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Straight From Rubbish Tip To You
That was Louie the fly, in the famous Mortein ads. But it might as well have been organic food, except then it would need to be ‘Straight from manure pile to you.’ Health authorities were issuing…
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Off The Buses
I have often wondered about the economic and environmental value of public transport buses lumbering through city traffic. I have lived in rural areas most of my life, and it has always annoyed me that I have…
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Tornadoes Caused by Global Warming
Well, no, actually. But, hey Bill McKibben et al, don’t let mere facts stop you. Bill McKibben was one of the first (they are pretty quick, but he was the quickest) of the global warming alarmists to claim the…
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Blanchett to Australia – ‘Listen Up, Peasants’
The Australian Greens have accused polluters of an “ugly attack” on Hollywood star Cate Blanchett, who has come out in a new television advertising campaign in support of a carbon tax. Yes, but if CO2 is…
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Rapture, Global Warming, and Other Delusions
Harold Camping was wrong. 200 million Christian believers were not ‘raptured’ up to heaven on Saturday. If Christian fundamentalists keep this up, it will only be another 100 or so wrong predictions and they will have as…
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Predictable Predictions
‘Will your home be underwater?’ asks the Adelaide Advertiser, which seems to be taking on a new role as the Adelaide (Labor Party) Advertiser. Under political pressure over its unspecified carbon tax, the Federal Government will…
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Insults Are Not Evidence
In the early eighties I went through a stage of uncertainty about the ordination of women to the priesthood. I was living in Adelaide at the time, studying at Flinders/The Adelaide College of Divinity for priestly…
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Greenpeace Not A Charity
As a contrast to the appallingly dumb judicial decision in the previous post, I offer this as a counter-example: Greenpeace has lost a High Court battle to restore its status as a charity. The environmental lobby…
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Renewable Wonder Fuel Not So Wonderful
The World Bank’s annual index shows global food prices have soared 36 per cent in 12 months, adding a further 44 million people to the 1.2 billion who live in extreme poverty. The greater proportion of…
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This Is Good News …
After many years of informal experimentation, I am happy to report my findings about the benefits of beer as re-hydrative beverage of choice have been confirmed in a more objectively scientific study. After exercise, water is…
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Why I Am Not Keeping Earth Hour
Based on an article by Dr Ross McKitrick in the Vancouver Sun. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every social, technological and medical advance in the 20th…
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Water, Water, Everywhere
On the ABC’s Landline in 2007: SALLY SARA: What will it mean for Australian farmers if the predictions of climate change are correct and little is done to stop it? What will that mean for a…
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Axe the Tax
The Prime Minister is scheduled to speak at Adelaide University tomorrow on ‘Governing for Reform: Values in Practice.’ Short talk, then. Late notice, but a good opportunity. Copied from menzieshouse.com.au: We have just received word that…
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Shh… Don’t Mention Multiculturalism
There is one of these on just about every conceivable subject. A few are clever and amusing. This is one. Carbon Tax Downfall:
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Sideshow Bob
Tim Wilson has a delightful piece at The Punch, cross-posted at the IPA, which explores a day in the life of Carbon Bob. Bob’s a model citizen and busy man trying to save the world from…
