Nztu Media taxpayers.org.nz The Minister, accompanied by 14 staff, will fly to Glasgow where daily COVID-19 cases currently exceed 400. On his return, Shaw and nine of his staff will occupy 10 MIQ spots. The Taxpayers’ Union Curia Poll asked whether New Zealanders believed the Minister and
When even supposedly sober conservatives like Scott Morrison, not to mention the suits at the Business Council of Australia, are jumping on the “net zero” bandwagon, you know we’re well and truly stuffed. “Net zero” is a chimaera which doesn’t stand up to basic scrutiny — not to mention
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. Under Biden’s plan to rid America
Today in things so good you have to be forced to buy them: Electric cars. Remember when governments banned horses and carts and forced everyone to buy those new-fangled Model T Fords, instead? No? So, where are the horses and carts, now? Gone, because the internal combustion engines were
Jack Elbaum fee.org Jack Elbaum is a Hazlitt Writing Fellow at FEE and an incoming sophomore at George Washington University. His writing has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The New York Post, and the Washington Examiner. For many, thinking about the future of our planet is
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
The Government’s decision to commit $1.3 billion over four years to support poorer countries to deal with climate change is the wrong one, given New Zealand is still struggling with lockdowns that have no end in sight. The $1.3 billion contribution is a four-fold increase to
It’s almost like the universe is trying to send them a message: as thousands of the global elite and climate troughers hop on their private jets and limos for yet another gabfest, in Glasgow, Britain is set to enter its worst Winter of Discontent since the mid-70s. Back
It’s time for truth telling in Glasgow. The coming northern winter will confirm the first energy truth – that wind, solar, batteries and electric vehicles will not keep people warm and well fed. The soaring demand for hydrocarbon fuels, the coming electricity blackouts and rationing, and bare grocery shelves will
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
