Category Archives: Democracy and global warming policies

Andrew L. Urban The biggest and most successful political sleight of hand in history is playing to a world divided between those who know how the trick works and those who have been tricked by it. The trick has to … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban Late in the 1993 Federal election campaign, one simple question turned what seemed like the unlosable election for the Coalition into victory for Labor. The question was about a hypothetical birthday cake: reporter Mike Willesee asked Opposition … Continue reading →

 Andrew L. Urban While Anthony Albanese welcomed the King warming to climate action the other day in Samoa, I was enjoying a BBQ dinner as a guest with new acquaintances. The conversation turned to the topic of climate change. Not … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban Artificial intelligence is now debunking artificial truth. Films can drive change in the world. Al Gore’s award winning and enthusiastically heralded 2006 An Inconvenient Truth did. But ‘truth’ it wasn’t. In October 2007 a discordant alarm was … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban The trap that won’t let go…. As climate change and energy minister Chris Bowen takes climate alarm zealotry to 12 out of 10, you might have noticed how even the most hard core anti-alarmist commentators (on Sky … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban On a per capita basis, we have the most climate lawsuits in the world. Activists launched 127 climate lawsuits in Australia from the 1990s to 2022, according to new research by the Menzies Research Centre. In Australia, … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban The anthropogenic global warming scenario was launched 36 years ago this month, on June 23, 1988, in the US Senate committee with the testimony of James Hansen of NASA.  To emphasise the ‘warming’ at the congressional session, … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban While the Australian Academy of Science made a positive contribution to the inquiry into Kathleen Folbigg’s wrongful murder convictions, its submission on climate change is “totally unrelated to science,” says Prof. Ian Plimer. The Academy’s latest submission … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban It took political columnist (ex ABC & Nine) Chris Uhlmann to sharpen the point that energy in the economy is the equivalent of oxygen in the air. In his May 4 column in the Weekend Australian (his … Continue reading →