Whether or not you believe human intervention is responsible for increased CO2 emissions and that those emissions are a matter of planetary life and death, Ardern’s goal of 100% renewable energy by 2035 is quite simply unrealistic. I hope the popular ute turns out to be Ardern’s shower
Try to imagine a wealthy, privileged white person being carried through the streets on a litter borne on the backs of starving black children. Your average green-left “progressive” would have fifty fits. Yet this is, metaphorically, just what the climate-bothering green left do, every time they get behind the wheel
Let’s admit it: the UN is no longer fit for purpose and should be abandoned. The last remaining shreds of the UN’s relevance evaporated in the 1990s with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Since then, the UN has been little more than the plaything of despots, meddling
Rodney Hide bassettbrashandhide.com Rodney Hide is former ACT Party leader, and Minister in the National-ACT Government from 2008 to 2011 We were admonished on the blog by “Otway1” for our “seemingly deliberate scientific ignorance” because “[t]he evidence for anthropogenic (manmade) global warming driving climate change is overwhelming.” I
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Last year Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared a “climate emergency” in New Zealand. Now, in response to the Climate Commission’s report outlining how New Zealand should reduce greenhouse gas emissions to meet its United Nations Paris Accord targets, she’s claiming climate change is
Chris Sellars I like to keep an eye on the weather as it’s handy to know which way the wind blows and if a hard rain is gonna fall. I am not qualified though. I don’t call myself an expert or a professional. I have been rained on
As the ideologues in government announce a reverse Robin Hood tax to encourage EV sales, one has to wonder where they were when the ability to think critically was handed out. Stealing from the poor to subsidise the wealthy into smugmobiles is wrong on so many levels and yet the
We all know about the Climate Commission’s report, which came out last week. It continues with the usual narrative, that we are destroying the planet, and we all have to live like Stone Age people if we wish to survive. The prime minister jumped in with her usual dose
You gotta hand it to global warming, there’s nothing it can’t do. From making dogs depressed to the devastating Tohoku tsunami, it’s been fingered as the alleged culprit in nearly anything you can think of. Your beer tastes bad? Global warming. Stronger heroin? You better believe that’
David Wojick cfact.org David Wojick, Ph.D. is an independent analyst working at the intersection of science, technology and policy. Looking for laughs? The International Energy Agency has produced a laugh filled report, grandly titled: “Net Zero by 2050: A roadmap for the global energy system“. Redesigning the global
It’s basic civics that, of the three branches of democratic governance, it’s the legislative which makes the laws and the judicial which makes judgments about those laws. Too many judges seem to have skipped Civics class. Activist judges, as they are known, seem to labour under the delusion
Peter Ridd’s case against James Cook University will be heard by the High Court at the end of this month. The case is a potential landmark judgment on academic freedom. But, considering it’s framed against a background of climate alarmism and allegedly dodgy science, don’t expect the
Russian president Vladimir Putin might be many things, but stupid is not one of them. “Woke” is another: Putin is one of the last people who’d be browbeaten by a bunch of scowling teenagers and bourgeois loonies gluing themselves to roads. Putin is also not the sort to deliberately
One of the biggest lies in an impressive field of contenders from the Krazy Klimate Kult is that we have the means at hand to seamlessly replace fossil fuels. Anyone with half a notion of the realities of the energy requirements of even a half-way modern society can do the
Antarctica has been ice-bound for the last 34 million years. During the preceding Eocene epoch (56 to 33.9mya), Antarctica was quite a pleasant place: summer temperatures around 25°C, with palm, conifer and beech forests. But Antarctica’s fate was sealed with the final breakup of the remnants of
