The Journal
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Baby What a Big Surprise
With apologies to Chicago. But no surprises here: The New South Wales government censored studies which show that the rate of sea level rise has not increased, and is nothing to worry about at all, really.…
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A Tourniquet Around Our Necks to Stop a Nosebleed
I have said right from the beginning, starting fifteen years ago, that I was unconvinced by arguments for anthropogenic global warming for the simple reason that there is no correlation between human activity and global changes…
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Reason on Drug Decriminalisation
Decriminalisation is legalisation. If something is not treated as a crime, and no sanctions are imposed, then it is legal. I enjoy Reason Magazine – I am a Kindle subscriber. But I do find Reason’s constant nagging…
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Dud Climate Prophecies Have a Long History
In 1989 the UN was telling us that entire nations would be wiped off the earth if global warming were not reversed by the year 2000. As Donna Laframboise points out, since this hasn’t happened, aren’t…
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And Right On Cue
Five minutes after I posted the previous article about global warming alarmists losing debates and resorting to insults, an article by professor of psychology Stephan Lewandowksy appeared on the ABC’s Drum website. It starts off well…
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When Does Someone Cease to be a Person?
Any doctor or family members considering turning off a ventilator or withholding food and water from someone who is ‘brain dead,’ or to use the currently preferred term, in a persistent vegetative state, should read the…
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Ignoring Reality
In a natural follow up to the story below, where a bunch of toddlers attempt to pretend something does not exist, the UK government and the BBC pretend something does exist – cheap renewable energy. Christopher Booker…
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Dead Polar Bear
I was on my way to work yesterday when I saw this dead polar bear on the side of the road. It is tragic that melting ice forced this magnificent creature to leave its home and…
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Facts on CO2 and Climate Change
Facts have defeated the climate alarmist juggernaut. It still lumbers on like a gigantic zombie looking for brains to devour. Poor thing. It does most of its lumbering in universities and Labor Party gatherings, where brains are…
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AIDS Success in Zimbabwe – Another Unsurprising Surprise
Given the demonisation of the Catholic Church’s position on the use of condoms, you might be excused for thinking that the science was settled: promotion of condom use is the most effective method of reducing HIV infection.…
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Climate Science by, Like, a Scientist
The opinions of politicians, singers and film stars on the state of the climate and what should be done about it, are eagerly sought by the populist press. As a partial consequence of this, the populist press is becoming…
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So Scary It’s Profitable
A couple of excerpts from Matt Ridley, writing in The Australian: No matter how many scares are proved wrong, the next set of dispatches of doom are treated with the same reverential respect. Remember what the media…
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Is The Age Finally Seeing the Light?
Although The Age is a left leaning paper, I was a regular reader up until a few years ago. I am not sure what changed, but it seemed to me that The Age was no longer content…
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Jackboots on Viscount Monckton
A few days ago Viscount Monckton suggested that those who think like professional climate boogeymen Ross Garnaut are on a short road to fascism. Cue legacy media frenzy of horror. His comments were bizarre, appalling, distasteful, etc, etc. He…
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Andrew Turnbull on Climate Policy
Lord Turnbull was Permanent Secretary of the UK Department for the Environment from 1994 to 1998, and Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Home Civil Service 2002-05. He has written a twenty page briefing paper for…
