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March 14, 2025
Scorched-Earth Disease ControlWay back in 1858, Nongqause, a prophetess of the Xhosa Tribe in South Africa, had a vision telling her that all cattle of the tribe would have to be slaughtered, having been reared by contaminated hands. She said she had met the spirits of...
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March 6, 2025
Misplaced green energyWhy are we always putting green energy assets in all the wrong places? The main electricity demand comes from big cities and their industries, so the electricity generators should be nearby, thus reducing capital costs and transmission losses, and...
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August 23, 2024
Green foods fail the Olympics...and everyone elseThe first occupants of the Olympics village in Paris quickly taught the caterers that athletes did not favor their “climate-friendly” diet of things like avocados on toast plus almond-milk coffee. The athletes demanded more mea...
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July 31, 2024
Welcome the warmth!At dawn today, in mid-winter in sunny Queensland, it was zero degrees on the lawn outside our kitchen, and the small water tub for our chickens was iced over. Every morning, as soon as it gets light, Judy puts a winter coat over her pajamas and ad...
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July 24, 2024
A pilot plant for net zeroBoth solar and wind energy have fatal flaws. Solar stops when the sun goes down or if a cloud blocks the sun; wind fails if the wind is too strong or too weak. But every day we hear of some fantastic and expensive plan to keep t...
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July 12, 2024
Some real (and real pathetic) green solutions to green problemsWind and solar energy have a fatal flaw: intermittency. Solar generators won’t run on moonbeams — they fade out as the sun goes down and stop whenever clouds block the sun. This happens at least once every day. Bu...
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July 1, 2024
Battery Baloney, Hydrogen Hype, and Green Fairy TalesHow low Australia has fallen -- our once-great BHP now has a “Vice President for Climate,” the number of Australian students choosing physics at high school is collapsing, and our government opposes nuclear energy while pretending we can ...
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June 3, 2024
Queensland pols stumble across a sensible energy policyThe Queensland government recently placed a ban on pumping and dumping carbon dioxide into the rocks of the Great Artesian Basin. This was an event rarely seen -- politicians stumbling onto a sensible energy policy. Burying CO2 would achieve nothi...
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May 10, 2024
The carbon capture conCarbon capture and underground storage (CCUS) tops the list of silly schemes “to reduce man-made global warming.” The idea is to capture exhaust gases from power stations or cement plants, separate the CO2 from the ot...
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April 22, 2024
A diesel in the shedYou can have your solar panels and your turbines on the hills; You can use the warmth of sunshine ...
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April 10, 2024
The Return of Hungry HorsesWhen I was young (many decades ago), we lived on a small family farm at Wheatvale near Warwick on the Darling Downs in Queensland, Australia. Our lifestyle was close to the organic self-sufficient nirvana that today’s green zealots babble on...
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January 25, 2024
Stop wasting water!Almost every river in Eastern Australia is now pouring surplus water into the sea. But only two dams have been built in Queensland in the last 20 years—the Wyaralong Dam, built 13 years ago, and Paradise Dam, built 19 years ago. Droughts wil...
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December 21, 2023
Dreaming of a White Christmas?Despite what the climate-scare-media tell us, the big danger facing life on Earth is not global warming, but a return of the deathly Pleistocene ice sheets which once covered the great grain belts of Eurasia and North America. Such global cooling wou...
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December 2, 2023
Time for a climate exitThe world's rich and famous, plus an army of publicists, hangers-on, and mendicants, are attending the COP28 meeting in Dubai, the ostentatious 7-star playground capital of the United Arab Emirates, where even the police drive luxury sp...
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November 24, 2023
Rush of the Net Zero lemmingsAustralia’s ALP/Green government and their media mates are using subsidies, taxes, and propaganda in a suicidal attempt to move the whole country to 82% “renewable” energy by 2030 and “Net Zero Emissions by 2050.” Canny ...
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November 14, 2023
Cash Beats Electronic Money, but Real Money Beats CashToday’s world is awash with electronic money. But last week, much of Australia’s electronic money disappeared for up to 14 hours with the crash of the Optus electronic network. The disruption to business and the community was “immed...
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November 4, 2023
In Australia, Green, Powerless, and DefenselessAs net zero strangles Australian industry, Australia is becoming green, powerless, and defenseless. History holds lessons which we ignore at our peril. Here is some of it. Japan was opened to trade with the U.S. in the 1850s. The Japanese...
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October 3, 2023
Australia should vote 'no' on indigenous special rights referendumHere in Australia, our politicians are promoting a divisive and racist change to our constitution by referendum — the creation of an indigenous "voice" with undefined powers. Voting is underway now. According to...
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April 1, 2023
The green foods time bombGreen propagandists continue to inflict lethal damage to our electricity industry here in Australia — and it has become unreliable and expensive. City food supplies cannot survive without reliable refrigeration at every level, from farms to ...
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January 31, 2023
Net Zero won't be as pleasant as greenies thinkAccording to the clerics of the Green Cult, once we blow up our last coal mine, send all diesel engines to the wreckers, stop using concrete, reinvent sailing clippers, cover the grasslands with solar clutter and the hills with wind machines, and the...
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December 7, 2022
The coming crash of the Climate CultThe Climate Cult worships two green idols: electric vehicles and wind-solar energy. This is part of a futile U.N. scheme promoting "Net Zero Emissions," which aims to cool the climate of the world by waging war on CO2 plant food....
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November 13, 2022
Why green energy is not green at all"Green" policies are destroying the natural environment and changing local weather. This is part of a futile U.N. scheme claiming to improve the climate of the world. All green energy degrades its environment. Take wind pow...
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October 16, 2022
Floods and droughts are nothing newThere is nothing unusual about today's floods, fires, droughts, homelessness, and hunger — they have always been part of the human story. But satellite technology allows us to track them better, and our worldwide media revel in d...
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October 10, 2022
Earth is not a greenhouseGlass is largely transparent to incoming solar radiation, which warms whatever is inside the greenhouse. If the greenhouse had no walls (like the atmosphere), warmed greenhouse air would rise by convection and escape out via the open sides...
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September 23, 2022
Powerless times aheadIt is a still winter night in Green-topia. Wind turbines are idle; solar panels are in darkness; some are covered with snow. In the rich green suburbs, electric cars are getting re-charged. Lights, heaters, and TV are on, and coffee ...
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August 29, 2022
The plague of green elephantsLegend says that if you displeased the king of Siam, he would give you a white elephant. These rare and protected elephants were incredibly expensive to keep. So a "white elephant" came to mean a possession that is use...
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August 3, 2022
This is what finally puts an end to AustraliaThere is an ominous buzz in the new Australian Parliament — Albo and the Greens are planning to pass 40 new bills, quick smart. Each bill will probably need 100 new regulations and 200 new inspectors, auditors, and enforcers plus many new ta...
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July 26, 2022
What Greens don't get about volcanoes, oceans, and weatherDespite Green propaganda, recent Australian floods were not caused by coal, cattle, or cars. Weather is driven by winds; solar energy powers the winds and draws moisture for them from the oceans. These eternal natural rain-makin...
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June 27, 2022
The target on Australia's backTed Dwyer in "Spectator Australia" has asked why Australia has bet the house on the U.S./NATO involvement in Ukraine. There are few innocent parties in Ukraine today — an undeclared civil war has been simmering for this whole ...
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June 21, 2022
The green lemming rushAustralia's new Australia Labor Party/Green/Teal government has a Zero Emissions plan, putting them on track to be world leader of the Green Lemmings. John Kerry of USA was a strong contender to win the Green Lemming race. But he wa...
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June 14, 2022
Renewable energy or reliable energy — but not bothAustralia's new ALP government has gigantic green energy plans to be funded by electricity consumers and taxpayers. They promise (with a straight face) that Australia's electricity will be 82% renewable by 2030. They predict 43%...
