Realities of Climate Much theatre is being made as politicians wring their hands and point the finger to blame opponents over the current electricity crisis. However, nobody dares question what is clearly at the heart of the problem. The United Nations, 40 years ago, was misled by extravagant claims of dangerous anthropogenic global warming being caused by industrialisation, especially the burning of fossil…

We need your help. News Weekly’s editorial team has undertaken the task of compiling the much-needed revised edition of Forget’s Dictionary of Inaccurate Facts, Furphys and Falsehoods. Professor Anscombe Bitisirov, Oxford don and world-recognised Interpol wantee, who edited the last revision of the text in 1935, wrote in his preface at the time: “While much of Forget’s tome is still…

These two maps, published by the CSIRO in 2013, show that in the period 1982–2010, the amount of leaf coverage worldwide across arid areas in particular had increased by 11 per cent due to a process the scientific institution calls, euphemistically, “carbon dioxide fertilisation”.   Presumably, this greening of the deserts is “good news” despite its being due to, at least in some…

  DAYS OF FIRE: Bush and Cheney in the White House by Peter Baker   Penguin Random House, NY Paperback: 832 pages Price: AUD $35.95 Reviewed by Jeffry Babb   Up until the age of 40, when he gave up drinking, George W. Bush was what we would call a no-hoper. He traded on his father’s name to establish a…

STALIN AND THE SCIENTISTS: A History of Triumph and Tragedy by Simon Ings   Faber & Faber, London Hardcover: 528 pages Price: AUD $49.99 Reviewed by Bill James   This title is a bit misleading, because Simon Ings extends the story back to the 19th century, and forward to the post-Stalin era and the collapse of Soviet communism. In fact,…