Headlines Saturday 26th July

Er, what super cyclones?
Andrew Bolt
The Courier Mail is by sheer coincidence slipped a “confidential” report on global warming that was given to Kevin Rudd, who is frantically trying to sell his CarbonWatch scheme:

QUEENSLAND will become hotter and super-cyclones will batter the coast as far south as Brisbane by 2070, the nation’s top scientists have warned.

Super-cyclones as we warm? Well, let’s check what the warming so far has done to cyclones in Australia, according to the Bureau of Meteorology:

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Penn and Teller on climate change.
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First, there was the Word. Isn’t that enough?
Andrew Bolt
Gerard Baker beholds something heavenly:
And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.
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Conservatives unite
Andrew Bolt
Sounds sane to me:

QUEENSLAND Liberal and National parties have voted to merge, creating a new conservative force to be called the Liberal National Party (LNP).
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The only tipping point is in their credibility
Andrew Bolt
University of Washington climatologist Ignatius Rigor was just one of several global warming seers to claim a line had been crossed with last year’s big melt at the North Pole:

“Have we passed the tipping point?” he said. ”It’s hard to see how the system may come back.”
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Tracee discovers the royal gene
Andrew Bolt
Tracee Hutchison, like a true member of the lunar Left, thinks aristocrats are so different to real people that their royalty must be in their genetic makeup:

What is (Helen Mirren’s) secret? Is it all in her tsarist Russian genes?
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Why censor what you say is easy to disprove?
Andrew Bolt
Miranda Devine:

There is something odd about the ferocious amount of energy expended suppressing any dissent from orthodoxy on climate change. After all, the climate cataclysmists have won the war of public opinion - for now, at least - with polls, business, media and Government enthusiastically on board. So, if their case is so good, why try so fervently to extinguish other points of view?
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Left solutions mean more of this
Andrew Bolt
What the legalise-drugs zealots never confront is that the reason we ban drugs like heroin and ice is that they make parents forget even their responsibilities to their poor children. Which means to legalise them is to invite more of this:

TWO years ago, Mathew Boan was living in a marijuana haze, smoking 40 cones a day and raising his three children in suburban squalor.

With faeces coating the bedroom walls, Boan’s horrified mother and sister stepped in, vainly, to have the children taken into care… “Because of the drugs, I didn’t think of anyone else except myself,” he tells The Weekend Australian…
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Nine hurts a gatekeeper of the Canberra pack
Andrew Bolt
Channel Nine has axed Sunday, just months after The Bulletin was killed off, too.

This is, I guess, good news for those of us on the ABC’s rival Insiders, which has over seven years developed into the main political TV talk show in the country. But it’s a pity that Channel Nine has so meekly surrendered the hold it once had on powerful political journalism - and it also marks an important shift of power in the press gallery.
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Nelson does his job. Now for the media
Andrew Bolt
It’s only six days after I announced it on Insiders, and three days after I explained it in detail here, but Paul Kelly now confirms it:

BRENDAN Nelson wants to confront the Rudd Government by opposing the launch of any Australian emissions trading scheme until the world’s big emitters agree to serious climate change action.The Opposition Leader is seeking support for a significant change in Coalition policy next week.

In fact, it seems Nelson may already have the support he most needed - from Malcolm Turnbull - as I said yesterday.
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Putting the shock into shopping therapy
Andrew Bolt
First, they want to take away your handy plastic shopping bags. Now a fresh hell is added to the weekly shop:

SHOPPERS too lazy to walk to the supermarket add nearly 1.9m tonnes to our greenhouse gas emissions each year, a survey has found.
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Tofu: the secret ally of the Right
Andrew Bolt
More evidence that greens will die out: Tofu makes you less fertile.
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Q&A hosts a mass for global warming believers
Andrew Bolt
Nice balance on the next Q&A from fervent global warming believer and host Tony Jones:
Joining Q&A this week are: the Minister for Climate Change and Water, Penny Wong, Shadow Treasurer, Malcolm Turnbull, scientist and global warming activist, Tim Flannery, and businesswoman, Catherine Harris.
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Roswell was real says Apollo 14 veteran
Ex NASA astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell says the Roswell incident was real and that claims by the US Air Force of the day that the wreckage was a downed weather balloon were pure nonsense.