It’s time for a little quiz. Read the following sentence: “This [a] has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and… Read More ›
Archive for August 2012
'Climate deniers are extreme free marketeers or conspiracy theorists' – Lewandowsky
UPDATE 2: Jo Nova says it could be the worst paper she has ever seen: an ad hom argument taken to its absurd extreme, rebadged as “science” UPDATE: As expected, the eight “pro-science” web sites included some of the most vociferous… Read More ›
Labor's tactical retreat
Perhaps it’s finally dawning on them that a $23 a tonne carbon tax for three years, plus a $15 dollar floor price for the ETS after 2015 is economically and electorally suicidal, especially when the EU carbon price is currently… Read More ›
Warning: Arctic alarmism ahead
UPDATE [1.45pm AEST]: And, right on cue, the ABC (Alarmist Broadcasting Corporation) comes up trumps: The sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has melted to its smallest point ever in a milestone that may show that worst-case forecasts on climate change… Read More ›
BHP Billiton dumps Olympic Dam, cites carbon and mining taxes
Leigh Sales spectacularly failed to conceal her contempt for Tony Abbott on 7.30 yesterday, in equal measure shrill and patronising, and showing little if any respect for her guest – typical ABC in other words, where a non-Labor politician is concerned…. Read More ›
Michael Mann to sue NRO
I am tempted to say this is popcorn time, but knowing from personal experience how financially and mentally draining any kind of litigation can be, it’s difficult to make light of it. Michael Mann has confirmed he intends to commence… Read More ›
Antarctic peninsula warming 'unusual but not unprecedented'
Canaries and coal mines. The Arctic and the Antarctic. We will inevitably have to suffer the hysteria of the warmenistas if Arctic ice falls to a new low this summer, which looks possible. Of course, it tells us nothing about… Read More ›
Michael Mann's risky path ahead
You will recall that Michael Mann has threatened legal action against National Review Online (NRO) for publishing an article by Mark Steyn (see here for earlier story). Now the NRO’s lawyers have written a vigorous defence in response to Mann’s… Read More ›
Climate Commission's propaganda 'a call to arms'
UPDATE: Read Will Steffen’s plugging of this report in the Silly Moaning Herald here (if you can stand it). Even the Fairfax-owned Financial Review isn’t falling for the ludicrous spin of the Climate Commission any more, with a harshly worded editorial on their… Read More ›
Australia's totalitarian Gillard urged to 'go harder' at media
UPDATE: Julie Bishop, former managing partner of the Perth office of national law firm Clayton Utz, believes Gillard’s conduct is a serious breach of professional or ethical conduct: “If a partner didn’t open a file for work they were doing for… Read More ›
