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
Have you ever tried debating a Climate Cultist? I’d recommend beating your own head in with a green-painted brick as a slightly less painful alternative. Even trying to convince an Amway salesperson that, no, you really aren’t interested in making extra money, is less futile. The first thing
Some years back, a writer calling himself only “Planning Engineer” began writing for Judith Curry’s Climate Etc blog. Articles such as “Myths and realities of renewable energy” stand as stark, Cassandra-like warnings of the energy crisis we currently find ourselves mired in. When these resources only make up a
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. Here is the headline from the Daily Mail:
It turns out that reports of the death of the Great Barrier Reef were greatly exaggerated. Not only is the Reef very much not dead, it’s just hit record coral cover. Now, it should be borne in mind that “on record” means, in this case, “in the last four
Do you ever feel like fashion designer Jacobim Mugatu, in Zoolander? No, not the evil corporate conspiracy stuff, but wanting to scream your frustration that everyone is professing to believe something completely contrary to common sense. “Doesn’t anybody notice this? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!” For
Remember when Kevin Rudd was going to end the climate wars? Then it was Julia Gillard’s turn. This time, they insisted, they were on “the right side of history” (a phrase I indelibly associate with the uber-Aryan Hitler Youth of Cabaret, singing “Tomorrow Belongs to Me”). We all know
John Maunder The ‘Maunder Minimum’ is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots – ‘storms’ on the sun – became almost zero. The period is named after the solar astronomer Edward Walter Maunder (1851-1928), who was working at The Royal Observatory at Greenwich when
Their ABC is at it again with the fake news. This time, it’s the gas crisis they’re misleading us about. Fake news, remember, is not just outright lies: it’s also lying by omission. Leaving key facts out of a story in order to push a narrative is
