In which Barners, Tamworth's shame, paves the way for the Caterist keeping Nazi company, and the Major keeping Lysenko close ...

 

In an idle Monday morning moment, the pond wondered how many members of the lizard Oz hive mind had WFH in the preparation of this morning's assembly of far right fundamentalist outrage ...

It was just idle thought, a butterfly moment, inspired by that EXCLUSIVE that led in the early morning ...

EXCLUSIVE
‘Naked grab for votes’: chief executives blast WFH edict
Australia’s biggest retailers employing more than 500,000 workers have united to fight Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan’s radical out-of-office plans and union efforts to spread them across the country.
By Eli Greenblat

It might be good for the reptiles to WFH, but perhaps not for thee ...

Over on the extreme far right, the pond was disappointed to see that Lord Downer had done a bunk, or at least was an early morning no show ...

Instead simplistic Simon was briefly top of the world ma, with a "when did you stop beating your wife?" routine ...

Why wasn’t Iran law in PM’s top drawer?
There is a legitimate question to be asked about why an amendment for the Criminal Code hasn’t been sitting in a top drawer somewhere to be dusted off.
By Simon Benson
Political analyst

There was also a bit of Rowan upstream ...

Xi’s military parade will be marked by pride and paranoia
This week Xi will be surrounded by the most consequential assembly of authoritarian rulers so far this century.
By Rowan Callick
Contributor

Not true Rowan.

For starters, King Donald won't be there, and how could it be the most consequential assembly of authoritarian rulers without him? - though he does deserve hearty congratulations for helping to bring India and Russia together, and India and China, and India, China, and Russia...talk about never-ending diplomatic triumphs.

Then came the moment of truth, the question which always torments the pond: which reptiles would do their Iron Chef best and make the cut?

For reasons of perversity, and for the pleasure of all the writhing, the pond broke its rule of only running the elite commentariat, and went with an EXCLUSIVE featuring Tamworth's deep shame ...

The trappings:

EXCLUSIVE
Barnaby Joyce Joyce urges Andrew Hastie not to vote for anti-net zero bill, 

Barnaby Joyce has privately cautioned Andrew Hastie, warning a vote for the bill would force him from the frontbench and limit his impact on policy.
By Greg Brown, Geoff Chambers and Jack Quail
5 min read
August 31, 2025 - 9:00PM
From left: Barnaby Joyce, Andrew Hastie, and Sussan Ley.

The reeling and writhing, not to mention ambition, distraction, uglification and derision then began, featuring Tamworth's shame and the pastie Hastie (the one with the young earthcreationist dad):

Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce has privately urged opposition frontbencher Andrew Hastie against voting for his bill to abolish a ­commitment to net-zero emissions by 2050, with ­Coalition MPs saying the West Australian conservative is considering backing the contentious legislation in a move that would destabilise Sussan Ley’s leadership and force him onto the backbench.
Coalition MPs have told The Australian that Mr Joyce warned Mr Hastie it would be counter­productive for him to support a private member’s bill to abolish the net-zero target, as it would lead the prominent conservative Liberal to be dumped from the shadow ministry and limit his ­impact on policy development.
Several MPs say Mr Hastie has signalled he would consider crossing the floor if Labor allowed a vote on the bill, as he supports the principle of abolishing the mid-century target.
Mr Hastie declined to comment when contacted by The Australian on Sunday, while Mr Joyce did not directly comment on his conversation with Mr Hastie.
“I don’t know where Andrew’s mind is at, that is his business,” the former deputy prime minister said.
“What I can say is he is an excellent shadow cabinet minister and I hope he stays there.” 
The West Australian MP is considered by many to be the next conservative leader of the Liberal Party, and any vote in parliament that is at odds with the Opposition Leader would lead to rumblings about leadership.
The speculation within Coalition ranks on Mr Hastie showcases the deep divisions within the opposition on climate policy.
Liberal moderate Jane Hume has urged Ms Ley to stick with the commitment to net zero by 2050 and get behind Labor’s bid to host COP31 next year.
“If we oppose what is essentially a trade fair, for ideological reasons, we’re no better than the fringe activists who try to shut down defence expos,” Senator Hume told The Australian.
“So not only should the Liberal Party not oppose the bid for ­Australia to host COP31, we should give it our full-throated support.”

