Those of us of a certain age will remember when global cooling was the big End of the World story of the day. Even the Clash got in on it: The Ice Age is coming! At the time, a bright-eyed young, teenaged me did an internship at a leading
Ronald Stein Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations. cfact.org World demand for products and fuels made from fossil fuels that did not exist before the 1800s is giving dollars to
Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org The Biden administration recently rolled out new emissions regulations that the New York Times said will “transform the American automobile market.” In what the paper called “one of the most
Does anyone remember 3D TV? The next wave of home entertainment, superseding plasma screens and OLED TVs, and all that old junk. Then, it just disappeared from showrooms faster than a laserdisc copy of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The hype around 3D TV coincided with a similar fad for
The Climate Cult is not exactly renowned for rational thinking. After all, these are the people who make a virtue out of completely ignoring that the dire predictions they’ve made for the last century or more have conspicuously failed to come to pass – and they just keep on making
The list of failed climate predictions is nearly 130 years old, and just keeps growing by the day. From the New York Times’ 1895 claim that Geologists Think the World May Be Frozen Up Again, to the Royal Meteorological Society’s 1938 claim that global warming “is likely to prove
David Seymour David Seymour is leader of the ACT Party and Associate Minister of Education (Partnership Schools). bassettbrashandhide.com The so-called School Strike for Climate isn’t just a problem for attendance, it is bad for mental health and fixing the climate, too. Monday and Tuesday were days off
Tilak K. Doshi Dr. Tilak K. Doshi is an energy economist, independent consultant, and a Forbes contributor based in London. realclearwire.com On March 28, President Mohamed Irfaan Ali of the South American country of Guyana became an instant hero to many as he refused to take lectures on climate
As I reported recently, the real costs of “Net Zero” are rapidly coming to bite Australians in the arse. For all Boofhead Bowen’s deluded gibbering that wind and solar are the cheapest forms of electricity generation, the proof is in the power bills. They’re soaring. The government which
As the harsh reality of “Net Zero” bites harder — and will sink its fangs even more, as winter advances — the deeper and deeper the denial grows from the idiots pushing it. Boofhead Bowen continues to insist that wind and solar are the cheapest form of electricity generation, despite clear evidence
People who know me would scarcely credit it, but I really do bite my tongue a lot. No matter how hard it is to do. I mean, I think I really deserve a pat on the back for, when a Guardian-reading acquaintance was pontificating recently about how they source
Ronald Stein Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations. cfact.org Greta Thunberg, the Swedish environmental activist, scolded the world’s leaders by exclaiming, “How dare you?” in reference to their perceived
EV drivers get terribly upset when you point out the many shortcomings of their smugmobiles. In fact, they’re a bit like Apple computer and phone users: so besotted with the sleek exterior and shiny coloured icons that they’ll furiously deny that it’s a pile of crap at
The shameless grifters of the Climate Cult have more front than Myers. Not content with sucking billions yearly from the taxpayer, to subsidise their panels, turbines, and electric cars, now they’re coming, cap in hand, demanding the taxpayer pay their workers’ wages. We’re constantly huckstered that “green jobs”
At some point, calling out the lies and misinformation spewing forth from so-called “fact checkers” has to be declared too easy fruit. But today is not that day, my friends. For as long as these shiftless shills are allowed to pose as arbiters of “truth”, we must keep ripping
It’s an old tradition for newspapers to run April Fool’s Day stories, and on first reading, Nick Cater’s Australian column on renewables subsidies might surely qualify. A quick check of readily available data, though, shows that this is no joke: the Australian government has spent billions of
