As the ideologues in government announce a reverse Robin Hood tax to encourage EV sales, one has to wonder where they were when the ability to think critically was handed out. Stealing from the poor to subsidise the wealthy into smugmobiles is wrong on so many levels and yet the
Apropos of absolutely nothing at all, a question popped into the brain, “If a bio-plastic is still a plastic, why is it better for the planet?” Followed quickly by, “Is it better for the planet?” So what is a bio-plastic? A common one is made from fermented plant starch from
Exhibit One, April 2018: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has banned future offshore oil and gas exploration in New Zealand. “We’re protecting industry and protecting future generations from climate change,” said Ardern. “This is a responsible step, which provides certainty for businesses and communities that rely on fossil fuels.” Exhibit
An interesting post appeared on the interwebs a few days ago. In it Zoe Phin reported on some analyses she had done on publicly available NASA data; the Vegetation Index, a measure of how green the earth is. Using the wizardry of extracting, manipulating and graphing the source data from
Whenever the Mayan and Sumerian calendars align on a harmonic prime, The BFD takes a look at how Dr Viner’s prediction in 2000 is working out. Snow is starting to disappear from our lives. Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled
Info from Manhattan Institute Our wonderful Climate Commission Planners, aka CCP, have decided that we are all going to drive electric vehicles (EVs) in the next few years. We know there is not enough electricity to power their dreams but they could copy a plan for that eventuality. However, they
Many commenters here on The BFD have raised valid questions following the release of the recent Climate Change Commission report. This report suggests that the way forward for New Zealand is for everyone to switch to electric vehicles and for all gas cooking, gas water heating and gas home heating
I trust that you will recognise that the title of this article does not imply the author is suggesting that ‘sanity’ should be put in a hypodermic syringe and used intravenously. Nearly a year ago, the MSM and social media went into meltdown over a comment made by the President
BFD contributor Andrew B loves thumping Councils and while some Councils deserve a jolly good thumping, is tarring all Councils with the same brush either honest or fair? His latest piece claimed “Core services now account for just 40% of rates spending.” Andrew B may well be able to find
Pennsylvania Facts: * Vote Tally: 3,445,548 for Biden and 3,363,951 for Trump – margin 81,597. * Requests for mail-in ballots 70% Democrats and 25% Republicans. * Mail-in ballots increased from 266,208 in 2016 to over 3,000,000 in 2020. Violations of Election Law: * The Secretary of State
The definition of a ‘peaceful protest’ seems simple enough to the average person but apparently, appearances can be deceiving. So what does our local Government-owned TV network think about peaceful protests? Fortunately, we found out the answer to that question thanks to TVNZ 1 News at Six hosted by Melissa
In the modern age, we have instant information at our fingertips. No need to rely on the biased mainstream media for information, one can go straight to the source. The eyes of the world are on Pennsylvania at present so the factual results, rather than the media calls on the
Yesterday there was an article about a curious artefact in the results for one district in the recent US Presidential election. It used a statistical test called Benford’s Law. A commenter rightly pointed out a paper which called into question the utility of Benford’s Law for such purposes
The docudrama The Social Dilemma on Netflix should be mandatory viewing for anyone concerned with societal changes and especially for parents of teens and pre-teens. Wikipedia provides this synopsis: The documentary examines the effect that a handful of companies, including but not limited to Google, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter have
Many years ago a business friend was massively defrauded by a senior staff member. Some fraudulent cheques were easily shown to be so by a handwriting expert and the bank bore the cost; other cheques were in doubt. Excel was a fairly new tool back then, so he asked me
Do you remember that last summer we had a look at the northern hemisphere snow-mass graphs to watch the sad and utterly regrettable demise of snow as promised by the AGW/Climate Change alarmists? Oh, wait, that’s not how it played out was it? See here (January) and here
