“Whatever the climatic role of human induced emissions of carbon dioxide, it is not a pollutant. CO2 is, as we know, a clear, odourless, colourless gas vital to life on earth. Indeed, CO2 is essential to a healthy environment.”

Senator Nick Minchin, Opposition Leader in the Australian Senate, August 2009.

“There is virtually only one factor that has the power to make people unfree – tyrannical public opinion. The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs, but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

“It is not the struggle of the many against the few but of minorities – sometimes of a minority of but one man- against the majority. The worst and most dangerous form of absolutist rule is that of an intolerant majority. Such is the conclusion arrived at by Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill.”

Ludwig von Mises, “Theory and History – An interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution” (Yale University Press 1957), pages 66 – 67.

There was a moving scene at the end of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, where after the servants of the Dark Lord had murdered the great wizard Dumbledore, they triumphantly conjured the Dark Mark in the sky. The teachers and students of Hogwarts stood together and raised their lit wands.

For most of our existence, Homo sapiens have lived short and miserable lives in the dark, until great geniuses like Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla cast light spells to banish the darkness. Electricity is mankind’s most magical achievement – our light bringer, liberator and saviour. When Earth Hour came and the followers of the Dark Lord turned out their lights to celebrate the destruction of western civilisation, I turned mine on – to honour Franklin, Edison, Tesla and other real-life Dumbledores who created life as we know it today. Next Earth Hour, I urge all good people to think about what their lives would be like without the magic of electricity, and raise their wands to the sky.

Dub Zivkovic

“We have policy-based evidence making – we need evidence-based policy making.”

Christopher Monckton