They aren't quite prepared to put their names to a categorical statement that eruptions bear some relationship with global warming, but if you're sufficiently gullible to heed the hint and suggestion that such might be the case, well scare-mongering careerists won't expend too much energy setting you straight

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By such mischief the Church of Climate Change has extended its unholy empire far and wide. It now has followers everywhere, from the highest office in the Vatican to the lowest carbon cowboy. All are keen to conjure riches out of thin air, marvelling at their good fortune. Such is the greed and gullibility of humankind

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Whales and their songlines, the emotional buoyancy of totemic turtles, sacred trees' right to be eaten by bugs presumably no less sacred -- no, we're not talking about recently discovered chapters from Through the Looking-Glass. From the High Court to state governments' eradicators of noxious pests, utter nonsense makes its voice heard

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Not that I'm overly suspicious by nature, but there is something about marking my Voice ballot with an AEC-provided pencil that just doesn't sit right. Official assurances give good reason to believe there will be no playing fast and loose with erasers, and that security measures guarantee the integrity of the count and result. Be that as it may, I'll still be taking my ballpoint into the voting booth

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Bamboozling folk with data or simulations that may, or may not, describe reality can be fun. Astrologers, readers of entrails and other sybills made a lucrative living from it. Likewise today's careerist climate oracles, who long ago conceded the inherent uncertainty of their predictions but still insist neither knowing or understanding the immense intricacies of global weather 'is no longer a responsible justification for delay'

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If on a 'faithful afternoon', as my unsolicited African correspondent put it, you receive as email promising all sorts of undeserved riches, do stop, think and read the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s latest Targeting Scams report. Then pause to wonder how so many people can be so stupid

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UNESCO selected – some might say weaponised – Delphi not only because it was the most sacred place in ancient Greece and birthplace of Gaia, mother of all. It was home also to the Oracle, hence an ideal location to promote the UN's prophecies of climate catastrophe

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With more than 30,000 delegates attending COP27's 'watershed moment', the gathering will be full of sound and fury, dire warnings, purveyors of dodgy carbon credits (including the UN’s own carbon offset platform), utopian fantasists and the usual crowd of jeremiahs, politicians and self-interested bureaucrats preaching 'climate chaos'

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The 59-page UNHRC Committee’s Decision condemning Australia for taking inadequate care in protecting Torres Strait Islanders from climate change is a fascinating document. Here for all to see are the tricks of the climateers' trade: the turgid rhetoric, quasi-legal tone, dodgy conclusions, circular arguments and, laid bare, the green bullies' agenda and tactics

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On the strength of not much evidence at all the UN expects the global population to flatten over the decades to come, a presumption at odds with what is happening in sub-Saharan Africa and 'high fertility' nations elsewhere. Inject a little reality and one prospect becomes clear: there is no way poor, teeming countries desperate for energy will join the green West in pinning their hopes on renewables

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