While private-sector projects must meet financial hurdles, bringing them home is seldom unattainable. The factory can be built. The mine can be developed. The farm can be established. Pie-in-the-sky, heavily subsidised green schemes are quite different animals. If your soaring power bills leave you with any doubt about the current insanity, then the nuts-and-bolts details of Chris Bowen's green fantasies surely will

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Ever wondered why the most improbable climate scares get reported as gospel? Well, there's a reason -- two, actually. The first has to do with the reigning orthodoxy in mainstream newsrooms, where climate doom is an article of faith. The second is all the money and effort the Climate Council puts into spoon-feeding alarmism to those same true-believer hacks. The spinners are so slick at wholesaling deceit they can't resist boasting about it

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Just imagine what the courts will do when green and/or indigenous litigants, represented by the likes of the well-funded Environmental Defenders Office (EDO), come armed with the amended Safeguard Mechanism Act and its hard cap on emissions. It will be all over, Red Rover. Meanwhile, get acclimatised to the certainty of energy poverty and all the related deprivations to come

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It sounds so simple and oh-so lovely: a world soon to be powered by 'clean, green' renewable technologies. Run the numbers, however, and the gold-plated impracticality of such a vision becomes instantly apparent. What a rational analysis reveals is that, if coal and gas are to be spurned, the only power generation that makes sense is nuclear, small modular reactors in particular

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The alarmists' warnings about long-term climate changes arise from short-term sampling, which understandably produces straight-line projections. Given that 130,000 years is about the typical length of a planetary climate cycle, this approach is akin to examining one frame from a feature movie and presuming to predict the plot, characters, location, climax and box office receipts. Future generations will shake their heads at such arrogant stupidity

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If Russia's tyrant didn't exist the renewables lobby and its mouthpiece politicians would have had to invent him. They're lying when they try to pin the blame for soaring gas and electricity costs on the war in Ukraine. Fact is -- and the numbers leave no doubt -- the hobbles so-called green energy has inflicted on the economy and household budgets are all their own work

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NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has copped wholesale grief for having worn a Nazi uniform 19 years ago at his 21st celebration. If only he were a careerist scaremonger and author of thoroughly discredited papers about the vengeance Gaia is planning, like the professional alarmists at Skeptical Science, a delight in Third Reich drag would have been a big yawn for mainstream media types

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The Climate Council arose out of the ashes of the Climate Commission, which Tony Abbot sensibly disbanded in 2013 as a blight on sane debate. Crowd funding helped give Tim Flannery and fellow deacons in their Church of Doom an ongoing gig. But unlike old soldiers, old climateers refuse to do us a favour, stop fulminating and fade mercifully away

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Liddell will close next year, Eraring in 2025, Yallourn in 2028, Loy Yang A in 2035, and, bet your life, more closures will be brought forward. Australia will run out of power. Blackouts will ensue. But don’t worry, governments have smart meters up their sleeve.  These will allow the powers that be to monitor your electricity usage and cut off those whose social credit score is not up to scratch

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Do climate-change careerists actually believe their own predictions of looming doom, the ones they extract from the same models they themselves concoct? Perhaps they do, perhaps their jeremiads aren't just let's-scare-'em bids for attention, headlines and grants. Whatever the academics' motives, a cadre of self-righteous public nuisances treat them as gospel

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