Deeply weird, and the reptiles compounded Jane's misery by showing her, Jane Hume. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Of course the government has only allowed the debate as a cruel form of sport, a bit like watching wooden spoon contenders struggle to avoid being at the very bottom at the end of the footy season:

Labor is allowing debate on Mr Joyce’s private member’s bill every Monday morning parliament sits until there are no more willing speakers, in an aim to showcase Coalition divisions on the issue as the government moves to unveil a new emissions-reduction target of 65 per cent or more below 2005 levels by 2035.
It is unclear whether Labor will allow a vote on Mr Joyce’s bill after all MPs have spoken on it, with government sources playing down the prospect of a vote on Monday.
After this week’s three sitting days, parliament is not scheduled to sit for the following six weeks, during which Anthony Albanese will finalise his government’s 2035 emissions-reduction target and embark on a series of high-stakes overseas trips.
Ms Ley and Nationals leader David Littleproud are facing calls not to allow the net-zero issue to fester.
The Liberal National Party in Queensland has joined the NSW Nationals and Liberal divisions in Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory to call for the net-zero commitment to be junked.
Ms Ley is managing rising frustrations inside Coalition parliamentary ranks that a review being led by opposition energy spokesman Dan Tehan is a “stalling tactic”.
A growing number of Liberal and Nationals MPs are pushing the Opposition Leader to come to a position on net zero and a 2035 emissions-reduction target before the next COP meeting in Brazil in November – a timeline that is being resisted from members of the ­Coalition’s inner circle who argue there is no rush to finalise a policy position.
Mr Hastie said last week he wanted the Coalition to come to a position on net zero “over the next one to three months”, a ­timeline that is at odds with Mr Tehan’s.
The energy spokesman has declared a review into the Coalition’s policy would take between nine and 12 months.
There are moderate Liberal MPs supportive of a net-zero ­target who also want the issue dealt with before Christmas, ­arguing that the debate is ­damaging for the party’s brand in city seats, where the Liberals have been routed across the past two elections.
While city-based Liberals told The Australian there was “no chance” a net-zero target would be dropped, they conceded it may not be a firm commitment to reach the goal by 2050.
One MP suggested the target could be a broader “net-zero as soon as possible”, giving the ­Coalition an aspiration of reaching it by 2050 with wriggle room to change course based on cost.
Nationals senator Matt ­Canavan – who is leading the ­junior Coalition party’s review into net zero – said he supported a fast-tracking of the policy ­decision.
“I would like to see us come to a decision as soon as possible,” said Senator Canavan, who is based in Queensland’s mining ­region.
“I obviously believe that the experience of net zero has been a catastrophe for Australia economically and it has not been far behind for the Coalition ­politically.”
Nationals MPs Colin Boyce and Michael McCormack will speak in favour of Mr Joyce’s bill in parliament on Monday, with a majority of their party in favour of dumping the target.
The issue is expected to be raised again in the joint Coalition partyroom meeting on Tuesday, with backbenchers invited to speak to the internal review ­committee for the first time later this week.
Conservative Liberal MP Tony Pasin said the Coalition needed to arrive quickly on a ­position on net zero and a 2035 ­emissions-reduction target, saying he would likely raise it again in the Coalition partyroom meeting this week.
“There is a policy timidity, an unwillingness to have this ­debate almost as if people are afraid to have the discussion,” Mr Pasin said.
“I would have thought if we learned anything about the last term of government, (it) is if you avoid these policy confrontations you end up in policy paralysis and the Australian people will punish you for it.”
The South Australian MP, who represents the rural seat of Barker, said the Coalition needed a position on 2035 in ­response to Labor’s emissions-­reduction ­target. “There is no point in ­waiting until we know exactly what their position is,” Mr Pasin said. “It will either be 60, 65, 70 or 75. We should begin this debate now.”

