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
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)
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.
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
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
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
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
Daniel Nebert, MD cfact.org Dr. Nebert is professor emeritus in the Department of Environmental & Public Health Sciences at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and in the Department of Pediatrics & Molecular Developmental Biology (Division of Human Genetics), at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. As a physician-scientist (and
Joe Bastardi cfact.org Joe Bastardi is a pioneer in extreme weather and long-range forecasting. He is the author of The Climate Chronicles: Inconvenient Revelations You Won’t Hear From Al Gore – and Others, which you can purchase at the CFACT bookstore. His new book The Weaponization of Weather
In Monash University in Melbourne’s Engineering Garden stands a sobering monument: twisted fragments from the wreckage of the Westgate Bridge collapse in 1970, one of the world’s worst bridge collapses. The tortured chunks of metal are meant to remind engineering students of the devastating consequences if they screw
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Timing is everything in comedy — and in politics, too. There’s never a good time for a government to belt its most productive sector with what I call “puffy pants taxes”*. But there are definitely worse times to do so. Such as when said sector is on the brink of
