You might be fortunate to live in a municipality with relatively sane councillors, but increasing numbers of Australians are cursed by evangelising eco fanatics keen to stop hazard-reduction burns, celebrate gender fluidity and, above all, stack town halls with fellow extremists. The City of Darebin in Melbourne is a case a study, complete with a how-to handbook

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When Melbourne University's Sustainable Society Institute's hosted Extinction Rebellion's pests and sundry other catastropharian crackpots, I thought it worth popping along to observe the hysterics at close quarters. They didn't disappoint

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Stalin's agent Richard Sorge alerted Moscow to Japanese war plans and paid with his life for more than a decade of cloak-and-dagger derring-do. The subject of numerous biographies, one of which I'm reading at the moment, his Rotary membership has been almost entirely ignored, a deficiency I hope now to remedy

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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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The latest manifestation of Germans' weakness for excessive and irrational enthusiasms, the mania for green energy is inspiring official suggestions that seniors shun cars and younger sorts have sex with the lights off

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Jean-Pascal van Ypersele reckons global warming will kill Prince William, and that is only one of his many unhinged prophecies. A man who strikes many as an all-round cad and thoroughly deplorable fellow, he trades in schemes and slurs to silence sceptics. Oh, and one other thing: He aims to head the IPCC

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How could any sane person possibly dispute that the world is heading for a full-blown climate catastrophe? Deeply troubled by that question, professional warmists are launching a "massive online course" to help the faithful understand the diseased minds of those who beg to differ

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The co-founder of Greenpeace left his Melbourne audience in no doubt that the so-called 'environmental organisation' is a not only an enemy of progress, it regards the waste of human life as collateral damage in its crusade to hector, harass and hobble all who oppose its ambitions

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If you ever doubted that warmism endorses a preening, totalitarian disdain for the lives and rights of others, take up a copy of "Climate Change" by graphic novelist Philippe Squarzoni, who imagines how virtuous it would be to go berserk with an assault rifle in a shopping mall. And yes, he's not joking

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Veteran climateer Jean-Pascal van Ypersele has announced his candidacy to replace the retiring IPCC chief, who stands down next year. Expect the result to be determined more by politics and the Third World than a reverence for scientific competence

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