mercatornet.com In 2,326 jurisdictions around the world – representing over one billion people – climate emergencies have been declared. At the World Economic Forum, former US Vice-President Al Gore recently railed about impending “rain bombs” and “boiling oceans” due to global warming. Last year UN Secretary-General Guterres accused
PA Pundits – International There are many alternate religions created by secular leftism. For example, you have the gender ideology cult, the critical race theorists and the pro-abortion group. But perhaps the most pagan of secular leftism’s alternate religions are the climate activists, specifically the climate doom-and-gloomers
Over the weekend, Germany shut down its last three remaining nuclear power plants and experts are mixed on the repercussions, if any. With climate change solutions a top priority and many countries working on expanding nuclear energy, German officials decided to make good on the promise to remove the reactors.
You may not know it if you rely solely on American media, but there is a growing revolt across much of Europe against Net Zero mandates in general and electric vehicle mandates in particular. It seems that, led by luxury carmakers, the future may be bright for the venerable internal
Anita Wreford Professor Applied Economics John Tobias Saunders Research Officer Meike Guenther Research Officer Lincoln University, New Zealand The recent report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) underscores the urgency of emissions reductions. For New Zealand, where 50% of emissions come from agriculture in the form of
Mackenzie Fries Diana Furchtgott-Roth Mackenzie Fries is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.heritage.org/ Diana Furchtgott-Roth is the director of the Center for Energy, Climate and Environment and the Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow at The Heritage Foundation . http://www.
John Maunder A panel discussion on “Climate Change: Both Sides of the Story” was held at a Rotary Conference in Cambridge, New Zealand on June 28 2008. I was President of the Rotary Club of Otumoetai for 2007-08 at this time, and the Rotary District Governor John Tarbutt asked
Do “renewables” make anything better? Almost everything the Climate Cult claims about renewables is nonsense. They’re not “emissions free”, they’re certainly not cheaper and they certainly aren’t saving the environment. Wind turbines are not just visually polluting, they’re particularly destructive of wildlife. Vast footprints of natural
Don Ritter cfact.org Don Ritter holds a science doctorate from MIT and served 14 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
The world has been going to end in the next ten years since I was a boy. In fact, if I had a dollar for every time the planet faced imminent death “Unless we act in the next five years”, well… I’d be rich enough to be a climate
It’s said that the only certainties are death and taxes, but Australians can add another to that list, now: soaring power bills. Anthony Albanese’s grubby deal with the zealots in the Greens will do nothing to change the trajectory of the global climate, but is guaranteed to send
Michael Naylor Senior Lecturer in Economics Massey University As New Zealand considers how to better prepare for a future affected by climate change, the insurance sector needs to be part the discussion on where and how we build our homes. This involvement should include input into future building standards. Insurers
Joanne Nova cfact.org 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
Kevin Van Elswyk mises.org Kevin is a 10-year adjunct associate professor most recently with University of Maryland’s Global Campus. He lives in Brookfield Wisconsin and happily has time to read, tie flies, think and write. Modern secular society embraces a new religion complete with prophets, crusaders, commandments,
In 2020 the dire issues confronting us all were clearly set out. A long time ago (1989) in a city far, far away, (New York) we were all warned. There is no excuse – you were told: A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the
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.” The reality is that all the mineral products and metals needed to make wind turbines, solar panels, and EV batteries are
