Harry Palmer A recent BFD article by Sir Bob Jones mentioned the floating crane Hikitea, which was once indispensable to the operations of Wellington Harbour Board. The article took me back to the days when I worked on the waterfront, myself, and to a dog who is memoralised in a
If solar panels were ever going to replace fossil fuels, they would have done so long ago. After all, they’re not exactly an emerging technology. Solar panels have been around for over half a century, which is plenty of time for the tech to mature and become cheap. Yet,
As I wondered some time back, regarding the then-latest report from Net Zero Australia: do these clowns even read their own reports? Because, even on their own reckoning, the costs (financial and environmental) of the “Net Zero” mania are mind-boggling. By their own admission, the cost of doing nothing to
The weirdest conceit of the Climate Alarmists is their apparent belief that the climate of the middle 20th century is somehow the optimum climate. When gibbering alarmists shriek about “temperature anomalies”, they are, of course, referring to how much the temperature supposedly varies from whatever it was during a baseline
cfact.org The great Democratic Party President Franklin Roosevelt famously said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” So why do the climate catastrophists – like the anti-nuclear energy crowd – use fear as their main tactic for browbeating an unwilling public into accepting their grotesque bans on natural
An expert, it is said, is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until finally they know everything about nothing. We’re constantly lectured to “listen to the experts”: the problem is, though, that the experts have spent the last five years especially proving to everyone who’
If only we could hook up turbines to the wagging fingers of the nanny statists, we’d have abundant renewable energy, forever. There’s nothing these taxpayer-funded nosey-parkers don’t see fit to hector and finger-wag us about. Especially food. “Food,” as blogger Skepchick said, “is for white liberals what
I was delighted, recently, to find the complete series of In Search Of… free on YouTube. For those who don’t remember, In Search Of… is a slice of classic ’70s weirdness, pre-New Age, with Leonard Nimoy totes seriously chasing every bit of fruitcakery, from the Loch Ness monster, to
Greta Thunberg only has to scowl (as if she has any other expression on that charmless mug) and it’s front page news. In far-away Buenos Aires, a gaggle of left-wingers stamp their feet at Javier Milei and the media are agog. Tens of thousands of farmers stage monster protests
PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com Miles Pollard Miles Pollard is an economic policy analyst with the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/ Alexander Frei Alexander Frei is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.
Nothing speaks louder of the complete derangement of the elite classes than their uniform obsession with the bonkers scam of “Net Zero”. On few other issues, apart from immigration, are the political, media, and chattering classes so out of touch with we hoi polloi. “Climate change” might be a monomania
These world citizens who believe carbon reduction will save the world are the ones helping these nasty pushers of unadulterated lies including our irresponsible school teachers who quite happily put the fear of god into our children. Climate change is now recognised as a huge scam. We do not have
If only insanity was an energy source, we’d be living in abundance forever. Insanity is, as the saying goes, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. The loons spruiking “Net Zero” are barking mad. Every time there is a mass power outage, due to failures
Half a million Victorians enjoyed a candlelit dinner on Valentine’s Day — whether they wanted it or not. And they’d better get used to it. At least 530,000 homes in Victoria were blacked out yesterday, and hundreds of thousands are likely to remain without power for “days, if
It was over eighty years ago that George Orwell pointed out the essential hypocrisy of “the middle-class Left”. They were all “at bottom a sham”, because, for all their preaching against the exploitation of the Third World poor, their very lifestyle “demands that the robbery shall continue”. Nothing has changed.
Steve Goreham Steve Goreham is a speaker, author, and independent columnist on energy, sustainability, climate change, and public policy. More than 100,000 copies of his books are now in print, including his latest, Outside the Green Box: Rethinking Sustainable Development. cfact.org The next big climate scare is on
