Sadly, like some pre-literate society mired in superstition and ignorance, we now appear to place more value on living memory, anecdote and the manufactured history of snake oil climate 'scientists' than the evidence of a previously warmer planet that is so readily available

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If you are a premier whose state has been incinerated due to negligence, prefer the counsel of academic theorists fashionably opposed to widespread fuel reduction and indulge land-management departments riddled with green-minded ideologues, blaming 'climate change' rolls all too easily off the tongue. Especially a forked one

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When Bob Carr proclaimed vast tracts national parks he did nothing to manage their ever-mounting fuel loads. Now we have the result: firestorms that roar out of the greenies' notional 'wilderness' to ravage the wildlife they claim to care about, plus farms, livelihoods and entire communities

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'It was towards the end of a long drought, and the country was like tinder for hundreds of miles round -- the ground for miles and miles in the broiling scrubs as bare as your hand, or covered with coarse, dry tufts ...'

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New Zealand runs twenty-seven million sheep and six million dairy cows, so it can only strike the visitor as odd that the national museum is urging kids to cut way back on meat and dairy. Think Australian warmists are nuts? Ours can't hold an organic candle to those across the ditch

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Hectored, interrupted and condemned as an advocate of planetary destruction by British talking head Piers Morgan, the one member of the Coalition prepared to publicly assail the climate hoax was immediately derided by Drought Minister David Littleproud. Could it be that the wrong man has the portfolio?

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When the current fires die down, as sure as eucalypts like to burn Australians will get yet another inquiry. Just who is appointed will signal the findings long before their report is drafted: ivory tower theoreticians and computer modellers or, let us hope, practical, hands-on field researchers

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Ten years ago, Ray Evans wrote in Quadrant of the Black Saturday fires which razed his beloved bush cottage, obliterated nearby Marysville and claimed more than 30 innocent lives. Today, as Australia burns, his account of sane forest stewardship subverted by green ideology is more pertinent than ever

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We can be certain the climate debate has reached the lowest ebb when children are made the pawns of rent-seekers and political panic merchants. As to what might remedy the problem -- if there is a problem, that is -- the prescriptions so far do more harm than the alleged disease

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Walkley-garlanded, Quill-feted and Melbourne University-ensconced Jo Chandler let the catastropharian cat out of the bag at a recent seminar on how best to persuade the masses that the planet is in the first throes of its death rattles. As old-school journos might have put it: get out the Mixmaster and beat up every latest fanciful prophecy of doom

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