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The Benefit of Doing Nothing

The Benefit of Doing Nothing

Every so often, in their increasingly deranged efforts to scare the pants off us, the Climate Cult inadvertently publish reports that make the sceptical case for us. As I wrote recently, a recent report by Net Zero Australia estimated the cost of merely transforming Australia’s transmission grid to cope

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Get Your Earplugs Ready for Summer

Get Your Earplugs Ready for Summer

Here in my part of Tasmania, it’s said to be a sure sign of rain if you hear the call of black cockatoos flying down from the mountains. But everywhere in the world, there’s no surer sign of summer than the demented screeching of the brain-dead parrots of

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An Eye Watering Amount of Money Flushed

An Eye Watering Amount of Money Flushed

Last Saturday’s BFD poll asked readers which scam hit New Zealand the harder financially out of two choices: Covid or climate change. Of course, government policies will inevitably cost more than budgeted government expenditure; for example, climate change policies increased fuel prices by shutting down fossil-fuel development and production,

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They Are Weaponising the Weather and Events

cfact.org https://www.foxnews.com/video/6334165426112 Fox News Channel: How the left is ‘weaponizing’ every weather event – ClimateDepot.com publisher Marc Morano argues the left is pushing the ‘climate boogeyman’ after the wildfires in Maui on ‘Jesse Watters Primetime.’ Fox News Channel – Jesse Watters Primetime – Broadcast August 17,

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China Is Creaming the EV Market

Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. cfact.org According

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Sustainable Energy That Also Supports Our Lifestyle

Sustainable Energy That Also Supports Our Lifestyle

Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura There are no easy answers when it comes to reducing emissions. Some call for a significant reduction in energy consumption to mitigate emissions, but that would have a significant impact on our standard of living. Others argue that the efforts of smaller nations, like New

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‘Climate Crisis’ Is an Exercise in Mass Hysteria

‘Climate Crisis’ Is an Exercise in Mass Hysteria

William Kovacs Bill Kovacs has been involved in the nation’s policymaking process for over four decades. He is an award-winning author for his book, Reform the Kakistocracy: Rule by the Least Able or Least Principled Citizens. cfact.org Ever since the Biden administration promised to eliminate fossil fuels, climate

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So Much for Your Precious ‘Carbon Offsets’

So Much for Your Precious ‘Carbon Offsets’

The celebrity eco-crite is a grimly familiar phenomenon. You know the sort: the A-lister who bangs on about cutting emissions and reducing our ecological footprint — and uses their private jet to flit about their collections of mansions scattered around the globe. It’s not just celebrities, though. Scratch a climate

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Dan a No-Show for Tractor Convoy

Dan a No-Show for Tractor Convoy

As I wrote recently, wealthy Greens and Teal voters in the expensive suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne are quite happy for other people to pay to “save the planet”. Who cares if country people have to watch their environment be buried beneath, and I quote a Climate Cultist scientist, “Forests

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Tas Running Out of Power, Again

Tas Running Out of Power, Again

Seven years ago, Tasmania faced an energy and environmental crisis. Now, another one is looming. In 2016, the state’s network of dams dropped to precipitously low levels. The reason was two-fold: an unusually dry winter meant that the dams were less full than usual; but coupled to that was

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Here’s a Climate and Energy Fact Check

www.cfact.org The media is calling July 2023 the ‘hottest month on record’ and even the ‘hottest month in the history of civilization’. Keeping in mind that July is typically the warmest month of every year, NASA satellite data indicate that July 2023 was the warmest in the satellite

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But Are the Insurance Costs Sustainable?

But Are the Insurance Costs Sustainable?

Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. A brief history

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One Step at a Time

One Step at a Time

Harry Palmer CO2 is a bonus product extracted with natural gas in the Taranaki gas field. It’s used in fire extinguishers, soft drinks, beer propellant in pubs and dry ice in the entertainment industry, for example. However, when I was a production engineer at a NZ company producing a

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How Not to Cross a River

How Not to Cross a River

Harry Palmer If you’re out walking in the bush and you come across a river, you look for stepping stones to help you get across. Being a careful person, and if you’re accompanied by children, it is, of course, important for you and them to try to avoid

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Not Much Love — Or Life — In a Cold Climate

Not Much Love — Or Life — In a Cold Climate

As eminent earth scientist Professor Ian Plimer has said, we must be the first generations in human history to be afraid of a warming climate. Warming climates are historically associated with abundance and thriving life. Which is what we’re seeing in the current, mildly warming climate: the Earth is

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