The PM is egged, a former one has faeces delivered to his office and, always and anywhere conservatives gather, there are threats, organised mobs and intimidation. It is with this increasingly toxic environment as a backdrop that Australians are casting their votes. We need to mull those ballots very carefully or what comes next could be far, far worse

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If we're lucky, the planet will never endure conference-hopping arch-warmist Bill Hare's recommendations for saving it from the curse of carbon. Much lauded, especially by Murdoch University, he's done well for a man whose academic credentials are not quite so lustrous as often presented

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You might have seen reports from London of 'climate activists' glueing themselves to Tube trains and so forth. Yes, they are quite mad, but their insanity's disruptive antics are the smaller woe. Far more depressing is that even the likes of Boris Johnson, who should know better, see their cause as just

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Measures against greenhouse gases have had a trivial effect and it is not difficult to grasp why. The developed world accounts for only 30 per cent of emissions, a figure which drops to a mere 15 per cent if the US is excluded. Yet the insanity escalates, green rent-seekers grow richer and politicians who know better opt to bite their tongues

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Peter Ridd's epic battle is far more significant than one man's ultimate victory over an institution which responded to reasoned and civil criticism with bullying and banishment. Yes, the house-cleaning should begin there, but the broom of reform has many more fetid corners of academia in dire need of cleansing

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Spare a thought for company directors being forced to quantify the unquantifiable – 'exposure to the risks of global warming' -- under threat of legal action, for that is what the Network for Greening the Financial System has in mind.

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It would be noteworthy if the children who will take to the streets tomorrow had decided instead to make it a weekend protest on behalf of 'climate justice', foregoing the fun of ducking much-needed classes to play the wag for Gaia

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In addition to successful grant applications and a much-reworked paper that professed to have established Australia has never been hotter, climateer Joelle Gergis has now written a book. Tony Thomas went along to her WA Writers Week appearance, where his questions and curiosity went unsatisfied

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If you believe the Australian Conservation Foundation -- always a stretch, admittedly -- one woman in three plans to spurn childbearing lest Gaia take offence at the patter of those additional little feet. While the West elevates fashionable inanity, Hungary shows the way

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John Bradfield, the man who built the Sydney Harbour Bridge, wanted to turn rivers inland and flood Lake Eyre, believing it would green the surrounding country. We now know that wouldn't work, but a new and revised plan just might -- or so the scheme's latest disciples believe

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