Has Vladimir Putin killed “Net Zero”? European nations were warned years ago by Donald Trump that they had set themselves on a course for disaster with their energy policies. Germany was easily the worst offender: its foolishly virtue-signalling “Energiewende”, coupled with Angela Merkel’s knee-jerk decision to close down its
Here in Tasmania, we’re used to being the whipping boys for the green follies of Mainland activists. There’s a steady stream of FIFO activists in and out of the state, ever-ready to chain themselves to anything that threatens to make a profit. Mainlanders love to keep Tasmania locked
Ronald Stein cfact.org Ron Stein is an engineer who, drawing upon 25 years of project management and business development experience, launched PTS Advance in 1995. He is an author, engineer and energy expert who writes frequently on issues of energy and economics. With worldwide refinery closures outpacing new construction,
As Australia, like most of the Western world, plunges deeper and deeper into an energy crisis, the green-left are plunging deeper and deeper into denial. The people most responsible for the calamitous situation — thousands of people in Britain alone are dying every year thanks to “energy poverty” — are not only
John Maunder Each month Professor Ole Humlum of The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), in Norway publishes on his very comprehensive website a large number of updated charts and related analyses of data from international sources. His latest website can be found at: www.climate4you Record of recent global air
Dr. Jay Lehr cfact.org CFACT Senior Science Analyst Jay Lehr has authored more than 1,000 magazine and journal articles and 36 books. Jay’s new book A Hitchhikers Journey Through Climate Change written with Teri Ciccone is now available on Kindle and Amazon. In 1904 Christian Bohr, a
I recently pondered, How Do EV Owners Sleep? In that post, I highlighted that behind the battery at the heart of an EV is a story of destructive environmental and social impacts in developing countries. But EVs bring with them a host of social and economic issues in developed countries.
John Maunder Since instrumental records became available in the 1850’s, climatic values show a range from the highest temperature of 42.4 degrees C recorded in Rangiora on February 7, 1973, to the lowest temperature of-25.6 degrees C in Eweburn, Ranfurly on 17 July 1903. In terms of
Have the wheels ever fallen off a government as fast as Albanese’s Labor? Well, possibly Julia Gillard’s: from the moment Gillard broke her clear promise, made the day before the 2010 election, not to introduce a carbon tax, her government was toast. All that was left to decide
If doing the same thing and expecting different results is the definition of insanity, then we are governed by a classic of barking mad nutcases. Well, I mean, we already knew that: but they just keep on proving it in the most staggering fashion. When, for instance, the nation you’
Ronald Stein cfact.org Ron Stein is an engineer who, drawing upon 25 years of project management and business development experience, launched PTS Advance in 1995. He is an author, engineer and energy expert who writes frequently on issues of energy and economics. In 1904 Christian Bohr, a Danish biochemist,
The Grampus Counter-blaste is not a typo. The title makes use of a paper published by James VI of Scotland and England (1604) in which he roundly condemned the use of tobacco on a number of grounds. His views were 400 years too early and ignored until the last 50
The definition of insanity, it is said, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Which means that the Climate Cult are barking mad. Well, we all knew that already. But it’s one thing to know it, another thing to see it proved over and
Tell me this isn’t a government operation. Right at the time that Australia is facing an energy crisis, power generators are making it even worse by taking capacity out of the grid. Why would they do that? Because, under the rules set down by the government, they will get
In just three weeks, the Albanese government has been thoroughly mugged by political reality. The party who boasted of a vague “plan” to “fix it” are body-slammed with simultaneous energy and cost-of-living crises, including the biggest interest rate hike in 22 years — and suddenly, the “plan” is nowhere to be
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
