One of the signs of cultist thinking is the ability to fervently believe any number of obviously contradictory ideas at once. For instance, that a cult leader is an all-knowing prophet, while at the same time his or her consistently failed prophecies are still true. When it comes to
bassettbrashandhide.com My name is Amy. My husband Hamish and I farm sheep and beef near Clinton in Southland. We use regenerative farming methods following the advice of a Dr Christine Jones. We spent months researching the options before taking the decision. Dr Jones is a leader in regenerative farming.
J M White There is no New Zealand left for anyone to aspire to. Most NZ citizens couldn’t even tell you now what a New Zealander is since the very definition of the nation was destroyed by replacing identity with ideology. Once a government starts distributing national resources to
cfact.org Another month, another load of unvetted climate exaggerations and misrepresentations that climate campaigners set bouncing about the media echo chamber. Fortunately, CFACT and our partners are on the job correcting the record. Each month we work together to publish a scholarly climate ‘fact check’ that debunks Green propaganda
Mary Hackshaw On the 22nd of February I had a pleasant surprise. A week and a half after widespread blackouts hit Victoria following a summer storm, cutting off power to 530,000 homes and businesses, we had a 38-degree day. Perfect conditions for the grid to collapse with the
No doubt all our mothers have asked us, at some stage: If your friends all jumped off a cliff, would you do it, too? The honest answer, of course, would be: Absolutely. That’s because children, teenagers especially, are tiny-brained followers with no concept of “consequences”. Just take a
Whenever you read breathless media headlines shrieking, “record temperatures!”, you should be deeply sceptical. Firstly, because “on record” almost always means “within the last century”; often as recently as the last fifty years. Secondly, because temperature records are invariably apples’n’oranges comparisons: from old-fashioned mercury thermometers to satellite
cfact.org Last week, there were more victories for the rule of law over the rule of climate bureaucrats and activists when the judiciary reversed a lower court ruling on a federal coal moratorium and rejected a bogus class-action lawsuit on emissions. These were encouraging steps, but the larger
The biggest problem with trying to reason with the sort of loonies who glue themselves to roads and throw soup at priceless artworks is precisely that they are beyond reason. They are in fact religious zealots, as impervious to evidence and logic as a swivel-eyed beardy-weirdy wearing a
cfact.org Feeling the heat from farmers dumping manure in front of government buildings across the Continent, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is pumping the brakes on a pillar of the European Union’s Net-Zero climate policy and withdrawing an EU-wide bill that would force farmers
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
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
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’
