Something happens to the very rich, to their detriment: they lose the presence of people to tell them, “No”. When, as invariably happens, the wealthy and powerful surround themselves with sycophants, there’s no one around them willing to tell them, “That’s a stupid idea. You’re making an
Does anyone still seriously believe in the meritocratic claims of politicians and their pet ‘expert’ class? I mean, who seriously could, after the last five years? We’ve all seen for ourselves just how hopelessly, utterly, disastrously wrong the ‘experts’ and politicians were. So, why would anyone believe them again?
Larry Bell CFACT Advisor Larry Bell heads the graduate program in space architecture at the University of Houston. He founded and directs the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture. He is also the author of Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming Hoax. cfact.org Tedros Ghebreyesus,
Jarrett Stepman Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation. http://www.heritage.org/ He is also the author of the book, The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past. PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com The White House and the legacy
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 The last day of parliament this past week was briefly interrupted by Greenpeace protestors who dangled a banner over the
cfact.org Now they tell us: …big spending on renewables needed, says report Australia must find $1.5 trillion by the end of the decade to meet 2050 green targets in an effort experts say would need to mirror the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. By Nick Evans,
The late Carl Sagan praised the value of back-of-the-envelope calculations. Scribbling a few equations and approximate values “cut[s] through nonsense like a knife through butter”. Nonsense, though, is the stock-in-trade of the mainstream media — and most journalists seem incapable of performing even the most rudimentary calculations. I’m far
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
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
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,
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,
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
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
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
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
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
