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Dec 3, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Rafe Champion
150 years ago the Chief Surveyor in South Australia, George Goyder, drew a line across the map to warn prospective farmers that cropping would not be sustainable north of the line due to the risk of droughts. Following a decade of good rainfall in the 1870s, a wave of wheat farmers crossed the line and established small townships like Farina, 300km north of the line.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Rafe Champion |Peter O'Brien |Anthony O Hear |Christopher Jolliffe
When white writers and artists joined black intellectuals to burn the white race in effigy, he saw not a protest but a cultural suicide pactDec 01 202410 minsThe Greens provocateur slags the late Queen and Pauline Hanson responds in kind.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Roger Franklin |Nigel Biggar |Rafe Champion |David Barton
While ABC chair Kim Williams praises the ABC's purported impartiality, the Education unit keeps right on brainwashing kidsNov 15 202411 minsIt's never conservatives who shriek that some ideas are simply too offensive to be aired, let alone debatedNov 15 202420 minsA new study establishes once and for all that wind and solar aren't just uneconomic, they are ruinously soNov 14 20242 minsABC Impartiality Standard: Do not unduly favour one perspective over another.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
quadrant.org.au | Rafe Champion |Deidre Clary |Fiona Mueller |Paul E. Morrissey
A new study establishes once and for all that wind and solar are just uneconomic, they're ruinously soNov 14 20242 minsA democratic, equitable and just society places debate at the heart of decision-making.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Rafe Champion
Wind and solar power can only survive as parasites on more efficient generators. This slim and elegant book by Lars Schernikau and William Smith is a root and branch demolition of the most cherished beliefs of the climate and energy warriors in the alternative universe. It is also a scholarly tour de force combining the depth and detail of a doctoral thesis with crystal clear writing.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Rafe Champion
Last week the Net Zero universe was alive with the sounds of jubilation as the penetration of unreliable energy into the grid established a new record almost every day. The high point now stands over 74 per cent after a sunny and windy weekend. These are looking at the world through the wrong end of the telescope.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
eurasiareview.com | Rafe Champion
All the states and nations closing coal and natural gas power plants in pursuit of net-zero emissions are approaching a critical point where the lights will start to flicker every night when there is no sunshine, and the wind is low. The subsidized and mandated wind and solar power are displacing, but not replacing, the continuously uninterruptible generated electricity via fossil fuels. Reliance on UNRELIABLE generated electricity is a fool’s game.
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Rafe Champion
Alexandra Marshall recently noted Peter Dutton’s support of the e-Safety Commissioner where he said, ‘Julie Inman Grant is one of the finest public servants in the employment of the Commonwealth of Australia.’ That stirred memories of the time he took to take a position on The (racist) Voice to Parliament.
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May 2, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Rafe Champion
Most protagonists of nuclear power like to say it is clean, meaning no CO2 is released, as though this is desirable. Certainly, it is a selling point for people who think that carbon dioxide is the driver of potentially lethal global warming.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Rafe Champion
Matthew Warren brings a refreshingly nuanced view to the acrimonious nuclear power debate because he knows enough about electricity generation and distribution to see the problems with both Plan A (renewables) and the nuclear option. What is more, he is open-minded, allowing him to see nuclear power as a valid long-term contender, with an emphasis on long-term… This is summed up in the title of his piece Nuclear vs Renewables shouldn’t be Ford vs Holden.
