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
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
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
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. Former Vice President
John Maunder The weather of the past : July 27 1863, July 28 1939, and July 1993 Each day the New Zealand Herald publishes “On this day” which relates to the weather on that day in the past. In view of recent weather events, these excerpts over the last 160 years
You really have to engage with the Climate Cult to understand just how crazily immune to evidence and reason they really are. They make Flat Earthers and QAnon look like the epitome of rational debate. I’m not joking when I say that these people are truly, utterly demented. It’
Viv Forbes Despite Green/ABC propaganda, recent Australian floods were not caused by coal, cattle, or cars. Weather is driven by winds; solar energy powers the winds and draws moisture for them from the oceans. These eternal natural rain-making processes have been aided recently by two extra factors. Firstly,
I’ve written several times that Angela Merkel was the third German leader in a century to wreck Europe. It’s turning out that I was more right than I knew. I was mostly referring, at the time, to Merkel’s unilateral decision to throw Europe’s borders open to
Donn Dears cfact.org Donn is an engineer and retired senior executive of the General Electric Company who spent his career in the power sector. He led organizations that provided engineering services for GE’s large electrical apparatus and spearheaded the establishment of GE subsidiary companies around the world. The
Making the Twitter left cry is shooting fish in a barrel, maybe, but few people do it so well as Jeremy Clarkson. This is the fellow, after all, who recently opened a beef-only restaurant in a barn on his farm – no vegetarian options. It’s not fair! emaciated hordes
If you want to know who benefits from relentless climate alarmism, look who’s pushing it, and who’s paying for it. If you want to understand how batshit insane climate alarmism is, just remember that burning coal is bad for the climate, but burning wood is good. Some of
Although Australia was always, until the last few decades, a thoroughly Christian nation, it was never a highly, evangelically, religious nation. Not in the sense of the United States, where overt religiosity is still largely a feature of politics. Australians went to church, but they have much truck with “Bible
The problem with the media and quangos increasingly being run by and for Millennials, goldfish-brained ignoramuses for whom the 1980s are as distant an era as the 1880s is that everything is “unprecedented”. No matter how many times it’s happened before. And, of course, if it’s “unprecedented”
Long before The Babylon Bee, or even The Onion, there was Viz. Viz started in the 80s, a “dead-tree” British comic that satirized old-school UK kids’ comics like The Beano. As well as comic strips, it also featured satirical news items that were often right up there with