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June 4, 2022
Australian voters have set themselves up for a green nightmareAustralians took a great green gamble in the recent election. Green millionaires and other left-wing activists supported slick campaigns promoting a gaggle of well-off women who won six seats in the leafy green suburbs. Being rich blue-...
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May 5, 2022
Can Australia climb out of the green grave?Mainstream politics in the Land Down Under has drifted a long way left since the days of Menzies and Fadden. Over the years, a green slime has infected all major parties — they now differ in details, but not in principle. ...
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March 3, 2022
Stop these fuelish policies"God was on the side of the nation that had the oil." —Prof. Wakimura, Tokyo Imperial University Russia is one of the world's largest producers of petroleum, natural gas, and coal. In Europe, despite decades of taxe...
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February 24, 2022
The stampede of Green lemmingsNo country on Earth relies entirely on wind and solar energy, but Australian politicians aim to achieve this miracle. They are leaders in the Stampede of the Green Lemmings. Solar energy has a huge problem. Even on sunny days, almost...
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February 14, 2022
Greenism destroying Australia's ancient grasslandsIt's the season for green money showers in Australia — the Coral Community just got one billion dollars of green bribes from P.M. Scott Morrison (this after $141M from P.M. Malcolm Turnbull just over three years ago). Koalas got ...
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January 5, 2022
Green energy? Solar toys won't cut itBy the time solar energy reaches Earth's surface, it is spread very thin — even midday sunshine will not boil the billy or make toast. And solar collectors will convert only about 20% of that weak energy into electricity. ...
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December 27, 2021
Whirling triffids are now invading our seashoresI saw them now with a disgust that they had never roused in me before. Horrible alien things which some of us had somehow created, and which the rest of us, in our careless greed, had cultured all over the world. One could not ev...
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December 7, 2021
The electric highway: A fuelish policyAustralian prime minister Scott Morrison has had another green brainwave: spend a zillion dollars to build Australia's electric/hydrogen highway. Naturally, this fuelish policy will be supported and accelerated by the Greens/ALP coalit...
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November 6, 2021
The madness of carbon sequestrationTrying to bury carbon dioxide deep underground is another fashionable green fantasy. It consumes big dollars for taxpayer subsidies, but coal and gas producers will love it, as it wastes energy and will increase demand for reliable energy....
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October 29, 2021
COP-26 is a global energy embarrassmentFor 26 futile years, the net-zero maniacs have wasted fuel, energy, and taxpayers' money to bite the hands that provide their food, energy, welfare, and public-sector jobs. Led by E.U. and AUKUS dreamers, they destroy reliable energy from coal...
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September 14, 2021
The difference between climate and weather, and why models fail"Weather" describes atmospheric conditions at any location — temperature, humidity, clouds, precipitation, and winds. Every place has its own weather, which depends on the time of day, the season, the latitude, local topogr...
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September 2, 2021
All trees, grass, and cows are greenGrowing trees need three essentials — radiant energy from the sun, CO2 and rain from the atmosphere, and nutrients and minerals from the soil. Climate alarmists correctly claim that burning forest products in thermal power stations i...
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August 16, 2021
Real meat is green — it eats grassThe Green Wreckers who destroyed Australia's cheap, reliable electricity are now targeting our cattle industry. They will use fake science and false advertising to destroy our right to produce and consume real meat. This stupidity relies on...
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August 5, 2021
Green Wrecking BallsClaiming to save the world from the global warming ghosts, climate alarmists are smashing our future with Green Wrecking Balls. Greens say they love trees. However, their policies destroy ridge-line forests to make room for subsidized bird-chop...
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July 12, 2021
Forests need forestersGreen extremists plan to convert Australia into "tree heaven." They will bully this through, no matter what the cost. Huge areas of forest are already converted to "locked up land" — national parks, world herit...
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July 6, 2021
Are you ready for ... greenie hydrogen?Green hydrogen is the latest “energy” fad from the global warming warriors. Today’s hydrogen hype proposes using wind and solar energy to produce “green” hydrogen by electrolysis of water. It is mainly hot air. ...
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June 13, 2021
The blackout agendaSolar power fails every day from sunset to sunrise as well as during rain, hail, snow, or dust storms. No matter how much land we smother in subsidized solar panels, they will still fail. Wind power fails often and unpredictably, sometimes for day...
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May 22, 2021
Australia eyes handcuffing its population with COVID vaccine passportsA passport was once highly valued by travelers but not compulsory. Signed by the sovereign, it said: "The bearer of this passport has my protection. He is free to travel anywhere. Do not pester him." Gradually, pass...
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May 9, 2021
Are we indigenes yet?The UK has seen many waves of invaders and colonizers – Neanderthals, Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Norsemen, Normans and more recently Indians and Pakistanis. Only Irish, Welsh and Scottish inhabitants have had the strength to g...
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April 24, 2021
Climate crazies are spreading a green virusThe Biden-Boris green virus which infects most of the west has become a danger to Australia. P.M. Morrison of Australia has promised one billion dollars for "hydrogen, CCUS (carbon capture usage or storage), batteries and critical min...
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March 24, 2021
Fighting global warming is less useful than knowing where to build your houseNatural flood plains form where floods spread silt and mud in river valleys. Being flat, fertile, picturesque, and usually supplied with surface and underground water, they attract farms, orchards, and gardens. These are inevitably follow...
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March 4, 2021
Snowy 2: The brick balloonThe Australian Snowy 2 hydro scheme plans to use electricity to pump water uphill to get some of that energy back by running the water downhill again. Some Australian mining companies are planning a dry version of Snowy 2 — a huge brick-powe...
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February 4, 2021
Zero Emissions means zero human progress"Zero emissions" requires no diesel, petrol- or gas-fuelled cars, trucks, tractors, or dozers and no burning of coal or gas for electricity generation. But without nuclear power or a massive increase in hydroelectricity, green en...
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January 18, 2021
Coal powers ChinaWhile the West wages war on coal, hydro-carbons power China’s industrial and military might. China uses massive amounts of coal to generate electricity, smelt metals, and manufacture cement -- they generate almost twice as much electricity a...
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December 21, 2020
The Great Green Leap BackwardsThe Green Virus is on a rising curve in the Anglo-sphere. Boris, Biden, Kerry, Trudeau, Arden, and Australia's Morrison are all competing to be the first to destroy all industries reliant on coal, cattle, gas, and diesel. Hydr...
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December 5, 2020
Real meat is greenWandering recently through an arcade popular with the green smoothie set, I saw a sign boasting "Plant-Based Meat." Someone should advise those nutritional dunderheads that all real meat is plant-based. Real beef and lamb...
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November 14, 2020
Why worry about warming? Cold is the killerGreen alarmists are fanning a firestorm of fear about man-made global warming. Earth always cycles between warmth and cold. Every recent warm period (Medieval Warming, Roman Warming, etc) was a time of plenty for all life on Earth, whil...
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October 12, 2020
The COVID ZoneThe Covid Lockdown is a practice run for the big one — the Carbon Lockdown. If climate alarmists win the elections, our freedoms and prosperity will evaporate like CO2 from a warm beer. The fact that their green energy program is ...
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October 5, 2020
Nothing that worksGreen zealots infest all parties: the media, academia, education, and the vested business interests. They consistently oppose what works and promote what won't. Greens demand "Zero Emissions." Nuclear and h...
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September 8, 2020
Green energy is not so greenSolar energy is very dilute, so solar collectors usually cover huge areas of flat arable land, stealing farmland, starving wild herbs and grasses of sunlight and creating "Solar Deserts." Wind turbines steal energy from winds, which ofte...
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August 31, 2020
The green road to blackoutsCalifornia leads the way to electricity blackouts, closely followed by South Australia. They both created this problem by taxing, banning, delaying, or demolishing reliable coal, nuclear, gas, or hydro generators while subsidizing and promoting un...
