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
As I asked recently: is the Climate Cult barking mad? We know they’re not stupid… well, not all of them. Some of them are very smart people. But they’d surely have to be out of their minds: how else could a scientist, an engineer even, say things like
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
