John Maunder This week over 40,000 people will attend COP 27, the 27th gathering of the Conference of the Parties dealing with climate change. By contrast, 37 years ago a small group of 100 scientists met in the small town of Villach in Austria to begin talks on climate
Birsen Filip mises.org Birsen Filip holds a PhD in philosophy and master’s degrees in economics and philosophy. She has published numerous articles and chapters on a range of topics, including political philosophy, geo-politics and the history of economic thought, with a focus on the Austrian School of Economics
Well, the mask’s off, now. They’re not even pretending, any more: “climate change” is just the motte — the bailey is, and always was, a Marxist revolution. Of course, plenty of us have been pointing that out, for years. But it’s one thing for we “right-wing conspiracy theorists”
Imagine if you were in a vehicle careering downhill toward a cliff edge and, instead of applying the brakes or bailing out, the driver insisted on pushing harder on the accelerator. All this, after you’ve already watched a few of your mates’ cars plunge over the cliff and smash
Dear Editor, Hi, my name is Benjamin and I am twelve years old. I am writing this letter to say that, unlike my peers, I’m excited about climate change. Why? Well, I’ve always wanted to live on a farm and I also want to visit Antarctica. So I’
Insanity, it is said, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. In which case, we have to conclude that the Climate Cult is absolutely barking. I mean, as if we didn’t know that already, but it’s one thing to see liberal
Peter Murphy cfact.org Peter Murphy is Senior Fellow at CFACT. He has researched and advocated for a variety of policy issues, including education reform and fiscal policy, both in the non-profit sector and in government in the administration of former New York Governor George Pataki. They took all the
If you’ve tried reasoning with a religious cultist or an Amway representative, you know how it goes. They’re completely immune to evidence and persuasion. Every time you show where they’re wrong, they simple switch to the next rote-learned talking-point that’s been debunked a dozen points. Even
Media Watch host Paul Barry caused a storm on his own network this week, when he suggested that the ABC was captured by a trans lobby group. Barry pointed out that the ABC ran a slanted agenda on its trans coverage. That included ignoring significant developments, such as the closure
Don Ritter cfact.org Don Ritter received his Doctorate in Metals and Materials from MIT. He served 14 years on the House Energy and Commerce and Science and Technology Committees, was Ranking Member on the Congressional Helsinki Commission and was founding co-chair of the Baltic States-Ukraine Caucus. Ritter led the
It looks as though we’re living in the 70s again. No, I’m not talking about the fashionable left’s renewed sympathy towards normalising paedophilia, which reached its previously oleaginous apex in the “sexual liberation” 70s — I’m talking about the weather. Namely, that it’s bloody cold and
The Great Reset rolls on. Europe is already at the “forced collectivisation” stage — with New Zealand and Australia not far behind. Almost as if they’re operating to a plan, left-wing governments on both sides of the Tasman are following the exact template laid out in the Netherlands. “Cow taxes”
Sadly, these young activists don’t seem to think their actions through, and their behaviours are counter-productive to their causes. A selection: Young adults from Just Stop Oil glue their hands beneath van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”: theguardian.com and newshub.co.nz. And again, more from the ‘let’s glue
Nothing tells us that “green” is a massive scam so clearly as that it’s attracting so many scammers. Flies are irresistibly attracted to honey, and the biggest honey-pot right now is the massive piles of taxpayer’s “green” cash. A close second is the virtuous gullibility of “green” consumers,
Policy made in a panic rarely makes for good policy. Neither does the union tail wagging the Labor dog yet again. Both are on full display in Anthony Albanese’s panicked rush to be seen to be doing something on energy prices. The panic is understandable, of course. Energy prices
John Maunder The chart below shows that since 1979, when reliable satellite observations became available, there has been an overall small warming trend in the average tropospheric temperatures, apart from, at times, milder temperatures since about 1999, but with three significant warm periods associated with the El Nino events in