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August 7, 2020
Green ignoramuses want to sterilize energyQueensland’s Great Barrier Reef is once again the excuse for extending Green control of all land and waters. The current scare concerns the quality of water draining into the Coral Sea. The Greens' hidden agenda is to eliminat...
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June 6, 2020
How much water will be wasted through COVID-obsessed hand-washing?"Wash your hands as often as possible," says Canberra's COVID chief. This could flush away 7 gallons of water per person per day. Suppose ten million obedient Australians wash hands thoroughly "as often as possible."...
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May 25, 2020
More useless energy policiesThe Australian Minister for Promoting Useless Energy thinks hydrogen fuel, carbon capture and storage, soil carbon, and biofuels are priorities for energy policy and greenhouse gas reduction. If that's the best our leaders can come up with, Au...
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May 18, 2020
Digging the lockdown hole deeperThe Lockdown Depression is rushing toward us. Many in politics, media, and industry are digging the hole deeper, some through panic and ignorance, others cynically pushing anti-industry agendas or serving vested interests. We will never...
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May 9, 2020
COVID confusion: Fudged figures and muddled modelsWe are drowning in a sea of suspect statistics, many being used selectively by power-hungry politicians — especially COVID statistics. Suppose an obese alcoholic 80-year-old with hips replaced, diabetes, heart bypass, inflammation, and high ...
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March 13, 2020
Pulling away from these two dumb liberal ideas will go a long way to creating jobsGovernments seek to revive "the economy" by scattering gifts of our own money wrapped in red tape. This encourages immediate consumption. But this stimulation stops dead when the money tap is turned off. Three simpl...
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March 6, 2020
The carbon capture conCarbon capture and storage (CCS) tops the list of silly schemes "to reduce man-made global warming." The idea is to capture carbon dioxide from power stations and cement plants, separate it, compress it, pump it long distances an...
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February 25, 2020
Society suffers when government protects pestsAustralian camels are well adapted to thrive in the dry heart of Australia, but landowners have been unable to harvest them profitably for meat, leather, racing, or genetics. With no real predators, camel numbers ballooned. They...
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February 19, 2020
The looming collision between electric vehicles and green energyTwo green-dream fantasies are heading for a massive and costly collision. Firstly, they dream of generating all grid power from wind and solar propped up by battery storage (such as lots of giant Tesla batteries and pumped hydro). Secondly, the...
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February 14, 2020
Hydrogen hyped as a new greenie energy panacea in AustraliaIn Australia, the greenie official nominated by the government for the title of "chief scientist" is railing against climate change and hailing a new miracle fuel to make Australia green: hydrogen. Left unsaid, it seems t...
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January 23, 2020
Six shades of fire-lighters in AustraliaAustralian fire-lighters come in six colors — yellow, black, white, blood red, dark green, and light green. All are relevant to bushfires and forest management. "Yellow" is the fire-lighter that has been with us forever....
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January 19, 2020
Government by inquiry? Great way to burn forestsPoliticians hide behind inquiries — their magic answer to all problems, especially bushfires. Announcing inquiries give the impression of decisive action. They generate fees for armies of barristers, lawyers, and bureaucrats, and ...
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January 9, 2020
In Australia, fires expose green follyAustralia is has endured some of the worst bushfires in its history. Greens blame climate change, but it's a cover-up. In reality, they have themselves to blame. From here in Australia, it can only be ca...
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January 3, 2020
If you want to stop wildfires, put qualified people back in charge of forestsThere was a time when Australian foresters kept Australian forests safe and productive. They maintained access tracks bridges and fire breaks, undertook prescribed burning, cleared flammable litter from the forest floor, cut suckers, manne...
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December 30, 2019
Fighting Fires with FireThe fire-lighter was the most powerful tool that early humans brought to Australia. Fires lit by aboriginal men and women created the landscape of Australia. They used fire to create and fertilize fresh new grass for the grazing animals that...
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December 23, 2019
Time for climate senseSvante Arrhenius (1859–1927) was a Swedish scientist who first claimed that the burning of hydrocarbons like coal, oil, gas, peat, and wood may cause global warming. In 1895, he calculated (incorrectly) that a doubling of the atmospheric CO2...
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December 20, 2019
National parks are bushfire havensToo many recent headlines say: A fierce new bushfire is burning in the XYZ National Park. Nearby residents should prepare to evacuate." Neglected, overgrown, weed- and log-infested, un-grazed, unburnt government-protected parkland ...
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December 16, 2019
Brexit done — now for ClexitThanks to Boris Johnson, Brexit will now occur. And thanks to Donald Trump, the U.S. has formally exited the destructive Paris Climate Agreement. And the U.N. alarmists made little progress at the big climate-fes...
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December 14, 2019
Water won't stop wildfires. Fire will.In a furious firestorm with high winds, extreme temperature and big loads of dry fuel, water bombing is usually just wasting water and avgas. In hot winds, water will evaporate quickly, embers will start glowing and blowing, and soon the f...
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December 7, 2019
With Greens' policies, no wonder Australia's on fireNo one should be surprised that our bush is ablaze and our cities are smothered in smoke. For decades now, we have been locking up land, banning burn-offs, and encouraging eucalypt fire-trees. On a hot day, the blue haze on distant timb...
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December 2, 2019
No climate emergencyLeaders of the Clintel Group of world scientists and professionals will attend the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP25), which starts in Madrid today (2 December) and runs for twelve long days. (The Climate Summit was shifted suddenly to...
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November 21, 2019
Aussie bush-fires nurtured in national parksListen carefully to a typical Australian bush-fire warning: "A big fire in the XYZ National Park is now threatening adjacent homes and farms." For decades now, politicians have been recklessly locking up more land in national parks, rese...
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November 12, 2019
Bushfire sense in AustraliaAustralia is a land of deserts, droughts, floods, bushfires, flammable forests and fire-prone grasslands. These conditions have developed since the start of the Holocene Warm Era, about twelve thousand years ago. All previous Australian bush...
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October 31, 2019
Feeding the fat green pigsIn the era before coal, oil, and electricity, the environment suffered greatly. Whales were slaughtered for lamp oil. Forests were cleared for firewood, mine props, building materials, roofing shingles, and sailing masts. Lon...
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October 22, 2019
Alarmist over-reachFor over 15 years, the global warmists have become progressively more outspoken with their scare stories and less careful with facts and science. But their latest tactics of promoting Extinction Hellions and exploiting a teenage Swedish doomsayer ...
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October 14, 2019
The rebellion against reasonWe don't need rowdy Extinction Reb-hellions on our streets — we need Education on Extinctions in our science academies, classrooms, and media. Extinctions are natural events that close every chapter of Earth's history — they re...
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September 23, 2019
Electrical power in Australia — from success to failureOur grandfathers built a low-cost reliable decentralized electricity supply for all states of Australia based mainly on black and brown coalfields — Blair Athol, Callide, Ipswich, Sydney/Newcastle, Yallourn, Leigh Creek, and Collie. Then our...
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September 12, 2019
Greens know the destruction they're pushing on the rest of usGreens know that Australia could not electrify our cities, farms, mines, refineries, and factories, nor power our road, rail, air, and sea transport with just solar, wind, hydro, and batteries. Yet green activists, their adoring media, the...
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August 14, 2019
Biofuels baloneyBurning forests to generate electricity is probably the worst green energy stupidity. It destroys forests; creates its own pollutants; is less efficient than coal to harvest, handle, and burn; and has a low heat value. If all fa...
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June 18, 2019
Creating a heartless countryWhat happened to Australia's once bipartisan policies favoring decentralization? Why is every proposal to develop an outback mine, dam, irrigation scheme, or real power station now labeled "controversial" by the ABC and oppos...
