Let me put it this way: one thousand times zero is not larger than one hundred times zero. Less theoretically, one thousand wind turbines not a-turnin’ provide no more power than one hundred turbines not a-turnin’. Yet here we are, being driven ever further down the road of folly by annoyingly noisy green romantics and their parasitical fellow-travelling carpetbaggers

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Yes, I know weather isn't climate and the fact that my Christmas Eve was spent shivering in Kiama is no peer-reviewed, grant-grabbing proof of the planet's atmosphere taking a frigid turn for the worse. It was just an unseasonably cold day to balance the unseasonably hot ones. How much longer will it take to trust what we see, not what we are told?

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If wind farms compete they will go out of business. It’s as simple as that, meaning the market must be rigged. One way would be to ensure that a single supplier monopolises output in a defined market. Another would see suppliers collude. A third, the most likely, would see government set a floor price or continue providing subsidies to rent-seeking carpetbaggers

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One of the lesser known symptoms of global warming manifested by the climate cult's most enthusiastic promoters is an irresistible urge to inflate the honours and qualifications of its key spruikers. Thus did we see the IPCC's former chief fraudulently proclaiming his colleagues, thousands of them, to be 'Nobel laureates'. And then there's 'Doctor' Bill Hare, beloved of the ABC

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Patrick Moore's 'Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom' was published in 2020, but deserves a better fate than a transitory flash across the bookshop shelves. Logical, making no claims without evidence and, surprisingly, courteous despite the slanders he has endured at the hands of former green comrades, it is the perfect Christmas gift for the carbon hysterics in your circle

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It is all there in one single edition -- the green cliches and talking points, the hand-wringing for our allegedly boiling planet, the nostrums and virtuous rejection of everything from private cars to the physics of electricity transmission. Yet, in a supreme example of cognitive dissonance, the same newspaper also mentions in passing why attaining Net Zero is pure fantasy

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We can only hope some brave reporter in the mainstream media breaks ranks to quiz Scott Morrison or Angus Taylor about the disconnect between their rush to appease the alarmists and the fact that the harm they are prepared to inflict on the economy and the Australian people will be in pursuit of a goal demonstrably impossible to attain

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As tourist destinations go, gritty Glasgow isn't much of one, but that didn't stop vast assemblies of Third World corruptocrats, their brothers-in-law and, in some cases, quite literally hundreds of hangers-on arriving to plead for $100 billion a year of other people's money. They didn't get it, but those jet-set junketeers still had a fine old time

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How did the UN determine the Global Climate Fund’s annual pledges to the developing world should run to $100 billion? Oddly enough, it all started with a viola player, Aubrey Meyer, who advocates the atmosphere be regarded 'as a global commons'. Translated, that means First World emissions and lifestyles must be shrunk to match those of the Third

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If the global elite were serious about limiting global warming, rather than redistributing global wealth, they might for starters have invested a little effort in grasping the difference between the linear and logarithmic. Thus armed, they might then have drawn up what might be called a 'carbon budget' charting future emissions. Had they done so, Glasgow's hotels wouldn't be booked to capacity

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