Unrealistic Unreliable Unaffordable
The big plan that Australia can build enough wind farms, transmission lines, and back-up storage to power a renewable energy future is […]
A Tale Of Two Cities
ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE SPECTATOR AUSTRALIA It is a tale of two cities. First is Barcaldine, Queensland, which has been left reeling after […]
Labor Living In Cloud Cuckoo Land On Energy Policy Future
ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE AUSTRALIAN Affordable and reliable electricity is central to everything Australia does. But in pursuit of a policy of net-zero […]
Climate And Energy, Summarised
Our friends at The Climate Study Group have just published the latest in their informative series of articles in the The Australian and […]
The End of an Era – Vale Patrick Michaels
There was a time when it was possible to point out an error by way of a rebuttal published as a note in a scientific journal – even in the journal Nature, even when it went against the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming agenda. The late Patrick Michaels had a note published back in 1996 (vol. 384, pg. 522) explaining that there was a major error in research findings by Ben Santer – findings so significant they underpinned the key claim in the second IPCC report that ‘The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.’
There Will be A Price To Pay For Sustainable Energy
If the pundits are to be believed, the march of ESG through Australian boardrooms is an unstoppable force, so said Moody’s Head of Sustainability at their conference recently in Sydney.
What started as a push to ensure environment, social and governance perspectives were given due weight in assessing companies and securities, is now shorthand for declaring certain forms of value-creation verboten.
Epicentre of Mass Coral Bleaching – Still So Beautiful (Part 1)
I went to the very epicentre of the claimed latest severe mass coral bleaching event, at John Brewer Reef off Townsville, and found a coral wonderland.
Not Expecting Coral Bleaching During a La Niña
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has uploaded some footage of John Brewer Reef that is part of the Underwater Museum of Art, the footage was apparently taken by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in February. It does not show a lot of bleached coral, but it does show some badly bleached individual…
The Disaster at Lismore: Some Rainfall Statistics
They claim both extreme wet days and the intensity of rainfall are increasing, but daily rainfall statistics for Lismore do not support this theory.
Australia’s Broken Temperature Record (Part 4)
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has now admitted, as I surmised in a blog post on 10th February, that the reference value for 2021 was not actually included in its calculation of the amount of warming as published in the 2021 Annual Climate Statement.