since the dirty dealings and cobbled-together semi-science of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit' came to light via a trove of hugely embarrassing emails. They were and remain so damning the entire climate change scam should have stopped right there and then. Instead, billions of dollars later, the shameless fraud continues without even a blush

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Because governments have been taken in by the scam advice that 'climate change is causing bushfire disasters', or because they think gifting the climateers enough cash will see them go away, enormous sums are being poured into research, equipment and careers that, from the bushfire perspective, are a total waste of time

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The mania to replace reliable energy sources with 'renewables' is already a fiasco wrapped up in a scam, but the full impact of policies that cripple industry while pouring public money into rent-seekers' pockets will become even more apparent when today's wind farms need decommissioning. Meanwhile, the bird-mincing continues apace

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Any way you look at it, be it from the perspective of stated goals or the astronomical expenditures needed to achieve them, the agreement's stated intentions are quite simply impossible, even when judged by the IPCC's own numbers. Bear that in mind this summer when the lights go out

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