As recently reported, 536AD is regarded by some as the worst year in human history. All of Europe, the Middle East and even parts of Asia and the Americas were plunged into sudden cold and darkness. The sun gave no warmth and didn’t even cast shadows at noon. Crops
Australian scientist Ian Plimer has written that “we must be the first generation of humans to be afraid of a warming climate”. Plimer isn’t wrong: there’s a reason wealthy Europeans flocked to warmer climates, especially for their health. The study of history shows that cooling climates are invariably
John Maunder The “weather bomb” which brought widespread destruction and the loss of lives and record rainfalls in the Auckland area of New Zealand during the January 27 -31, 2023 period was in part (together with a third La Nina event in three years, and much warmer sea temperatures), the
Ronald Stein CFACT 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. One of the best-known quotes was “where’s the beef?“ from Clara Peller, who was a manicurist and American character actress who, at
The Doctor There must be little green men driving SUVs around on Mars. That is the only way that the carbon dioxide theory of global warming makes sense. After all, it is not just the earth that is warming. All the planets of the solar system are.[i] Don’t
One of Britain’s leading junior female endurance athletes has been nicknamed ‘the Greta Thunberg of sport’ after refusing to travel to Australia due to a ‘deep concern’ for the environment. NZ Herald Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access exclusive Member content
Adam Houser cfact.org Adam Houser coordinates student leaders as National Director of CFACT’s collegians program and writes on issues of climate and energy. A former Extinction Rebellion (XR) spokesperson, Zion Lights, has come out against the radical climate group in a tell-all article. The piece explains that XR,
It’s something we all learn in high school biology: plants “breathe in” carbon dioxide and release oxygen. Animals breathe in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide. The only problem is that that isn’t the whole story. Nothing in nature is 100% clear-cut or efficient. Humans (and other animals) don’
David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, PhD is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. For origins see stemed.info/engineer_tackles_confusion.html For over 100 prior articles for CFACT see cfact.org/author/david-wojick-ph-d/ Available for confidential research and consulting. Two recent blog
The Doctor When I was 14 years old, I had an argument with my father. He was installing a brand-new electric heater in the old fireplace at our house in Wellington. “You’re not doing the right thing,” I opined. “Electricity must be generated at a power station with maximum
As I wrote recently, the Green-Left’s environmental fanaticism is decidedly situational. The same army of grotty unemployables and interfering old biddies who’ll chain themselves to a development if it allegedly threatens a single, obscure breed of finch, are conspicuously absent when wind turbines are mincing dozens of endangered
They’re a strange mob, the Greens. They’ll chain themselves to the gate six-deep to a mining site if word gets out that a wallaby fell in a tailings dam and drowned. But the same gaggle of smelly unemployables and pious nosey-nannas are nowhere to be seen while wind-farms
John Maunder When I was in Canada about 30 years ago, I listened to a lecture about Medieval Warming, the building of the Gothic Cathedrals and the freemasons. It appears that there was no theological reason why the cathedrals were built at that time but there is an interesting link
As a Newshub news article warned earlier this week, New Zealand’s CO2 shortage is going to bite. It’s not only fizzy drinks and alcohol production that use CO2, it’s also used to grow and transport food. Dawson [chief executive of the Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders Federation]
Saul Zimet fee.org Saul Zimet is a Website and Data Coordinator for HumanProgress.org at the Cato Institute and a graduate student in economics at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. Nobel Peace Prize nominee and Time Magazine’s 2019 “person
To paraphrase Clarence Darrow, I have never wished a private enterprise to fail, but I have smiled at a great many financial reports. Especially when they concern painfully woke billionaires whose latest “renewable” scheme has gone bust. A fall out between two of the nation’s richest men has led
