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Discussion over why its far better for the environment to pipe water from Tasmania to Melbourne than building the Wonthaggi desalination plant

Seems the many efforts by school boards in Texas to get creationism taught in schools is paying off… (via) Every single thing about this world is moving towards a society in which, to be successful, you need to well...

What marvellous news to learn that the UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon is to launch a thorough investigation into the science behind climate change! It’s the equivalent of Kenneth Lay promising to organise a full and...

What marvellous news to learn that the UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon is to launch a thorough investigation into the science behind climate change! It’s the equivalent of Kenneth Lay promising to organise a full and...

• Lobby consists of 90 academics, politicians and experts• Claim appropriate information has not been made availablePressure on the government to organise an independent inquiry into a new generation of nuclear power...

IPCC changed viewpoint on the MWP in 2001 – did this have effect on scientific results? Guest post by Frank Lansner Latest News (hidethedecline) A brief check indicates a “warm MWP-consensus” before...

A formal announcement was made in a  press conference made at 12:30PM EST by the IPCC, which is getting press,  for example here. But at the time of this writing, there’s no mention of it whatsoever on the main IPCC...

Today’s blog is brought to you from Dubai, courtesy of Emirates Airlines, which is sponsoring the city’s annual Festival of Literature. As always when I’m in the Middle East, I’m instantly reminded...

From the You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up Department. Former Apartheid Spy Appointed to Head UN Climate Change Effort by Joel B. Pollak From BIGGOVERNMENT.com This week, Marthinus van Schalkwyk,...

Watching another dismal episode of the BBC’s Question Time last week, I realised why British politics is in such a dire state. It’s because the language of debate has been hijacked so comprehensively by the liberal...

News has just reached me that the great Professor Ian Plimer, scourge of climate-fear-promoters everywhere, has been suddenly disinvited by the Royal Society of Artists (RSA) from a lecture he was due to give in May before...

A Texas reader, Robert Birch, wishes to draw your attention to a magnificent artistic creation he is selling on Ebay, which he lovingly constructed from 100 per cent recycled materials (not all of them organic, unfortunately,...

Green jobs are a waste of space, a waste of money, a lie, a chimera. You know that. I know that. We’re familiar with the report by Dr Gabriel Calzada Alvarez of the Rey Juan Carlos University in Spain which shows that...

Plots, Politics, and Predetermined Outcomes at the National Academies of Science

A sharp-eyed viewer has noticed that when I was debating George Monbiot on TV yesterday and I mentioned that his cherished “peer-reviewed science” had been discredited by Climategate he bared his teeth like a...

Only to be sued by the city for having an ugly yard… Some Southern California cities fine residents for watering their lawns too much during droughts...