Warming in Antarctica?
Only using ‘creative’ statistics
Rain Bom
Are CO2 emissions to blame for the floods?
In defence of nomadic farming, including with fire
For traditional Aboriginal Australians the concept of ‘Wilderness’ was not a cause for fond nostalgia, but was perceived as a…
Australian notes
Selling the dying Great Barrier Reef With the recent A$1billion announced to save the ‘dying’ Great Barrier Reef, I wonder…
Aloha carbon emissions
The Tongan island that blew up explodes the climate myth about sea levels
Aussie Life
I live by the sea and like walking along the coastline including scrambling over the rock ledges in Noosa National…
Maori science beats woke myths
We need to return to empirical evidence
Dead reef? What dead reef?
Next time you read that such and such a percentage of the Great Barrier Reef has already been destroyed by…
Fighting for the truth about the Reef
It is an injustice that turtles are blown up in the Gulf of Mexico because American oil companies choose a…
A good day for Peter Ridd - and free speech
A potentially crucial blow for academic freedom and free speech has been struck today, with the High Court granting former…
Great Barrier Reef platitudes: more dangerous than sharks
It has always been the case that the individual is expected to conform and that there is hierarchy within myths.…
Peter Ridd loses, we all lose
On 2 May 2018, Professor Peter Ridd was sacked by James Cook University for serious misconduct. It all started when…
Revealed: the true hottest day ever recorded in Australia
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology deleted what was long regarded as the hottest day ever recorded in Australia, Bourke’s 125°F…
Don’t let the truth of these terrible weeks be forgotten or rewritten
The infernos of January 2020 will be remembered for destroying so much of south-eastern Australia. I weep for their victims.…
Tragic, but unprecedented? Not yet
The word unprecedented is applied to almost every bad thing that happens at the moment, as though particular events could…
Why the left’s beef about the Reef?
We live in an era when it is politically incorrect to say the Great Barrier Reef is doing fine, except…
The Beige Barrier Reef?
A key claim in a January 2016 article in the scientific journal, Nature, is that there are no longer any living colonies of Acropora…
Climate change; the facts — and how you can help to spread them
As the editor of the last book — and the next — in the Institute of Public Affairs’ Climate Change:…
Jennifer Marohasy: come visit the reef with me, Misha Ketchell
Fundamental to the scientific method is the assumption that reality exists independently of our belief systems; that there is such…
How will more pen-pushers help the Great Barrier Reef?
The idea that the Great Barrier Reef is in need of saving from catastrophe is popular, especially among academics and…
Some coral just isn’t sexy enough for James Cook Uni and the Climate Inquisition
The First Finding handed down by Judge Salvador Vasta in the Peter Ridd court case concerned Bramston reef off Bowen…
Peter Ridd has defeated the Climate Inquisition thanks to you
Peter Ridd was a professor at James Cook University who dared to question claims that the Great Barrier Reef is…
The hottest summer on record except for the ones that we’ve changed
This last summer has been hot in south-eastern Australia. But was it the hottest ever? Summer 80 years ago was…
Is Canberra’s strongest sceptic set for the high jump?
The Australian parliament is replete with closet-sceptics of human-caused catastrophic global warming. But Craig Kelly actually speaks out on this…
The Climate Inquisition burns a heretic
Back in 2016, when I asked Peter Ridd if he would write a chapter for the book I was editing…