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June 11, 2019
Cycles, not carbon dioxide, control climateThe war on hydro-carbon fuels will have no measurable effect on global temperatures. Nor will carbon taxes, carbon offsets or subsidies for wind turbines or solar panels. There are climate controllers far bigger than human CO2 at work. No place on...
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June 3, 2019
Australia's growing dam crisisAustralia is a dry continent — that is a fact of geography and global climate. However, per head of population, we have abundant fresh-water resources in rivers, lakes, dams, soils, and underground. But we do not conserve enough o...
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May 24, 2019
After shocking election results, maybe Australia's insane environmentalist kick is finally overThe proposed Adani mine in Australia has been wading through a green swamp of political obstacles for nine long years. Other coal optimists have struggled to develop coal in the Galilee Basin for over 40 years. Federal Labor, St...
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May 9, 2019
Back to the Medieval Green worldGreens dream of a zero-emissions world without coal, oil, and natural gas. They need to think about what they wish for. First, there would be no mass production of steel without coke from coking coal to remove oxygen from iron ore....
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May 9, 2019
Hydrocarbons beat biofuels on all countsCoal and oil are made from plants and animals that died millions of years ago, when the atmosphere contained abundant carbon dioxide plant food. They are now concentrated forms of energy that can be extracted from small areas of land....
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April 8, 2019
Breaking Australia's backSince the days of the gold rushes and the wool booms, Australia has always relied on its great primary industries — mining, farming, forestry, and fishing and their supporting transport, energy, and processing industries. First was the expor...
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March 19, 2019
The greatest generation vs. the green generationMy grandfather was part of the Greatest Generation. Toughened by wars and depression, they were patriotic nation-builders. Their monuments are long-term productive assets like the Mount Isa and Broken Hill mines; smelters and refineries...
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February 11, 2019
The rising tide of climate lunacyA New South Wales judge (an ex-lawyer and activist from the Environmental Defenders Office) has stopped development of the small Rocky Hill coking coal mine because the commonwealth government has signed the Paris Climate agreement, which requires ...
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February 5, 2019
Curse less and dam moreWater conservation peaked in Australia in 1972 – our last big dam was Wivenhoe in Queensland, built 35 years ago. Elsewhere in Australia, water conservation virtually stopped when Don Dunstan halted the building of Chowilla Dam on the Murray...
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February 3, 2019
The modern mania of green energy worshipThey range from the Dutch Tulip Mania in 1636; the British South Sea Bubble in 1720; the hyper-inflation in the Weimar Republic in 1923 and in Zimbabwe in 2008; the Y2K scare; stock market booms and busts; and evil eras of murderous madness like thos...
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December 27, 2018
Saltbush Solar Activity Watch establishedThe Saltbush Club this week announced the formation of the “Saltbush Solar Activity Watch” led by Mr. David Archibald. The Executive Director of Saltbush, Mr. Viv Forbes, said it was obvious to everyone except schoolteachers, the ABC, ...
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December 23, 2018
The $500-million climate carnival concludesCOP 24 just concluded in Poland. Nearly 23,000 climate saviors attended this 24th annual climate carnival. Every year, plane-loads of concerned busybodies fly to some interesting new location to spend tax dollars on a well stocked ...
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August 9, 2018
Warmists hijacking the Great Barrier Reef for big bucksAustralia's Great Barrier Reef has become a money magnet for those with green political agendas. The climax of this green racket was the sudden dumping of $444 million by the Australian government into a small foundation controlled by big busi...
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July 19, 2018
Watching weather waves, but missing climate tidesThe climate alarm media, the bureaucracy and the Green Energy industry follow an agenda which is served by inflating any short-term weather event into a climate calamity. They should take a long-term view. Earth’s climate is never still ...
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July 10, 2018
Watching weather waves, missing climate tidesThe climate alarm media, the bureaucracy, and the Green Energy industry follow an agenda served by inflating any short-term weather event into a climate calamity. They should take a long-term view. Earth's climate is never still ...
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June 21, 2018
Warmists lynching an innocent bystander, CO2I live in SE Queensland. Yesterday the surface air temperature rose from a frosty 36ºF at sunrise to a balmy 72ºF in mid-afternoon. The enormous heat needed to achieve this 36º of warming came via radiation from the sun. Carbon dioxide...
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June 5, 2018
Are We Fostering Food or Famine?Famine has haunted humans for most of our history. In the days of the Pharaohs, whenever the Nile River failed to flood, Egypt starved. Joseph was called in and he organized stockpiling of grain for famine relief. Even mighty Rome suffe...
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May 16, 2018
Australia is begging to be colonized againJapan has 45 new high-energy, low-emission (HELE) coal-fired power plants on the drawing boards. These will probably burn high-quality Australian coal. And despite the tsunami that hit Japan, nuclear power still generates about ...
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May 7, 2018
Climate lessons from King CanuteClimate Aristocrats and Bureaucrats from 190 nations are meeting in Bonn, dreaming up rules "to prevent the globe from warming more than 2°C." They have forgotten the lesson of mighty King Canute – he demonstrated that ...
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May 2, 2018
How Weather and Climate WorkThere are three big drivers of weather for any place on Earth: the latitude, the local environment, and solar system cycles. The biggest weather factor is latitude – are you in the torrid, temperate, or frigid zone? These climatic...
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April 22, 2018
‘Earth Day’ should celebrate engines and electricityHuman history is punctuated by the creation of tools and machines that made life easier. Our first tools were “green tools” – digging sticks, spears, boomerangs, bows and arrows made of wood; and axes, clubs, knives and grinders ...
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April 6, 2018
The wanton worship of woody weedsGreens worship woody weeds. Their proposed tree-clearing bans in Queensland, Australia are the latest salvo in a long war favoring trees and damaging grasslands and pastoralists. For millennia, Australia's open forests and treeless ...
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March 29, 2018
What weather should we really worry about?Earth is a dangerous place. Of all the species that have ever lived, over 95% have already been extinguished by natural disasters. Ice, not global warming, is the big killer, and this recurring calamity often strikes quickly. ...
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March 6, 2018
Tomorrow's grim global Green dictatorshipGreens hate individual freedom and private property. They dream of a centralized, unelected global government, financed by taxes on developed nations and controlled by all the tentacles of the U.N. No longer is real pollution of our env...
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February 21, 2018
Planned power chaosSeven Australian governments have made a mess of Australia's electricity industry. The federal government now plans to add more toxins to the mess: "five-year targets to cut emissions." There was one big lesson from the 20...
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January 16, 2018
The green empress has no clothesDuring December 2017, Germany’s millions of solar panels received just 10 hours of sunshine, and when solar energy did filter through the clouds, most of the panels were covered in snow. Even committed Green Disciples with a huge Tes...
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January 8, 2018
Be careful what you wish forIn today's crazy world, Western politicians are wasting billions of taxpayer dollars force-feeding costly, unreliable green energy in the bizarre belief that this will somehow change Earth's climate. Even more incredible, they fear global ...
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December 24, 2017
The never-ending battles of the Coral SeaFor at least 50 years, Australian taxpayers and other innocents have supported a parasitic industry in academia, bureaucracy, law, media, and the tax-exempt Green Alarm "charities," all studying, regulating, inspecting, and writing about ye...
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November 17, 2017
Back to bolted down industriesOnce upon a time, Australia was attractive to processing, refining, and manufacturing industries using our abundant mineral and food resources, our reliable low-cost coal-fired electricity, and a workforce trained in technical skills. No longer. ...
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November 6, 2017
Party time for UN climateersThe climate warriors are holding yet another Global Warming Jamboree in Bonn. It's put on by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and it will run from Nov. 6 to Nov. 17, for eleven days of nonstop partying. ...