What a plan. Read it again and chortle: 

Labor is allowing debate on Mr Joyce’s private member’s bill every Monday morning parliament sits until there are no more willing speakers

Likely they'll lessen and lessen, which is why the pond thought of Alice:

Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions about it, so she turned to the Mock Turtle, and said 'What else had you to learn?'
'Well, there was Mystery,' the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the subjects on his flappers, ' — Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling — the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, that used to come once a week: he taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.'
'What was that like?' said Alice.
'Well, I can't show it you myself,' the Mock Turtle said: 'I'm too stiff. And the Gryphon never learnt it.'
'Hadn't time,' said the Gryphon: 'I went to the Classics master, though. He was an old crab, HE was.'
'I never went to him,' the Mock Turtle said with a sigh: 'he taught Laughing and Grief, they used to say.'
'So he did, so he did,' said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn; and both creatures hid their faces in their paws.
'And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
'Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.'
'What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice.
'That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.'

Speaking of less'ens, the reptiles included a snap of Tony Pasin. Picture: Supplied

It was then just a brief crabwalk to the conclusion ...

Senator Hume, who was ­controversially dumped from the opposition frontbench by Ms Ley, said retaining a target of net zero by 2050 was an “economic imperative”.
“Capital markets have always placed a high premium on policy certainty, and that is especially the case for net zero commitments,” Senator Hume said.
“The Coalition cannot expect to be taken seriously by voters if we end up with a position that essentially deals Australia out of an international community that is committed to this goal.”
Opposition legal affairs spokesman Julian Leeser told the ABC he supported a net-zero target and defended Ms Ley’s policy process.
One Liberal source described an outcome where Mr Hastie chose to cross the floor as a “miscalculation”.
“Even if he’s right in the long term, in the short term it’s horrendous,” the source said.
Others agreed there would be significant ramifications for those on the opposition frontbench if they voted for Mr Joyce’s bill opposing net zero.
“If that group was to grow to include shadow ministers who break ranks, then those people would be immediately sacked from the shadow cabinet,” another Liberal source said.
There was also considerable momentum among Liberals for the development of a domestic gas reserve policy, a proposal it had taken to the May election, which could ease internal ­tensions over the Coalition’s ­position on net zero. 

Splendid stuff, but the pond urges that talk of nuking the country to save the planet (in ways too mysterious to decipher) must remain the top talking point.

Meanwhile, the reptiles chose not to highlight the march of fascists, Nazis, neo-Nazis, and bigots on the weekend, though many of the marchers were surely inspired by Sky Noise after dark, and the relentless bigotry of the lizard Oz stable ...

Inevitably the quarry whisperer hastened to remedy the oversight:

The  header: ‘March for Australia’ haters can’t face honest debate on multiculturalism, Rather than impugn the motives of those who marched, the political class should ask searching questions about why ordinary people with families and busy lives feel compelled to march at all.

The caption for that unfortunate image of flag-waving boofheads on patrol: A protester wearing a shirt showing an image of US President Donald Trump as a stylised depiction of Rambo is seen during a "March for Australia" rally in Melbourne.

Some might condemn those who walk with Nazis, but it feels like home for the flood waters whisperer:

Just because a convicted terrorist was photographed waving a black Islamist flag on the Harbour Bridge doesn’t turn everyone who marches for Palestine into a jihadist. That would be as ridiculous as suggesting Bob Carr is a paid-up member of the Axis of Evil because he decides to join Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un in the VIP enclosure of a Chinese military parade.
However, Sunday’s March for Australia was different. To take part was to admit guilt by association with the neo-Nazi nutbags said to be behind it. “This brand of far-right activism grounded in racism and ethnocentrism has no place in modern Australia,” Multicultural Affairs Minister Anne Aly said last week.
Character assassination has been multiculturalism’s modus operandi for decades. Geoffrey Blainey’s timely warnings in 1984 about emphasising separateness and the dangers of breaking Australia’s historical thread with British tradition were greeted with threats of violence, prompting the police to request the removal of his name and address from the public telephone book. John Stone’s criticism of immigration policy in the 1980s attracted a similarly indignant response.
Doubtless some who joined the chorus of condemnation four decades ago might now regret it. Refusing Blainey and Stone’s invitation to debate was an opportunity we should’ve taken, for the mistakes of the past four decades cannot be easily undone. Yet we can – and must – engage in an open debate about the size and composition of our immigration.
Dispassionate discussion won’t be easy, for this is not primarily a dispute over policy. It is what Thomas Sowell describes as a clash of visions, a profound disagreement between people with different assumptions about how the world works.

Actually there might be something to it, if we can only send back home black sheep bigots from the old country, useless laggards, and in their going, take with them some home-spun bigots ... like that old wannabe Enoch Powell, Geoffrey Blainey.

Has there ever been a greater, entirely useless wanker than the Caterist in tandem with Blainers?

On one side is the view that cultural discrimination is not only permissible but necessary to maintain social cohesion. It’s coupled with the belief that our cultural traditions are worth upholding, not least because they work. Australia’s attractiveness as a destination is strong evidence of our cultural advantage. This year, immigration officials are expected to register more arrivals than departures, consistent with the trend that began in 1788.
Running counter to this constrained vision is the unbounded vision of the elite, people who think in abstract rather than concrete terms. In this vision, Australia’s traditional culture is disparaged using various combinations of words such as white, xenophobic, colonial, repressive, exclusionary, hegemonic, paternalist, and so on.
The vision of the anointed, as Sowell calls it, is more than a moral framing of the world; it is a vision of how they see themselves, as people with greater moral sensitivity and clarity than the rest of us. Anne Aly’s account of her own “lived experience” – a child of Egyptian parents who arrived in Australia at the age of two on an assisted migrant program, excelled at university, and became a successful politician – is not a tribute to the openness of Australian culture, but a personal triumph over adversity.
Aly told the 2023 Multicultural Youth Conference she wanted “a different migrant story”, one in which “young ethnically diverse people have a sense of place and belonging”. Aly urges us to “recognise the diversity of young people, the diversity of their aspirations, the diversity of their needs, and, importantly, the diversity of their lived experiences”.

Oh dear, and compounded by a snap featuring diversity, Minister for International Development Anne Aly, left, and Foreign Minister Penny Wong address a press conference. Picture: NewsWire / Brenton Edwards

Sorry, Anne, unless you're a paid-up member of the auld country school of monotonous conformity, homogeneity, sameness, and like-minded uniformity, you have no place in the hive mind ...

Aly goes on to speak at greater length about diversity, but fails to explain herself any more clearly, other than to imply that there is something disreputable in the current Australian culture.
The shapelessness of the multicultural vision makes it difficult to refute. It also makes it dangerous, as arguing that diversity is a good thing, in and of itself, removes the guardrails between cultures that are compatible with ours and those that are deeply antagonistic.
It’s this confusion that has landed the progressive left in the awkward position of having to defend the misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic and exclusionary culture that prevails in parts of the Middle East and North Africa.
Once diversity becomes an intrinsic good, it is hard to make a moral distinction between a culture in which the religion of Islam is a matter of personal piety and one in which it is expressly militant, where religion legitimises armed struggle.
The incorporation of the Palestinian cause into the progressive vision of a fairer world presents the biggest threat to the Australian multicultural project since it grabbed hold of the political imagination in the late 1970s. Many of us who were philosophically uncomfortable with the word itself were prepared to believe multiculturalism, as practised in Australia, was relatively benign. Few Australians were uncomfortable with the live-and-let-live attitude that prevailed, provided loyalty to Australia came first. Yet the rise of the Palestinian cause presents a nastier form of multiculturalism, one that makes no distinction between the civilisation we inherited and the barbarism of Hamas or Iran.

