Quadrant Online - Australia: State of Intolerance

There is something deeply troubling about Kevin Rudd’s extraordinary attack in his Lowy lecture on people who dare to be skeptical about the climate change hysteria that is presently overwhelming Australian politics.

Certainly its breathtaking arrogance and conviction of absolute certitude, its “naming and shaming” attack on political opponents and commentators, and its relentless dot-point repetition and stylistic vapidity, are worrying enough. However, its depiction of a giant global conspiracy of climate change deniers and skeptics reveals something more, a disturbed mental state first identified in 1965 by the great American historian Richard Hofstadter in his essay on “The Paranoid Style in American Politics”.

Watson harpoons the humans instead | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson, the eco-extremist and ”founding director” of the Greenpeace Foundation, says he’s on a mission to save the whales. But this self-styled “Pirate of Compassion” is happy to harpoon the humans instead who have helped him to do it

How wind power generates only red ink | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Wind is perhaps the greatest snake oil being sold by green carpetbaggers - other than carbon permits, of course:
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The scale of the insanity overtaking the western world at the moment is so vast that future generations will not credit it.

Not drowning, but wavering | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The latest report of Australia’s National Tidal Centre notes that the sea level at Tuvalu actually fell this year - and the net average rise in the 16 years since the gauge was installed is still just 5.3 mm a year. And even then it adds “the sea level trends are not yet indicative of long-term changes in mean sea level”.