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November 2, 2017
'Zero emissions' will test the convictions of CanberransCanberra, with its "zero emissions" target, yearns to be Australia's greenest address. Good. Let's use them as a full-blown test of "zero emissions" before we all jump over that cliff. Canberra (the center of A...
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October 26, 2017
Warmth is no worry, but cold killsIt was ice, not global warming, that killed and entombed millions of mammoths and woolly rhinos in Siberia and Alaska. It was unrelenting cold and then ice, not global warming, that forced the Vikings out of Greenland. It was bitter winters, no...
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October 18, 2017
The pitfalls of part-time powerSolar power works only while the sun shines – it is part-time power. Wind power works only when suitable winds blow – also part-time power. Batteries work only when charged – part-time power again. Hydro fails in droug...
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August 7, 2017
Clouds over Green UtopiaIt is 7 P.M. on a cold, still night in the city that boasts "100% Green Energy." Thousands of electric cars are plugged into chargers; electric lights, heaters, and TVs are running; electric stoves are cooking dinner; electric trains and...
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April 13, 2017
Australia's green delusions: A diesel in the shedA Diesel in the Shed. You can have your solar panels and your turbines on the hills; You can use the warmth of sunshine ...
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March 29, 2017
Batteries: Another green scamEvery day, some green energy promoter or a battery salesman tells us how green energy with battery backup will supply Australia's future electricity needs. A battery stores energy. Energy can be stored using lead acid, nickel-cadmium, li...
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March 1, 2017
Green enemies of the environmentThere was a time when true environmentalists strove to protect wild things. Now the greenshirts have become enemies of the environment by pushing green energy and demonizing the building blocks of life – carbon and carbon dioxide. Wind...
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February 12, 2017
Reliable Energy - Weather or NotWe are told, incessantly, that man’s use of hydrocarbon fuels will cause climate catastrophe, with more droughts, heat waves, forest fires, floods, blizzards, snow storms, typhoons, hurricanes, super-storms and “weird” weather. W...
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February 6, 2017
End climate propagandaIt's time to stop wasting taxpayer funds on climate propaganda masquerading as "research." In Australia, the CSIRO; the BOM; government universities and media; and federal, state, and local governments are all wasting our money tryin...
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January 17, 2017
The delusional war on warmthFor decades, global warming scaremongers have been stealing energy from the environment using windmills, solar collectors, and biofuels, force-fed by carbon taxes and emission trading schemes. Their delusional dream is to cool the globe. How...
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January 6, 2017
Now is the greens' WaterlooNapoleon's Grand Army was defeated in the Battle of the Nations in 1813. The emperor abdicated and was banished to Elba. But his army was not disarmed and destroyed by the victors. Just two years later, Napoleon escaped and quickly...
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December 22, 2016
The social 'cost' of carbon is a better lifeNothing better illustrates the stupidity and evil intent of green philosophy than their promotion of a mythical guestimate called the "social cost of carbon" (SCC). They use this bureaucratic weapon to demonize the fabulous fossil fuels ...
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December 15, 2016
Clean green batteries?Greens and technically challenged scribes apparently believe that battery-powered cars and planes are exciting new clean “zero-emissions” vehicles. There is little new about batteries – battery-powered cars were running on Britis...
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December 6, 2016
Why Big Mining loves Big GreenThe Labor-Green coalition in Australia has declared war on coal, oil, and gas. So why is Big Mining not fighting back? BHP Billiton is a big producer of coal, oil, gas, iron ore, copper, nickel, and uranium. Rio Tinto is a big producer...
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September 12, 2016
Climate Cargo Cult Circles the PacificThe World Economic Forum in 2015 had a prophetic vision that unless the world mends its wicked ways “global warming will become catastrophic and irreversible”. In July 2016 the U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, claimed that global w...
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September 6, 2016
Cease tax-funded climate tourismFor at least 21 years now, the U.N. and the IPCC have been ringmaster to a troupe of thousands. They perform at massive annual conferences held in exotic locations, serviced by top hotels and airlines, and funded largely, directly or indirectly...
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May 4, 2016
Wilderness worship: Back to NeanderThere are dreamers with computers in ivory towers who champion a “zero emissions” world where man’s activities release zero carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Allied zealots want to depopulate settled land and destroy existing ...
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April 6, 2016
Carbon delusions and defective modelsThe relentless war on carbon is justified by the false assumption that global temperature is controlled by human production of two carbon-bearing "greenhouse gases." The scary forecasts of runaway heating are based on complicated but ...
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March 27, 2016
Here's how green activists affect povertyDesperately 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 families as free labor and old-age insurance. Thus, poverty inevitably...
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January 19, 2016
Cosmic cycles, not carbon dioxide, control climate
Those who think the political war on carbon will cool the globe or keep climate stable need to study climate history. 
Temperatures on Earth dance to a cyclic rhythm every hour, every day, every month, every season, every year, and to every b...
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December 7, 2015
Climate corruptionCheating and corruption plague the climate business. Here are just five examples. First, we have seen countries and corporations caught cheating – e.g., China understating their emissions, VW overstating their engine performance, Spa...
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November 20, 2015
Premier's new 'electric' cars run on coalGreens are hailing this as the spear-point of their green energy revolution. But the Premier’s green cars will run on...coal. Electric cars need large batteries, which have to be recharged. Maybe the Premier has a large subsidized sola...
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November 15, 2015
21 years - it's time the warmists grew upGlobal Warming alarmists are about to gather in Paris for the biggest climate carnival in their 21 year history, the 2015 United Nations Climate Conferences, or COP 21. Surely on their 21st birthday it is time they grew up and faced some adult ...
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November 10, 2015
Don't break our food chainNapoleon once said: "Only a foolish horse fights with his nose bag." Today we have many foolish people fighting their nose bag. They are weakening Earth's food chain with a war on carbon. Carbon is the building block of life...
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October 28, 2015
We must defend our access to energyEvery living thing needs access to energy – food, light, and warmth. But the U.N. is plotting to limit our access to energy. A study of human history shows what a grave threat this poses to all of us. Our distant ancestors were h...
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October 15, 2015
Opinions vs. facts: A climate change primerClimate is always changing, but luckily, we live in an era with a stable, benign, warm climate and a healthy, abundant biosphere. Alarmists who claim that today’s climate changes are unprecedented have not checked climate history written in...
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August 20, 2015
Business Judas Goats Push Climate AgendaEvery few weeks we take a pick-up load of sheep to the abattoir. And every time we have trouble unloading them.

 Damaras are smart sheep. They look down the ramp, sniff the air, listen to the cacophony of complaining animals and decide: ...
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August 12, 2015
Keep them airborne, all the timeYesterday Flora went down the road for a chat with our deep-green neighbor, Professor Percival. She hoped this would earn green points for her in the Leafy-Green Ladies Circle. She came back agog: “Our professor is flying busines...
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July 12, 2015
Climate Concern is Mis-directed“Climate” is formally the thirty year “average” of weather. Climate is what we expect, on average – weather is what we actually get.

 It is true that atmospheric conditions (dust, smoke, smog, aerosols, aircraft ...
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June 24, 2015
Green Energy Steals from the BiosphereEarth has only three significant sources of energy.

 First is geothermal energy from Earth’s molten core and decaying radioactive minerals in Earth’s crust. This energy moves continents, powers volcanoes and its heat migrates towa...
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May 15, 2015
Pope ponders paganismNot since the rule of Emperor Constantine, during the Roman Warm Era, have pagan gods been tolerated in Rome. Before Constantine, Romans worshipped 12 main gods, including Apollo (the Sun), Diana (the Moon), Flora (the plants), Uranus (the sky), C...
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May 6, 2015
Smoggy thinking on pollutionThe war on hydrocarbon fuels is based on two feeble legs – “it causes global warming, and it creates pollution.” 

