• Exit from net zero

    Time to start planning We need a plan before a government comes to power with a mandate to exit, only to find that they have to make it up during the first year of office. More commentators are talking about an orderly exit from coal, instead of the insane stampede prescribed by most Australian governments…

  • Heads up for investors

    And others From the Beer Whisperer. Greg Canavan on the exit from net zero for investors. The smart money is shifting to fossil fuels, anticipating the collapse of the net zero ponzi scheme. Hear about it in the first few minutes of the video. Serious investors will need to listen to the end to get…

  • Net Zero three strikes and you’re out

    Strike One Impossible due to the wind droughts and lack of storage. Strike Two Impossibly expensive due to the need to keep 100% conventional power for ever due to One. Strike Three Catastrophic impact on people and other living things through the supply chain from mining through wreckage of forests and farmland to disposal of…

  • Leftism Dies in Daylight

    Historian and poet Robert Conquest was a communist in his early life until he saw the light. Light is the operative word. Communism, leftism more broadly, survives only in the shadow of ignorance. Apropos, Conquest’s first law: “Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.” Or, the version I like: “Everybody is reactionary on subjects he…

  • On food, fasting & feasting

    Cassie of Sydney Jews love to eat! But what human being on the planet does not like eating scrumptious and delicious food? Food and feasting are sensual human pleasures and pastimes. Food does not just fuel our bodies, it also fuels and stimulates our taste buds, our minds and our souls. However, some cultures and…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #85

    Watch the skies. Was the working title for Steven Spielberg’s 1977 science fiction classic Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. Anticipation was very high for this film as it would be Spielberg’s follow-up to his hugely successful 1975 horror thriller Jaws. Was Jaws just a one-off fluke or was a new and exciting director now…

  1. I am amused. COP29 reaches groundbreaking trillion-dollar climate deal, but developing nations demand more (Sky News, 24 Nov) Following intense…

  2. I did not know that. Must visit (South) Korea. https://x.com/moriko38/status/1860080824223424953?t=z4Cluy-UBtYhfj1tV_-2bA&s=19