Here’s a conundrum: is New Zealand even more bonkers about climate change than the South Australia or Melbourne University? I fact-checked the question at cruise-ship ports while on a recent voyage about the Shaky Isles. New Zealand runs 27 million sheep and six million dairy cows. Perversely, the curators at Wellington’s Te Papa, the country’s … Continue reading
Author Archives: Tony Thomas
Climate journalism: More ‘disinterest’ would be nice
I had the privilege last month of hearing Jo Chandler (above), former environment writer for The Age, describing how she’s pursued her craft of writing about global warming. Whoops, she gave the whole game away! I’ve not previously heard a journalist disclose media people’s behind-the-news-desk strategies to boost the alarmist narrative. Chandler has written two … Continue reading
Discomfort and Dismay at the Parkville Asylum
29th December 2019 Melbourne University’s famously loopy Sustainable Society Institute (MSSI) was hung out to dry the other day by one of its lunchtime panellists, Professor Jon Barnett, at the uni’s Elisabeth Murdoch building. MSSI’s audience of climate zealots couldn’t believe their ears. (listen to the audio here). A political geographer, Barnett (pictured above) agrees with the human-caused CO2 … Continue reading
Electric cars crash
Globally, SUVs are swamping car sales and here’s the point: as fast as governments bribe or wrangle people into low-emission electrics, the popular shift to SUVs more than cancels the emissions cuts. In the forced march of folly towards net zero emissions, electrics are as much a lost cause as windmills. Tony Thomas 30 November … Continue reading
With the Inmates of the Parkville (Melbourne University) Asylum
About 250 shock troops for Extinction Rebellion (XR) gathered in the basement of Melbourne University’s Glyn Davis Building the other day for a tactical briefing . They were mobilised by the poo-soapers of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, helped by fanatics from the Potsdam Climate Institute.[1] 25th November 2019 The instructor was Professor Neil Gunningham from Australian National University. The … Continue reading
Yes, we have a truth emergency
As Spectator Australia went to press, ABC chair Ita Buttrose smacked down the staff’s proposal to defy the ABC’s impartiality charter and put a hype overlay across climate reporting. “It was one of those ideas that is not going to happen,” she said. Asked by ABC radio presenter David Bevan why the idea won’t get-up, … Continue reading
Climate Science Proves Scams Don’t Die of Exposure
Do my hard-pressed editor a favor and click the link to the original here 14th November 2019 Tony Thomas It’s the tenth anniversary next week of the 2009 Climategate email dump that exposed top climate scientists’ chicanery and subversion of science – and did so in their own words and out of their own mouths, … Continue reading
