Whatever else he might be, the Labor leader is no simpleton -- he hopes instead that it's voters who are sufficiently dim to buy a green scheme that would see Australia become carbon neutral within 30 years. Run the numbers and he'll achieve his ends: we won't have an economy of any shape or description

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There is a real danger the latest and newly announced bushfires royal commission -- the 58th inquiry to date -- will be overwhelmed by climate change concerns, yet history demonstrates beyond doubt the causes and answers are primarily rooted in human factors that determine the effectiveness of land and fire management

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There really is one aspect of the recent bushfires that is genuinely 'unprecedented', that favourite word of climate alarmists and journalists so eager to be gulled: this year, as much of Australia burned, it became acceptable to use the misery and deaths of fellow Australians to advance a political agenda

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For those who enjoy a bit of look-at-me hysteria, one of warmism's attractions is the near-daily stream of excuses to declare the end is nigh. Just lately it was the widely reported claim -- misreported, actually -- that an Antarctic base was roasted by a "record" Surfers Paradise-style temperature spike. Fact is, it wasn't a record, isn't inside the polar circle and may not even have happened

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The Indian railway engineer, who died on Thursday, was the public face of climate science and richly rewarded as such. He was also a scoundrel, a dirty old man and serial slanderer -- character traits that, when you think about them, made him a natural to helm the global warming con

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The North Pole is melting, likewise Antarctica, as anyone who has endured the daily parade of catastropharian sermons from the ABC and other credulous outlets will have heard. Trouble is, the waxing and waning of ice at the top and bottom of the world is behaving pretty much as it always has

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One doesn’t wish to be cynical, but the bushfires have been a gift to the Marxist fantasists who manipulate the international climate conspiracy for their own ideological ends and the useful idiots who parrot their apocalyptic predictions in the media and elsewhere

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The first instinct is is to laugh at them, tempered perhaps with a dash of sympathy for the needlessly panic-stricken and deranged. But then you notice a common theme in the climateers' screeds: the urgent need to gag and suppress all opinions at odds with their own. Carbon dioxide's effects on the planet are moot, but it certainly elevates the Left's totalitarian instinct

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As Peter Ridd argued and a court found, James Cook University is giving science a bad name. Given the burgeoning scandals surrounding various research projects, the same ones that inspired Ridd to raise his voice in protest, isn't it about time Education Minister Dan Tehan bestirred himself?

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If we see yet another bushfires royal commission, the submissions will include the absurd contentions of academic theoreticians who claim that allowing fuel to accumulate actually makes the bush less likely to burn. Foresters and genuine firefighters would be laughing themselves silly if that notion were not a prescription for larger, deadlier and even more catastrophic conflagrations

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