Environment
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If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
September 6, 2024
6 mins
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Among the most despicable moral failings of the zealots of decarbonisation, environmental, social and governance principles is an indifference to the point of callousness that elevates a 'first world' ideology above all else -- including the welfare of the world’s poorest people. Bluntly, climate activists are at best shallow, parochial and self-centred, and at worst, greedy narcissists
May 25, 2023
11 mins
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'Dave came in trailing clouds of feathers. He had been watching the turbines and was covered as usual with the remains of birds unfortunate enough to have flown into the vast blades. Mr Bandt, glad-handing representative of the Beautiful Wind Clean Energy Company, clutched his briefcase to his chest and backed away as Dad reached for his shotgun'
July 9, 2022
11 mins
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I concluded a book in 1996 by pondering what might be needed to respond to the threat of climate change, which I accepted as a given. Then, over time, I began to note climate science's reliance on fallacious arguments and its advocates' wild-eyed schemes. Now, to crown this litany of folly, we are urged to help the planet reach carbon neutrality. Well it can't be done, it's as simple as that
July 3, 2022
19 mins
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If the topic were anything else, research suggesting a looming catastrophe might not be as bad as first predicted would be welcome news indeed. Yet questioning any aspect of the catastropharian climate creed is the eighth deadly sin. 'Deniers' are sub-human, needing to be silenced, fired, harassed and ridiculed
May 11, 2021
13 mins
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In October 2018 Parks Australia banned public access to the […]
March 30, 2021
12 mins
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A third of all emissions in a given year are still in the atmosphere a century later, and a fifth are still there in a thousand years. This means it is total emissions over time that really matter and getting to zero by 2050 is relatively unimportant. But don't expect the green fan boys and girls of the mainstream media to grasp and report that simple truth
February 3, 2021
12 mins
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One of the many astute observations in Michael Shellenberger's refreshing 'Apocalypse Never' explains why the big oil and gas companies have made common cause with promoters of renewables. They 'know perfectly well that batteries can’t back up the grid. The places integrating large amounts of solar and wind … are relying more and more on natural gas plants'
October 23, 2020
15 mins
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Wind turbines and birds do not mix, and the impact on raptor species is particularly concerning. Wedge-tailed eagles, for example, take up to six years to reach breeding age and generally produce only one chick a year. When even Bob Brown can grasp the threat, why are we building more of them?
September 16, 2019
23 mins
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The point is not that solar should not be considered, but that it should be considered, warts and all, alongside coal, nuclear and hydro with all their drawbacks. Too often, renewables' drawbacks and deficiencies are glossed over, not the least of these being that are unlikely ever to meet global energy needs
July 5, 2018
29 mins
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There is mounting pressure on warmist researchers to come up with arguments, if not evidence, that will stand up in court. As climate models continue to get it wrong, often spectacularly so, the carpetbaggers' various lawsuits are in dire jeopardy, but that doesn't mean they won't stop trying
April 13, 2018
16 mins
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At a February 2000 press conference, the first man to […]
March 29, 2018
14 mins