Margaret Thatcher the Warmist?
Some climate doomsters take comfort in the fact that Margaret Thatcher was an early believer in man-made global warming.
It is true that in 1988,...
Channel Nine Vultures
Channel Nine News should be ashamed of itself, hanging around the villa of the four Italian girls like a pack of vultures, inciting high drama and hysterical performances. By the reporter's own admission, the girls reacted to the cameras. Channel Nine, please leave them alone. It's time to give the girls and the family some space.
Restrictive Work Practices killing Green Energy
The problem with the green energy twins, wind and solar, is that they are unionised.
The solar panels won’t work at night, or when it is...
DON’T SHOOT JOE HOCKEY
The poor bastard has inherited a mess of unprecedented proportions that is going to take a long Liberal tenure to sort out and return to some normality - if at all.
A DEBATE FOR OUR TIME?
Sometimes when history is made, you could hardly miss it. Great armies sweep across continents raping and pillaging. Powerful navies blast each other by hostile shores. Tyrants inflict genocide and starvation on hapless populations.
Parasitic Power Producers
The green energy twins, wind and solar, are parasitic power producers. They cannot produce continuous predictable electricity without sucking backup from their hosts -...
Porky Pies Over Exports
Time and again the halal certification advocates throw up the export argument. Those of us who want a choice, or even refuse to buy...
Carbon Tax gets two Vetoes
Australians have elected the second Prime Minister who made a prominent election promise that: “There will be no carbon tax under my government”.
The electorate...
Correlation, Causation or a Carbon Tax Con-Job?
If two things vary in parallel, that is a positive correlation. But it does not prove that one causes the other.
For example, wet roads...
Cubbie Station Boxes Ticked
Chinese investment in Cubbie Station is a win / win for China and for Australian jobs. Trade with China is essential to Australia’s wealth and financial health. There are safeguards in place to meet stringent national interest tests, and the Cubbie Station purchase ticked all the boxes. Barnaby Joyce’s objections are based on nationalism, but Australia is not an inward looking backwater. We’ll always need foreign investment. This $300 million injection from China and the jobs flow is a much needed boost to the area, the State of Queensland and the working families.
Farmer Fred on Judas Goats
Every few weeks we take a ute-load of sheep to the abattoir. And every time we have trouble unloading them.
Damaras are smart sheep. They...
Do we know how many abused children die… do we care?
To drive a motor car you have to go through a training and capability process to gain a licence.
To fly an airplane you have...
ARE THE PUPS NOT HOUSE TRAINED?
Imagine Australia as a public company ... Australia Co. Now let's say Australia Co. was being pretty badly run, in fact let's say those who were running the business for the previous six years had just about screwed the business into the ground.
CARBON TAX REPEAL GETS OXYGEN FROM CLIVE
Clive has just announced to the media he and Tony have had a very 'constructive meeting' in abolishing Labor's carbon tax."I think we can work out a solution on the carbon tax. I think we can reduce electricity prices for all Australians," said a beaming Clive.
ONLY IN THE MOVIES
The Australian acting and entertainment celebrity fraternity, practising and rehearsing their bestest outraged faces and voices, has demanded Tony Abbott DO SOMETHING about saving the lives of the Bali heroin smuggling ringleaders.
An expensive way to kill a freeway
After just a few weeks of Labor, Victoria has been plunged into crippling debt ! Not even Kevin and Julia managed that. It took them six years and a concerted effort to ruin us!
The Climate See-saw
Anyone who looks carefully at radiation science and the thermodynamics of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will come to the conclusion that carbon dioxide...
WHERE TO NOW?
How tragically ironic that Tony Abbott was dumped as PM some two weeks after vindication of his bravest and most controversial policy.
LIGHT AT THE END OF THE CARBON TAX TUNNEL
I agree, the carbon tax is a headache for Tony Abbott BUT.... there is light at the end of the tunnel and I am immune to Gillard Labor games.
Smoggy Thinking on Pollution
The war on hydro-carbon fuels is based on two feeble legs – “it causes global warming, and it creates pollution.”
Both legs are unsound, especially...
Take Aunty Too!
Memo to Nine: “Now you have bagged all the Green-Lefties in Fairfax, please take Aunty too.”
WHAT’S NEXT, FOOD-FREE FRIDAYS?
Once again, the high priests of the UN/IPCC have forecast world starvation unless we mend our wicked ways. According to them, unless we curb our use of oil, gas, coal and meat, the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere will soar, the globe will heat up, and food production will plummet.
Carbon-centric Climate Models fail Consistently
In 2007 a computer model predicted that the Arctic would be free of ice by 2013. But in 2013, Arctic ice was abundant.
WILL THE WAR WITH CHINA BE WORDS, TRADE, ARMS – (OR ALL ...
As first
revealed here on January 29th, this virus escaped the p-4 lab in Wuhan. That has
now been confirmed by others.
SCHOOL BILLS – WHO PAYS?