Oh indeed, indeed, how wrong not to celebrate mass starvation, ethnic cleansing and genocide ... it's the English empire way ...

There was news of the consummation of the dream in Haaretz ...(*archive link)

And those wanting the WaPo source for the dream can find it in the archive ...

And so on and on, and what a vision, and the pond regrets that it was briefly diverted from the Caterist, as the reptiles regrettably featured a pretty polly not on board with the celebration of Nazis on the move ... Environment and Water Minister Murray Watt has commented on the March for Australia protests set to take place across Australia today. “You will have seen, like other government figures, we absolutely condemn the March for Australia rally that’s going on today; it’s not about increasing social harmony,” he told Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell. “We don’t support rallies like this that are about spreading hate and that are about dividing our community – I sincerely hope that there’s no trouble that arises from these events today.”

The Caterist did his best to recover from this setback, and blamed it all on the 'leets, though it should be noted the 'leets at the lizard Oz are never included in the blaming of the 'leets...

Somehow, in this minefield of debate, we must move this discussion away from the high-minded, unworldly plain occupied by the anointed and back into the concrete world of trade-offs. We should at least be able to have a reasonable discussion about numbers, recognising the imperative of reducing immigration quotas to the 60-year post-war average of around 90,000 migrants a year. The pressure on housing, infrastructure and the social fabric caused by annual intakes of half a million or more are unbearable.
We should restore the integrity of our skills-based migration scheme, recognising the importance of offshore processing. Opportunities to upgrade from temporary visas to permanent residency while remaining in Australia should be exceptional.
We must confront the diversity fetish and recognise that some cultures are more conducive to flourishing than others. Whether we are citizens by birth or because of a conscious decision, Australians overwhelmingly believe our culture is a particularly good one and want to keep it that way.
Rather than impugn the motives of those who marched, the political class should ask searching questions about why ordinary people with families and busy lives feel compelled to march at all. Surely the purpose of parliament and courts is to mediate civic disputes and allow the rest of us to do other things.
The mobilisation of ordinary Australians in recent years on causes ranging from oppressive pandemic restrictions to immigration and the rollout of industrial renewables is a measure of institutional weakness for which the elite must be held responsible.

Strange, no mention of the Caterist's leet status at the centre for Ming the Merciless devotees. What gives?

And here's an old riff for protesting Poms, just to wrap up this portion of the proceedings ...

Finally it wouldn't be a Monday without the squawking of Major Mitchell, a bird who notoriously comes in from the golf links once a week to vent ...

The header for this week's litany: Cherrypicking journos leave public in the dark, Refusal to engage with the facts on the renewable energy transition is the worst example of journalism driven by nothing more than hatred of conservative politics.

The caption: Allegations that use of the photo of skeletal Gazan boy Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq was misleading arose when his underlying medical condition came to light. Picture: Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini/Anadolu/Getty Images

The Major always provides a compendium of the clown coverage featured in the hive mind. He's a safe pair of hands, an expert in navel-gazing and fluff-gathering ...

Too few journalists are held accountable by their readers and viewers when events prove them wrong.
Last week, journalists even bagged Bari Weiss’s The Free Press website for publishing the truth about 12 Gazan children pictured in Western media as victims of starvation. All had severe illnesses, including genetic defects at birth.
Some journalists last week tried to claim there was no reason to believe ASIO in pinning blame on Iran for two anti-Jewish attacks – the firebombings late last year of a delicatessen in Sydney’s Bondi and the Adass Israel synagogue in Melbourne.
They seemed unaware that the Iranian Republican Guard Corps has a long history of exactly this sort of behaviour in Europe and the US, as ABC’s 7.30 revealed on Thursday night.
Why publicly prefer the credibility of the murderous, Jew-hating Nazis of Iran over a statement from our own security agencies?

