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US Abandoning Fossil Fuels Is Good for China

US Abandoning Fossil Fuels Is Good for China

Ronald Stein cfact.org 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.” Wind turbines and solar panels that can generate electricity intermittently, are themselves totally dependent on fossil fuels for all their components. Renewables

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Great Barrier Reef Coral at Record Levels

Reports of the death of the Great Barrier Reef are greatly exaggerated. Despite having survived at least half a million years of nature’s vicissitudes, the Reef has been under supposedly imminent threat for almost as long as I can remember. In the 1970s, it was the crown of thorns

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What Are the Odds?

What Are the Odds?

The Climate Cult are getting crazier and more dangerous by the day. Not content with gluing themselves to roads, attacking priceless artworks or defacing war memorials, their latest tactic is targeting the homes of law-abiding citizens. The latest such attack was a home invasion inflicted on a West Australian mining

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The Rise and Rhetoric of the Climate Chicken Littles

Roger Koops Roger W. Koops holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Riverside as well as Master and Bachelor degrees from Western Washington University. brownstone.org For those who may not recall Chicken Little (AKA Henny Penny), the character was derived in the 1880s and was meant

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The West’s Fossil Fuel Aims Empower China

Don Ritter Don Ritter holds a Science Doctorate from MIT and served fourteen years on the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce and Science and Technology Committees. He was a National Academy of Sciences Fellow in the USSR, speaks fluent Russian, and was Ranking Member on the Congressional Helsinki Commission

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The Truth about Heatwaves

Joanne Nova A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was formerly an associate

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‘EVS Are a Bit Shite’, #31

‘EVS Are a Bit Shite’, #31

Imagine if a service station could randomly refuse to refill your car. Welcome to yet another entry in the very lengthy ledger of why EVs are a bit shite. Queensland risks putting the brakes on the transition to electric vehicles if a state-owned energy company is given the power to

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Bulldozing a Forest to Save the Planet

When Heather du Plessis-Allan laughed in the face of a spoilt-brat “Climate Striker”, she was only saying out loud what we all know: these people are the biggest hypocrites on the face of the planet. It’s impossible, after all, not to notice just how selective the Climate Cult’s

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Beware of Greens Bearing Gifts

Beware of Greens Bearing Gifts

To borrow an ancient saying, beware of greens bearing gifts. For many farmers and rural communities, a wind farm developer rolling into town no doubt seems a great opportunity to get in on the trillions thrown at the Climate Cult. Until, as green schemes are wont to do, it all

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Climate Models Are Incorrect on Rain Fall

Climate Models Are Incorrect on Rain Fall

Joanne Nova A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was formerly an associate

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The Race Is On for White Hydrogen

The Race Is On for White Hydrogen

Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura Hydrogen was created in the big bang and is the most abundant element in the universe. It is a clean, flexible and energy-efficient fuel. It can be burnt in an internal combustion engine with the only emission being water. In a fuel cell hydrogen combines

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Net Zero Reality Comes to NZ

Net Zero Reality Comes to NZ

Enjoying your Net Zero this winter, New Zealand? I mean, sure, you’ve only just been forcefully shoved down the first few steps of the long, hard stairway to Net Zero Hell, but already New Zealanders are getting a taste of just what kind of future the Climate Cult are

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Reality Not Hot Enough for Ya?

Reality Not Hot Enough for Ya?

Craig Rucker Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. cfact.org Global warming campaigners are pushing the notion that we just had the “hottest ever” three days in recorded history. The warming-compliant media picked up the “hottest ever” line and ran with it. We

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Do They Even Read Their Own Reports?

Do They Even Read Their Own Reports?

As I’ve asked several times: are these people barking mad? Or just colossally stupid? I’m talking, of course, of the zealots of the green-left and their one, big idea: “Net Zero”. People like Australia’s Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen. No wonder Anthony Albanese wants

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It’s Not the Climate, It’s the Fuel

It’s Not the Climate, It’s the Fuel

Jason Hayes Jason Hayes is the director of energy and environmental policy for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. cfact.org Wildfires are being drawn inexorably into the climate change hysteria as dueling experts seek to explain the warm, dry weather we have experienced this year. One recent article correctly

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They Are Ramping up the Alternatives

They Are Ramping up the Alternatives

Ronald Stein Ron Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations. PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com In answer to the provocative question posed in an article of Issues and Insights, “Are We Finally Heading

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