Everyone knows that the main reason the fire seasons are getting longer is because of climate change, even the deniers. The 2008 Garnaut Climate Change Review, which examined the scientific…
Sky News’ (an oxymoron if ever there was one) Chris ‘Fido’* Kenny is a climate change denier that Rupert Murdoch says don’t exist in his media organisations, which are in…
After the media were shocked by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) raids on the Sydney offices of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the Canberra home of NewsCorp journalist Annika…
I went to a geoscience conference a while ago, which Ian Plimer, the darling of the climate change deniers, also attended. While some people were quite happy to be seen…
Murdoch ‘ruperter’ Greg Brown has been a subject of essays in this series a couple of times1,2. In this one3, he is helped by the unlucky Olivia Caisley while he…
Environment Editor at Guardian Australia, Adam Morton tweeted the following on Friday (8/11/2019): “Just to recap Today’s fires are ‘unprecedented’ The fires in Queensland earlier this year were ‘unprecedented’ The…
Although similar things have happened before with regard to the danger we face from climate change, they have never been this large: More than 11,000 scientists from 153 countries around…
The survival of any democracy is completely dependent on the survival of a ‘free media’ that are not constrained to publish only what the government wants. Over the past decade,…
I have had a go at the vacuous nature of Amanda Vanstone’s Sydney Morning Herald diatribes before1,2,3, and now she has come out with another, in which she has a…
I was sent a clip from Alan Jones’ drivel on Sky News. Of course, he was whining about the ‘climate change hoax’ and the children and others (including me) who…