Spectator Australia · Ian Plimer · Wednesday 8 April 2026
Ian Plimer argues in the Spectator Australia that decades of 'demonising' fossil fuels have left Australia energy-vulnerable, dismissing human-induced climate change as fraudulent and calling for expanded fracking.
Ian Plimer calling climate science fraudulent in the Spectator is like a bloke selling asbestos insulation at a fire safety conference — the venue's doing more damage than the speaker. Plimer's been dining out on the same contrarian geology lecture since 2009. The Spectator keeps publishing it because controversy fills the subscription bucket, and nobody in the building has to live downwind of the fracking site.