Both legs are unsound, especially the pollution claims. 

No sensible person approves of pollutio...
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April 30, 2015
Green energy policy? Nothing that worksModern 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, educat...
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April 8, 2015
Hydrogen: the net-negative energy optionThe same people who promoted intermittent energy (wind and solar) have trumped that with their latest green energy fad – hydrogen fuel. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe; it fuels the sun and is the third most common elem...
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March 26, 2015
Celebrate the warmthWe should spend Earth Hour giving thanks for warmth. Just thirteen thousand years ago, Earth was in the grip of a deathly ice age. Sea levels were indeed much lower, but much of the land surface was covered by thick sheets of ice. Life...
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March 16, 2015
Too many wild cards in the climate gameClimate alarmists claim incessantly that all bad weather is caused by man’s use of hydrocarbon fuels – oil, gas, and coal. They insist that man-made carbon dioxide is the trump card in the climate game. Their computerized models ...
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February 17, 2015
Strange Allies in the War on Carbon FuelsWhat 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...
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February 4, 2015
The fatal flaw of global warmingMost climate scientists accept that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has some warming effect on Earth’s climate, but undisputed science shows that its direct effect is tiny and declines dramatically as carbon dioxide levels rise. The climate...
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January 27, 2015
Another alarmist temperature lieTwenty-fifteen is the make-or-break year for climate alarmism, with a crucial battle planned for Paris in November. So we can expect regular bursts of global warming propaganda. The year started on cue with a breathless announcement from the...
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January 17, 2015
Green Energy Powered our Past, but cannot Provide for our FutureThree centuries ago, the world ran on green power. Wood was used for heating and cooking, charcoal for smelting and smithing, wind or water-power for pumps mills and ships, and whale oil or tallow for lamps. People and soldiers walked or rode horses,...
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January 12, 2015
Save the snipe <em>and</em> the swampsThe surest way to find an “endangered” species is to declare a major development site. Something “threatened” will soon turn up. So it is no surprise that the proposed expansion of Abbot Point, which has been shipping...
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January 6, 2015
Climate alarmists turn back the clockThree centuries ago, the world ran on green power. Wood was used for heating and cooking; charcoal for smelting and smithing; wind or water power for pumps, mills, and ships; and whale oil for lamps. People and soldiers walked or rode hor...
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December 15, 2014
Rising Seas Are Nothing NewThe most careful analysis of world sea levels suggests they are rising at between zero and 2mm per year. Sea levels are never still, but with global temperatures flat and snow cover and polar ice steady, sea levels are probably as stable today as ...
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December 3, 2014
Wake Up, Australia.As Australia’s industrial capacity declines, Australia is becoming green and defenceless. History holds lessons. Back in December 1941, Japan suddenly attacked the huge U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor. Three days later, two “invinci...
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December 3, 2014
Renewables <em>Not</em> RenewableThere is an incessant chorus from the green gospelers glorifying “renewable” energy and warning disbelievers that continued use of carbon fuels will damn the world to eternal fires of global warming. Their ire is focused on carbon diox...
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December 1, 2014
Let's Hear How They Will Do ItIn January 2014, OECD secretary-general Angel Gurría called for “a plan to achieve zero net greenhouse emissions globally.” Not to be outdone, Australia has an organization named “Beyond Zero Emissions.”...
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November 28, 2014
Warmists Watch Wrong Weather WarningsClimateers keep trumpeting alarms that glaciers and ice sheets are melting, thus threatening land-based life with rising seas and supporting their dubious claims that Earth faces catastrophic global warming. 

Life on Earth cannot be extinguis...
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November 23, 2014
The Science is Settled?Governments are running huge deficits, but still spend billions on “climate research” especially trying to model the effect of the atmosphere and its trace of carbon dioxide on surface temperature. Benefits are hard to find. It may have i...
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November 18, 2014
Carbon Capture and Burial: a Biocidal PolicyThere are four non-toxic gases of life in Earth’s protective atmospheric blanket. None should be captured and buried. The most abundant is nitrogen – 78%. If there were no nitrogen, there would be no plant or animal protein...
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November 10, 2014
Wake Up, AustraliaTomorrow is Remembrance Day, an appropriate time to reflect on our ability to defend ourselves. History holds lessons. Back in December 1941, Japan suddenly attacked the huge U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. Three days later, two “i...
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November 1, 2014
Warmth Is Good; Cold Is the KillerFor decades, green extremists have been spreading doomsday forecasts of global warming. 

But where do we find the greatest abundance of life on land? Follow the equator around the globe – the Amazon, the Congo, Kenya, Indonesia, and ...
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October 27, 2014
Climate Research needs RedirectionGovernments running huge deficits still spend billions on climate research, especially trying to model the effect of the atmosphere and its trace of carbon dioxide on surface temperature. Benefits are hard to find. It may have improved weather f...
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October 20, 2014
Let's Hear How They Will Do It.In January 2014 OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría called for “a plan to achieve zero net greenhouse emissions globally.” Not to be outdone, Australia has an organisation named “Beyond Zero Emissions”. Try making...
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October 6, 2014
Carbon Footprints: Good, Bad, and UglyAustralians are supposed to feel guilty because some bureaucrat in the climate industry has calculated that we have a very high per capita “carbon footprint”. By “carbon footprint”, they mean the amount of carbon dioxide ga...
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September 29, 2014
Penguins Pray for Global Warming.For decades, climate alarmists have been attempting to trigger global cooling by killing industry with carbon taxes and absorbing solar energy with windmills, solar panels and wood-fired power stations. It seems they may have succeeded, as Antarct...
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September 18, 2014
Enviro-HypocritesShould dredging of a silted-up port disturb some natural sand and mud, the green suburban set will shout “stop ocean pollution,” and this message will be megaphoned by their loyal green media. These hypocrites should check their own ba...
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September 10, 2014
Unsettled ScienceWe are told by government-funded climate alarmists that their forecasts of dangerous man-made global warming rely on “settled science”. Their “settled science” represents a mare’s nest of computer models, resting on a...
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September 2, 2014
All Species are ThreatenedIn the great Permian extinction, about 250 million years ago, about 95% of ocean dwellers and 70% of land dwellers disappeared. Many species of fish, corals, reptiles, insects, and plants were eliminated. This was just one of five mass extinctions an...
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August 26, 2014
Cut the Costly Climate ChatterTwenty-two years ago, a bunch of green activists calling themselves “The Earth Summit” met in Rio and invented a way to tour the world at taxpayers’ expense – never-ending conferences on environmental alarms. Like any good ...
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August 20, 2014
Climate-Cooling Policies threaten Food SuppliesA 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 to prevent global warming by throttling the use of carbon fuels will d...
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August 12, 2014
The Gases of Life are <em>Not</em> PollutantsOur atmosphere contains the four gases of life – nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor, and carbon dioxide. Nitrogen is the most abundant gas-of-life in the atmosphere (78%). It is an essential building block of amino acids present in all prot...
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July 31, 2014
Shivering in the DarkYesterday, the temperature here at Rosevale in Queensland rose 25 в„ѓ in just 8 hours -- from zero at 6 am to 25 в„ѓat 2 pm. It rose at the rate of 3 в„ѓ per hour, and every degree of warmth felt better. And then, despite there being 400 ppm of th...
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July 25, 2014
Five Fatal Flaws of Solar EnergyThe sun is the most important energy source on Earth. Solar energy powers the growth of all trees, grasses, herbs, crops and algae; it creates the clouds and powers the storms; it is the source of all hydro, photo-voltaic (PV), solar-thermal, b...
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July 9, 2014
The Sky Fell last month, but almost nobody noticedThe sky fell on Hawaii last month, all because carbon dioxide levels peeped above the much-hyped 400 ppm hurdle. Chicken Littles all over the world squawked into their friendly media megaphones about numerous imminent global warming disasters. One wa...
