A good old fashioned scare story from the Silly Moaning Herald, just like the good old days. Remember the cover of Al Gore’s book (see right), showing multiple hurricanes approaching the US (one even spinning the wrong way for the Northern… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘alarmism’
ABC's alarmism fest
UPDATE: They just keep on comin’… Warming planet to threaten native species What effect will climate change have on Australia’s animal and plant species? This is the fourth of a five-part series in which environment reporter Sarah Clarke sets out to provide… Read More ›
ABC's Doha climate-gasm
It’s that time of year again. The climate wonks all disappear on a carbon-fuelled jolly to a six-star hotel to work out how to save the planet, and the leftard media spew out acres of climate alarmism to help The… Read More ›
ABC's twaddle on Tuvalu
The ABC, keen as always to prop up The Cause, hijacks the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to the island of Tuvalu to bang on about climate change: Once the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are carried… Read More ›
Apocalypse – not
Matt Ridley, writing in Wired, exposes the end-of-the-world cultism that infects environmental activism, and shows how in almost every case, they got it spectacularly wrong. From SARS to mad cow disease to acid rain to ozone holes, the environmentalists cannot resist… Read More ›
Lomborg on extreme weather myths
UPDATE: Australia’s own local alarmism “sausage factory”, CSIRO, comes up trumps right on cue, predicting “more droughts, floods and cyclones” as a result of “global warming”: “SOUTH Pacific island nations will be hit by almost twice as many droughts, floods and… Read More ›
Tweet of the Day: ABC's Dr Karl 'loves the carbon tax'
“Dr Karl” is a regular fixture of the ABC’s pop science output (see here), and therefore, almost inevitably, like all his colleagues at Auntie, a climate alarmist. In response to a tweet about the carbon tax yesterday, Dr Karl replied:… Read More ›
Greenhouse gases 'largely to blame' for ocean warming
Instead of reporting the problems with its last alarmist story, namely the fact that bloggers have once again found holes in a supposedly “peer-reviewed” paper propping up the consensus, the ABC just moves on and runs another: A new US-led… Read More ›
Hockey Stick lives! In Australia, apparently…
UPDATE 2: Thanks to Baldrick in the comments for this. Joelle Gergis is, guess what, a climate activist. Her blog is here, and although it hasn’t been updated for some time, a five minute glance found the following, which praises the… Read More ›
Flying Spaghetti Monster 'cannot be excluded' as driver of Queensland floods
It’s the Holy Grail of alarmism. Even though there is almost no hope of ever doing so, the team are desperate to point to an extreme weather event and say that man-made climate change caused it, or made it worse…. Read More ›