Darebin City Council, in inner Melbourne, became the world’s first council to declare a “Climate Emergency”. Since then about 85 Australian councils have rung out their own “emergency”  declarations, plus 1300 worldwide, including New York and London. It was a solemn moment at the Preston Town Hall (Vic.) on October 26, 2018, as Darebin Council … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →