A WHISTLEBLOWER has claimed approvals for two multi-billion dollar gas export projects in Australia were waved through government despite warnings that key information on a range of environmental impacts were…
I IMAGINE only a small percentage of people reading this have had any journalism training, but don’t let that stop you from pondering the following ethical question. If you read…
A LEADING Australian free-market think tank with close ties to the country’s conservative Liberal Party has revealed its plan for climate change – abolish it. Aside from the current Labor-led…
IF you haven’t seen them on the television or come across their interviews on the radio or in newspapers and magazines, then you’ve almost certainly seen their work as your…
ANTI-WIND farm activists around the world have created a silent bogeyman they claim can cause everything from sickness and headaches to herpes, kidney damage and cancers. This “infrasound” exists at…
THE climate science denial industry doesn’t like Penn State University’s Professor Michael Mann very much. Mann is the scientist behind the famous “hockey stick” graph that first appeared in the…
MEMBERS of London’s famous gentlemen’s club Brooks’s have no doubt cooked-up a few bizarre plots, plans and wagers over the years as Britain’s gentry and ennobled upper class sipped on…
BEN CUBBY, the environment editor at Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, admits he has an unusual problem – “how does one critically analyse a pile of horse shit?” The horse…
PERHAPS somebody should write a pocket guide book with the title: “How to spot you’ve been suckered by a fake grassroots movement”. Once it’s written, these guide books could be…
A FEW weeks ago I wrote a story for DeSmogBlog looking at how Lord Christopher Monckton – a poster child of the climate science denialist movement – had agreed to…
AUSTRALIA is baking in a heatwave which has broken all historical records for its geographical size and sheer number of extremes. For seven days straight, the country’s average maximum temperature…
PASTOR Daniel Nalliah, president of the fringe political party Rise Up Australia, has what you might politely describe as some fairly interesting views on matters of science, the climate, abortion…
IT’S the new must-have accessory for any self-respecting climate science denialist commentator in Australian newspapers – their very own “Australian Press Council” adjudication showing exactly how they stuffed up the…
TWO leading groups representing thousands of scientists across Australia are asking for changes to the country’s Freedom of Information (FOI) laws to better protect climate change scientists from abuse and…
A CLIMATE sceptic blogger Alec Rawls has taken it upon himself to leak the current draft of an entire major Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which is not due…
FREEDOM of Information laws across the world were introduced as a way to open governments and their agencies to public and journalistic scrutiny and to extract the kind of information…
A BRITISH MP revealed to be holding $400,000 worth of share options in an oil firm while sitting on an influential parliamentary climate change committee is also being paid $300…
SO a major United States university has decided to pull the plug on a research institute focussing on energy from gas after questions were raised over its ties to the…
LEVELS of the potent greenhouse gas methane have been recorded at more than three times their normal background levels at coal seam gas fields in Australia, raising questions about the…
IT’S DIFFICULT to really know where to start in describing Lord Christopher Monckton, one of the planet’s most outspoken deniers of the risks of human-caused climate change. You could say…