The lizard Oz compounded the Major's rage with a snap, Julian Assange with former NSW Premier Bob Carr, seen together at the Sydney bridge protest. Picture: Damian Shaw

The Major has always been keen on denying what's going down in Gaza, and confusing and conflating any concerns with anti-Semitism, and who knows, he might be up for an apartment in the new Gaza once the dream is realised:

It’s fascinating to reflect on how many of those urging caution about accepting ASIO’s word were only six months earlier claiming there was no evidence of anti-Semitism in Australia’s suburbs, let alone among “peaceful” bridge walkers for peace.
How would Bob Carr have known he was standing in front of posters of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameini and various Hamas and ISIS flags when pictured at the Sydney Harbour Bridge walk on August 3?
After all, he was only premier of NSW for a decade, the nation’s minister for foreign affairs, and a journalist for The Bulletin magazine. Like young protesters who don’t know which river and which sea when they chant “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” … how was Bob to know?

It's better to focus on this sort of snap, Mr Carr and other pictured before various Hamas and ISIS flags. Picture: Izhar Khan/Getty Images

Well you wouldn't want this sort of snap, though they might well be devoted readers of the lizard Oz and of the Major ...

The Major has an important skill, the ability to wander down Biden lane, thereby ignoring stories of the Camelot for Crazies kind ...(not to mention daily stories of King Donald losing his marbles, and other signs of cognitive cogs being decidedly loose).

Left media truth deniers, motivated solely by dislike of Donald Trump, claimed for years that former president Joe Biden was not suffering from mental decline. But even Biden knew enough to warn journalists on October 23, 2023 not to accept casualty figures from Gaza because they were Hamas’s numbers.

But the pond promised a litany, and here it comes ... a form of fear and loathing, as a response to alleged fear and loathing ..

Too much journalism is driven by nothing more than hatred of conservative politics.
Another example: last Wednesday a second judge discredited false political claims by former Coalition staffer Brittany Higgins about a cover-up by the Morrison government of allegations she was raped by Bruce Lehrmann in March 2019 at Parliament House.
Justice Paul Tottle in the WA Supreme Court in his judgment in favour of Higgins’s former boss and minister for defence industry, Linda Reynolds, found Higgins had lied 26 times in media interviews about attempts by Reynolds and chief of staff Fiona Brown to cover up the rape allegation. Reynolds and Brown had encouraged Higgins to report it to the police, as Justice Michael Lee found in Sydney last year.

So the Major held Dame Slap's beer, Brittany Higgins and David Sharaz.

The pond routinely refuses to comment on the murky world of Liberal staffers, or for that matter, the Major's conspiracy theories:

Leaked recordings of talks between Higgins, her now husband David Sharaz and staff at Ten’s The Project made it clear Ten was interested in the story because of the political impact it could have on the Morrison government.

Enough of that part of the litany, the Major has a different and better bee in his bonnet:

It gets worse: anything negative, however false, can be written to damage US President Trump.
Hence the Russiagate allegations of Trump collusion with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the 2016 US election campaign. You would not know from mainstream reporting here or in the US that the latest document releases prove the entire story was false and senior intelligence figures privately said so at the time.

Uh huh ...

Readers interested in the latest documents released by Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and FBI director Kash Patel can read the details on Substack via Matt Taibbi’s Racket News and Michael Shellenberger’s Public.
ABC’s Media Watch owes it to the public to examine how current 7.30 host Sarah Ferguson screwed up her pretentiously named three-part “Story of the Century” for ABC Four Corners in 2018. She uncritically accepted the words of Democrats-aligned national security figures who knew all along the story was false.

Read the likes of Taibbi? Take Tulsi and Kash with a straight face?

Sorry, the reptiles had actually slipped in a snap of the anti-Christ, at work in Satan's halls, Sarah Ferguson interviews US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on 7:30.

Not every reptile is keen on the demented King, but the Major loves him, because he's in lockstep with the Ughmann in his desire to stuff the planet

And while at it, new Media Watch host Linton Besser should look at predecessor Paul Barry’s campaign against Sky News Australia host Sharri Markson over her reporting of the Covid-19 virus leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology – a claim that we now know was true.

