Category Archives: Democracy and global warming policies

Andrew L. Urban  Just last week, I received the latest newsletter from the Australian Academy of Science, with a message from its new President, Prof. Sam Berkovic. After the opening pleasantries, he writes: “I take up the Presidency at a … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban I am sitting at a small table at the rooftop terrace cafe of the Noga Hilton on the famed Croisette in Cannes, The sun sparkles off the Mediterranean below. It’s May 2006 and I’m waiting to interview … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban  Australia is an ongoing feast for the Parisites; these are the Paris agreement-revering organisms that live off or within our national organism, obtaining nourishment and protection while offering no benefit in return. Below is an extract from … Continue reading →

The framework driving IPCC climate modelling has officially ditched the extreme scenarios as implausible, writes Roger Pielke jr in Climate Change Dispatch. The new framework has eliminated the most extreme scenarios that have dominated climate research over much of the past several decades — specifically, RCP8.5, … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban The mother of all unchallenged false premises, that fossil fuel emissions drive global warming, has delivered a bastard of policy settings, dumped on a gullible (stupid?) Australia, to nurture. After 30-plus years of wealth-draining activism, the stupidity … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban  The Viva Energy refinery fire in Geelong (16/4/2026) was not only a real gutpunch to our energy resources but also a symbolic bonfire of the vanities of our energy policies. Let me correct that: to the Labor … Continue reading →

Andrew L. Urban Wouldn’t it be the ultimate irony of all time if an Iran engineered shortage of fossil fuels in the West triggered a scramble for …er…fossil fuels in the sillysphere! Could the US/Israel war on the Islamic Republic … Continue reading →

I’ve always blamed the mass media for the damage done to energy policies around the world. Had they interrogated the earliest claims that mankind is causing warming, as closely as they interrogate fraudulent politicians, we would have been spared the … Continue reading →

One of the most violent, shocking and damning demonstrations of what is being done to Australia’s natural environment in the name of renewables is published – complete with videos – in The Weekend Australian, Feb 28/29, 2026. It is a … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin on Feb. 12 announced the elimination of a 2009 finding that served as the basis of U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, reports The Epoch Times (Feb. 13, … Continue reading →