Whenever an eco-alarmist tries to scare you, they almost always employ one or both of two gambits: ‘x amount per year’ and ‘on record’. With regard to the first, it always sounds scary, but what does it actually mean? One we’re all familiar with is the Amazon rainforest:
Dr Muriel Newman Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. In the recent European Parliamentary elections, where
Metaphors of putting monkeys in charge of the banana plantation come to mind. Forget the inmates running the asylum: that happened decades ago. But the appointment of Matt Kean as the new head of the Climate Change Authority is a new low, even for that benighted taxpayer-funded sinkhole. Kean
Gabriella Hoffman Gabriella Hoffman is a Media Strategist and Award-Winning Outdoor Writer. She hosts the “District of Conservation” podcast and CFACT’s original YouTube series “Conservation Nation.” Learn more about her work at www.gabriellahoffman.com. Despite pledging fealty to net-zero climate goals, California has many energy and
I enjoyed reading Steven Joyce’s article in the Weekend Herald, outlining the choice this country faces. His headline “Progress v Protest: The choice is ours” reflected the protests of the weekend before last and commented on the irony of the protest. The participants no doubt possessed many iPhones but
Predictions of Covid deaths using scientific modelling turned out to be wildly inaccurate but served the very useful purpose of ensuring public compliance. The same process also works for the climate change zealots, whose dire predictions are extremely well funded. Twenty-five Italians and 12 New Zealanders spent two months
Bonner R. Cohen is a senior fellow at the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow, where he concentrates on energy, natural resources, and international relations. He also serves as a senior policy adviser with the Heartland Institute, senior policy advisor at National Center for Public Policy Research, and as adjunct scholar
We are the richest, safest, best-fed and educated generations of humans to have ever walked the planet. Too few people seem to even grasp this fact, let alone appreciate it. Nor do many really seem to grasp just how fragile the world we’ve built up through millennia of
Matt Halliday, Auckland University of Technology Can we imagine a world without fossil fuel advertising, let alone fossil fuels themselves? That was essentially the question posed by United Nations Secretary General António Guterres this week. Calling the coal, oil and gas industries the “godfathers of climate chaos”, who had “shamelessly
If we’re to believe the government and the mainstream media, disinformation — the dissemination of intentionally false information to deliberately confuse or mislead — is an existential threat to our democracy. Which is odd, because some of the most egregious disinformation is disseminated by governments and mainstream media. For some governments
Ever noticed that the biggest spruikers of “renewables”, like most “environmentalists”, are wealthy people who would never tolerate a wind or solar farm within a hundred miles of their wealthy, inner-city suburbs. You’ll never see a field of towering windmills blanketing the landscape in Double Bay, nor will
Peter Murphy Peter Murphy is Senior Fellow at CFACT. He has researched and advocated for a variety of policy issues, including education reform and fiscal policy, both in the non-profit sector and in government in the administration of former New York Governor George Pataki. cfact.org O Canada, we
Mark Freeman A Wellington drama troupe took to the streets at the weekend to satirise and raise awareness of the World Health Organization’s pandemic treaty. The Freedom Improv Group wrote and performed the light-hearted eight-minute sketch, whose main message was to “Give the WHO the shoe”. In
John Klar libertynation.com A recent report produced by the World Bank leaves no doubt that what has unfolded against farmers in Holland, Belgium, and France is a precursor to globalist plans of food control and all food production (and diet choices) for humanity in the name of rescuing the
So far, Australians have mostly had a lucky break from the inherent consequences of “Net Zero”. Not from the power price rises indelibly correlated with increased reliance on wind and solar, of course. As even the Albanese government tacitly concedes, by way of its vote-buying cash rebate, household power
Many years ago, I was debating the so-called “climate crisis” with a left-wing mover and shaker. He was adamant that the global population had to be reduced to two billion people within the next 50 years. Running some quick calculations brought up some disturbing outcomes of his policy.
