Viv Forbes Information Opinion Legend says that if you displeased the King of Siam, he would give you a white elephant. These rare and protected elephants were incredibly expensive to keep. So a “White Elephant” came to mean a possession that is useless, troublesome, expensive to maintain and difficult to
It’s sometimes said that America has to exist because we need somewhere to put all the crazy people. For their part, Americans might retort that that’s why they have California. If we’re living in a Clown World, then California is surely the most copious clown car honking
One thing that’s noticeable about cults is how utterly immune they are to evidence. Especially millenarian, end-of-the-world cults. Few more so than the Climate Cult. Like any other religious cult preaching the imminent end of the world, the Climate Cult are rarely dismayed when their predictions invariably fail to
Duggan Flanakin cfact.org Duggan Flanakin is the director of policy research at the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former senior fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas.
Information Opinion Freelance science and technology writer Peter Griffin wants us to question anti-vaccine information and climate change (just those that deny it of course), but only if we come to the conclusions he wants us to. [Fire and Fury is] the story of how a disparate group of Kiwis
Remember when celebrities just did their little dance and sang their little song and didn’t endlessly lecture us about one “progressive” cause after another? Neither do I. For as long as I can remember, celebrities have yammered, finger-wagged and virtue-signalled about The Current Thing. But it’s always — with
Climate change: good for the planet, good for human beings. That’s a sentence guaranteed to make the Climate Cult’s heads explode. But, on all the actual evidence, as opposed to dinky computer games, it’s undeniably true. But what about the “climate emergency”? Yeah, about that… One thing
Lipton Matthews mises.org Lipton Matthews is a researcher, business analyst and contributor to Merion West, The Federalist, American Thinker, Intellectual Takeout, mises.org and Imaginative Conservative. Visit his YouTube channel, with numerous interviews with a variety of scholars, here. The passion of the green movement has captured the world’
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura The Emissions Trading Scheme or ETS was introduced by the Labour Government in 2008 and is widely regarded as the primary tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in New Zealand. The ETS is essentially a market for greenhouse gas emissions in our economy, not including
It looks as if Germany and Japan are both making their smartest decisions since running up the white flag in 1945. In a big ol’ middle finger to the Climate Cult, both nations are reviving their nuclear industries, after the post-Fukushima panic. Despite its apocalyptic image, outside of the communist-enabled
If you’ve ever wanted to get an idea of the sheer size of modern wind turbines, just pull your car over while a truck carrying a single blade crawls past, taking up most of the highway. Then remember that that’s just one blade, on one turbine, out of
Zilvinas Silenas fee.org Zilvinas Silenas became President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in May 2019. He served from 2011-2019 as the President of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI), bringing the organization and its free-market policy reform message to the forefront of Lithuanian public discourse. On July
Are they softening Australia up to be the next Netherlands? For months, much as the legacy media have tried to downplay it, the Netherlands have been rocked by protests by farmers and, spreading out to other groups, from truckers to firefighters. Far from dying down, the protesters are promising their
kevin-mooney cfact.org Be careful about circulating scientific data that debunks the assumptions standing behind costly climate change policies. Otherwise, technology companies reserve the right to muzzle those dissenting views. That appears to be message LinkedIn has been sending to scientists and researchers who question the premise of regulations aimed
Jon Sanders aier.org Jon Sanders is an economist and the director of the Center for Food, Power and Life at the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he also serves as research editor. The center focuses on protecting and expanding freedom in the vital areas of agriculture,
Joseph Solis-Mullen mises.org A graduate of Spring Arbor University and the University of Illinois, Joseph Solis-Mullen is a political scientist and graduate student in the economics department at the University of Missouri. With Sri Lanka’s short-lived green revolution of 2021 having quickly devolved into a real revolution just
