The Journal
Current Affairs
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Pessimism Rife at Copenhagen
So, good news all around. The SMH is reporting a draft deal at Crappenhuggen. What they are reporting is not a ‘deal’ but a draft document put together by developed nations as a possible basis for a…
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No Lack of Rationality at Copenhagen
I’d be a believer too if I thought I’d be up for billions in grants, cars, holidays, Swiss bank accounts. There are vast amounts of money to be made in being victims of climate change. So…
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Consensus, Consensus, Consensus
I said it three times, so it must be true. Or it was true back in the seventies. No matter how much they try to deny it now (just as in five years time they will…
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Well Done President Obama
Whenever I am at a social gathering, or any other kind of gathering, for that matter, and someone says ‘Violence never solves anything,’ I make an excuse (sometimes even a polite excuse) and go and look…
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Showing Potential, That’s a Peace Prize!
Being a black guy, that’s a peace prize! Making a sandwich, that’s a peace prize! From PJTV. Hilarious!
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Plaintively, From Off Stage – ‘But, All the Scientists Agree …’
Well, not quite: His Excellency Ban Ki Moon Secretary-General, United Nations New York, NY United States of America 8 December 2009 Dear Secretary-General, Climate change science is in a period of ‘negative discovery’ – the more…
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No Posting Day Post Three
Just one more thing before the lager and nuts: From Town Hall. And finally (no I really mean it this time), if you are still in any doubt that scary AGW is a fraud, bad science,…
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Disaster of Unprecedented Proportions
Or that’s what the AGW alarmists would have you believe, with ever more shrill warnings about melting ice, starving Africans, extinct frogs, and the hottest decade ever in Australia. No really, you have to believe me.…
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Violence Due To Rising Fundamentalism
The Daily Mail manages to write nearly 1,000 words on the problem of increasing violence caused by a growth in fundamentalism, without once mentioning what kind of fundamentalism this might be. Those pesky Baptists just won’t stop…
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Give It Up Kevin, We’re Not Buying It
Mr Rudd announced today that families would be compensated for the extra costs caused by Labor’s planned ETS. But what exactly is the point of a tax if the businesses who will pay the tax are going to…
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A Teensy Little Gloat
Despite the morbid prognostications of Mr Mackerras and the left-wing locos, I said before the Higgins and Bradfield by-elections that both seats would be retained easily by the Liberals, that neither would go to preferences, and…
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The Date of Christmas
A common view about the date of Christmas goes something like this: “Well, it was a pagan festival, something to do with the sun, and the Christians pinched it to try to make their religion more…
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Rudd to Abbott – No Debate on Climate Change
No surprise there. Mr Rudd says he is not interested in debating climate change with Mr Abbott. He says Mr Abbott should stop talking and develop a coherent policy on climate change. Give him time Kevin. And…
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No Climate Change Drives Desperate ABC To Eat Polar Bears
OK, a little poetic license there. There ABC’s refusal to mention Climategate/Climaquiddick, or to acknowledge the lack of warming for the last ten years, or any aspect of scientific reality, means it is getting more and more desperate for stories…
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Double Disillusionment
My wife asked me on the way into Kingscote yesterday if I thought a double disillusionment was likely. She meant double dissolution, and corrected herself immediately. But it is a great phrase. For the Labor Party, a double disillusionment…
