Have you ever noticed that the climate strike kiddies are so overwhelmingly middle-class? Watch any school’s climate protest and note the neat blazers and brand-new iPhones. Listen, if you can without surrendering to the urge to shove knitting needles in your ears, to Poppy, Hyacinth and Viola
In Isaac Asimov’s Foundation (of which, if the trailers are anything to go by, the Apple TV adaptation is going to be awful), reverting to coal and oil use instead of nuclear is seen as a sure sign of the former Galactic Empire’s slide into barbarism. Similarly, green
David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. I am constantly entertained by the artful ways alarmists bend language to their will. This often happens as science stories percolate through the media. Each step is a bit
John Maunder Rainfalls for the month of September have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898, except for 1904, 1907, 1908, and 1909. The graph below shows the range of rainfalls from an extreme high of 274 mm in 1973 to a low of only 16 mm in 1965. The second
Stuart Smith MP for Kaikoura Spokesperson for Climate Change, EQC and Viticulture I was invited by Climate Change Minister, James Shaw, to attend COP 26 in Glasgow later this year and indicated that I was interested in attending, subject to suitable travel arrangements being available. At that time it looked
Are the wheels finally falling off the climate catastrophe scam? While some of us caught on well over a decade ago – it’s hard to believe it’s been 12 years since the “climategate” emails blew the lie wide open – the slower kids are still playing catch-up and the
When the UNIPCC released its Sixth Assessment Report, the usual gaggle of troughers, activists and media dimwits went into immediate hysterics. Clearly, none of them have read it — or, if they have, they’re either lying or just plain stupid. Or both. You decide. Because, any clear-minded person scanning
Once our pioneer ancestors turned tussock or bush into farmland to make a living. Now our leadership is engineering almost the exact opposite and is inviting the rest of the world to help. Sometimes I think of it as a seriously warped scorched-earth policy where the invaders gain fertile
Anyone remember South Australia’s Great Big Green Battery? The one they paid Elon Musk a cool $90 million to build? Spoiler alert: It doesn’t work. South Australia’s big Tesla battery is being sued for allegedly failing to live up to its promises to help rescue the power
John Maunder Some of the answers to the complexities of the climate system are given in my recently published book “Fifteen shades of climate… the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect”. The following are extracts are from pages 10-14, and page 15. The following was published
Angus Aardvark Computer modelling is very useful: I developed models and used them for many years of commercial prediction work. They are a really powerful tool. But ONLY if you have plenty of feedback and constantly update the model so it can tweak itself to match the real world. Essentially
I was vaguely acquainted with Tim Flannery in his uni days. I even accompanied him on a fossil dig. What was noticeable, even then, is that while he’s a nice enough fellow, he’s also prone to, shall we say, wacky ideas. Back then, Flannery was all hot for
The Prime Minister’s announcement today that she will provide Climate Change Minister James Shaw and his nine officials special allocation in MIQ on return from COP26 in Glasgow doesn’t square with the rules other Kiwis have to play by, says National’s spokesperson for Climate Change Stuart Smith.
The BFD transcript Newstalk ZB Tuesday 21 September Kate Hawkesby speaks to Stuart Smith, National’s Spokesperson for Climate Change Kate: Climate Change Minister James Shaw is wanting to take nine other people with him from Wellington to this year’s climate change talks in Glasgow. Dubbed COP26, it will
