Climate Cassandra

So the Age has a new environment reporter, Liz Minchin. Surely the former incumbent, Melissa Fyfe, can't have found something more important to do than warning us, in dire tones, of the doom about to break upon our heads? What other kind of reporting could possibly compete with that? Maybe it was that email I sent her, inviting her to enlighten me on a glaring contradiction in one of her reports. She never replied. Maybe she quit that day, in tears.

Still, the new tenant of Cassandra's Corner has made a good start, reporting the heroic decision of new-chum climate guru Dr. Clive Hamilton, of the invaluable Australia Institute, to name names. The names, that is, of those he deems to be involved in a conspiracy to silence dissent on climate change. Because, let's face it, one never hears a word about this subject in Australia. Read Liz's report in full: it has the kind of breathless hysteria that makes Who Weekly look like The Economist.