Category Archives: Global warming and climate change policy

David Bidstrup: “Climate change”: All pain and no gain.

Posted on 9:26 am, April 11, 2018 by Guest Author

The climate change controversy rolls on and we continue to do stupid things in the quest to stop the “destruction of the planet” in some sort of man-made climate disaster. It is interesting to look at some of the things … Continue reading →

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Multimillionaire moochers

Posted on 8:14 pm, April 2, 2018 by Rafe Champion

An important link tuned up on the Dupert Darwall thread courtesy of Empire 5.5. The green aristocracy exists at the pleasure of green nobility and there is currently no greater green noble hypocrite than Tom Steyer. Steyer is positioning for … Continue reading →

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Rupert Darwall on the Climate Industrial Complex

Posted on 9:20 pm, March 31, 2018 by Rafe Champion

A half hour interview with the author of Green Tyranny: Exposing the Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex. He notes the role of Sweden as the pioneer of environmental alarmism, the rise of the Greens in the aftermath of the … Continue reading →

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Climate science on trial

Posted on 6:28 pm, March 29, 2018 by Rafe Champion

Keep an eye on the Federal Court in San Francisco where Judge William Alsup is presiding over a confrontation between climate alarmists and Big Oil. Tony Thomas reporting on Quadrant on Line. The big excitement last week was the so-called … Continue reading →

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Is this a dream or just a hallucination?

Posted on 12:13 pm, March 29, 2018 by Rafe Champion

It seems that someone just said that it is too expensive to go for reliable power. We should aim for cheaper power. Can someone explain this? Australia should focus on lowering energy costs rather than guaranteeing reliability, Australian Competition & … Continue reading →

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Groupthink and politics trump science: climate alarmism as the ultimate signal of political correctness

Posted on 12:57 pm, March 19, 2018 by Rafe Champion

Steven Pinker’s latest book in defence of the Enlightenment values of Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress has provided a key to the persistence of climate alarmism in defiance of evidence and scientific arguments. Drawing from work by a legal scholar … Continue reading →

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Got a spare ten seconds?

Posted on 12:51 pm, March 18, 2018 by Steve Kates

Jo Nova on The “ten second” guide to the world of skeptics. She says it is only for newbies but said so well and so contrary to modern forms of madness, thought I would list those essential ten seconds’ worth, … Continue reading →

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Jo Nova on our carbon market

Posted on 10:34 am, March 17, 2018 by Rafe Champion

Interesting? The first years data is out — Australia’s secret Emissions Trading Scheme is up and running, it’s small, inefficient, and pointless, but all the government needs to do is raise those caps, and the carbon trading monster octopus could … Continue reading →

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Very important defence of free speech by Mark Steyn

Posted on 2:24 pm, February 23, 2018 by Rafe Champion

A serious warning about the threat to free speech by protracted lawfare even in the face of the First Amendment. Not to mention the situation in Canada. Also the danger of allowing the validity scientific hypotheses to be litigated and … Continue reading →

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David Leyonhjelm: Solar Subsidy not so Sunny

Posted on 10:02 pm, February 19, 2018 by Rafe Champion

Government subsidies are driving a boom in the installation of rooftop solar panels, paid for by those without panels. That perennial beneficiary of government largesse, Elon Musk, is now proposing many more should be added to roofs in South Australia. … Continue reading →

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