The Bedfordshire Fire Service has posted the following on their website to inform people about electric vehicle fires in England’s green and pleasant land. (Apologies to to William Blake.) Causes of an EV Fire Electric vehicles are powered most commonly by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. The first lithium-ion battery
How long before “lockdowns because of COVID” become “lockdowns because of climate”? Sound like a crazy conspiracy theory? Sure, it does. But then, just a couple of years ago, so did lockdowns and vaccine passports. If there’s one thing recent history should have taught us, it’s to never
David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. The “climate emergency” appears to have died, far out on the scientific frontier. Word of this death has yet to reach the mainstream. Professors William van Wijngaarden (Canada) and
Peter J. Morgan B.E. (Mech.), Dip Teaching Honorary Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Environomics (NZ) Trust OPEN LETTER to The Prime Minister, the Minister for Climate Change, Mr McCormack, Ms Freshwater, Prof. McKenzie, Prof. de la Rey, Prof. Guilford, Prof. Hayne, Prof. Thomas, Prof. Quigley and Mr John Morgan,
No doubt attracted by the irresistible scent of mountains of government money, renewable energy and climate activism are fields rife with charlatans, troughers, rent-seekers and frauds. From the billions the clueless Obama sunk into boondoggles like Solyndra, to the obvious scam of burning trees and calling it “emissions free”. Most
Owen Jennings One of the memories seared into my mind is of sitting in a mud-walled, mud floored, poorly thatched hut, choking on smoke from the small open fire in the centre of the room, eating sadza or maize porridge. Sadza is on the menu tonight too. It is all
“Greenwashing” is the term coined by environmentalist Jay Westerveld, to describe when a company markets itself as doing more for the environment than it actually is. A prime example of greenwashing would be a mining billionaire, who made a fortune by selling ore that is processed into steel by the
David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. It was not easy, but the new IPCC Summary for Policymakers manages to outdo itself in nuttiness. They have rebirthed some really bad old stuff and combined it with
Not since Rousseau’s (probably apocryphal) “great princess” wittered, “Let them eat cake!” has there been such an ostentatious display of the disdain of the elite for the masses. It was as if the Capitol elite of The Hunger Games had decamped to party on the world’s most exclusive
Geoffrey Miller Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s international analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a fluent speaker of German and Arabic.
With great fanfare and much media mind manipulation, the IPCC has released its long-awaited AR6 report. Surprise, surprise it is all much worse than we thought – or is it? There are a couple of statements that our local and national politicians should think very seriously about. In general, no likelihood
The release of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change report on the Physical Science of Climate Change highlights the importance of sound and efficient climate policy, National’s Climate Change spokesperson Stuart Smith says. “The IPCC report makes apparent just how hard it will be for New Zealand and the
Making predictions of future behaviour based on past behaviour can be very expensive when investment in the share market is concerned, but there is one field of endeavour where such predictions can be made with an almost 100% guarantee of accuracy. Global Warming / Climate Change / Climate Emergency: call it what
An episode of 80s sitcom Family Ties had one of its insufferable telegenic offspring eerily anticipating today’s Thunberg Jugend. Youngest child, Jennifer Keaton, jumps on the green-left doom-scenario of the day, nuclear winter, and writes an apocalyptic essay that sends her teacher screaming to a remote “island with sheep”
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. Whoever came up with the
