Lushington D. Brady: The Benefit of Doing Nothing

‘Saving the planet’ is more expensive than leaving it be

Every so often, in their increasingly deranged efforts to scare the pants off us, the Climate Cult inadvertently publish reports that make the sceptical case for us.

As I wrote recently, a recent report by Net Zero Australia estimated the cost of merely transforming Australia’s transmission grid to cope with renewables at $1.5 trillion. The total cost of “Net Zero” would, they concede with blithe optimism, be around $9 trillion.

Lushington D. Brady: Hey, Hey, It’s Getting Cold in Here

Coldest June morning on record!

You know, I’m not known as impatient sort of guy, but, dammit, I’m starting to wonder what’s happened to that global warming I was promised. Because, in case you hadn’t noticed, it’s decidedly nippy these days.

Well, duh – it’s winter. Except it’s quite a winter. A chillier one than we’ve seen since records began in some parts of Australia.

Lushington D. Brady: Don’t You Wish They’d Make Up Their Minds?

They knew that when the rains came, it was a sign.
When the rains departed, it was a sign.
When the winds rose, it was a sign.
When the winds fell, it was a sign.
When in the land there was born at the midnight of a full moon a goat with three heads, that was a sign.
When in the land there was born at some time in the afternoon a perfectly normal cat or pig with no birth complications, or even just a child with a retrousse nose, that, too, would often be taken as a sign. 

- Douglas Adams,  “Life, the Universe and Everything”

If there’s one thing cults are good at, it’s explaining away inconvenient facts. Especially such inconvenient facts as the world failing to end as predicted. As the classic Peter Cook sketch, The End of the World concludes: “Same time again tomorrow, brothers — we must get a winner some day”.

Lushington D. Brady: A Sane Country Wouldn’t Ditch Coal

When Europeans arrived in Tasmania, they noticed an astonishing and puzzling thing. Despite living on an island, Tasmanians refused to eat fish. They hadn’t for 5,000 years. Despite unsubstantiated claims to the contrary, the middens are clear: Tasmanians stopped eating scaled fish about 3000 BC. The middens show that they certainly ate shellfish in abundance, but, despite being surrounded by rich fishing grounds, Tasmanians resolutely refused to avail themselves of an abundant and easy source of protein.