How wisely it is said that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Marx and Engels had good intentions when they wrote the Communist Manifesto and Capital. How’d that turn out? The appeasement and anti-war movements of the 1920s and 30s had good intentions, too. But
Like most boys, I was fascinated by dinosaurs. More than fascinated: I was not unlike Jurassic Park’s enfant terrible Tim Murphy. I was obsessed. From How, Why and Wonder books on dinosaurs, I progressed to heavier tomes as I got older. I spent my first holidays of high school
We’re so used to the staggering hypocrisy of the climate-bothering elite that we’ve even got a word for them: eco-crites. These are the people who use fleets of private jets to swan about the world from one exotic destination to another (and sometimes Glasgow), from whence
John Maunder The chart below shows that since 1979, when reliable satellite observations became available, there has been an overall warming trend in the average tropospheric temperatures, apart from, at times, milder temperatures since about 1999, but with three significant warm periods associated with the El Nino events in 1998,
When the moon is in Sagittarius and Jupiter aligns with Mars, or at some other totally random time of the year, The BFD checks in on Dr David Viner’s prediction from 2000. Last year’s report can be found here. Snow is starting to disappear from our lives. Sledges,
John Maunder The extract below on “Climate Refugees” is from pages 293-298 of my book. The idea for the book came about when I was visiting my family in Adelaide in January 2020 during a heatwave. One day when the forecast was for 45°C my daughter Denise suggested
There’s a favourite cartoon for the climate cultists, which they apparently think is a knock-down argument against anyone who questions their holy “science”. “What if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?” Which illustrates exactly the problem with the climate cult: not
John Maunder Monthly rainfalls for Tauranga have been recorded at several recording sites during the last 122 years. The rainfall for Tauranga for 2021 was 959 mm. From January 1898 to December 1904, the observation site was described as the Tauranga Harbour, from November 1904 to April 1907 the site
Apparently, the green-left don’t like it when the tables get turned on them. More and more, ordinary working shmos just trying to get to work have to put up with armies of bourgeois nutbags glueing themselves to roads and trains, blocking critical intersections, and holding up commuters for
As Britain plunges more and more into an energy poverty abyss, no-one dares mention the gigantic, green elephant in the room. This is not just another inconvenient rise in the cost of living: this is literally life and death stuff. Already, Britain’s own energy regulator admits, thousands of
It’s enough to make Greta Thunberg screw up her permanently-cat’s-arsed face and bellow, How dare you! at the top of her lungs: a new study from the UK shows that climate-related deaths in that country are plummeting. This, even as the world is going through
John Maunder The average afternoon temperature in 2021 was 20.2 degrees Celsius, which made 2021 the fourth warmest year on record. Temperatures have been recorded in the Tauranga area at several sites in the last 108 years, including the current Tauranga Airport site from June 1990. It’s very
Craig Rucker cfact.org Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Dr. Roy Spencer is a scientist, known as much for his unshakeable integrity, as for his brilliant work in climate science. He is also a good friend of CFACT. He works with
A paper published last year examined a raft of apocalyptic climate change predictions: all of which had consistently failed to eventuate. High among them is James Hansen’s notorious 1988 prediction — from his Congressional testimony that in many ways gave birth to the modern, trillion-dollar industry of climate alarmism,
Dr Geoff Duffy Retired Professor of Chemical Engineering DEng, PhD, BSc, ASTC Dip, FRSNZ, FIChemE Terry Dunleavy writes: In the 22 years since I co-founded the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition to counter the false propaganda about what was then called “dangerous anthropogenic global warning” (DAGW) now called simply
Will Coggin cfact.org Will Coggin is the managing director of the Center for Consumer Freedom. The problem with New Year’s resolutions? Typically, the follow-through is too difficult. Let’s be blunt: If dieting or going to the gym three times a week was easy, we wouldn’t