Um, actually, we don't know that, that's a Major lie, a Major misrepresentation of what is known with any certainty, but do go on ...

Yet these are small failures compared with the mainstream media’s refusal to engage with the facts on the renewable energy transition or the latest climate change projections.
This column and The Australian’s Chris Uhlmann have for years discussed problems with electricity grid stability when high penetrations of renewables are reached. This is not just about the unreliability of wind and solar generation but about the physics and engineering involved in integrating different power sources without the system inertia provided by large spinning generators.
California has again faced blackouts this northern summer and Spain and Portugal endured a total system shutdown. Reporters at the Nine papers, Guardian Australia and ABC won’t report the issues – even though the Australian Energy Market Operator has begun to admit there is such a problem.

Naturally the reptiles helped out with a snap, Donald Trump’s Energy Department paper has been ignored by most media. Picture: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

For perverse reasons - for some reason the Major always brings out the pond's perversity - the pond was reminded of a recent Bill McKibben piece in The New Yorker ...

There'll be none of that for the Major. He's a denialist through and through, with all the usual Oz denialist nonsense at his finger tips as he most likely does his WFH ...

Now a new paper commissioned by Trump’s Energy Department director, Chris Wright, is being ignored by most media.
Wright’s panel, commissioned to report on the latest climate science to the US Department of Energy, have been bagged in mastheads such as the Guardian for being sceptical about climate doom predictions.
Yet all are serious experts. Professor Judith Curry from Georgia Tech runs the popular Climate Etc blog, Roy Spencer is a prolific researcher and former NASA scientist, Steve Koonin was undersecretary of energy to president Barack Obama, John Christy is an atmospheric scientist from the University of Alabama, and Ross McKitrick is a highly credentialed Canadian environmental economist.
Their paper, only 150 pages and easily available on the US DoE website, confirms most of what Uhlmann, The Australian’s environment editor Graham Lloyd and this column have been writing for years: the careful findings of IPCC reports are overcooked by the media and the UN.
This column can find no coverage of the report here apart from the Guardian’s criticism of it and a piece by Andrew Bolt on Sky News (available on YouTube) that includes an interview with Koonin.
The report concludes that most climate models continue to run too hot and cannot be accurately retrofitted to past warmings. Climate change is not a massive threat to the global economy, there is no evidence in US records for predictions of increased hurricane and tornado activity, flooding or bushfire events.
It finds increasing CO2 is greening the planet and is making the oceans less alkaline, but says the Great Barrier Reef’s health suggests corals are coping with this.
Global sea levels have risen eight inches (20cm) since 1900 but there are significant regional variations attributable to land rising or falling and to erosion, and the effects of damming large US rivers that limits silt build-up in delta areas.
While they accept man-made CO2 is affecting the climate, they point out that cold weather is a far bigger threat to human life than hot weather.
Yet many in the media say we have only until 2030 to save the climate. King Charles has said it many times. This is the sort of stuff real journalists need to call out – just like false photos of Gazan children.

Actually the Graudian ran a couple of stories ... one here ...

Well that's hardly a thought crime, the Major loves himself some Trumpian Stalinism and possibly is a big fan of the science expounded in Lysenkoism ...

The other Graudian report noted "Orwellian", as only practitioners of the arts and wiles of 1984 can do without a hint of irony, hypocrisy or self-awareness ...

No matter, in any case, it was old news, what with the NY Times reporting on the yarn at the end of July ... E.P.A. Plans to Revoke the Legal Basis for Tackling Climate Change, The agency’s administrator said in a podcast that the move would be “the largest deregulatory action in the history of America.” (*archive link)

And so on, and all the pond can do is humbly suggest that the Major follow the markets and small traders, and cease and desist from any and all trading with the United States, whether trying to sell third rate attempts at science or used products of the hive mind of no particular quality or distinction ...

If you do attempt to buy any ideas from the USA, chances are you'll end up a hood ornament ...