Julia Gillard makes a lot of grand statements she, or we, can't afford to fund. Again today she committed $6.5 billion spending to education reforms. She wants the States to pay 70% of the bill. The problem here is (a) the States know nothing about it (b) the States can't afford it because most States are still grappling with State Labor debts in the billions of dollars. Like Rudd, she doesn't consult yet makes bold announcements with no detail. She justified getting rid of Rudd for this very reason.
JUDICIAL INJUSTICE
What the hell is the go with sentences handed down to kiddy fiddlers? Obviously this has been brought into focus with the Daniel Morcombe case, for which the substantive sentence was murder.
The De-Industrial Revolution Spreads
The industrial revolution started in Britain with inventors and entrepreneurs using coal to drive steam engines and make iron and steel. Generations have benefitted.
But...
Heatwaves are Nothing New
No doubt we will hear how the current heatwaves in Australia are “unprecedented” and evidence of dangerous man-made global warming. They are neither “global” nor...
Abolish Renewable Energy Targets
Australia’s Renewable Energy Target Scheme is an incredibly bad idea. Coercing and bribing people to waste community savings on unpredictable and unreliable solar and...
Where have all the leaders gone?
French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are are both fools.
Hollande for his statements: "The first victims of fanaticism and intolerance are Muslims,"...
Warmists Watch Wrong Weather Warnings
Climateers keep trumpeting alarms that glaciers and ice sheets are melting, thus threatening land-based life with rising seas and supporting their dubious claims that...
KIDS IN CAGES – THEY’RRRRRE BAAAACK!
Remember when President Orange Man was being lambasted for forcing Hispanic kids into cages at the Mexican border? Remember...
Flexible Greenhouse Accounting
The greenhouse regulators approve burning trees and plant trash in power stations because that recycles the life-supporting natural gases - water vapour and carbon...
Poverty and the Environment
Desperately poor people focus on feeding their families and have no spare energy to support secondary concerns such as the environment.
Destitute societies also see large...
SPEED KILLS
Since yesterday, the Fairfax online news has been leading with various headline versions of, "Experts Agree: Liberal NBN plan a 'lemon'".
Green Energy Policy?
Modern industrial society commenced with the use of coal and oil to power factories, trains, ships and agriculture and to generate electricity. With abundant energy, prosperity increased, and people could save enough to support leisure, education, culture and environmental concerns.
DEFENDING OUR RIGHT TO ACCESS ENERGY
Every living thing needs access to energy, food, light and warmth. But the UN is plotting to limit our access to energy. A study of human history shows what a grave threat this poses to all of us.
ASADA RUNNING SCARED
The revelation that ASADA has been issuing “Show Cause” notices to NRL players only confirms what I have suspected for a very long time...
Party Time for Climateers
The climate warriors are holding yet another Global Warming Jamboree in Bonn. We can expect an orchestrated flood of frightening forecasts to support their...
Wilderness Worship – Back to Neander
There are dreamers with computers in ivory towers who champion a “zero emissions world” where man’s activities release zero carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.Here...
Strange bedfellows in the war on carbon fuels
What great cause could unite Prince Charles, President Obama, the Pope, the Arab Oil sheiks, the United Nations, the European Union, the Russians, the Chinese, Pacific Island Nations, most undeveloped countries, the glitterati of Hollywood, left-wing politicians, unrepentant reds, government media, the climate research industry, Big Oil, Big Gas and the Green Blob. It must be something posing a clear and urgent danger to all humanity?
Poorest Pay For Power Policy Failures
Once again Julia Gillard has adopted spin over substance, this time over power bills.
When I say 'spin', I'm trying very hard to be charitable. I really mean BS.
Will Better Batteries save Solar Energy?
Tesla boss, Elon Musk (whose companies have received $4.9 billion in government subsidies for his electric cars) is now claiming that his batteries will allow...
Hyper-ventilating Hypocrites?
Did those Save-the-Planet protesters get to the posh Paris party on bicycles? And are they taking care to live on lettuce while not releasing...
REPEAL THE R.E.T. NOW!
The Australian government is holding an unnecessary enquiry into whether to abolish the Renewable Energy Target (RET), which mandates that 20% of Australian electricity must come from renewable sources by 2020.
REMEMBRANCE DAY
Today is Remembrance Day, an appropriate time to reflect on our ability to defend ourselves. History holds lessons. Back in Dec 1941, Japan suddenly attacked the huge US Naval base at Pearl Harbour.
Climate-Cooling Policies threaten Food Supplies
A warmer, wetter climate with more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would undoubtedly produce more plant growth and more food.
However climate-cooling policies that claim...
The Magical Balanced Budget Theorem
Franklin Roosevelt figured that a balanced budget was one of the keys to solving the Great Depression.Yet another treasurer bows to the gods of...
Cut the Costly Climate Chatter
Twenty-two years ago a bunch of green activists calling themselves “The Earth Summit” met in Rio and invented a way to tour the world...
Save the Snipe AND the Swamps
The surest way to find an “endangered” species is to declare a major development site, and something “threatened” will soon turn up.
So it is...
