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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