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July 2, 2014
Death by DelayThere was a time, before the baby-boom generation took over, when we took pride in the achievements of our builders, producers, and innovators. There was always great celebration when settler families got a phone, a tractor, a bitumen road, or ...
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June 24, 2014
Never-Ending Green DisastersNewton’s 3rd law of motion, if applied to bureaucracy, would state: “Whenever politicians attempt to force change on a market, the long-term results will be equal and opposite to those intended”.

 This law explains the never...
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June 18, 2014
Sea Levels are Never StillSea levels have been rising and falling without any help from humans for as long as Earth’s oceans have existed. The fastest and most alarming sea changes to affect mankind occurred at the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age. Seas rose about 130m...
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June 11, 2014
Evidence Trumps the Phony ConsensusWe are lectured monotonously about the “consensus” that carbon dioxide produced by human activities is highly likely to cause dangerous global warming. The alarmist computer models are all based on this assumption, with predicted wa...
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June 4, 2014
Poison PropagandaThe environmental debate today is so corrupted by politics and propaganda that facts are too often distorted, and exaggeration of risk is commonplace. The vicious war on hydro-carbon fuels is a good example where certain substances are labelled ...
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May 26, 2014
Abolish Renewable Energy Targets, NowThe 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. There is only one “renewable...
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May 22, 2014
False Alarms in the Frigid Zone.Alarmists see a man-made calamity in every change in the Antarctic ice cap. There is nothing unusual about ice caps melting, ice sheets splitting, icebergs calving or glaciers advancing or retreating. This has been happening naturally for eons. ...
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May 5, 2014
Cut Climatism CostsMost western governments are facing a financial crisis whose solution is obvious -- cut wasteful spending. The world wastes a billion dollars a day in trying to maintain the myth that man-made carbon dioxide is causing dangerous global warming. Th...
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April 29, 2014
Modelling MadnessComplex computer models are continually being used to generate incessant alarms about the future for our environment and resources -- climate, weather, minerals, oil, food, water, pollution and the oceans. Every year the computers get more expensi...
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April 23, 2014
Weather Vs Climate.The weather at any spot is usually defined by max/min temperatures, humidity, precipitation and wind strength/direction. Weather varies hourly, daily, season-to-season and place-to-place. These weather measurements at any place can be averaged over v...
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April 8, 2014
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 ...
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March 30, 2014
Flood Plains are for FloodsEvery month or so TV screens are filled with images of desperate people somewhere battling a flood. Floods have been reshaping the Earth for billions of years. And some past floods were far larger than modern floods, evidenced by the width of many...
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March 24, 2014
Cold is the KillerIn testimony to the U.S. Senate in February, 2014, Dr. Patrick Moore, ecologist and cofounder of Greenpeace, made two significant points on climate change: Firstly: “When modern life evolved over 500 million years ago, CO2 was more than 10 t...
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March 17, 2014
What causes most air pollutionA month ago an arsonist lit a bush-fire that spread into the Morwell open cut coal mine in the Australian state of Victoria. Residents of the nearby town lived for weeks in choking polluted air. This fire is a clear demonstration of what cau...
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February 26, 2014
Carbon-centric Climate Models fail consistentlyIn 2007 a computer model predicted that the Arctic would be free of ice by 2013. But in 2013, Arctic ice was abundant. Two years ago the massive UK government computer model predicted that “drought was the new normal.” And a rece...
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February 19, 2014
Carbon Dioxide Can't Cause Wild Weird WeatherEvery day some place in the world has "wild weather." And in recent times, human industry gets the blame. "It's all caused by man-made global warming" (generally shortened to "global warming", or GW by alarmists). Floods or droughts -- blame GW; bus...
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February 11, 2014
Gaia's Gift to Solar Energy StorageThere is a massive problem with photo-voltaic solar power. Modern cities and industries require power 24/7 but solar panels can only deliver significant energy from 9am to 3pm on a clear day - a maximum of 25% of the time. Even within this time, ener...
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February 4, 2014
Green Energy Not Fit for the GridGermany's wind and solar power generation came to a standstill in late 2013. More than 23,000 wind turbines ran out of wind and most of the one million photovoltaic systems ran out of sunlight. For a whole week, coal nuclear and gas-powered plants ge...
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January 29, 2014
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, Margaret Thatcher was one of the first to speak publicly about the dangers of man-made global warming...
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January 10, 2014
Water is the Weather WildcardThe climatists claim that atmospheric carbon dioxide drives global warming. But the past seventeen years of rising CO2 without rising global temperatures shows this is untrue. So now they say that carbon dioxide causes wild weather. This too is untr...
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December 19, 2013
Coral reefs, the great survivorsFor at least fifty years, agitated academics have been predicting the end of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Now international "experts" are also sprouting coral calamity. But despite the alarms, the reef is still there. An early scare focusse...
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December 8, 2013
The Ocean Thermometer reveals Global Warming LiesThe UN IPCC and others with a vested interest in the global warming scare have not bothered to check what sea level evidence says about global temperature changes. Sea levels are very sensitive to temperature changes, and the oceanic indicators are ...
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October 15, 2013
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 always occur when it rains. But wet roads do not cause rain. Three things are required to prove tha...
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October 1, 2013
IPCC is more about Politics than ScienceThe science debate is over. They lost. Decades ago they proposed a theory that Earth's temperature is controlled by the 0.04% trace of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This theory was used to make predictions by at least 73 computer models. T...
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September 28, 2013
Immediate Execution or Prolonged Pain?The new Australian government inherited a costly and cumbersome climate bureaucracy. They seem unsure how to eliminate it. On the one hand they acted decisively, stormed "Flannery Castle", and eliminated the Climate Commission. But just across the ...
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September 25, 2013
Climate Alarmists Rebuffed in Australian ElectionThe climate alarmists and carbon taxers have suffered a body blow in the recent Australian elections - it was a turning point in the war on carbon. The victorious leader, Tony Abbott, had made it absolutely clear throughout the campaign and in the...
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September 7, 2013
Taxing AirEver since life appeared on Earth, it has been nourished by four natural atmospheric gases - nitrogen, oxygen, water vapour and carbon dioxide. We breathe these gases every day and carbon dioxide is the plant food that supports all life on earth. T...
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September 2, 2013
Coal Saves Forests from Boilers and SawmillsWe read that Greg Hunt and his green allies are promoting a world summit to draft a "global rainforest recovery plan to preserve and expand the world's standing forests". Why then are other members of the same global green alliance supporting polici...
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September 1, 2013
Burying the Gas of LifeOf all the anti-carbon policies supposedly improving our climate, carbon capture and burial is probably the worst. No life can exist on earth without carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Unfortunately, nature has been capturing and burying this valua...
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August 26, 2013
Restrictive Work Practices killing Green EnergyThe problem with the green energy twins, wind and solar, is that they work as if they were unionized. The solar panels won't work at night, or when it is rainy or cloudy, and they rarely work a full eight-hour day. The wind turbines will down to...
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August 19, 2013
Parasitic Power ProducersThe green energy twins, wind and solar, are parasitic power producers. They cannot produce continuous predictable electricity without sucking backup from their hosts -- real power plants using coal, gas, nuclear, hydro, or geothermal energy. They st...
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July 27, 2013
Who's Afraid of a Bit of Warmth?Billions of dollars have been wasted in the war on carbon in the vain hope of reducing natural global warming. This has disrupted the electricity market, caused numerous business closures and created a costly and oppressive climate bureaucracy. Ho...
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July 16, 2013
Warmists should Go the Whole HogGlobal warmists claim that carbon dioxide is a dangerous air pollutant which is cooking the planet. They claim it causes ice sheets to melt, threatens polar bears, spreads malaria and asthma, and increases droughts, floods, tornadoes, heat waves and ...
