In the classic Beyond the Fringe comedy sketch, “The End of the World”, a group of doomsday cultists gathered to witness the prophesied armageddon. When it fails to materialise, the cultists glumly remind each other, “Same time next week, Brothers: we must get a winner one day”. Millenarian, doomsday cults
Jack Spencer Jack Spencer is a senior research fellow for energy and environmental policy at The Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/ PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com These mandated standards, which came into effect this year, are enforced through the Building Energy Performance Standards program, which requires that building
Here’s a headline you won’t read in the mainstream media: 2023 Smashed Cold Weather Records. Wait, what? How is this possible? 2023 was the year we entered the “era of global boiling”! The UN Secretary-General said so. True enough, but Antonio Guterres also said, hey, those guys beheading
The one thing that can be said for the so-called “battery of the nation” is that at least it doesn’t burst into unstoppable flames, like the other ones. Otherwise, though, the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro project is just another green elephant. The buggers are breeding like rabbits, sustained
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 Worldwide crude oil consumption is currently estimated at roughly 96.5 million barrels per day. According to OPEC, global demand is expected
Diana Furchtgott-Roth Diana Furchtgott-Roth is the director of the Center for Energy, Climate and Environment and the Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/ PA Pundits International papundits.wordpress.com CLAYTON, GEORGIA – Driving through rural Georgia, I have yet to see an electric vehicle
Frank Lasee CFACT policy advisor Frank Lasee is an expert on energy and environmental issues. His articles have appeared in the Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Real Clear Energy, Town Hall. He has been a guest on TV and radio news. He is the president of Truth in Energy and Climate.
Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com London in the autumn is decidedly pleasant. Despite almost annual trips to the British capital from the late ‘nineties ’90s
I still remember how much it blew my child’s mind to realise that beneath the vast, icy wastes of Antarctica was an entire, buried continent. A continent bigger than Europe or Australia, buried beneath kilometres of ice for nearly twenty million years. Like island peaks in the Pacific Ocean,
Peter Jacobsen Peter Jacobsen is a Writing Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org It happened as I went to grab a new package of baby wipes from under the sink. I flipped on my bathroom light, and I noticed something strange – one of my three mirror light
dailytelegraph.co.nz ‘I THINK THE DAM IS CRUMBLING’, AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST ALEX NEWMAN TOLD JOSHUA PHILIPP OF EPOCHTV. Newman was speaking of the so-called ‘scientific consensus’ over human-induced climate change. “Three new peer-reviewed papers, published in major prestigious scientific journals… completely undermine the alleged scientific consensus on man-made global warming,
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/ PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com Behind those harmless-looking solar panels harnessing the sun’s power lies a disturbing secret: Roughly 80 per cent of
Harry Palmer The music has stopped once more after another triennial game of musical chairs and we are inflicted again with the usual pick’n mix self-serving collection of MPs who dance to the tune of their puppet masters. Will anyone notice a difference? The parliamentarians who have found their
As BFD readers are now aware, I take great delight in pointing out that EVs Are a Bit Shite. But it’s not all games and poking fun: it’s deadly serious, too. EVs are not just a bit shite. They’re not just an environmental disaster: they’re a
Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator. mercatornet.com October will be a busy month for Pope Francis and his critics. A few days ago five cardinals released an exchange of views on several sensitive topics. His responses were savaged in conservative Catholic circles. This week he opened a
Insanity is said to be doing the same thing, over and over, and expecting different results. In which case, Australia’s ruling elite are barking mad. Well, we knew that anyway. But it’s one thing to “know” something, quite another to have it demonstrated beyond all denial. Because, despite