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July 11, 2013
Carbon Credit FarmingIf you were so silly as to want a sustainable long-term method to keep locking away the sparse carbon resources of the atmosphere using "carbon farming", the ONLY way to do it is to harvest regular crops of trees, pastures, cereals and grazing animal...
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June 29, 2013
Zero Emissions FoolishnessThe Australian Climate Commission has pronounced that "emissions need to be reduced to nearly zero by 2050". Imagine Australia with "zero emissions" - which means zero production of carbon dioxide from human activities and industries. This would...
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June 11, 2013
Sunset for Solar SubsidiesIn the days of Queen Victoria they said, truthfully "the sun never sets on the British Empire". But it does set on Australia, every single day. Even the green power engineers in Parliament must have noticed that the sun also sets on all those sola...
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June 4, 2013
The Upside of Greehouse GasesWe are told, incessantly, that carbon dioxide is the main cause of global warming -- it is not. The primary source of surface heat is radiant energy from the sun. Minor heat comes from geothermal energy from volcanoes and hot rocks. Trivial quantit...
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May 27, 2013
Spinning Carbon Scare Stories out of Nature's TornadosAlready the climatists are spinning a carbon scare story out of the Oklahoma tornado. US Senator Barbara Boxer said in a speech on global warming, just one day after the Moore tornado: "You're going to have tornadoes and all the rest. . . . Car...
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May 10, 2013
The Faults, Fallacies and Failures of Wind PowerWind power is not free. All natural energy resources such as coal, wind and sun appear "free" - no one has to incur costs to create them. But turning a "free" resource into usable electricity costs money for collecting, generating and distributing th...
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April 19, 2013
Kevin Rudd wins Golden Fleece AwardThe Carbon Sense Coalition has awarded its Inaugural Golden Fleece Award to former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of Australia and coal industry leaders for "flagrant fleecing of community savings in futile 'research' on Carbon Capture & Sequestration...
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April 9, 2013
Curbing the GW Virus?A virulent virus is being spread at international climate conferences. Called the GW Virus (short for Manmade Global Warming Virus), the symptoms include a psychotic fear of the word "carbon", a compulsion to blame man's industry for every bad weat...
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April 2, 2013
Warm and well fed, or hungry in the dark?Which is worse - gradual man-made global warming or sudden electricity blackout? Alarmists try to scare us by claiming that man's activities are causing global warming. Whether and when we may see new man-made warming is disputed and uncertain. If ...
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March 28, 2013
Pray for Green Britain this EasterWe in Coal Country should pray for Britons who have just two days of imported gas supplies, wind turbines becalmed, snow falling and four reliable coal-fired power stations being prematurely closed in case they cause global warming. When blackouts ...
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March 21, 2013
Carbon's Wrongful ConvictionThree stubborn facts suggest that carbon is suffering a grave miscarriage of justice. Firstly, despite all the bleating about humans causing "carbon pollution", man's use of carbon fuels has never managed to create even a single atom of carbon - all ...
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March 12, 2013
The World's most Dangerous GasClimate alarmists say that man is heating the globe by producing carbon dioxide. They cite evidence of "man-made global warming" (MMGW) everywhere. Having a heat wave or a bush fire? That's claimed as clear proof of MMGW. Giant snow storm or deadly d...
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March 4, 2013
Why Wind Power Won't WorkWind power's biggest problem is unreliability. In calm times or gentle breezes, the turbines generate nothing; and in high winds they must be turned off to prevent damage. No matter how it is configured, a wind farm delivers only an average of about ...
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February 11, 2013
Foggy Thinking on SmogCoal gets blamed for all the bad things, even the Asian Smog. What causes this smog? Dust is a significant component. Winds whip up dust from dry land, roads, construction sites and the huge Gobi Desert, or an up-wind volcano explodes. No dust comes ...
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January 21, 2013
Alien Environment in Australia Fuels FirestormsThe catastrophic fires that have ravaged Australia have a green background. A recent report from friends who suffered terrible losses of buildings, fences, pasture and cattle in the Coonabarabran fire commenced with the ominous and oft-repeated messa...
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November 27, 2012
A Tax on Carbon is a Tax on LifeCarbon is the essential building block for all living things. But life cannot exist without energy. The primary energy of the solar system is nuclear energy - it powers the sun which floods the Earth with solar radiation; other nuclear reactions rele...
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September 13, 2012
Taxing Mothers' Milk and Our Daily BreadTwo lies are used to promote the world's highest carbon tax - the lie that carbon dioxide is "pollution" and the lie claiming that Australians are "the world's biggest carbon polluters". Calling carbon dioxide "pollution" makes no more sense than cal...
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August 28, 2012
Retreat to the PastThe deaths of Steve Jobs and Neil Armstrong could signal the end of a remarkable era of scientific and engineering achievement that started about 200 years ago when James Watt and Robert Stephenson managed to harness coal-fired steam power to drive e...
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August 27, 2012
Climatists on Water VaporA "greenhouse gas" is one capable of absorbing infra-red (IR) radiation. The most common atmospheric gases with such properties are water vapor and carbon dioxide (CO2). Water vapor is far more abundant with an average of 20,000 parts-per-million (pp...
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August 19, 2012
Greens Re-discover Hydrogen CarI saw my first and only hydrogen car in Brisbane City Square in the 1960's. No one saw it work, but now, fifty years later, the "hydrogen economy" has become green gospel. Hydrogen combines readily with oxygen to produce energy via combustion engines...
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June 19, 2012
The Long and Costly War on CarbonThe Australian government claims that next month's tax on carbon dioxide cannot be blamed for today's soaring costs of living. This tax, however, is just their latest assault in the decades-long war on carbon that is already inflating the cost of eve...
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March 19, 2012
Carbon War erupts in EuropeA battle of world significance has started quietly in Europe. Like all battles it is about energy, resources and ideology. In the red corner, with a coercive utopian green ideology, is Germany, strongly supported by Denmark and UK. This group wants t...
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March 1, 2012
The New Brisbane LineDuring WW2, defeatists were prepared to sacrifice all of Australia north of Brisbane to the advancing enemy. Green extremists have established a New Brisbane Line whereby Northern Australia is abandoned to weeds, ferals, trees, kangaroos, government ...
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February 24, 2012
White Christmas in Brisbane?Not long ago, Europe decided to cool the globe by introducing carbon taxes and rationing. They have succeeded beyond their greenest dreams. Already their tax on carbon dioxide has frozen the Danube and destroyed crops in Ukraine. The severe cold has ...
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February 16, 2012
Greens Destroy Ancestral Grasslands.When Europeans settled Australia, much of the country was covered by grasslands and open forests. In 1770, that great botanist Sir Joseph Banks reported "very few tree species, but every place was covered with vast quantities of grass". Many other ex...
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January 26, 2012
Wasteful Wind PowerLet's try to understand wind power. Every wind farm needs backup generators to supply power when the wind fails. If there is no wind, zero electricity is produced by the turbines and all power comes from the backup generators (mainly coal or gas in m...
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January 18, 2012
Coal Powered CarsThe latest green fad is the electric car. Electricity is not a primary source of energy - it is a way of transmitting energy from primary sources or storages to electric applications and machines. In my country, Australia, 93% of electricity is gener...
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January 9, 2012
Solar SaggingIt is no surprise that makers of solar panels are going broke all over the world. But the key problem is not just a flood of cheap Chinese panels or the slashing of "feed-in" bribes. Solar energy is useful for growing crops and timber, evaporating se...
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August 6, 2010
Making things still mattersClimatism and green tape are strangling productive enterprise in Australia. We are starting to resemble an overhead in search of an income. The climax of warmist silliness is the proposed Citizens' Climate Assembly which will hold several gabfes...